Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber began as a grand and noble idea that begat a quite foolhardy
enterprise - update Miles Davis Bitches Brew for the 21st century with players who were conversant in a plethora of post-modern musical tongues. What it has become since then is a supafreeeky mash-
up a of ain't nobody's business if we do.
"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." --DAVID FRICKE, ROLLING STONE/////
"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." --ROBERT CHRISTGAU, THE VILLAGE VOICE///
"Guitarists Rene Akan, Morgan Michael Craft and Kirk Douglas manage to sound massive, yet patient:
not at all how you'd imagine a three guitar cockfight. At times there is a corrosive edge to their playing,
the way the little ripples of funk rage along the periphery. Similar to the way Eddie Hazel bubbled and
scraped his way through "Maggot Brain" (another important reference here), the trio occupy sonic space
without dominating it. Vijay Iyer's versatile ivory skills approximate violence one moment, pristine beauty
the next, and the occasional cello contributes a surreal lushness." --HUA HSU, THE WIRE///////////////////////////
COMPLETE BURNT SUGAR DISCOGRAPHY
(1)BLOOD ON THE LEAF, OPUS NO. 1
(2)THE SIRENS RETURN
(3)THE CREPESCALARIUM
(4)FUBRACTIVE SINCE ANTIQUITY
(5)THE RITES (W/BUTCH MORRIS, PETE COSEY, MELVIN GIBBS)
(6)BLACK SEX YALL LIBERATION AND BLOODY RANDOM VIOLETS
(7) NOT APRIL IN PARIS
(8) IF YOU CANT DAZZLE EM WITH YR BRILLIANCE, BAFFLE EM WITH YR BLISLUTH
(9) MORE THAN POSTHUMAN:RISE OF THE MOJOSEXUAL COTILLION
(10) CHOPPED&SCREWED, VOLUME 3
(11) LIVE FROM MINNEGIGGLE
(12 BURNT SUGAR VS THE DOMINATRIX
(13 GREATEST SHIZNITS
(14) MAKING LOVE TO THE DARK AGES
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BURNT SUGAR is a 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.
All our love to Chaka Khan, Nina Simone, George Clinton and the P-funk All Stars, Lady Day,Miles Davis, Eddy Hazel, A.R. Kane, Sun Ra, Jimi Hendrix, Duke Ellington
and Betty Davis for opening the gates of paradise and pushing us through.
Butch Morris's Conduction System for orchestral improvisation is the preferred mode of channeling for this Gotham based ensemble of pan-ethnic sound warriors. Everyone of them is a border crossing trans-national whether they'll admit it or not.
Spontaneous combustion being an occupational hazard in Gotham, Burnt Sugar is how we keep it real, surreal, arboreal, aquatic, incendiary. If only because we might be mistaken for the world's second fully improvisational acid-funk band.
To quote Arthur Jafa, we don't strive to be original, but Aboriginal. Like the songlines and the dreaming, like Tracey Moffatt and The Last Wave, like Cubase and Cabrini Green. One foot in the prehistoric, the other in the post human. In this journey, you're the journal and we're the journalists. Houston, Houston, do you read?.
