Remastered with 3 bonus tracks culled from the Chance vaults - over an hour of music. “…essential no wave/drug-funk/skree-jazz” – Alternative Press “The Maestro of ‘80’s punk jazz” – CMJ Soul Exorcism Redux is a re-release of an exhilarating night in Rotterdam from 1980. If you shut your eyes you might actually feel his breath, his sweat come flying at you from the stage or more likely from the floor when he’s dancing alone to the “Twitch”. James Chance is a dangerous and irrepressible man. He makes you think of one of those wild horses that man was not meant to tame. Now with three… read more
Remastered with 3 bonus tracks culled from the Chance vaults - over an hour of music. “…essential no wave/drug-funk/skree-jazz” – Alternative Press “… read more
Remastered with 3 bonus tracks culled from the Chance vaults - over an hour of music. “…essential no wave/drug-funk/skree-jazz” – Alternative Press “The Maestro of ‘80’s punk jazz” – CMJ… read more
One of the original punk jazz groups of the New York No Wave scene, the Contortions were led by saxophonist James Chance, aka James White (birth name James Siegfried). The group formed in New York City in 1977 and ended along with the No Wave scene in 1979. Their first recorded appearance, credited solely as the Contortions, was on the 1978 compilation, No New York. The following year, two albums were issued almost simultaneously on the ZE label, Buy the Contortions (an extreme jazz-punk LP) and Off White (a disco/standards hybrid released under the moniker James White and the Black… read more
One of the original punk jazz groups of the New York No Wave scene, the Contortions were led by saxophonist James Chance, aka James White (birth name James Siegfried). The group formed in N… read more
One of the original punk jazz groups of the New York No Wave scene, the Contortions were led by saxophonist James Chance, aka James White (birth name James Siegfried). The group formed in New York City in 1977 and ended along with the … read more