NIHILIST SPASM BAND
“No record”

One of very few indie label releases on Spin Magazine’s list of 100 top counter-cultural music, ahead of legends like  Mulatu Astatke,  Brigitte Fontaine,  Pärson Sound, Ornette Coleman,  Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra, Harry Partch, and Os Mutantes. Zowie! “In 1965, eight guys from London, Ontario, decided to start a free-improv group – “free” to  the point of building their own instruments, which they decided couldn’t be set up to produce  specific pitches. The band got together once a week with their electric kazoos and kludged-together guitars and Art Pratten’s ‘pratt-a-various’. Their vocalist, schoolteacher Bill Exley,  banged on a cooking pot and bellowed hilariously about stupidity and destruction and Canada.  They didn’t treat what they were doing as an advanced, visionary form of experimental music,  but as a big, stupid, fun, ecstatic noise. By the ‘90s, noise artists finally recognized NSB as their  ancestors – and, almost 50 years after they started, the surviving members of the Nihilist  Spasm Band still play every Monday night while their children haunt loft spaces the world  over.” Spin.
“The record you’re holding is one of the  masterworks of that big gray area of noise/weirdo/freak-out  music. It’s still hard to believe that  No  Record  was released in 1968. This was a time when popular  music was still growing up, and these outsider  guys from Canada came out of  nowhere and made this mindfuck of record that was years ahead of  itself. And as with  albums like  Trout Mask Replica, and  The Faust Tapes, it still sounds fresh today.  No Record  is mandatory listening.” Lasse  Marhaug.
Same album as LP, equally great in full file-sized digital edition. Digipack comes with a 32-page color booklet jammed with band history, photos, and a list of live performances.