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| Origin | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Years active | 1987–present |
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| Website | thenecks |
The Necks are an Australian avant-garde jazz trio formed in 1987 by founding mainstays Chris Abrahams on piano and Hammond organ, Tony Buck on drums, percussion and electric guitar, and Lloyd Swanton on bass guitar and double bass. They play long improvisational pieces of up to an hour in length that explore the development and demise of repeating musical figures characteristic of the New York School of long-form Minimal Music as practiced by La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Rhys Chatham; and the free improvisation jazz music of Cecil Taylor.
Their double LP studio album Unfold was named by Rolling Stone as "one of the top 20 avant albums of 2017."[1] In 2020, the Necks were listed at number 49 in Rolling Stone Australia's "50 Greatest Australian Artists of All Time" issue.[2]
- ^ Weingarten, Christopher R. (2 January 2018). "20 Best Avant Albums of 2017". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- ^ 50 Greatest Australian Artists of All Time – #49: The Necks. Dave Williams, Rolling Stone Australia, 1 February 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2021.