Create (!) is a free jazz or "free form" band formed in Long Beach, California in 1999.
Create (!) draw upon no wave, free jazz, progressive rock, freecore, hip hop R&B; and the traditional music of America and Africa. Since their first fully improvised live performances in 1999 the group has engaged in a sometimes ragged, sometimes transcendant mixture of humor, skill and stream of consciousness.
Other groups related to Create (!) include Havali...
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Create (!) is a free jazz or "free form" band formed in Long Beach, California in 1999.
Create (!) draw upon no wave, free jazz, progressive rock, freecore, hip hop R&B; and the traditional music of America and Africa. Since their first fully improvised live performances in 1999 the group has engaged in a sometimes ragged, sometimes transcendant mixture of humor, skill and stream of consciousness.
Other groups related to Create (!) include Havalina, Ruins, The Mars Volta, Night of the Wrecking Ball, Castanets, L.A. Symphony, I Heart Lung and Soul Junk. Create (!) records on the Sounds Are Active label.
Create (!) began in the fall of 1999 at a birthday party for bassist Orlando Greenhill. The three founding members Orlando Greenhill, Steve Richardson and Chris Schlarb were all Long Beach, California natives and had discussed playing music together for almost a year. Since that first ad hoc performance with the three founding members and Ian Souter, the group has refused to hold...
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