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There are multiple artists with this name 1. Mallard, a 1970s experimental rock band featuring ex-members of Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. In early 1974, after the recording of the Unconditionally Guaranteed album, Bill Harkleroad (Zoot Horn Rollo), Mark Boston (Rockette Morton) and Art Tripp III (Ed Marimba) (also formerly of Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention) had finally had enough of working with Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart). So they left his Magic Band and formed Mallard, with Sam Galpin on vocals, John Rabbit Bundrick on keyboards and Barry Morgan on percussion. Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, a...

San Francisco 4-piece with a penchant for psychedelic noise. Released debut Yes On Blood in 2012. .

Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company, formed in 1969 by David Borden, was the world's first synthesizer ensemble, predating groups like Tonto's Expanding Head Band and Tangerine Dream. David Borden was in close contact with Dr. Robert Moog and was one of the first musicians to use his Minimoog. After recruiting Steve Drews and Linda Fisher to operate additional synthesizers, the group began playing concerts of minimalist music by Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass. They began recording their first self-titled album in 1970, but it would not be released until 1973 by Earthquack Records. Their second album, Like a...