Cargo Records

• FOCUS ON: J.D. Robb

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• Label: Locust Music >>
• Genre: Avant Garde/Experimental

Not to be confused with the nom de plume of author Nora Roberts, meet the real J.D. Robb.

In 1941, at the age of 49, John Donald Robb walked away from a successful international law career, headed West, set up shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico and later founded the Rio Grande Electronic Music Laboratory.

Robb dove head first into a career as a composer, ethnomusicologist and an early electronic music noodler whose bizarre & singular electronic music recordings are short on same old same old and long on quirky, propulsive beat audacity.This collection of vintage electronic experiments is a true pleasure to the inner sanctum of the outer ear. Newly remastered compilation combining the best cuts from his two folkways lps with totally off the wall photos.