Flavorpill features Bingo Gazingo venue at the Bowery:
Music historian and WFMU DJ Irwin Chusid coined the term “outsider music” to describe the work of such artists as Syd Barrett and Wesley Willis, work which falls well beyond the bounds of pop taste. Bingo Gazingo is another emblematic member of this group, a septuagenarian performance poet whose CD is WFMU’s only single-artist release. As Bingo sits at the Bowery Poetry Club and waits to perform, he looks dazed and distant, but once he is helped onto the stage, he launches into a manic, lyrical fit of pop culture references and divine consultations, suddenly transformed
with youth. (AC)
