Label: Counter Culture Chronicles - Counter Culture Chronicles 72

カウンターカルチャー & アヴァンギャルドにフォーカスした音記録を中心に手がけ、多くのスポークンワード及び貴重なアート系録音の作品化を行うオランダのアンダーグラウンド出版社Counter Culture Chronicles。67年カルト盤[The Psychedelic Saxophone Of Charlie Nothing / In Eternity With Brother Frederic]、69年[Inside / Outside]、85年セルフリリースカセット作等、当店では10年程前に？その一連の再発音源を全て紹介していた、アメ車を解体し作り上げた自作ギターにて演奏を行う超異端作家Charlie Nothing。なんと未だ再発されていない82年[The Fabulous Dingulators by the Charlie Nothing Dingulator Band]、89年[State Of The Ding]を含む全70分の再発音源が登場！！この奔放でブッ飛んだ音楽性は是非一度体感すべき!!

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C-70 cassette
Design : André Koolmees
the cassette comes with two laser printed inserts
Limited edition of 70

Charlie Nothing was born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1941 as Charles Martin Simon. After having graduated from the Montclair Academy for Boys, Simon enrolled in Rutgers University, New Jersey, where he studied Agriculture and English Literature for a couple of years before dropping out in 1961. The death of Simon’s wife in 1965 left him shattered and ‘reduced to nothing’ and from that time on he focused on music, visual art and writing under the moniker Charlie Nothing. He called his homemade steel guitars, unique instruments constructed from the wrecks of American cars, ‘dingulators’. “It’s a sword-to-plowshare kind of thing,” Charlie Nothing explained, “cars to guitars.” During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s he formed a number of ‘dingulation bands’ and recorded two albums. Charlie Nothing moved to the West Coast in 1966 and lived in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Santa Cruz, where he joined an organic farming community. Between 1984 and 2004 he stopped performing and focused on beekeeping and writing, which led to a dozen hand made and self-published books. Three years after having started performing again, Charlie Nothing died in Soquel, California in 2007.

The 70-minute Dingulation cassette released by Counter Culture Chronicles contains selections from the self-released cassettes The Fabulous Dingulators by The Charlie Nothing Dingulator Band (1982) and State of the Ding (1989) with fellow outsider musicians Jesse Ward Jr, John Kertis and Pat Bisconti.