Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber with Haolin Munk - Feb 28th - Hamilton

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This is an amazing band that I recommend everyone check out!

This Ain't Hollywood is pleased to welcome back to Hamilton,

New York's..

BURNT SUGAR THE ARKESTRA CHAMBER

http://burntsugarindex.com/

with specIal guests:

HAOLIN MUNK:

http://soundcloud.com/haolin-munk

Thursday, Feb. 28th, 2013

This Ain't Hollywood, 345 James St. North.

Advance Tickets: $10 Available at This Ain't Hollywood, The Brain and Dr Disc. or online at thisainthollywood.ca

$12 at the door.

Doors: 9pm, 19+

“A multiracial jam army that freestyles with cool telekinesis between the lustrous menace of Miles Davis’ On The Corner, the slash-and-om of 1970s King Crimson, and Jimi Hendrix’ moonwalk across side three of Electric Ladyland.â€- David Fricke, Rolling Stone.

Bio:

Founded by monster groove bassist Jared Michael Nickerson and Village Voice icon Greg "Ionman" Tate in 1999, Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber is a sprawling band of musicians whose prodigious personnel allows to freely juggle a wide swath of the experimental soul-jazz-hip hop spectrum. This very accomplished crew has playing credits that range from Toshi Reagon, DJ Logic, Gary Lucas,, TV On The Radio, Tamar Kali, Phish, William Parker, Liz Wright, The Holmes Brothers, Wadada Leo Smith, David Murray, Joseph Bowie.

Arkestra Conductor Greg Tate says, "Burnt Sugar got the nerve to claim Sly Stone, Morton Feldman, Billie Holiday, Jimi Hendrix and Jean Luc Ponty as progenitiors Our player-ranks include known Irish fiddlers, AACM refugees, Afro-punk rejects, unrepentant beboppers, feminist rappers, jitterbugging doowoppers, frankly loud funk-a-teers and rodeo stars of the digital divide."

As a free-improvising multi-songbook ensemble, B.S.A.C. can bring one group of players and perform Miles, Steely Dan, Van Peebles, Bowie, James Brown, Burnt Sugar and their newest addition, Sun Ra selections, while also utilizing Butch Morris's "Conduction System" to create new music within song structures that are well known and loved. In other words, Burnt Sugar has become a min-festival in itself.

The stalwarts tend to include singers Lisala, Karma Mayet Johnson, Shelley Nicole and Jeremiah, Latasha Nevada N. Diggs, Justice Dilla-X (vocals & effected vocals), Mikel Banks (vocals & freak-a-phone), Derrin Maxwell (mc), Mazz Swift (violin & vocals), Will Martina (cello), André Lassalle (guitar), Ben Tyree (guitar), Asim Barnes (guitar), Thom Loubet (guitar), Lewis "Flip" Barnes Jr. (trumpet), Michael Veal (soprano sax), Micah Gaugh (alto sax), V. Jeffery Smith & Avram Fefer (tenor sax), "Moist" Paula Henderson (baritone sax), Dave Smith (trombone), Josh Sinton (bass clarinet), Bruce Mack (synthesizer), Leon Gruenbaum & W. Myles Reilly (piano), LaFrae Sci (drums), Trevor Holder (drums), Chris Eddleton (drums) and Qasim Naqvi (drums) as well as occasional "special guests" like Vernon Reid (guitar), Maya Azucena, Vinai Mojica, Abby Dobson (vocals) or noted installation artist Satch Hoyt (flute & percussion) who's now living in Berlin and Marque Gilmore who's now living in Oslo-- Oh yes the Arkestra Chamber is global like that!

From their latest release "All Ya Needs That Negrocity on Avant Groidd Musica

Whut Rough Beast (excerpt) (Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber)

Libertango ( I've Seen This Face Before ) featuring Lisala Beatty & Maya Azucena ( A. Piazzolla/Barry Reynolds/Dennis Wilkey )

"Black Cow"

"Black Cow" (full screen version so you get a feel for the room.)

Breaking Glass

James Brown

"Bring It Up" & "Hot Pants" featuring Shelley Nicole:

"Escapism - "Make It Funky" - "Get Up Get Into It" featuring Bruce Mack & Luqman Brown:

"Get On Up" featuring Bruce Mack in Portugal:

"Rock Me Again"

video footage of Burnt Sugar's performance at PS One

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Robert Christgau says“Its electric Miles with soul, Maggot Brain with a PHD, the Hendrix Evans band of dreams, the underwater funk some hear in A.R. Kane."

Edited February 21, 2013 by Guest