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1.	The End 01:09	info	buy track
2.	Hudson Street 01:25	info	buy track
3.	Black Lung 00:53	info	buy track
4.	Fashions 01:13	info	buy track
5.	Rebel 03:06	info	buy track
6.	The Redneck Song 00:57	info	buy track
7.	Missles and Pistols 02:20	info	buy track
8.	I'm on the Winning Side 01:24	info	buy track
9.	The Girl's Bill of Rights 01:31	info	buy track
10.	Dow 01:20	info	buy track
11.	Bartolucci 00:56	info	buy track
12.	Look at My Dick 01:21	info	buy track
13.	Sad 01:34	info	buy track
14.	Missles and Pistols (Alternate Version) 01:12	info	buy track
15.	Every Day Same Old Way 02:07	info	buy track
16.	Perry Como 01:18	info	buy track
17.	Five More Years 01:42	info	buy track
18.	A Model's Revengeful Acquisition 02:23	info	buy track
19.	The Snatch Song 01:16	info	buy track
20.	Never Been Anywhere 02:32	info	buy track
21.	Hey Baby 02:15	info	buy track

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Long-lost recordings culled from performances between 1979 and 1982 from the loose group of feminist performers known as DISBAND. Ilona Granet, Donna Henes, Barbara Kruger, Ingrid Sischy, Diane Torr, and Martha Wilson screamed, shouted, sang, and stomped through the heyday of New York City’s new- and no-wave scenes, blurring the line between performance art and live music. Mirroring the chaos and temporarity of that time, the band split up in 1982 having never produced a record. This is the first comprehensive look at their all-too brief career.

This CD features 21 recordings captured from the band’s live performances between 1979-1982.

DISBAND was founded in 1978 by Martha Wilson, Daile Kaplan, and Barbara Ess. Although Kaplan and Ess were members of seminal downtown punk and No Wave bands, Wilson took her lack of musical training as inspiration to formulate this “all-girl conceptual art punk band” in the midst of New York’s No Wave scene. While the group began with standard instruments, they discarded them quickly, focusing on their voices, harmonies, and corporeal percussion (clapping, stomping, etc) as the foundation for witty, humorous, and intellectually biting songs. The lineup was initially fluid, with Daile Kaplan, Barbara Ess, April Gornik, Barbara Kruger, all participating in the early days of the group, along side Martha Wilson. Eventually the line-up shifted to artists Ilona Granet, Donna Henes, Diane Torr, Martha Wilson, and writer Ingrid Sischy. DISBAND performed regularly between 1979 and 1982 at exhibition spaces, clubs, and art festivals throughout the world. DISBAND reunited with Granet, Henes, Torr, and Wilson in 2008 at MoMA PS1’s installation of “WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution,” and continue to perform internationally.

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5 x 5.5 inches
31 minutes
Edition of 1000
June 2009

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DISBAND is an all-girl conceptual art punk band founded in 1978 by Martha Wilson, Daile Kaplan, and Barbara Ess. Additional members of the group included, Ilona Granet, Donna Henes, Barbara Kruger, Ingrid Sischy, and Diane Torr. DISBAND performed regularly between 1979 and 1982 at exhibition spaces, clubs, and art festivals throughout the world. ... more

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