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Also known as
  
NSB

Labels
  
Alchemy

Origin
  
London, Canada (1965)

Years active
  
1965 (1965)–present

Associated acts
  
Joe McPhee

Record label
  
Alchemy Records


Website
  
www3.sympatico.ca/pratten/NSB

Members
  
John ClementJohn BoyleBill ExleyMurray FavroArt Pratten

Albums
  
No Record, Every Monday Night, 7x~X=X, 1984, What About Me

Genres
  
Noise music, Free improvisation

Similar
  
Zev Asher, Hijokaidan, Borbetomagus, Joe McPhee, The Flying Luttenbachers

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The Nihilist Spasm Band (NSB) is a Canadian noise band formed in 1965 in London, Ontario. The band was founded by Hugh McIntyre, John Clement, John Boyle, Bill Exley, Murray Favro, Archie Leitch, Art Pratten, and Greg Curnoe. Leitch has since retired, Curnoe was killed in a bicycle accident in 1992, and McIntyre died of heart failure in 2004. The band members are mostly local artists. They were one of the artists named on the Nurse with Wound list

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The term "spasm band" refers to a band that uses homemade instruments. Indeed, most of the NSB's instruments are modifications of other instruments, or wholly invented by the members. In addition to the homemade instruments, members are encouraged to improvise. The range of the improvisation is such that instruments are not tuned to each other, tempos and time signatures are not imposed, and the members push the ranges of their instrumentation by engaging in constant innovation.

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Discography

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  • The Sweetest Country This Side of Heaven (vinyl single, 1967; reissued on CD, 1996), Arts Canada
  • No Record (vinyl LP, 1968; reissued on CD, 1996; reissued on vinyl, 2000), Allied Record Corporation
  • Vol. 2 (vinyl LP, 1979; reissued on CD, 1996), Music Gallery Editions
  • 1984 (audiocassette, 1984; reissued on CD, 1999), Chimik Communications
  • ¬x~x=x (vinyl lp, 1985; reissued on CD, 1996), United Dairies Records
  • What About Me (CD, 1992), Alchemy Records
  • Live in Japan (CD, 1997), Alchemy Records
  • Every Monday Night (CD, 1999), Alchemy Records
  • No Borders with Joe McPhee (2xCD, 2001), Non Musica Rex
  • NSB Live at Western Front (CD, 2006), NSB
  • No Nihilist Spasm Band in Mulhouse (vinyl LP, 2007), Les Mondes Mental
  • No Borders to No Borders with Reynols (CD, 2007), Disques Hushush
  • Live In Geneve, Switzerland October 2006 with Fossils (cassette, 2007), Wintage Records & Tapes
  • theBESTweCANdo (best-of compilation) (CD, 2008), NSB
  • Fluxus (vinyl Split-LP with Kommissar Hjuler, 2015), Psych. kg

    • Appears on

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  • No Music Box — No Music Festival 1998 (6-CD box set, 1998), Entartete Kunst Recordings
  • no99 — No Music Festival 1999 (5-CD box set, 1999), Entartete Kunst Recordings
  • No Nothing — No Music Festival (6-CD box set, 2000), Non Musica Rex

    • Members

  • John Clement – guitar, bass guitar, drums
  • John Boyle – kazoo, thumb piano, drums
  • Bill Exley – vocals, cooking pot
  • Murray Favro – guitar
  • Art Pratten – "pratt-a-various," water-pipe

    • Guest Performers

  • Aya Onishi – drums, kazoo, "constant guest performer" since 1999
  • Owen Curnoe - Drums
  • Mark Favro - Casio keyboard
  • Galen Curnoe - guitar
  • Tim Glasgow

    • Previous members

  • Hugh McIntyre – bass guitar (1965–2004)
  • Archie Leitch – slide clarinet (1965–?)
  • Greg Curnoe – kazoo, drums (1965–92)

    • Songs

    Dog Face ManNo Record · 1996
    Destroy the NationsNo Record · 1996
    Oh Brian DibbNo Record · 1996

    References

    Nihilist Spasm Band Wikipedia
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