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* The No-Neck Blues Band: Jail For Sale (20.0 mb)
From The Collective Imaginings Of Quantarenius, Cook, & Co : Sound@1 : S@1#80

I recently took a super nice vacay to the Big Apple and Maine to relax (which I didn’t really do much of) and see some friends get married (which I also didn’t get to do, due to taking an unintended detour). But I had a blast nonetheless. Trips to New York City and the North East always get me in the mood to listen to this band, The No-Neck Blues Band (look here).

NNCK, a group of improvisatory refuse-niks who’ve been together since the ’90’s, play an amazing brand of psychedelic, folk, jazz and noise that really get me going. These recordings are the result of their reaction to the re-election of George W. Bush as president.

The scene was set late on the evening of November 2, 2004, as the state-by-state results were tallied and it was evident that George W. Bush was going to be re-elected as President of the United State of America. Based on this outcome, the No Neck Blues Band arranged a performance for the next night at the Greene Naftali Gallery in New York as a means to vent their own frustrations while providing a forum to bring together a community of other similarly dismayed individuals. From all accounts the show was a spectacle to behold in many ways and is only fitting that The Collective Imaginings of Quantarenius, Cook, & Co., representing the entirely of the band’s performance from that evening, is equally enchanting. NNCK found a way on that evening to simultaneously express intense feelings of frustration and outrage while never losing touch that hope and collective change could be right around the corner. It is this complexity that allows The Collective Imaginings of Quantarenius, Cook, & Co. to stand alongside some of the band’s most accomplished works. (fakejazz)

I managed to snag this ultra-limited album the other day and I’ve been blown away by the intensity of their playing.

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