Laddio Bolocko for Psych/Space

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   Formed in 1996, Laddio Bolocko were a North American psychedelic rock band from Brooklyn, New York. The lineup consisted of Panicsville's Drew St. Ivany on guitar and Ben Armstrong on bass, along with saxophonist Marcus DeGrazia of Craw and drummer Blake Fleming, formerly of Dazzling Killmen and fresh from a U.S. tour as a member of KK Null's Zeni Geva. Their bizarre moniker was Fleming's altered spelling of Lotteo Balaco, the late owner of a Greek restaurant back in his hometown of Alton, Illinois. Known for their pummeling and mesmerising live performances, Laddio Bolocko played a style of noisy garage-rock featuring an appreciation for krautrock, math rock, no wave, free jazz and Brian Eno's early rock records, which critics consistently compared to Can, This Heat, the Residents and Albert Ayler.
Fleming, DeGrazia, Armstrong and St. Ivany lived in their rehearsal studio in Brooklyn's Dumbo neighbourhood (later temporarily moving to an abandoned ski lodge in the Catskills), improvising music for hours a day and recording it all. The band self-produced two albums and one EP during their brief existence, each self-released in limited quantities via their personal label Hungarian Records: 1997's Strange Warmings of Laddio Bolocko, 1998's In Real Time and 1999's As If by Remote, the latter two collected in the 2000 compilation As If in Real Time.

Laddio Bolocko eventually fell apart in autumn 2000. Fleming moved the following year to Long Beach, California, where he cofounded the Mars Volta and later formed his own project Electric Turn To Me with DeGrazia. St. Ivany and Armstrong founded the Psychic Paramount in 2002, the spiritual successor to Laddio Bolocko's noise-psych. The quartet's complete discography was posthumously collected in 2002 as The Life & Times of Laddio Bolocko, followed by a 2015 compilation of live recordings, Live & Unreleased 1997-2000, both issued by No Quarter Records.

Laddio Bolocko are enthusiastically recommended to fans of Aluk Todolo, Acid Mothers Temple, Boredoms, U SCO, Don Caballero and Circle.

"Life and Times of Laddio Bolocko" (2003)

"Live and Unreleased 1997-2000" (2015)
https://laddiobolocko.bandcamp.com/album/live-and-unreleased-1997-2000

Edited by Gordy - August 17 2023 at 03:50

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	Formed in 1996, Laddio Bolocko were a North American psychedelic rock band from Brooklyn, New York. The lineup consisted of Panicsville's Drew St. Ivany on guitar and Ben Armstrong on bass, along with saxophonist Marcus DeGrazia of Craw and drummer Blake Fleming, formerly of Dazzling Killmen and fresh from a U.S. tour as a member of KK Null's Zeni Geva. Their bizarre moniker was Fleming's altered spelling of Lotteo Balaco, the late owner of a Greek restaurant back in his hometown of Alton, Illinois. Known for their pummeling and mesmerising live performances, Laddio Bolocko played a style of noisy garage-rock featuring an appreciation for krautrock, math rock, no wave, free jazz and Brian Eno's early rock records, which critics consistently compared to Can, This Heat, the Residents and Albert Ayler. Fleming, DeGrazia, Armstrong and St. Ivany lived in their rehearsal studio in Brooklyn's Dumbo neighbourhood (later temporarily moving to an abandoned ski lodge in the Catskills), improvising music for hours a day and recording it all. The band self-produced two albums and one EP during their brief existence, each self-released in limited quantities via their personal label Hungarian Records: 1997's Strange Warmings of Laddio Bolocko, 1998's In Real Time and 1999's As If by Remote, the latter two collected in the 2000 compilation As If in Real Time. Laddio Bolocko eventually fell apart in autumn 2000. Fleming moved the following year to Long Beach, California, where he cofounded the Mars Volta and later formed his own project Electric Turn To Me with DeGrazia. St. Ivany and Armstrong founded the Psychic Paramount in 2002, the spiritual successor to Laddio Bolocko's noise-psych. The quartet's complete discography was posthumously collected in 2002 as The Life & Times of Laddio Bolocko, followed by a 2015 compilation of live recordings, Live & Unreleased 1997-2000, both issued by No Quarter Records. Laddio Bolocko are enthusiastically recommended to fans of Aluk Todolo, Acid Mothers Temple, Boredoms, U SCO, Don Caballero and Circle. "Life and Times of Laddio Bolocko" (2003) "Live and Unreleased 1997-2000" (2015) https://laddiobolocko.bandcamp.com/album/live-and-unreleased-1997-2000 Edited by Gordy - August 17 2023 at 03:50

Gordy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Folk/Eclectic/PSIKE/Metal/Post/Math Team Joined: January 25 2007 Location: US Status: Offline Points: 4522	Post Options Post Reply Quote Gordy Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: September 10 2023 at 22:10
	Now added to Krautrock.