Judy Nylon is a widely influential multidisciplinary

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artist who moved to

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in 1970. She was half of the punk rock music group Snatch, which also featured fellow American expat

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(who was later in

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aficionados living in

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and London during the era spanning glam, punk and no wave are likely to appreciate her influence, the bulk of which has not been preserved in print nor on vinyl or CD. ''

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''s Paul Tickell proclaimed her LP ''

Pal Judy ''Pal Judy'' is an album by Judy Nylon and Crucial, released in 1982 by record label On-U Sound. Reception ''Trouser Press'' called it "a moody, adeptly created and performed record", while AllMusic called it a "dark, moody exercise in postmo ...

'' (1982), coproduced by Nylon and

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, "a classic rainy day bit of sound and song to drift away to." Nylon is the orderly, ergonomic Judy of Brian Eno's song "Back in Judy's Jungle", on his 1974 LP ''

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''. Moreover, in his legendary account of how the genesis of ambient music came about, which first appeared on the back cover of his 1975 LP '' Discreet Music'', Eno anecdotally credits Nylon. Concomitantly during the '70s she often collaborated with Welsh musician/producer John Cale. In 1974 she sang the song "The Man Who Couldn't Afford to Orgy" on his album ''Fear''. She subsequently performed with him at concerts and on other recordings, including his 1987 live album '' Even Cowgirls Get the Blues''. "R.A.F." (b/w "Kings Lead Hat"), a 1978 Eno song by Snatch and Eno (

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) that involves sound elements from a

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ransom message made by public telephone at the time of the

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hijacking, provides insight into Nylon's innovative sound montage/cut-up practice—as does the 1983 Snatch roundup LP ''Witch I'', aided by

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's liner notes. Along with Patti Palladin she also sang backing vocals with Johnny Thunders' All Stars on his early 1978 shows, which also featured members of

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. Nylon's current multi-disciplinary work focuses on international co-authorship and decentralized many-to-many style video storytelling. Since 2007 she has periodically contributed to the collective Aether9, who collaborate on multinational multi-streamed networked performances intending to develop low-cost, open-source, nomadic public art production. In 2010, Nylon contributed guest vocals to the ''Babylon By Car'' album by the French electronica group Bot'Ox.

Other information

Nylon appears in Eno's 1974 promotional video for his song "China My China", from ''Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)''.Eno, B.
"China My China"
(London: Island Records, 1974).

References

External links

*, Jan. 16, 2016. *, Feb. 13, 2016.
Judy Nylon Collection on New York City Tenants' Rights
Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University {{DEFAULTSORT:Nylon, Judy No wave musicians American expatriates in the United Kingdom American punk rock musicians Brian Eno 1948 births Living people Women in punk