Event
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Burnt Sugar Arkestra
& The Veldt
“Orange Sunshine & Liquid Love Lines”
Burnt Sugar Arkestra & The Veldt
As featured in The New Yorker, BBC, Rolling Stone, and The Guardian. Four sets, three hours of brilliant, iconoclastic music, five art exhibitions, two food trucks, DJ Mr. Realistic. Music starts at 2pm.
“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.” – Rolling StoneA territory band, a neo-tribal thang, a community hang, a society music guild aspiring to the condition of all that is molten, glacial, racial, spacial, oceanic, mythic, antiphonal and telepathic. Spicy grooves and lyrics with some “bark” on them are their passions. Butch Morris’s Conduction System for Orchestral Improvisation is the preferred mode of channeling for this Gotham-based ensemble of pan-ethnic sound warriors. Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber: Lewis “Flip” Barnes – trumpets Ben Tyree – guitar Leon Gruenbaum – keys Shelley Nicole – vocals, percussion Greg Tate – conduction Andre Lassalle – guitar V. Jeffrey Smith – saxophone, vocals Bruce Mack – keyboard, vocals Paula Henderson – saxophone Abby Dobson – vocals Jared Michael Nickerson – bass guitar LaFrae Sci – drums
The Veldt (from Raleigh N.C.): Daniel Chavis – guitar/ vocals Danny Chavis – lead/ guitar Martin Newman – guitar/ effects Alex Cox – bass/ loops Dale Miller – drums/ loops “With Danny’s enveloping hooks, Daniel’s swooning falsetto… the new songs invite paradoxical praise: serenely assaultive, vertiginously soothing.” – The Guardian
Photo by Matthew Breiner
Photo by Matthew Breiner
