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Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber

BIOGRAPHY

Founded by  monster 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 and rock spectrum.  This very accomplished crew has  playing credits that range from Toshi Reagon, Charlie Musselwhite, DJ Logic, Gary Lucas, TV On The Radio, Tamar Kali, Phish, William Parker, Liz Wright, The Holmes Brothers, Wadada Leo Smith, The The, David Murray, Joseph Bowie and Jay Z.

Burnt Sugar freely moves amongst many styles, eras and genres to devise its own exciting hybrids.  These hybrids are based on a solid foundation of various musical traditions and the use of cutting-edge music technology.  In this sense the group mission honors its deepest inspirations, the first post-modernists of American music – Duke Ellington, Sun Ra, Parliament Funkadelic and The Art Ensemble of Chicago.
 
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."

Music must be heard – especially music designed to push back current musical boundaries.  Burnt Sugar and TruGroid fill a major vacuum in terms of reestablishing a presence and profile for American experimental music on the world stage that is conversant with the idioms and recording techniques of hip hop, drum and bass, jazz and alternative rock. In today’s musical context there are few American bands like the Arkestra Chamber that are innovative on stage and in the recording studio.


MUSIC

All Ya Needs That Negrocity by Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
Release: 2011
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With the ability provided by Butch Morris's "Conduction" system, they can take their own or any artists' musical motif, passage, or selection and concoct a new composition in real time, providing an incredible and unique 21st century sonic experience.
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All Ya Needs That Negrocity Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
Making Love to the Dark Ages by Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
Release: 2009
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Visionary funk with spoken word rumination and searching improvisation.
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Making Love to the Dark Ages Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
Black Sex Yall Liberation & Bloody Random Violets by Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
Release: 2003
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They recognize that today's improviser has an encyclopedic sense of musical reference that is not limited to a particular genre. A surprising mix of R&B, hip hop, trip hop, jazz and groove
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Black Sex Yall Liberation & Bloody Random Violets Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
Blood On The Leaf Opus No.1 by Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
Release: 1999
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a contemporary version of Miles Davis' Bitches Brew band, exploring the connective tissue binding jazz, rock, funk, twentieth century composition and African music in a lyrical, seductive, exploratory, improvisational manner.
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Blood On The Leaf Opus No.1 Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
If You Can't Dazzle Them With You're Brilliance, Then Baffle Them With Your Blisluth by Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
Release: 2005
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Jazzwise critic Kevin Le Gandre writes," If You Can't Dazzle Them is an important release because it presents Burnt Sugar in their natural creative milieu - the stage, the 37th stage of real time creativity. ... It's Africa in the heart of the city."
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If You Can't Dazzle Them With You're Brilliance, Then Baffle Them With Your Blisluth Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
More Than Posthuman - Rise of the Mojosexual Cotillion by Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
Release: 2006
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23rd Century R&B
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More Than Posthuman - Rise of the Mojosexual Cotillion Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
Not April in Paris - The Arkestra Chamber Live at Banlieues Bleues by Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
Release: 2004
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Employing "Conduction," an interpretative system for improvisors developed by Lawrence "Butch" Morris, Greg Tate conducts the pan-stylistic, polytonal, polyrhythmic Arkestra Chamber through improvisational performances in tune with the collective personal
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Not April in Paris - The Arkestra Chamber Live at Banlieues Bleues Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
Chopped and Screwed Volume 2 by Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber
Release: 2007
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Sci-fi movie and remix oddities sound track.
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Chopped and Screwed Volume 2 Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber