Angus MacLise (1938-1979) was a major figure in the New York City music scene during his brief life. A poet and percussionist, MacLise developed a free form of musical rhythm in the early 1960s which strongly influenced later developments in music, particularly The Velvet Underground, with which MacLise originally played as a drummer. Overlooked until recently, MacLise's ouvre has been revived with the debut of an album Invasion of the Thunderbolt Pagoda, an important collection of previously unreleased works which takes its title from an avante-garde film by Ira Cohen for which MacLise created the soundtrack.

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