X-Legged Sally

An experimental, <a href="spotify:artist:6ra4GIOgCZQZMOaUECftGN">Zappa</a>-influenced group from Belgium, X-Legged Sally's membership included <a href="spotify:artist:06qk9RkKCigwdR6FLL0Dab">Peter Vermeersch</a>, Paul Belgrado, <a href="spotify:artist:4nECucssBVAwMl5IKEBssc">Pierre Vervloesem</a>, Danny Van Hoeck, Peter Vandenberghe, <a href="spotify:artist:1yclXtv76P23zDjYjSdOiE">Bart Maris</a>, and Michel Mast. In 1990 the band contributed a track to the Live at the Knitting Factory, Vol. 4 collection, which resulted in a continuing loose affiliation with the New York downtown scene. Following three albums on the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Sub+Rosa%22">Sub Rosa</a> label -- two of them produced by <a href="spotify:artist:5RISqKCcrhGITX2TQAPGPL">Bill Laswell</a> -- XLS released their American debut, The Land of the Giant Dwarfs, in 1995. Fired, a live album featuring music from several of their previous CDs, was released in 1996, and Bereft of a Blissful Union, an album of music performed by XLS and <a href="spotify:artist:5ezYVqpTT1oJ9iCsPD1HjH">the Smith Quartet</a> to accompany a modern dance performance, arrived the following year. In 1998 <a href="spotify:artist:06qk9RkKCigwdR6FLL0Dab">Peter Vermeersch</a> formed <a href="spotify:artist:5VNvN4wnuaUAUEo0I5Yz5z">Flat Earth Society</a>, an avant big band featuring a number of XLS alumni. <a href="spotify:artist:5VNvN4wnuaUAUEo0I5Yz5z">Flat Earth Society</a> -- or FES -- performed, toured, and recorded throughout the first decade of the 21st century and beyond. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi