The Voice of Nooit

The Illegal Gathering was a band that only existed for six weeks way back in 1982. It consisted of the legendary James Phillips, legendary jazzist, David Ledbetter, legendary disappearing drummer, Wayne Rath and, legend on his own tee shirt, Carl Raubenheimer. The band recorded all of their songs onto a Portastudio four track cassette tape recorder. Shifty Records released most of those songs on an album called The Voice Of Nooit. James and Dave are no longer with us and Wayne has now completely disappeared, but Carl has revisited and remastered those tapes. You can hear much more about his tamperings in a six episode podcast called The Voice of Nooit. You’ll find that in all the usual places. Give it a go and then give this album a go as well. It contains a whole lot of extra stuff that wasn’t on the original Shifty release.