The Golden Palominos
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The Golden Palominos were an American musical group headed by drummer, producer, arranger and composer Anton Fier, first formed in 1981. Aside from Fier, the Palominos membership has been wildly elastic, with only bassist Bill Laswell and guitarist Nicky Skopelitis appearing on every album through 1996. Their final work, 2012's A Good Country Mile features vocalist Kevn Kinney. The band's early work developed out of the No Wave scene, but later branched out into alternative rock, country rock and electronic music.
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Origin | Cleveland, Ohio, US |
Genres | Alternative rock, experimental, ambient, country, industrial |
Years active | 1981–1996, 2010, 2012 |
Labels | Celluloid, Nation/Charisma, Restless, Almost Loaded |
Past members | Anton Fier Bill Laswell Nicky Skopelitis Amanda Kramer Lori Carson Knox Chandler Arto Lindsay Jody Harris Syd Straw Peter Blegvad Lydia Kavanagh Nicole Blackman Andy Hess Tony Scherr David Moss Bernie Worrell Michael Hampton Fred Frith |
While the Palominos' records usually featured a core set of musicians and a certain emotional continuity throughout the bulk of an album, various guest appearances resulted in stylistic changes from track to track. Fier stated that he thought of himself as a casting director, elaborating: "Each record was an experiment and some lasted for two records, never longer than that. I chalk it up to my short attention span and the fact that there were lots of people I wanted to work with and ways to explore areas of music I was interested in, and certain combos wouldn't fit with others, so one record would be this and another record would be something else."[1]