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LIQUID IDIOT / IDIOT ORCHESTRA - LIQUID IDIOT / IDIOT ORCHESTRA
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Liquid Idiot / Idiot Orchestra
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Experimental Avantgarde, Art Rock - Prior to forming Liquid Liquid in 1981, the band members were in two other groups: Liquid Idiot and Idiot Orchestra. While these ensembles sounded more experimental than groove-oriented, the beginnings of Liquid Liquid's spatial / conceptual framework can be heard here.
Liquid Idiot started at Rutgers University in the late '70s and soon relocated to NYC where they performed at various lofts and clubs including Tier 3, Mudd Club and CBGB. The band even encouraged audience members to bring their own instruments to their early shows. Idiot Orchestra was an offshoot that included a dozen or more players (clarinet, sax, trumpet, violin, cello, synth, bass, marimba and drums) resembling a No Wave version of Raymond Scott's big band.
As musician and artist Richard McGuire recalls, "We weren't trying to sound like anyone. We weren't imitating anyone. We were just playing. I keep using 'outsider art' as a reference to what we were doing. None of it was made for a market; it wasn't made with any intention other than the enjoyment of making it."
This split archival LP collects two rare 7-inches from 1978 and 1980, both of which were originally pressed in hyper-limited editions and self-released by the bands. The package also features a fanzine of ephemera, photos and a new interview with McGuire.
Liquid Idiot started at Rutgers University in the late '70s and soon relocated to NYC where they performed at various lofts and clubs including Tier 3, Mudd Club and CBGB. The band even encouraged audience members to bring their own instruments to their early shows. Idiot Orchestra was an offshoot that included a dozen or more players (clarinet, sax, trumpet, violin, cello, synth, bass, marimba and drums) resembling a No Wave version of Raymond Scott's big band.
As musician and artist Richard McGuire recalls, "We weren't trying to sound like anyone. We weren't imitating anyone. We were just playing. I keep using 'outsider art' as a reference to what we were doing. None of it was made for a market; it wasn't made with any intention other than the enjoyment of making it."
This split archival LP collects two rare 7-inches from 1978 and 1980, both of which were originally pressed in hyper-limited editions and self-released by the bands. The package also features a fanzine of ephemera, photos and a new interview with McGuire.
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Liquid Idiot were the short lived forerunning band to Liquid Liquid. See http://www.scaruffi.com/interv/liquid.html where Richard from Liquid Liquid talks about it: "Scott Hartley and I first put together a band called Liquid Idiot. It was a ridiculous primitive band. I played a keyboards and we had a guitar player (Ken Man) and a saxophone player (Bob Jenusitis) we were all very primitive musicians with the exception of Scott who had played in bands while growing up. The music was largely improvised usually with chunka-chunka rhythms. We weren't trying to sound like anyone because none of us had the ability to imitate anyone anyway. We were just being ourselves which in retrospect was the best thing we could have done. We recorded a 7" single as Liquid Idiot. It was entirely instrumental. All the songs were very short. I think there were at least 10 songs on this little record. It was recorded in my living room on a small tape recorder, the kind with a built in microphone." Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.