Formed in NYC in 1993, the improvising collective No-Neck Blues Band (NNCK) favors anonymity, autonomy, and obfuscation. Alongside founding member Keith Connolly (2016 AIR), they return to open ISSUE’s Fall season at First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn.
Initially based on guerilla impulse and a dissatisfaction with the early 90’s post grunge diaspora, the No-Neck Blues Band emerged in 1993 on New York’s lower east side, soon congealing into an 8-piece cabal of practicing improvisers, determined to collectively inhabit an elsewhere entirely of their own design.
An excerpt from No-Neck Blues Band, performing live at ISSUE as they celebrate the infamous group's 20th anniversary. Recorded in October 2013 as part of ISSUE's own anniversary festival, Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain.
Listen to full live sets from 12 "Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain" performances via Red Bull Music Academy Radio. Featuring Pauline Oliveros, Charlemagne Palestine, Oren Ambarchi, Anthony Coleman, Richard Youngs, David Grubbs, Francesco Tristano, Aki Onda, No-Neck Blues Band, Yasunao Tone, and Tony Conrad.
Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain
ISSUE presents the No-Neck Blues Band, one of the most enigmatic, mysterious, and defiantly anti-commercial groups to emerge from 90s NY. Electric guitarists Loren Connors & Tom Carter play duo, pairing ancestral blues and psychedelic drone. Vocalist Suzanne Langille performs duo with Cammisa Buerhaus.