Although often performing as a trio, the group is a quartet featuring Val-Inc (Turntable, sampler and percussion), Marvin Sewell (Electric, lead, rhythm and Bouzouki guitars), Bruce Mack (Synthesizer, voice, Udu and other percussion), and Muata25 (Afrofractal guitar, feedback and rhythm).
Influences
The band's collective musical influences are broad, ranging from folk music of Western Africa and Haiti to Persian Sufi Music and the Rebetika music of Greece.
This caravan is not without the influence of artists such as 70's era Miles Davis, Brian Eno, Nusrat Fetah Ali Khan, Sun Ra and Taj Mahal to name a few...
About Tricky Dilemma: Formed in the fall of 1999, Tricky Dilemma improvises-experimental-acoustic-electronica, created using a blend of acoustic and electronic instruments.
The goal of the band is to explore and mediate dilemmas caused by unspeakable human emotion, pain and desire through improvised music and the creation of sound spaces.
Tricky Dilemma's debut CD "The Howling Necessity" was released in 2003 on TruGROID Records- the label of Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber who Tricky Dilemma also toured with.
Tricky Dilemma is now in support of its recently (january 2008) released 2nd CD "John P. Parker: Viewed From 9 Dimensions" on its namesake label.
For more information on the band visit: www.TrickyDilemma.com
or www.myspace.com/trickydilemma
For Touring, Booking, Educational Workshops and Residencies please
contact: Jared Nickerson at 201-420-1509 Fax: 973-736-7669
or email: jared@burntsugarindex.com
BENJAMIN SANZ_Batterie BRUCE SHERFIELD_Chant RAFAEL PASEIRO_Basse KARLOS ROTSEN_Clavier CHARLY SY_Scratchs
Santacrew Dj set: NCHTEN (warm up hip-hop) UNKLBENZ (broken beat) FLA,MESSIAH,CHARLY SY,KUBIK (Jungle/Drum and Bass) MC LITTLE GIL POUPA DANCER
Le santa crew installe sa caravane de dj et néanmoins de joyeux drilles à l'international.Invités pour l'occasion le groupe BROKEN ISLAND , combo hip hop Broken bass ( si si..ça se dit !!). Ces musiciens viennent de la bouillonnante scène des Jam session de la Miroiterie .BRUCE SHERFIELD chante dans Mei Tei Shô,RAFAEL PASEIRO a joué avec Raul Paz,CHARLY SY scratch dans Sayag jazz machine, tandis que BENJAMIN SANZ ( Iswhat!?, David Murray ) et KARLOS ROTSEN ont chacun leur quintet.Préparez vous à une expèrience sonore hybride oscillant entre Hip-hop et broken beat . En début de soirée un warm up hip-hop des plus fin sera assuré par N'CHTEN, suivi d'un set "todo bonito" broken beat de dj UNKLBENZ . Dj FLA et MESSIAH, accompagnés au micro de Little Gil et de Poupa Dancer accéléreront "légérement" la vitesse de croisière en deuxieme partie de soirée avec un set jungle drum'nbass des plus chaleureux...Calor total bounheur à l'international.
How you doin' guys ? Yes it was a great jam session, thanks to your presence too...i enjoyed the night...I listened to your album, it's great and very interesting in the music and the sonorities.Let's keep in touch and one more time, if you need some weird scratching, you know now i'm here...hope to play with u again ...thanks guys
