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20 tracks | 136 minutes
Released Dec 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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Never Been Kissed: Groidest Shiznits & Chopped & Screwed-Volume Two, the latest two Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber releases are for a limited time FREE with any purchases of TWO Burnt Sugar cds. We will send both of them directly to your home after CD Baby purchase-verification Free-Of-Charge!!
Critic Dave Stefox writes in the April issue of The WIRE,
"The first of two scheduled best-of compilations, Never Been Kissed showcases 14 of this sprawling acid funk group's finest moments, from 1999 to 2006. Comprising a massive rolling cast of members, including critic and theorist Greg Tate as producer/maestro, Burnt Sugar claim never to play the same thing the same way twice. Favouring Butch Morris's conduction system for orchestral improvisation, in which disparate freeform jams are directed form the sidelines by a series of physical gestures, the collective's constantly evolving approach works like a dream.
↓ more ↓Eclectic and experimental, yet taut and surefooted, it's a delicate and wonderfully realised balancing act embracing jazz, hiphop, soul, rock, and blues that never loses grip of its groove.
Despite owing absolutely nothing to Houston, Texas's lazy and hazy remixing, Chopped & Screwed Volume Two is no disappointment. Most notable amongst it's 18 tracks are three laptop compositions from Black Body Radiation, Tate's own movie about a futuristic "New York populated by various Muslim sects and mystic extraterrestials". Parred down and mechanical, they lack the visceral thrills of Burnt Sugar's live instrumental work, yet the same patiently measured tensions are at play, creating an ominous and eerie dystopian vision.
However, the best is kept until last, with Butch Morris himself making a closing appearance. Discordant as the ribbons (the Burnt Sugar horn section) blows over the rolling basslines of "Butch Vs the Wretches" may be, their ease and fluidity make it clear that the veteran cornet player is both perfectly at home and perfectly in tune with his collaborators."
As Ice Cube would say...."It's a Good Day!"
TruGROID Records proudly presents Burnt Sugar's new double CD
"Black Sex Y'all Liberation & Bloody Random Violets" - their most diverse and opulent recording to date. representing their sixth studio release in four years, the collection features key contributions from Vernon Reid, Vijay Iyer, Butch Morris, Pete Cosey, Tamar Kali, DJ Mutamassik, Omega Moon and Kirk Douglas of the Roots.
Under the baton of conductor and writer Greg Tate, Burnt Sugar has evolved from a midnight jam between friends in CBGBs basement into an internationally renowned performing and recording ensemble. Made up of some of the most virtuosic,adventurous and innovative talent on the current New York scene, Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber has provoked critics to some of the most rapturous and poetic praise seen in recent times:
"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 Craft and Kirk Douglass manage to sound massive yet patient; not at all how you'd imagine the typical three guitar cockfight."
- Hua Hsu, The Wire.
"Burnt Sugar aptly summoned the spirits of chaos and order to sublime effect, unleashing a ferocious performance that left many listeners speechless and others cheering for more."
- John Murph, Jazztimes.com
"Burnt Sugar come on like a birthing machine for possibility. Never quite sure what they'll produce next - you'd be crazy to ignore them. Impossible to disregard anyway, they come on irresistibly, loud, hectic, wild..."
- Colin Buttimer, The BBC
"The sharp display of talent at Symphony Space's Wall To Wall Miles tribute was complimented by Burnt Sugar's expansive freeleaning set. Led by Gregory Tate, this enormous band incorporated whispered vocals, whistling, dulcimer, and more, held together by the funky bass playing of Jared Michael Nickerson."
- Ann Powers, The New York Times.
"It's intelligent, carnal, spiritual and shows a textural awareness altogether missing from way too much black music right now."
- Peter Shapiro, The Wire
"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
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