Although native North Carolinian cum downtown New Yorker Henry Flynt maintained associations with celebrity artist Yoko Ono, performed with John Cale & LaMonte Young, sat in with the Velvet Underground and took part in numerous happenings throughout the 1960s, for some 30 years the violinist /guitarist /wild man vocalist feverishly produced and documented a perplexingly large body of work in relative obscurity. Save for an art ghetto style cassette release by a German gallery in 1981, Henry Flynt's many-headed musical vison went largely unpublished until the 21st century set in. He's made his mark with his brand of ecstatic North Indian Raga inspired minimalism on C Tune (locust3), the full bodied experimentalism anthologized on Raga Electric (locust6) and the avante-hillbilly bumpkin fiddle joyride on the two volume Back Porch Hillbilly Blues Volume 1 & 2 (locust 16 & 14), & last year's agro punk I Don't Wanna ? with his 1966 garage rock protest band, The Insurrections (locust39). Purified by the Fire is the 6th in Locust Music's ongoing archival releases of Henry's work. A mailorder only limited 45 of his no wave hillbilly group novabilly is forthcoming.

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