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unusual facts about art rock



Kozmetika

Kozmetika (Serbian Cyrillic: Козметика; trans. Cosmetics) were a Serbian New Wave/art rock band from Belgrade, notable as one of the pioneers and promoters of New Wave music and culture in Yugoslavia through their youth magazine Izgled.

The Kustomonsters

The Kustomonsters is an animated web series and TV show created by, Craig Clark, an art rock, darkwave musician (Chorus of Souls on Fluxus Records), animator (Forrest Gump and The Simpsons).

The Original Soundtrack

The Original Soundtrack is the third studio album by the English art rock band 10cc.

Waking the Mystics

Waking the Mystics is the 2007 sophomore album released by the Portland, Oregon art rock band Sophe Lux.


see also

Dada Nada

Dada Nada - House Music and Hip House act which served as the moniker for Robert Ozn after the breakup of New York art rock act EBN-OZN, an MTV darling in the mid 80s.

Days between stations

Days Between Stations, the debut album by California based art rock musical duo Days Between Stations.

Days Between Stations is an art rock musical duo named after the novel.

Delicate AWOL

At various times, the band cited influences including Mogwai, Cocteau Twins, Low, art rock from 1990s Chicago (such as Tortoise and The For Carnation) and Montreal (Godspeed You! Black Emperor) and 1970s Britain (King Crimson).

Jon Poole

By the mid-to-late 80s, when he was beginning to play in bands, he was listening to maverick American art-rock heroes such as Captain Beefheart, Tom Waits, Frank Zappa and also to British progressive rock from the 1970s (as well as contemporary prog-inspired bands - most notably Cardiacs).

Liverpool College of Art

In 1975, Clive Langer, Steve Allen, Tim Whittaker, Sam Davis, Steve Lindsey, John Wood and Roy Holt a mix of Fine Art students and tutors at the college founded seminal 'art rock' band Deaf School and went on to sign a record deal with Warner Bros Records US after being 'discovered' by former Beatles publicist and head of Warner Bros UK at the time Derek Taylor.

Macalla

Furthermore, it featured some internationally renowned artists such as art rock saxophone player Mel Collins, an ex-King Crimson member and famous for his solo on The Rolling Stones' "Miss You", and Anton Corbijn's photography.

Nathaniel Mellors

Mellors plays bass in the art-rock group Skill 7 Stamina 12 with Dan Fox, Ashley Marlowe and Maaike Schoorel, and has also released music with Toilet, God in Hackney, Mysterius Horse and under his own name.

Paul Hullah

The band were formed out of three of Edinburgh's Indie art rock circuit and comprised Hullah, Billy Gould and Gordon Mackenzie on bass & drums (The Calloways), and Martin Metcalfe on guitar (Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie).

Peter Mayes

He is a longtime collaborator with Nick Littlemore and has produced and mixed many of his projects, most notably the platinum selling album Walking on a Dream and Ice on the Dune for Empire of the Sun, and the art rock act Teenager.

Richard Barbieri

He has cited Karlheinz Stockhausen as a central influence, and his approach could also be compared to similar "non-virtuoso" art rock musicians such as Brian Eno.