There’s a reason that To Live and Shave in L.A. (TLASILA)’s The Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg opens up with samples of free jazz. Shave mastermind Tom Smith is explicitly trying to connect his work with the music he loves — the record’s liner notes contain a Nurse With Wound-like list of those influences. That list is multidisciplinary, covering his love of usual suspects like “Poe, Baudelaire, Joyce, Man Ray,” but also “Theremin and all Russian avant-gardists,” “Lee Marvin,” “all atomic test footage,” “global student revolt and the inevitable erotic aftermath,” “Fluxus (in doses),” not to mention digressions on Funkadelic, Hendrix, the “titanic Electric Eels,” and provocative music-nerd statements like “Stooges purists prefer Asheton, but…

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