The Golden Palominos

The Golden Palominos was an American musical group headed by drummer and composer Anton Fier that was first formed in 1981. Apart from Fier, the Palominos membership was wildly elastic; While the Palominos

The Golden Palominos was an American musical group headed by drummer and composer Anton Fier that was first formed in 1981. Apart from Fier, the Palominos membership was wildly elastic; While the Palominos records usually featured a core set of musicians though the bulk of an album, various guest appearances would result in personnel and stylictic changes from track to track.

The group first featured Fier, singer-guitarist Arto Lindsay, saxophonist John Zorn, bass guitarist Bill Laswell and violinist/guitarist Fred Frith. This line-up produced a self-titled debut album, released on New York's Celluloid Records in 1983. They were heavily influenced by so-called no wave music (Lindsay had played in the no wave band DNA) but its style also contained elements of funk and of the improvational jazz stylings that would become Zorn's trademark. This line-up lasted only briefly, although its members would guest on subsequent Palominos records.