Anglius def: 1.Emerging energy that is the result of two or more tones colliding 2. Incidental harmonic 3. The audio joke
 
In 1971, Ludent Tremmel attended the University of Connecticut as a Plant Science major. His first and last semester there, he placed a vintage Kalamazoo amp on his window ledge and began to play drone guitar. The story goes that he heard a saxophone and looked out to see a sax and pair of hands sticking out a second floor window across the courtyard. Very strange unintentional harmonics and melodic lines were occurring as the two instruments merged with the slap back off the two buildings. The sax player turned out to be Lee Rozie (Mixashawn). So then was Anglius born.

After Ludent’s academic dis-invite, he was refused a return to the family apartment and left for California with his high school sweetheart. There he worked as a dye master for a plastics factory in El Monte. The two subsidized their small income with fruit stolen from the trees at the State Arboretum. The only gig he played there was at a club in Pasadena with a bunch of guy’s he had been jamming with who called themselves Pudd. Ludent swears that these same guys later became the Doobie Brothers, a claim that one should accept remembering Ludent’s love of plant science at the time. He returned to Connecticut in the spring 1972 and would settle first in Coventry and then New Britain. He would hook up with his friend from school Jamie Wolf and begin to take up sound explorations again. They shared a love for Harry Partch, Edgar Vareese, early Pink Floyd, The Mothers of Invention, and King Crimson. The project took the name The Anglion Audio Theatre. In the early days Jamie played guitar and cello, Ludent sang and played lead, and no percussion. At various times Tim Wolf would collaborate on sax. They performed on the full moon only, out in the state forests using the generator of Jamie’s truck for juice (both dangerous and illegal), and at local coffee houses (The Bridge, Wooden Ships etc).

In 1976 they began to branch out into concept/parody writing and to record, adding Kubla Z on bass. By 1978 they had gained the attention of curiosity seekers in the Hartford area. A college radio DJ at WRTC took notice and gave them their break by allowing them to tape 30min music/psycho-political soap operas for him to play on his show. This series was known as The Anglion Audio Theatre of The Air. The DJ was Michael Clare who would become their bass player later that year. Joining them would be the kinetic Tommy Dest on drums. Together they would hone the quirky, polyrhythmic, caustic, acidic, transportive progressive sound AAT would become famous for. This AAT incarnation would perform the first ‘Lawn Job’ at the Univ. of Hartford. Dest would leave the band to join Street Temperature and local drum legend Don Fitch (Outside) would join on drums along with Ludent’s childhood buddy Joe Paley (Al-X) on sax. Together they would perform the first groundbreaking ‘Power Objects’ show at Trinity College.

By 1979 Clare had left the band to concentrate on his record store business (Capital Records) selling rare and hard to find progressive recordings. He also was deeply involved in helping European progressive bands to tour in the USA. This gave Paley duties on fretless bass. Paley’s jazz leanings combined with Fitch’s early progressive rock experience opened the band up to create and perform compositions that were stylistically unheard of.