JOHN BENDER - pop surgery LP Crust McEntire’s recording and touring with

McEntire’s recording and touring with Tortoise

having co-founded German Riot-Grrrl band elektrolochmann and Post-Hardcore band Monochrome in the 1990s

and a pillar of the second wave of improvisers in a scene first shaped by the legendary players like Sun Ra and the AACM

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JOHN BENDER - pop surgery LP Crust McEntire’s recording and touring withFollowing the release of lo fi electronic masterpiece I Dont Remember Now I Dont Want To Talk About It and his brilliant follow up Plaster Falling, Cincinnati based artist John Bender began assembling his third and last album, Pop Surgery, in late 1982. While all of Benders work draws from intimate home recordingsfeaturing the artist alone with various keyboards, analogue sequencers and tape delaysPop Surgery remains the one that perhaps best distills