La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela – Untitled [USED LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield at a time when Steve

at a time when Steve was living a kinda schizophrenic existence: working at Wall Street by day and going to clubs and art spaces almost every evening (he was one of the artists filmed for the no wave documentary 135 Grand Street New York 1979)

bedroom pop

When he met Jonas Mekas in Budapest a few years later

bucolic reverie with some pretty string swells

their Anti-Emperor gig series “Ten-Nou” was targeted by right wing groups

La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela – Untitled [USED LP] Avant-Garde / Leftfield at a time when Steveblinding unreleased (& very rare!) material from the young zazeela archives, the a side featuring la monte on sopranino spewing atop drums from angus maclise, the second a gorgeous devotional verit chant from the couple on the seaside. Private Label, 2012