Now entering our second decade, Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber continues an obsessive drive to bring Frankenstein back to musical hybridity–brutally grafting and re-charging funkystanknasty older tribal forms with present-day post-soul energies while leaving all manner of wires, lesions, sutures, scars and microsurgical filigree loose, open and lubricious in the bloody bargain.
Credits
Greg Tate ~ Conduction & Loops
Maya Azucena, Abby Dobson & Lisala Beatty ~ Voices
Rene Akan, André Lassalle, Ben Tyree, Thom Loubet & Greg Tate ~ Electric Guitars
Jared Michael Nickerson & Michael Veal ~ Electric Basses
Jason DiMatteo ~ Acoustic Bass
Vijay Iyer & Myles Reilly ~ Piano
Bruce Mack ~ Synthesizer & Percussion
Mazz Swift ~ Violin
Meret Koehler, Trevor Holder, Swiss Chris & Qasim Naqvi ~ Drums
Dave “Smoota” Smith ~ Trombone
Lewis “Flip” Barnes ~ Trumpet
Michael Veal ~ Soprano Sax
Micah Gaugh ~ Alto Sax
Harald Kisiedu & Avram Fefer ~ Tenor Sax
Moist” Paula Henderson ~ Bari Sax
Mikel Banks ~ Freak-a-Phone
All music composed by Burnt Sugar Arkestra & Greg Tate.
Except for:
“Libertango”: composed by Astor Piazzola, Lyrics By Nathaly Delon, Barry Reynolds, David Wilkey
“Cold Sweat”: composed by Pee Wee Ellis
“Burning Crosses” : lyrics composed by Greg Tate
“Libertango” : poem recitation by Maya Azucena
“The Guru’s Lover”: poem recitation by Lisa Teasley
Recorded At Peter Karl Studios, Brooklyn NY. 2008-2011
Peter Karl ~ Recording & Mixing Engineer
LaRonda Davis ~ Graphic Design
Greg Tate & Jared Michael Nickerson ~ B.S.I. LLC Executive Producers