The Rat Bastard Experience is led by free jazz drummer Marc Edwards (Cecil Taylor Unit), who appears here with a motley crew of free jazz “anti-fame nihilists.” NO MOR MUSIK’s punk jazz fuses the highest and lowest brows with no intermediary. Weasel Walter’s 6-string bass and Nondor Nevai’s drumming are “energy in the wild.”
"Energy in the wild, which is struggling to contain himself..." writes Italian critic Leonardo Amico of the monolithic extreme punk jazz trio NO MOR MUSIK. Consisting of the core rhythm section of Weasel Walter and Nondor Nevai, NO MOR MUSIK performs and records with a chameleonic roster of guest soloists in a ceaseless process of self re-inventing. Expect a confrontational pan-stylistic hybrid of inclement punk jazz that fuses the highest and lowest brows with no intermediary. Their 2010 eponymous debut CD on ugEXPLODE Records features this dynamic duo in cahoots with notorious free-jazz crank Kenny Millions a.k.a. Keshavan Maslak and the result is as furious as it is cryptic. At this January performance the group, sans Kenny, will feature a surprise guest artist of awe-inspiring caliber. Nondor Nevai is a cult figure in the underground scene for his free-thrash duo with Mick Barr and his storied discography including "The A Capella Cantata" and "The Best of Nondor Nevai". Weasel Walter is best known as the leader of cult skronk ensemble The Flying Luttenbachers and most recently Cellular Chaos featuring Marc Edwards (Cecil Taylor).
Marc Edwards is one of the greatest drummers in the Free Jazz tradition. He is best remembered for his work in the Cecil Taylor Unit, "Dark To Themselves", a recording that has gone to on to becoming a legendary performance, as well as his own ALPHA PHONICS Record label. Here he appears with a motley ensemble of freakish anti-fame nihilists bent on championing a nascent form of transcendental energy music that is as informed by Sadistik Exekution as it is by the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Like the other members of The Experience, the Eponymous leader, Rat Bastard refuses to cooperate in any way, even in furtherance of promoting his own work. Because of this you are encouraged to research his daunting body of work as one of the most intrepid and diligent proponents of the raga-rock strain of noise guitar as well as the fearless leader of the omni-insulting aktionist audio-crime syndicate known the world over as The Laundry Room Squelchers, on your own.