In 1996, the fine
Thirsty Ear label -- never motivated by commerce,
always driven by the need to issue the what was new, odd, and fresh,
even if it is that rare freakish and fractured thing -- released
Cubist Blues.
It was the unholy union of future roots music wailer
Alan Vega with a
pair of terminal rock & roll outsiders in
Ben Vaughn and
Alex
Chilton. Since almost everybody else in the indie and pop worlds were
still wandering around in shock after the death of
Kurt Cobain,
almost no one took notice of this terrifyingly great record made in two
consecutive dusk to dawn improvisational sessions at Dessau Studios on
the Lower East Side of New York in December of 1994! Like the best of
jazz when the cats in the '50s would just show up to see what would
happen (more often than not, it did: check the Norman G
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