Charlemagne Palestine | Artist

Chaim Moshe Tzadik Palestine, known professionally as Charlemagne Palestine, is an American visual artist and avant-garde musician born 1947 in Brooklyn, New York. Palestine began by singing sacred Jewish music and studying accordion and piano. At the age of 12 he started playing backup conga and bongo drums for Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Kenneth Anger and Tiny Tim. Throughout the '70s Palestine created records, videos, sculptural objects, abstract expressionist visual scores, and developed his own alternative synthesizer, the Spectral Continuum Drone Machine. He is fond of stuffed animals and performs with his large collection of stuffed animals on stage. His minimalist style music is based drones and free improvisation using electronic and electroacoustic instruments. Stand-out albums include Strumming Music, Jamaica Heinekens in Brooklyn, Godbear, Schlingen-Blängen, Schlongo !!! DaLUVdrone, Music for Big Ears, and the live album, The Golden Mean.

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