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Policeband

Policeband has been played on NTS in shows including Club To Club 2015, featured first on 7 November 2015. Songs played include On The Beat.

Policeband was a one-man act - the man being Boris, a New York City kid and a classically trained musician who picked up on performance art while studying and teaching at Cal Arts in the early 70s.

Boris became Boris Policeband after a live performance in 1976 during which he monitored, on headphones, police communications from a scanner and recited their chatter while he accompanied himself on electric violin. Boris was fascinated by cop culture and the often prosaic and sometimes…

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On The Beat
Boris Policeband
Soul Jazz Records2006
On The Beat
Boris PolicebandSoul Jazz Records2006
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