Night Music was a late-night music show that broadcasted towards the late 80s.
To be honest I’d never heard of it until recently, but a scour of Youtube reveals it featured performances with some of the most out-there cats who ever picked up an instrument (regardless of whether they bothered to learn how to play ‘em or not).
Sun Ra… The Residents… Bongwater… The Lounge Lizards… it’s potent stuff.
Imagine tuning into the box and stumbling across this wild noise with zero context—miss the intro and chances are you’d never find out what you’d seen until years later. It’d definitely send you on a path.
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