Allmusic.com: Experimenter Boyd Rice is perhaps most notable for being one of the first avant-garde rock artists to use turntables in his work. Under both the alias Non and his own name, Rice has recorded several albums of challenging, not always accessible forays into tape loops, noise collages, and repetitive textural pieces. He debuted in 1981 with a self-titled LP recorded in the mid-'70s, continued on under the Non moniker, and collaborated with Fad Gadget's Frank Tovey in 1984 on Easy Listening for the Hard of Hearing, an album of percussion sounds produced by everyday objects. His career moved towards a bizarre mix of a cocktail lounge sounds, avant garde noise, and misanthropic folk music as it went along, bringing him a mild cult audience. But anti-Jewish and anti-Christian statements that sprung from his association with a cult and his friendship with Charlie Manson did severe damage to any momentum his career could have had and left him fairly obscure by the mid-90's.
