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Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber playing live at Zebulon on Monday 4th June 2008. Incredible Funky Free Jazz Rump-Thumper, Yeah!
SoEnjoY: BASS: JARED NICKERSON, DRUMS: TREVOR HOLDER, FENDER RHODES PIANO:MYLES REILLY, SYNTH:BRUCE MACK,ELEC GUITARS:RENE AKAN, ASIM BARNES, ACOUSTIC GUITAR:BEN TYREE, CELLO: WIL MARTINA, TRUMPET:LEWIS FLIP BARNES ALTO SAXOPHONE:AVREM FEFER, BASS CLARINET:JOSH SINTON, TROMBONE: DAVID SMITH,BARITONE SAX:MOIST PAULA, VOCALS:JUSTICE DILLA-X, KARMA JOHNSON, FREAKAPHONE, MIKEL BANKS, POEMS/FRENCH RHYMES:SHARIFF SIMMONS. CONDUCTOR: GREG TATE
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Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber began as a grand and noble idea that began 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 one of the few modern music groups to freely mash- up any and all forms of vocal and instrumental music like it aint nobodys business if they do. Burnt Sugar got the nerve to claim Morton Feldman, Brian Eno and Steve Reich as progenitors alongside Billie Holiday, Jimi Hendrix and Vladislav Delay.Their player-ranks have been known to include devotees of Steve Lacy and Steve Coleman, Irish fiddlers, AACM refugees, Afropunk rockers, staunch beboppers, feminist hiphoppers, doowoppers, funkateers and rodeo stars of the digital divide. Just as Bitches Brew combined acoustic and electric improvisers with electronic manipulation, Burnt Sugar bridges the gap between digital music making and live, orchestral performance. From the outset the concept was to combine the Bitches Brew approach with an adaptation of Butch Morris ground breaking Conduction System for Improvisers which utilizes over 25 hand and baton gestures to rearrange and compose symphonic, trans-genre suites of music in real time. The bands cheeky motto quickly became We Never Play Anything The Same Way Once and for the next 7 years of recording and performing they never tried to live that artistic ideal down. In late August 1999 the bands founding members gathered in a Hells Kitchen rehearsal studio to explore the possibilities of this conceit at Greg Tates behest. After a few weeks of jamming the band made its debut at the legendary CBGBs.