I downloaded and i danced. fuck yes. James Chance was given a contract to record the Buy Contortions album, but first he was told that he must record a disco album. So he composed all this music and told the same Contortions musicians to record it. The label gave him a lot of money to record this James White & The Blacks album, so the Contortions got pissed off and they broke up. But then they kind of came back again, but with a different line up. Then they broke up again.
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
James White & The Blacks - Off White
I downloaded and i danced. fuck yes. James Chance was given a contract to record the Buy Contortions album, but first he was told that he must record a disco album. So he composed all this music and told the same Contortions musicians to record it. The label gave him a lot of money to record this James White & The Blacks album, so the Contortions got pissed off and they broke up. But then they kind of came back again, but with a different line up. Then they broke up again.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
James Chance & The Contortions - Buy (1979)
A great album by one of the best New York City groups of the late '70s No Wave scene. The Contortions were led by saxophonist James Chance a.k.a. James White. His music is described as a combination of the freeform playing of Ornette Coleman with the solid funk rhythm of James Brown, though filtered through a punk rock lens. This is a true classic you little freaks.
Buy!
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