About
The No-Neck Blues Band, also known as NNCK, is a seven-member free-form improvisational musical collective from New York City. Formed in 1992, the original band was of eight members (until John Fell Ryan left to join noise group, Excepter), and has practiced weekly in a space in Harlem since. Membership includes Dave Nuss, Keith Connolly, Dave Shuford, Jason Meagher, Pat Murano, Matt Heyner, and Mico.
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Members of NNCK have been involved in numerous side-projects and off-shoots, including Angelblood, Eye Contact, Izititiz, K. Salvatore, Malkuth, Enos Slaughter, Suntanama, Egypt is the Magick #, Test, Coach Fingers, D. Charles Speer & The Helix, and Under Satan's Sun.
Along with their many releases on their own label, Sound@One (or s@1, as it often appears), NNCK has released albums on Ecstatic Yod, New World of Sound, 5RC &, recently, locust music. Singles have been released on Dry Leaf Disks (UK), New World of Sound, and Ecstatic Peace. Their first studio album was Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones but Names Will Never Hurt Me, produced by Jerry Yester on John Fahey's Revenant Records after a particular interest on Fahey's part. This was followed by Qvaris on 5RC, and Embryonnck, a collaboration with the German band Embryo released on Staubgold Records. Additional releases by the band are Nine for Victor, a recording from a live performance in Quebec and a 2007 deluxe reissue of the band's privately issued "Live at Ken's Electric Lake" originally released a decade earlier (and with a first gatefold photo of the band by Sara Press).
Members
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David Nuss drums (drum set)
Discography
Albums
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Hoichoi
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Recorded in Public & Private Apple Music
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The Circle Broken Apple Music
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Letters From the Earth Apple Music
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A Tabu Two
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Letters From the Serth Apple Music
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Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones but Names Will Never Hurt Me Apple Music
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Intonomancy Apple Music
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Ever Borneo! / Burney Toppins
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Wolfen Nickel Apple Music
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Rye Antenna Apple Music
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First Kingdom of the Ghost Apple Music
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Parallel Easters Apple Music
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Dutch Money Apple Music
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Qvaris Apple Music
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The Collective Imaginings of Quantarenius, Cook, & Co. Apple Music
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Nine for Victor Apple Music
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EmbryoNNCK
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Aftypiclipse (For Jazzfinger) Apple Music
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Angelo Mai Apple Music
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The Large Taquat Apple Music
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Roodemas Apple Music
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Clomeim Apple Music
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Languid Red Marchetti Apple Music
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At 6AM We Become the Police Apple Music
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YTIU Apple Music
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CINo51 Apple Music
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Furamingo Josei
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Gitanjali + The Nascent Stigma
Singles
Live
Compilations
Links
Also known as
NNCK · The No-Neck Blues Band
Identifiers
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Data from MusicBrainz, saved 13 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.