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Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber

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Founded by Vil­lage Voice icon Greg Tate and co-led with mon­ster bassist Jared Michael Nick­er­son since 1999, Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Cham­ber is a sprawl­ing band of musi­cians whose prodi­gious per­son­nel allows them to freely jug­gle a wide swath of the exper­i­men­tal soul-jazz-hip hop spectrum. Burnt Sugar was orig­i­nally con­ceived as a forum for the New York area impro­vi­sa­tional musi­cian to com­pose, record and per­form mate­r­ial which reflects the breadth and depth of Amer­i­can dias­paran music in the 21st cen­tury. The intent of the Arkestra Cham­ber, through the deploy­ment of Butch Morris’s con­duc­tion sys­tem, is to make every per­for­mance a fresh inter­pre­ta­tion of its con­stituent parts. Rather than limit our­selves to the straight jack­ets that the com­mer­cial record­ing indus­try uses to mar­ket con­tem­po­rary Black Music, Burnt Sugar freely moves amongst many styles, eras and gen­res to devise its own excit­ing hybrids

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Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's 2021 Sonic Delights

Read "Ludovico Granvassu's 2021 Sonic Delights" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


Jazz is not a competitive sport and “Best Ofs" are misnomers. End of the year listicles have no bearing on the artistic standing of the albums they include, or on those they neglect, just like a five star review doesn't make the album it graces any better than it already is. But, apparently, humans ...

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Article: Live Review

Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz - XXXIV Edizione

Read "Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz - XXXIV Edizione" reviewed by Paolo Peviani


Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz Sant'Anna Arresi 30.08.2019 -08.09.2019 “Dobbiamo prendere atto che il percorso del festival si è concluso... Forse siamo caduti nella trappola auto-costruita della piccola comunità... Il festival era un pretesto per parlare nuovi linguaggi ... Le questioni artistiche vanno bene ma oggi il festival esprime poco ...

Album

Making Love to the Dark Ages

Label: LiveWired Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: Chains and Water A, B, C; Thorazine/81; Love to Tical; Dominata (the gabri ballad); Making Love to the Dark Ages.

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Article: Album Review

Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber: Making Love to the Dark Ages

Read "Making Love to the Dark Ages" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Composer Greg Tate leads Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber through melodic and harmonic structures, using a unique repertoire of physical gestures and expressions known not as conducting but as conduction. Tate christened this ensemble to honor the communal exploratory nature of Sun Ra's Arkestra and the Wu Tang Clan's 36 Chambers: “I wanted to ...

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Article: Album Review

Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber: Making Love to the Dark Ages

Read "Making Love to the Dark Ages" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


This band partly signifies the New York City downtown aura that resides as a major genre-slashing musical force, spanning several decades. Led by bandleader Greg Tate who lifts a few pages from conductor/composer Butch Morris' conduction modus operandi, where hand gestures, eye contact and motion serve as the guiding light.With structured song forms and ...

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News: Interview

Greg Tate / Burnt Sugar Interview

Greg Tate / Burnt Sugar Interview

Greg Tate/Burnt Sugar Interview - Sun Ra & Superheroes. Greg Tate/Burnt Sugar Interview - A village voice. This interview is part of the book project “under your skin" which includes Interviews with: Anthony Braxton, Ornette Coleman, Chuck D - Public Enemy, Taj ...

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News: Recording

Burnt Sugar: Dadaist Shapeshifting Improvisers

Burnt Sugar: Dadaist Shapeshifting Improvisers

Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber turns music inside out Bandleader Greg Tate “plays the band" using a technique called conduction, which gets its name from the field of physics, and which was developed by jazz conductor Butch Morris. In Tates hands, Burnt Sugar combines sounds together with a funky twist, snagging idiomatic metaphors from film editing ...

Album

Live 01: Not April in Paris

Label: Trugroid
Released: 2005
Track listing: Springtime for Chillun; Half Moon Flippers; Jungle Fibre; Jungle Fauvre; Mazzafrique; Jeremiah the Gallic; Held in Faith (feat. Lisala); All Fall Down (feat. JDX); Panpipes and Sprites; The Blood of Pomegranates; Resurrection Rag

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Article: Album Review

Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber: Live 01: Not April in Paris

Read "Live 01: Not April in Paris" reviewed by Rico Cleffi


There are live albums where you just had to be there, and there are ones that take you there. This documentation of a 2001 Burnt Sugar performance is of the latter variety. It's nice to see somebody putting their money where their mouth is. Cultural critic Greg Tate isn't content to just judge other ...


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