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Event: The Refuge Project II: Advocacy against Domestic Violence through Music, Yoga and Art
- 08/08/10 Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber in Brooklyn NYC, NY at Littlefield Performance & Art Space Buy tickets
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Event: Burnt Sugar Freaks The James Brown Songbook
- 10/08/10 Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber in Harlem, NYC at The Apollo Theater
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Event: The Refuge Project II: Advocacy against Domestic Violence through Music, Yoga and Art
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Chelsea Adewunmi
Chelsea Adewunmi is a vocalist who has performed in dance music, gospel, and most notably, improvisational jazz with Burnt Sugar and Anthony Braxton. She is a recent graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts (2008) and is a Presidential Fellow at Princeton University, where she researches the arts and sciences through funkentelechy, kinesthetic empathy, [...]
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Micah Gaugh
Micah Gaugh has collaborated with Lady Miss Kier from Dee-lite, Arto Lindsay, Marc Ribot, James ‘Blood’ Ulmer, Melvin Gibbs, Vernon Reid and others in the studio and live performance. He has written two operas ‘Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights’ and a piece for the artist Rirkrit Taravanija, music for the Matthew Barney movie ‘Di Lama [...]
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Trevor Holder
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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Qasim Naqvi
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Dave Smith
Dave Smith (2005-present) leads the electric trombone band The Perfect Man and records and performs as the singer Smoota. He plays trombone regularly with Chin Chin, Red Baraat, Rev. Vince Anderson & the Love Choir, The Juggs, Onikam, and several other bands. Recently he has also performed and/or recorded with Spoon, Akron/Family, The Bogmen, El-P, Karl [...]
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Jared Michael Nickerson
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Jared Michael Nickerson began playing bass in high school in the Dayton, Ohio talent show circuit. After receiving a B.A in business at Notre Dame, he studied for two years at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Returning to Ohio, he joined the band Human Switchboard. In 1984, together [...]
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Bruce Mack
Brooklyn born, Musician, Composer, Bandleader and Music Educator, Bruce Mack lives in West Orange, New Jersey. Primary instruments are electronic keyboards, i.e.; synthesizer, clavinet, organ, etc, various percussion and voice. A bandleader for nearly 20 years, B. Mack has led bands featuring artists such as Guru of GangStarr, Atiba Wilson, Mark Peterson, Me’Shell NdegeOcello, Marque Gilmore, [...]
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Rene Akan
Working with loops, delays, harmonizers and whammy sounds, Greg Tate has referred to Rene Akan’s sound as,“guitar set on stun”. Since appearing on the Black Rock Coalition scene with Felice Rosser’s Faith, Akan has played with Vernon Reid, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Nona Hendrix, HR (of Bad Brains), Joey Ramone, P-Funk and Ultra Nate, among others. [...]
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Thom Loubet
Thom Loubet started playing at the age of six on a guitar made by his father Jeff. He took private lessons in Albuquerque, New Mexico with the venerable Lewis Winn at twelve and still meets with him whenever he’s in town. He spent his youth playing the blues in the clubs of Albuquerque, often in [...]
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“Moist” Paula Henderson
Baritone saxophonist Moist Paula Henderson is a founding member of the New York instrumental rock band Moisturizer and is in the 12th year of a weekly residency with Reverend Vince Anderson & The Love Choir, Brooklyn’s favorite gospel bar band. She also released a solo “saxtronica” album under the moniker Secretary and continues to work on [...]
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Greg Tate
Greg Tate was a Staff Writer at The Village Voice from 1987–2003. His writings on culture and politics have also been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Artforum, Rolling Stone, VIBE, Premiere, Essence, Suede, The Wire, One World, Downbeat, and JazzTimes. He was recently acknowledged by The Source magazine as one of [...]
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Lisala Beatty
Lisala Beatty sings the way folks used to — from the soles of their feet, from the down deep of their souls. The way somewhere, in a church at the side of a red clay road, somebody is still singing. Her voice is at once powerful and agile, controlled and utterly unfettered. A vocalist, songwriter [...]
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W-Myles Reilly
W-Myles Reilly is a New York based, self taught pianist who Greg Tate plucked from the basement of the New York Shakespeare Festival. He has performed with musicians Chocolate Genius, Robert Young and worked on dance projects with choreographers Alysia Ramos and Gabri Christa.
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André Lassalle
André Lassalle has played with a host of artists from the legendary Miles Davis, Robert Irving III, Darryl Jones, John Schofield, Buddy Williams, Chauncey Nedd Band, Jerry Jemmott (Bass player for Greg Allman and Friends), Huey Lewis, Melvin Sparks, Gregg “The Professor” Woods, Tony Humphries, Dee-Lite (Power Of Love Guitar Mix), Michael Hampton from George [...]
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Swiss Chris
Swiss Chris has just finished a successful four years as the Music Director and Drummer for five time Grammy winner, John Legend, and is now building his own career with a forthcoming album to be released Internationally as well as finishing his book, Sticking With Swiss. Swiss is also actively involved with his S.W.I.S.S. (Saving [...]
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Meret Koehler
Meret Koehler (b. 1975, Zurich, Switzerland) began her creative endeavors by picking up the violin in her early childhood. Next to her serious dedication to music, she also studied ballet in Zurich. As a teenager she started playing the drumset after many years of wanting to do so. She took to her new instrument quickly [...]
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Matana Roberts
Matana Roberts is a dynamic saxophonist, composer and improviser, who tries to expose in her music the mystical roots and spiritual traditions of African American creative expression. A Chicago native, she was fortunate enough to be surrounded by elder musicians who showed her by distinct example the importance of listening to one’s personal creative voice [...]
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Ben Tyree
Guitarist and composer Ben Tyree began his musical journey in Washington, DC’s diverse and eclectic music scenes, playing in jazz, funk and rock bands from a very young age. His vision stems from studies of classical guitar, composition and jazz performance at Washington, D.C.’s prestigious Duke Ellington School of the Arts and later, Howard University. [...]
Avram Fefer
Avram Fefer has been performing and recording internationally since 1990. After spending the 1990’s as a soloist with a number of different groups, his first several recordings as a leader were singled out as among the Best of 2001 and Best of 2002 in publications such as Downbeat Magazine, Cadence magazine, the Village Voice, the [...]
Mazz Swift
Mazz Swift, a native New Yorker, began playing the violin at age 6. She studied privately for 9 years with Elisabeth Small, Shirley Givens and Timothy Baker. Mazz graduated from the High School of the Performing Arts, during which time she made her solo public performance debut on the stage of New York’s Alice Tully Hall, [...]
William Martina
Since basing himself in New York, Will has performed with, and been changed by, great artists such as Dave Liebman, Josh Roseman, MuthaWit, Kyp Malone, JT Lewis, Brandon Ross, Jason Lindner, and many others inside both New York’s shiniest and grimiest venues. Over the years he has also performed and toured with numerous other bands [...]
Chopped and Screwed Volume 2
Remixes, rarities, out-takes and conductions - including tracks from the score for Greg Tate's film "Black Body Radiation"
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More Than Posthuman — Rise of the Mojosexual Cotillion
Our version of what R and B might sound like today if live bands hadn’t been derailed by sampling technology in the Black community somewhere around 1977.
We've got all the freeform raging horns and guitars of our previous albums only compositionally compressed into these groovevicious post-everythang song forms.
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If You Can’t Dazzle Them With Your Brilliance, Then Baffle Them With Your Blisluth
Burnt Sugar live on stage: Bordeax, San Sebastion & New York City. (double disc)
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Not April in Paris; Live from Banlieus Bleues
Recorded Live at Banlieus Bleues
Salle Pablo Neruda,
Bobigny, France
March 19th, 2004
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The Rites: Conductions Inspired By Stravinsky’s Le Sacre Du Printemps
What Stravinsky? What_Stravinsky? The Bhramsian? The_Bhramsian
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The Refuge Project II: Advocacy against Domestic Violence through Music, Yoga and Art