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BURNT SUGAR -THE ARKESTRA CHAMBER
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BURNT SUGAR INVADES SOHO. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR FLYING SONIC SHRAPNEL
Saturday, 7 May 2005 9:00pm
at The Marquee Club.
1 Leicester Square, London
£10
www.themarqueeclub.co.uk (020) 7336 7326
Making only their 2nd appearance in the UK, New York City’s Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber
descends on London’s historic Marquee Club for a mellifluous night of uncut funk, free jazz, tribal
house, noise guitar and dusted soul vocalizing. The 14 member band includes two very electric
guitars, violin, trumpet, alto saxophone, flute, acoustic and electric bass, African and Brazilian
percussion and three of the most searing and creative soul-jazz singers on either side of Atlantic in
the persons of Mikel Banks, Lisala Beatty and Justice Dilla-X.
Modeled after Miles Davis Bitches Brew and James Brown Live At The Apollo, Burnt Sugar has
been known to induce hallucinations of Stravinsky sitting in with Fela while Earth Wind and Fire and
Bartok wait in the wings.
Though full-throttle conducted improvisation is the bands’ bailiwick courtesy of writer/conductor
Greg Tate, they have also been known to perform superb interpretations of material by Jimi
Hendrix, Chaka Khan, Thelonious Monk, The Beatles, Slave, John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Curtis
Mayfield when the spirit moves them.
Since 2000 Burnt Sugar has released 10 discs on their own TruGROID label of which the most recent
are Black Sex Yall Liberation + Bloody Random Violets, Not April In Paris and If You Cant Dazzle
Them With Your Brilliance Then Baffle Them With Your Blisluth—the latter two being live recordings
from Paris, Spain and NYC. These efforts by the band have been favorably reviewed by The Wire,
Straight No Chaser, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, JAZZTIMES, DOWNBEAT, The Village Voice
and Artforum.
BURNT SUGAR INVADES SOHO. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR FLYING SONIC SHRAPNEL
“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
“Burnt Sugar is a musical all terrain vehicle; a
smoldering concoction of sounds which teeter
dangerously on the edge and shelters the spirit of a
post Bitches Brew Miles Davis.”
- Sunil Chauhan, Straight No Chaser
BURNT SUGAR -THE ARKESTRA CHAMBER
www.BurntSugarIndex.com <http://www.burntsugarindex.com/>
BURNT SUGAR INVADES SOHO. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR FLYING SONIC SHRAPNEL
Saturday, 7 May 2005 9:00pm
at The Marquee Club.
1 Leicester Square, London
£10
www.themarqueeclub.co.uk (020) 7336 7326
Making only their 2nd appearance in the UK, New York City’s Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber
descends on London’s historic Marquee Club for a mellifluous night of uncut funk, free jazz, tribal
house, noise guitar and dusted soul vocalizing. The 14 member band includes two very electric
guitars, violin, trumpet, alto saxophone, flute, acoustic and electric bass, African and Brazilian
percussion and three of the most searing and creative soul-jazz singers on either side of Atlantic in
the persons of Mikel Banks, Lisala Beatty and Justice Dilla-X.
Modeled after Miles Davis Bitches Brew and James Brown Live At The Apollo, Burnt Sugar has
been known to induce hallucinations of Stravinsky sitting in with Fela while Earth Wind and Fire and
Bartok wait in the wings.
Though full-throttle conducted improvisation is the bands’ bailiwick courtesy of writer/conductor
Greg Tate, they have also been known to perform superb interpretations of material by Jimi
Hendrix, Chaka Khan, Thelonious Monk, The Beatles, Slave, John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Curtis
Mayfield when the spirit moves them.
Since 2000 Burnt Sugar has released 10 discs on their own TruGROID label of which the most recent
are Black Sex Yall Liberation + Bloody Random Violets, Not April In Paris and If You Cant Dazzle
Them With Your Brilliance Then Baffle Them With Your Blisluth—the latter two being live recordings
from Paris, Spain and NYC. These efforts by the band have been favorably reviewed by The Wire,
Straight No Chaser, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, JAZZTIMES, DOWNBEAT, The Village Voice
and Artforum.
BURNT SUGAR INVADES SOHO. BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR FLYING SONIC SHRAPNEL
“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
“Burnt Sugar is a musical all terrain vehicle; a
smoldering concoction of sounds which teeter
dangerously on the edge and shelters the spirit of a
post Bitches Brew Miles Davis.”
- Sunil Chauhan, Straight No Chaser