{"product_id":"shotgun-wedding-1","title":"Shotgun Wedding","description":"\u003cp\u003esven-ake johansson was one of the first avant-garde jazz musicians in the world, and played a key role in the energy jazz movement that swept europe in the '60s and '70s. johansson put all his concentration and focus on the drums, producing dynamic sound poems on energy and polyrhythm. born in sweden, johansson expatriated to berlin in the late '60s, and immediately became involved in the burgeoning energy jazz movement spearheaded by saxophonist peter brtzmann. johansson was the drummer on brtzmann's first recording, for adolphe sax (1967), and on the subsequent brtzmann octet release, machine gun (also featuring bennink), a joyful torrent of anarchic rhythm and noise that has since become a seminal free jazz recording. johansson also played on the first globe unity recording and began working with german pianist and composer alex von schlippenbach, a collaboration that would last till today. in 1966, mayo thompson formed the band red crayola with fellow art students frederick barthelme and steve cunningham . in the early 1970s, he lived in new york city, where he worked as a studio assistant for robert rauschenberg. after becoming disillusioned with the american art scene, he moved to london having joined the conceptual art group art \u0026amp; language], with whom he recorded two albums corrected slogans (1976) and kangaroo (1981). while in london, he became involved with geoff travis's distribution business at rough trade records. when the label decided to begin releasing records in 1978, thompson was asked to produce many of them because travis did not feel that he had enough experience in the studio. thompson is credited as producer on early records by the fall, stiff little fingers, the raincoats, cabaret voltaire, kleenex and many other seminal groups. working at rough trade also led him to reform the red crayola with new members from the bands he was working with. the resulting line-up (1979 - 1983) included a number of important post-punk musicians: gina birch of the raincoats, lora logic of x-ray spex and essential logic, epic soundtracks of the swell maps, and several of the members of pere ubu. the band continued its association with art \u0026amp; language, who often contributed lyrics to songs such as a portrait of v.i. lenin in the style of jackson pollock which references their well-known painting. their song born in flames was used for the soundtrack of lizzie borden's 1983 radical feminist film of the same name. during the 1980s, he worked as a member of pere ubu and returned to more experimental projects. in 1983 he recorded a series of monologues and vocal tracks for a collaborative effort with german musicians dieter moebius and conny plank. the recordings were shelved for 15 years but were finally released as ludwig's law in 1998. while living in germany in 1987, he began collaborating with the german painter albert oehlen[4], first on a soundtrack for the film the last of england by derek jarman. the two would later reform the band again with an entirely new line-up.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50439394885963,"sku":"323792","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/products\/shotgun-wedding-1","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}