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Nixon Mohohlo & The Collective Heads of Knuckle: The Queen of Complaints
by Karl Ackermann
For good or bad, drummer Nixon Mohohlo has worn his heart on his sleeve for most of his musical career. Following a brief experience with monastic silence he recorded an album-length version of John Cage's 4'33." It met with outrage and was pulled from the market. In 1999, he recruited Dutch percussionist Horst Van Clutter for an ineffective all-percussion tribute to violinist Jean-Luc Ponty. Undeterred by wide-ranging failures, the conceptual drummer had an unconventional idea for which he gathered like-minded ...
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