Arto Lindsay has made a lifelong habit of crossing both geographical and musical borders. Born in the United States and raised in Brazil during the heyday of that country's pointedly eclectic Tropicália movement of the 1960s, the multi-faceted songwriter/producer/vocalist/guitarist has forged an international reputation as an artist whose work is as seductive as it is challenging. From his late ‘70s recordings of abrasive “no wave” through his acclaimed series of solo albums beginning in the late ‘90s, Lindsay has bonded rhythms and melodies from diverse cultures and genres in provocative new ways, crafting inimitable soundscapes whose impact can range from fragile pop pleasure to sheer sonic assault.
It was the 1978 four-band sampler No New York (produced by Brian Eno) which brought an early taste of international (albeit underground) notoriety to Lindsay's first band, DNA. Critic Lester Bangs admiringly described the trio's screamed vocals and deliberately primitive, speaker-shredding guitar as “horrible noise.” Lindsay and his bandmates frequently inserted Portuguese phrases in their lyrics and even tried to appropriate Brazilian drumming techniques, “but nobody could really tell,” he now recalls. While the group only lasted a brief time, its influence can still be heard in the work of countless noise-rock experimentalists ever since.
Lindsay remained a key figure in the downtown Manhattan scene throughout the 1980s, playing with early versions of the Lounge Lizards and the Golden Palominos, producing tracks for Laurie Anderson and David Byrne, collaborating with John Zorn, contributing lyric translations to compilations of Brazilian music on Byrne's label Luaka Bop, even popping up in the films Desperately Seeking Susan and Candy Mountain. With keyboardist Peter Scherer he founded the Ambitious Lovers, recording three albums (Envy, Greed, and Lust) which incorporated elements of Brazilian, experimental, funk, R&B, and soul styles.
The 1990s launched an ongoing series of solo releases — O Corpo Sutil / The Subtle Body, Mundo Civilizado, Noon Chill and Prize. Lindsay's new album, Invoke, continues to explore samba, bossa nova and more recent Brazilian song structures on his own terms. Each of these albums has been followed by a disc of remixes by a diverse group of electronic music artists from around the world, making explicit the connections between Lindsay's aesthetic and such genres as drum-and-bass, illbient and underground hip-hop.
Lindsay's critical reputation brought him back to Brazil to work as a producer on recordings by Caetano Veloso, Vinicius Cantuária, Gal Costa, and Carlinhos Brown, among others. A 1999 New York Times article on the legacy of the Tropicália movement hailed Lindsay's contributions to “the finest Brazilian pop albums of the past dozen years,” and he earned a Latin Grammy for “Best Brazilian Contemporary Pop Album” for his production work on the platinum-selling Marisa Monte album, Memórias, Crônicas e Declarações de Amor. Lindsay's longstanding association with Monte subsequently led to his producing the music for her recent live DVD.
On yet another front, Lindsay has long been active in the field of sound art as both a curator and as an installation artist in his own right. Frequently working with sound designer /artist Ben Rubin, Arto has curated music and audio art for Brazil's Carlton Arts Festival, London's Barbican Centre and the nightclub Tonic in downtown New York. In the process, he has become one of the first musicians to use Dolby Digital 5.1 surround-sound in a live concert format. Lindsay's past collaborators include German theater director Heiner Muller, Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, American multidisciplinary artist Vito Acconci and British producer/conceptualist Brian Eno, and he has recently been commissioned by choreographer Richard Move, a mainstay of New York's legendary Jackie 60 nightclub, to compose music for a full-evening dance/theater piece for Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Company.
Pop musician, audio provocateur, sought-after producer: regardless of the title, Arto Lindsay is an artist.
stomoxine records presents : "15oct09_thoux" by drcdrc. all tracks were improvised the 15 of october 2009 at nap time, using only parasite sounds through my own max patch.
Quan eren joves, van gaudir jugant i ara, que són una mica més
grans, també gaudeixen jugant.
Markus Breuss (St. Gallen, Suïssa) i Pelayo F. Arrizabalaga (Laredo, Espanya) es van trobar a Madrid a principis dels vuitanta. Amb un passat compartit ple de free-jazz i d'interès per la música contemporània, van decidir unir-se amb la idea de transgredir les fronteres entre jazz, pop-rock, electrònica i música seriosa. Molts músics de tots aquests estils i d'altres van passar per aquest grup/taller, el punt de partida del qual era Frank Zappa, el rock d'avantguarda, John Zorn i un llarg etcètera. CLÓNICOS n'és el resultat, que aconsegueix, en pocs anys, ser un dels grups underground més emblemàtics de la movida madrileña.
Si els instruments de vent són les armes principals de Breuss & Arrizabalaga, també es defensen amb tota mena d'estris, ja siguin tocadiscos, percussions, joguines, ordinadors o el que escaigui. Ara, ells dos, el nucli dur de CLÓNICOS, reinterpreten lliurement algunes peces de l'històric grup multiestilístic. Una tasca complicada, ja que gran part del material de CLÓNICOS va ser tocat i gravat per bandes força més nombroses.
Aquest concert experimental, amb les arrels al propi passat, és la primera aparició pública de CLÓNICOS en quinze anys, encara que Breuss i Arrizabalaga col·laboren sovint en d'altres projectes, i encara que ells dos siguin a països diferents preparant tot el material: Markus Breuss,
I'm so jubilant, vraiment ravie to come here and to apprender os segredos do bem, do bom tao bom ; os trejeitos sao feitos para alegrar os sujeitos...Merci et bravo pour tous vos magnifiques univers musicaux, poétiques; et votre humour!
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Here in this spring,star float along the void; Here in this ornamental winter Down pelt the naked weather: This summer buries a spring bird. Symbols are selected from the years' Slow rounding of four seasons' coats, In autumn teach three seasons' fires And four bird's notes. I should tell summer from the trees,the worm Tell,if at all,the winter's storms Or the funeral of the sun; I should learn spring by cuckooing, And the slug should teach me destruction. A worm tells summer better than clock, The slug's a living calendar of days; What shall it tell me if a timeless insect Says the world wears away?
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