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Nixon Mohohlo & The Collective Heads of Knuckle: The Queen of Complaints

by Karl Ackermann
April 1, 2021

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 ...