ABOUT
“Blind Idiot God” by Edward Hutchinson
INFORMATION, PLEASE:
MUSIC, MERCH:
Ritual Tension, ex->tension, Ivan Nahem on bandcamp
ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS:
PODCAST INTERVIEWS
VIDEO
Ritual Tension YouTube channel
GENERAL INFORMATION
Ritual Tension on Wikipedia
Ritual Tension on FaceBook
Ritual Tension on Instagram
Ritual Tension on bandcamp
Carnival Crash on bandcamp
Carnival Crash on FaceBook
BIO
For heritage/background, see Sam Nahem, Wikipedia. My mother was Elsie Hanson Nahem.
Born mid-century New York City.
Grew up in the San Francisco East Bay, mostly Berkeley. Traveled a lot.
Moved to Manhattan 1976, back to SF, punk rock, then back to Manhattan 1980, post punk.
Moved to Hoboken, 1986.
Moved to Astoria, Queens 2003. Ireland 2007. Back to Woodside, Queens, 2010. Still here.
ART
Book of poetry, “Raw Scorpions,” published by Stone Soup Press, Boston, 1972.
Drummer for The Situations, San Francisco 1978-79.
Drummer, songwriter, Crop, 1979-80, San Francisco.
Drummer, vocalist, songwriter, Carnival Crash, 1980-81, NYC.
“It Is a Happy Man” Carnival Crash EP, recorded 1980-81, released 2020.
Ivan X single, “Edge of Night,” 1981.
Vocalist, songwriter, Ritual Tension, 1981-90, 2018-19:
“I Live Here” studio LP; “Hotel California” studio EP; “The Blood of the KId Live at CBGB” live LP; “Expelled” studio LP.
“It’s Just the Apocalypse, It’s Not the End”, recorded 2019, released 2020.
Drummer, Swans, studio only, “Greed” LP, 1986.
Curator, Read Only poetry series for Echo bbs, KGB, 1996.
Vocalist, arranger, composer, “The Kiss” LP, ex->tension, 2018.
“No Goodbyes!” Ivan Nahem one song contribution to “Noise Pandemic”, May 2020.
Vocalist, arranger, composer, “Crawling Through Grass” LP, Ivan Nahem + ex->tension, 2022.
Numerous poems, stories and essays published in various magazines.
WORK
B.A. English, University of California Berkeley, 1972.
Much menial labor, factories, restaurants, driving a cab, etc etc.
Market Surveillance and Technology departments, NYSE, 1988 - 2005.
Yoga teacher, 2005 - present.
PERSONAL
Daughter, Skye, 1970.
Son, Jesse, 1988 - 2013.
Currently living in Woodside, Queens, with Helen Nulty, m. 2007.
She is Irish and will occasionally ask, Yeah what’re ya on about now?
CONTACT
ivan.nahem@gmail.com
Note: Situations poster by Eric Brogger; photographs on website by Monica Dee, Edward Hutchinson, Gregg Bielski, and Anonymous aka Unknown.