Smegma (a pun on the French band Magma) started in Pasadena in 1973. A couple of friends – none of them having had any formal musical training – got together and formed an experimental band on November 23rd of that year. Influenced by artists, thinkers and musicians as varied as John Cage, Harry Partch, Sun Ra and Buckminster Fuller and drawing from their own creativity, Smegma soon developed a distinct experimental and anarchist sound, which they labeled ‘primitive suburban folk’…
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