Monthly Archives: September 2009

It got hot ‘up norf’

By Burnt Sugar | Published: September 28, 2009
The swift blaze of a hot fire is a rare thing “up norf” on the shores of Lake Ontario. But it did get a lit­tle warm dur­ing Burnt Sugar’s visit to Har­bour Front in Toronto… and not just from the com­bustible con­coc­tion the Suga’ peo­ple cooked up… but from bright-sunny days, upper 70’s weather-uncharacteristically still [...]
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Blue Note New York City, NY, 11/16/09

By Burnt Sugar | Published: September 16, 2009
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Karma Mayet Johnson

By Burnt Sugar | Published: September 11, 2009
Impro­vi­sa­tion and synaes­the­sia guide Karma Mayet Johnson’s per­for­mance work. Recent stage work includes the OFF-BROADWAY pro­duc­tion of FELA! directed by Bill T. Jones and the pre­mier of Keith+Mendi Obadike’s FOUR ELECTRIC GHOSTS at The Kitchen. She is composer/director of the inno­v­a­tive blues opera, Indigo. Of Indigo’s 2007 Capi­tol Fringe Fes­ti­val pre­mier; one reviewer writes: This show [...]
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Trevor Holder

By amygail | Published: September 8, 2009
Drum­mer and com­poser, Trevor Holder, has been sought out for both his musi­cal as well as groove-oriented approach to play­ing the drums.  Known as a “musician’s drum­mer”, Trevor’s sen­si­tive and cre­ative style has served as the rhyth­mic foun­da­tion for crit­i­cally acclaimed artists cov­er­ing var­i­ous gen­res. His abil­ity to simul­ta­ne­ously sup­port a groove while gen­er­at­ing side-conversation [...]
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Chicago, IL, 09/14/09

By amygail | Published: September 3, 2009
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Chicago, IL, 09/14/09

By amygail | Published: September 3, 2009
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Qasim Naqvi

By amygail | Published: September 3, 2009
As a com­poser and per­former of multi styl­is­tic music, Qasim Naqvi has been involved in many fronts, nav­i­gat­ing through the cor­ri­dors of free impro­vi­sa­tion, rock, elec­tron­ica and con­tem­po­rary clas­si­cal music. As a com­poser, Qasim has pro­duced works for The Cal­i­for­nia Ear Unit, The Loos Ensem­ble of the Nether­lands, The New Cen­tury Ensem­ble, Mid­night Winds and Oth­ers. [...]
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Okkyung Lee

By amygail | Published: September 3, 2009
A native of Korea, Okkyung Lee has been devel­op­ing her own voice in a con­tem­po­rary cello per­for­mance and impro­vi­sa­tion. Using her clas­si­cal train­ing as a spring­board, she incor­po­rates jazz, sounds, Korean tra­di­tional music, and noise with extended techniques. Since mov­ing to New York in 2000, she has per­formed and recorded with numer­ous artists such as [...]
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Vijay Iyer

By amygail | Published: September 3, 2009
Dubbed one of the “new stars of jazz” by U.S. News and World Report, and one of “today’s most impor­tant pianists” by The New Yorker. Vijay Iyer is a NYC based pianist and com­poser. The son of Indian immi­grants, Vijay draws from African, Asian, and Euro­pean musi­cal lin­eages to cre­ate what The New York Times [...]
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Shahzad Ismaily

By amygail | Published: September 3, 2009
Shahzad Ismaily was born to Pak­istani immi­grant par­ents and grew up in a wholly bicul­tural house­hold. While he holds a mas­ters degree in bio­chem­istry from Ari­zona State Uni­ver­sity, he is a largely self-taught com­poser and musi­cian, hav­ing mas­tered the elec­tric and dou­ble bass, gui­tar, banjo, accor­dion, flute, drums, var­i­ous per­cus­sion instru­ments and var­i­ous ana­log syn­the­siz­ers [...]
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Satch Hoyt

By amygail | Published: September 3, 2009
Born in Lon­don to a white British mother and a father of African-Jamaican ances­try, Satch Hoyt has com­posed, arraigned and played with Stomu Yamashta in Lon­don; Grace Jones in Paris; Louise Bour­geois in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Ramuntcho Matta in Paris and var­i­ous artists in Kenya. He and is cur­rently work­ing on his own album “Gri­ots and [...]
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Justice Dilla-X

By amygail | Published: September 3, 2009
“Like Prince, Jus­tice X would have made a fine jack­leg preacher” (Greg Tate, liner notes; The Sirens Return) Like any good preacher, Staten Island born Jus­tice Dilla-X felt like he was born to sing. Since mov­ing to Man­hat­tan in 1987, he’s spread his gospel with Pamela Lewis, Love­Head, and Porn Star, among oth­ers. Also an [...]
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Mutamassik

By amygail | Published: September 3, 2009
Muta­mas­sik (mean­ing ‘strong­hold’, ‘tenac­ity’ in ara­bic) aka giu­lia loli is a producer/musician/dj/artist/synesthete who’s new music, includ­ing “THAT WHICH DEATH CANNOT DESTROY” is: always the SA’AIDI MARTIAL SOUND (blood unable to be washed out with high-tech deter­gents), MELANQOL BAROQUE parq dunq ARABIFIED SWAMP MUSIC darq punq QUBTI BEATS. the new music empha­sizes live ele­ment EXPLODED on [...]
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Morgan Craft

By amygail | Published: September 3, 2009
Mor­gan Craft plays Stunt Gui­tar. Found objects, real time sam­pling, melody, har­mony, rhythm & rhyme, amp hiss, mis­takes, devices, short­wave, and a will­ing­ness to try some­thing new. An impro­viser not tied to a sys­tem, just true freedom. Born and raised in New Brighton, Min­nesota on a steady diet of every­thing, he moved to New York [...]
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Latasha N. Nevada Diggs

By amygail | Published: September 2, 2009
Writer and vocal­ist, Latasha N. Diggs rig­or­ously explores sound through a myr­iad of mac­a­ronic verse, pre-recorded text and post human vocal pro­cess­ing. She has per­formed and col­lab­o­rated with Ver­non Reid, DJ Logic, Quincy Troupe; Lawrence ‘Butch’ Mor­ris and The Sky­scraper Ensem­ble, DJ Lit­tle Louie Vega and the Nuy­or­i­can Soul Orches­tra, Har­riet Tub­man fronted by Melvin [...]
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Jeremiah

By amygail | Published: September 2, 2009
In an indus­try dri­ven by ubiq­ui­tous and unjus­ti­fi­able hype, Jere­miah needs none. Like the first streams of sun­light falling on a dark­ened room, his music reaches us in deep places long left unat­tended. Jere­miah brings many gifts to the table of his audi­ences as com­poser, lyri­cist, arranger, musi­cian and exten­sive vocal­ist. Jere­miah blows the dust [...]
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Julia Kent

By amygail | Published: September 2, 2009
Orig­i­nally from Van­cou­ver, Canada, Julia Kent stud­ied cello at Indi­ana University. As a mem­ber of cello trio, Rasputina from its incep­tion until 1999, she played on its two Colum­bia Records releases and toured through­out North America. More recently she has per­formed with Antony and the John­sons, Joe Gallant’s Illu­mi­nati, Leona Naess, Angela McCluskey, and Tamar-kali, [...]
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Jason DiMatteo

By amygail | Published: September 2, 2009
Jason DiMat­teo is a New York based musi­cian who per­forms inter­na­tion­ally on the dou­ble and elec­tric bass. He is extremely ver­sa­tile and val­ues com­po­si­tion and ensem­ble dynam­ics over flashy show­man­ship: a con­sum­mate team player. As a live per­former, he has played to tens of thou­sands at fes­ti­vals and clubs across the US and Europe. In [...]
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Welcome to our new site

By Burnt Sugar | Published: September 2, 2009
We’re just mov­ing in — things may feel a bit rough around the edges — but we’re jump­ing in. Keep com­ing back over the next few days as we unpack. (Be sure to sub­scribe to our RSS feed for updates)
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Buffalo, NY, 09/04/09

By amygail | Published: September 2, 2009
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