By far the best song on the Max’s Kansas City live album from 1976, this was the sole contribution of Harry Toledo. It sounded strange then – it still sounds ahead of its ahead of its time today!

A,self-styled “rock musician and performance artist,” he was a regular at Max’s and CBGBs in that formative pre-punk era, and seems to have disappeared from view soon after, never to be seen again.

Knots could have been recorded in any era. It begins in a eerie minimalist style, takes us on a dark lyrical journey involving “knots of convulsion” over tinkling keyboards and wandering basslines, and ends five minutes later in a blizzard of free-form electric guitar.

I’m fairly sure his band includes Ed Tomney, who went on to become an experimental musician and film music composer, and possibly a drummer called Jesse Chamberlain.

They made up the trio that recorded the only other disc I can find by him, an EP called Busted Chevrolet released in 1977 under the name Harry Toledo & The Rockets and produced by John Cale, including one about the astronaut John Glenn.

Toledo’s ancient website tells us little more about his activities since then, informing us only that he was a friend of John Cale and Hilly Kristal, the founder of CBGBs, and was a regular there and at Max’s.

If anyone knows any more, I’d like to hear it.