Artist
Mars
Sumner Crane, China Burg, Mark Cunningham, and Nancy Arlen's atonal quartet. One of four bands on No New York, creating unstable rhythms and guitar textures that defined the scene's experimental edge. Arlen's drums provided a stuttering, off-kilter pulse beneath Cunningham's sliding bass and the atonal guitar interplay of Crane and Burg. On their track "Helen Fordsdale," Brian Eno put an echo on the guitar's click and used it to trigger compression on the whole track, creating a sound "like helicopter blades."