![According to a Wikipedia entry that sounds a lot like a superhero origin story:
After the death of his artist wife in 1965, [Charles Martin] Simon was “reduced to nothing” which produced a “psyche fragmentation” he called Charlie Nothing the Artist. As Charlie Nothing, he pursued music and the visual arts. He created guitar sculptures made out of American cars he called dingulators and formed a number of “dingulation” bands in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
The Psychedelic Saxophone of Charlie Nothing is a fairly early (1967) release on John Fahey’s Takoma records. Two incredible solo sax freak-outs backed by strange minimal percussion, sometimes urgent staccato, sometimes Moon-cymbals ethereal. Goes from pure-free to Hindustani-devotional to meditative reverberations all without blinking an eye. Beautiful beautiful record. How much better can you do than some classic late-60’s Bay Area free-improv with the Takoma seal of approval? NOT MUCH.
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According to a Wikipedia entry that sounds a lot like a superhero origin story:
After the death of his artist wife in 1965, [Charles Martin] Simon was “reduced to nothing” which produced a “psyche fragmentation” he called Charlie Nothing the Artist. As Charlie Nothing, he pursued music and the visual arts. He created guitar sculptures made out of American cars he called dingulators and formed a number of “dingulation” bands in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
The Psychedelic Saxophone of Charlie Nothing is a fairly early (1967) release on John Fahey’s Takoma records. Two incredible solo sax freak-outs backed by strange minimal percussion, sometimes urgent staccato, sometimes Moon-cymbals ethereal. Goes from pure-free to Hindustani-devotional to meditative reverberations all without blinking an eye. Beautiful beautiful record. How much better can you do than some classic late-60’s Bay Area free-improv with the Takoma seal of approval? NOT MUCH.
