with Dinger playing drums

it documented for the first time the explosive era when domestic bands fused traditional highlife and juju with funk

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crying to be let out

Marvin Pontiac - The Asylum Tapes (RSD 2020) funk with Dinger playing drums'Marvin Pontiac was anonymously sent a 4 track tape recorder during the years he was held at Esmerelda State Mental Institution. This is what he did with it.' This was the sole statement accompanying the release of Marvin Pontiac: The Asylum Tapes, the first release in 17 years by John Lurie's alter ego Marvin Pontiac. Coming to prominence during the no wave era as part of NYC's notorious Lounge Lizards and starring in Jim Jarmusch's film Down By Law,