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Jono El Grande is an autodidactic Norwegian composer, band leader, guitarist and conductor. He cites as his major sources of influence Captain Beefheart, '60s Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Igor Stravinsky and Art Rock. Jono El Grande claims that his extreme mixture of genres and timbres is a result of his musical vision: moving away from the traditional concept of 'music as a result of social processes'. ?Neo Dada? is an album brimming with musical adventure, odd turns, colourful combinations of sounds and instruments, complex signatures and a good portion of pure joy, all mysteriously sugared with melodic hooks that will stick to your brain like any annoying pop tune, but in a good way. There are elements from the Canterbury and Rock In Opposition scenes and traces of artists such as Frank Zappa, Henry Cow, Magma and Gentle Giant,
Where do we start? Let?s take summer 1968 at the Zodiak underground music club beneath 32 Hallesches Ufer in West Berlin?s Kreuzberg Quarter. It was here that Human Being?s uncompromisingly loud debut rattled the foundations of the Wirtschaftswunder, West Germany?s post-war economic miracle, as if willing it to collapse. The tools of the 1960s American and British rock trade ? guitar, organ, drums ? were present and correct. But this wasn?t the sound of The Doors or Rolling Stones. The instruments were scraped and beaten, fed through early reverb, delay and echo units, the output sounding like industrial machines gone berserk.
Palimpsesto is the result of real-time compositions (in other words improvisations); a palimpsest of interwoven sonorities and aural structurings, based on two classes of sounds, electronic, and percussive (pitched/unpitched).
Minstrel in the Gallery lpJethro Tull
