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Massacre
Massacre
American experimental rock band
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Ikue Mori
Ikue Mori
Japanese drummer
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Fred Frith
Fred Frith
English musician, composer and improvisor
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Anton Fier
Anton Fier
American rock drummer and bandleader
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Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell
American musician
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This Heat
This Heat
English Post-Punk band
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Orphy Robinson
Orphy Robinson
British musician
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Material
Material
American band led by Bill Laswell
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Michiyo Yagi
Michiyo Yagi
Japanese musician
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Lol Coxhill
Lol Coxhill
English free improvising saxophonist and raconteur (1932-2012)
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Evan Parker
Evan Parker
English saxophonist
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John Zorn
John Zorn
American composer, saxophonist and bandleader
12
Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot
American musician
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Karl Berger
Karl Berger
German jazz vibraphonist, pianist and composer
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Wayne Horvitz
Wayne Horvitz
American musician
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Ava Mendoza
Ava Mendoza
American musician
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Fred Frith Trio
Fred Frith Trio
American experimental music and free improvising group
17
Jesse Harris
Jesse Harris
American musician
18
Henry Kaiser
Henry Kaiser
American guitarist, film director, and scientific diver
19
Fred Lonberg-Holm
Fred Lonberg-Holm
American musician
20
Anat Cohen
Anat Cohen
Israeli musician
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Derek Bailey
Derek Bailey
British guitarist
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Tom Cora
Tom Cora
American cellist and composer
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Thomas Borgmann
Thomas Borgmann
musician
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Bob Ostertag
Bob Ostertag
American musician
25
Skeleton Crew
Skeleton Crew
American experimental rock and jazz group
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Steve Beresford
Steve Beresford
English musician
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Peter Brötzmann
Peter Brötzmann
German jazz saxophonist and clarinetist
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Julian Lage
Julian Lage
American musician
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Henry Cow
Henry Cow
English avant-rock group
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Hugh Hopper
Hugh Hopper
English bass guitarist
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John Russell
John Russell
English guitarist
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These New Puritans
These New Puritans
British band
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Guy Klucevsek
Guy Klucevsek
American musician
34
Rose McDowall
Rose McDowall
Scottish musician
35
Peter Blegvad
Peter Blegvad
American singer-songwriter
36
Trilok Gurtu
Trilok Gurtu
Indian musician
37
Sam Rivers
Sam Rivers
American jazz musician and composer
38
Rhys Chatham
Rhys Chatham
American composer
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Ronald Shannon Jackson
Ronald Shannon Jackson
American drummer
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Gerald Cleaver
Gerald Cleaver
American musician
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Tony Williams
Tony Williams
American jazz drummer
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THEESatisfaction
THEESatisfaction
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Eyeless in Gaza
Eyeless in Gaza
English post punk band
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The Haxan Cloak
The Haxan Cloak
British musician
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Bootsy Collins
Bootsy Collins
American musician
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Controlled Bleeding
Controlled Bleeding
American band
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Roy Haynes
Roy Haynes
American jazz drummer and group leader
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Pat Metheny
Pat Metheny
American jazz musician
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John Greaves
John Greaves
British musician and composer
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JG Thirlwell
JG Thirlwell
Australian musician, composer, and record producer
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Tim Hodgkinson
Tim Hodgkinson
English experimental music composer and performer
52
Ben Perowsky
Ben Perowsky
American drummer
53
PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey
English singer-songwriter
54
Algiers
Algiers
band
Charles Hayward
British musician

Charles Hayward

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British musician

Charles Hayward (born 1951) is an English drummer and was a founding member of the experimental rock groups This Heat and Camberwell Now. He also played with Mal Dean's Amazing Band, Dolphin Logic, and gigged and recorded with Phil Manzanera in the group Quiet Sun project as well as a short stint with Gong. He was a session musician on The Raincoats' second album, Odyshape, and on one occasion played drums for the anarchist punk band Crass. Since the late 1980s, Hayward has released several solo projects and participated in various collaborations, most notably Massacre with Bill Laswell and Fred Frith.