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Oct 13, 2022 · Renowned NYC musician dies by assisted suicide in Switzerland after having ‘completed life’. Anton Fier, 66, was a prominent figure in the New York music scene in the 1980s and 1990s, and had...
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Jun 7, 2010 · Anton Fier was, until recently, a star without a bank account -- or manager come to that -- and yet at the nucleus of the hippest collection of New York’s avant-garde ever to hit vinyl. When Fier gets going, the going gets fearful as left-field jazz players, peripheral rockists and unusual combinations of singers,squawkers and shapers come together under the banner of his band,
When word got out that American drummer Anton Fier had died in September, many wondered what had become of a fabled musician who in the early 1980s played on the debut albums of two ground-breaking New York ensembles (The Feelies’ Crazy Rhythms and The Lounge Lizards’ self-titled album) and was a member of the final version of Pere Ubu ...
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NEW YORK, NY.-. Even at his musical peak in the 1980s, Anton Fier, a drummer, producer and bandleader who brought power and precision to his work with acts as diverse as the Feelies, Herbie Hancock, Laurie Anderson and his own star-studded ensemble, the Golden Palominos, seemed to glimpse a dark end for himself.
Sep 25, 2022 · This radio feature on the music of avant-rock drummer Anton Fier (1956-2022), produced and hosted by Tom Orange, aired on WCSB Cleveland 89.3 FM Friday, September 23, 2022. Playlist : The Electric Eels, "Spinach Blasters" and "It's Artastic" from The Eyeball of Hell (Scat 2001)
Sep 25, 2022 · By Martin Schray. Anton Fier is an almost imperceptible but enormously important part of the soundtrack of my life. He was the rhythm machine in my free jazz epiphany: Peter Brötzmann’s März Combo Tentet, a band that brought rock and free jazz together on Brötzmann’s 50th birthday in Wuppertal.
Oct 14, 2022 · Anton Fier died on September 14, 2022 in Switzerland of assisted suicide at the age of 66. Anton’s death has left many questions. The cause was rumored to be voluntary assisted death in Switzerland, and suicide itself did not seem out of the question.
