Zoogz Rift

Zoogz Rift
Nazionalità	Stati Uniti
Genere	Rock sperimentale
Periodo di attività musicale	1972 – 2006
Etichetta	SST Records
Album pubblicati	26
Studio	17
Live	1
Raccolte	8
	Sito ufficiale
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Robert Pawlikowski, in arte Zoogz Rift (Paterson, 10 luglio 1953 – 22 marzo 2011), è stato un cantautore statunitense noto per aver pubblicato molti album dalla forte sperimentazione in ambito rock, paragonati ai lavori di Captain Beefheart e Frank Zappa.^[1].

Biografia

Nato nella città di Paterson nel New Jersey, crebbe a Parsippany-Troy Hills New Jersey e si trasferì Los Angeles verso i 25 anni d'età.^[2]

Noto anche come The Liquid Moamo, fu accompagnato da vari gruppi spalla come i Micro Mastodons e The Amazing Shitheads. È stato anche wrestler in una lega minore e fu vice presidente della Universal Wrestling Federation.

Discografia

Album in studio

1979 - Idiots on the Miniature Golf Course
1982 - Amputees in Limbo
1984 - Ipecac
1985 - Interim Resurgence
1986 - Island of Living Puke
1986 - Water
1987 - Water II: At Safe Distance
1987 - Son of Puke
1988 - Nonentity (Water III: Fan Black Dada)
1988 - Murdering Hell's Happy Cretins
1989 - Torment
1990 - War Zone
1990 - Nutritionally Sound
1992 - Villagers
1996 - Five Billion Pinheads Can't Be Wrong
1999 - School of the Criminally Insane
2001 - Born in the Wrong Universe

Album dal vivo

2015 - Europe 90

Raccolte

1984 - Kiss My Bleeding Dork
1986 - Looser Than Clams... A Historical Retrospective (Greatest Hits, Vol. 1)
1995 - This Is the Music Your Parents Warned You About, Vol. 1
1995 - This Is the Music Your Parents Warned You About, Vol. 2
1996 - This Is the Music Your Parents Warned You About, Vol. 3
2000 - Sunken Treasures: The Very Best of Zoogz Rift
2000 - Demons Are Stabbing Me With Pitchforks
2002 - Dada Is Surrealism With a Sinister Agenda

Cassette autopubblicate

1976 - With No Apparent Reason
1982 - Music Sucks
1983 - Can You Smell My Genitals From Where You're Standing?
1983 - None of Your Damn Business!
1984 - The Diseased Confessions of Moamo Milkman

Note

^ https://www.scaruffi.com/vol4/riftzoog.html
^ "Passings; Zoogz Rift", Los Angeles Times, March 31, 2011. Accessed August 11, 2019. "Rift was born Robert Pawlikowski on July 10, 1953, in Paterson, N.J., but grew up in Parsippany, N.J. He moved to Los Angeles in 1977 after starting his career in the early 1970s."

Collegamenti esterni

Sito ufficiale, su zoogzrift.4mg.com.
(DE, EN) Zoogz Rift, su cagematch.net, Philip Kreikenbohm.
(EN) Zoogz Rift, su AllMusic, All Media Network.
(EN) Zoogz Rift, su Discogs, Zink Media.
(EN) Zoogz Rift, su MusicBrainz, MetaBrainz Foundation.
(EN) Zoogz Rift, su WhoSampled.

Controllo di autorità	VIAF (EN) 48839076 · ISNI (EN) 0000 0000 5328 8897 · Europeana agent/base/90985 · LCCN (EN) no98016647 · GND (DE) 134911326

Portale Biografie

Portale Rock

[1] ttps://www.scaruffi.com/vol4/riftzoog.html

[LATobit-2] "Passings; Zoogz Rift", Los Angeles Times, March 31, 2011. Accessed August 11, 2019. "Rift was born Robert Pawlikowski on July 10, 1953, in Paterson, N.J., but grew up in Parsippany, N.J. He moved to Los Angeles in 1977 after starting his career in the early 1970s."

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