Secretary a.k.a. Moist Paula:
Playing the opening night of the URB ALT Festival at the Schomburg
Center in New York was the most auspicious setting I could have hoped
for to debut my new solo project, Secretary. It was an honor to play
such an illustrious, historical venue and it was a blast to play on a
bill with so many great bands. Thanks for having me!
Dragons of Zynth:
There are only so many places in this revered city where an artist can feel at ease sharing the 'lifeblood'. In the case of DOZ it was an honor to play the URB ALT party at Tonic this early in the game. It seems as though bands sneak in this tucked spot and leave always having performed intimate and memorable shows. More important than slugging it out with the droves of bands in the city, there is a gleaming optimism coming from this crew of musicians/artists. The URB ALT dynamic is one of the few inclusive collectives in this city that builds as much momentum as it does spirit.
Tasneem of le bande Jungli:
URB ALT est dans mes pantalons (URB ALT is in my trousers).
Sad Android:
The time has come for the Urb Alt to pronounce it's unbelievable vibe and strength among the hearts and minds of all people. The band gives full support to the musical and intellectual freedoms the Urb Alt promotes! Mutha Wit, let's start the ceremony!
Blackbeard:
the realist vibe in new york period.
muthafuckaz don't know about rock n roll. the freedom. this URB ALT thing is more than just a show. people are always sleeping on the truth. these are the roots of the new sound, the new time. cats want to look the part but they ain't playing shit. same old groove. a dying vibration. long live ROCK & REVOLUTION
Carletta Hurt, CEO of BluTopaz, Inc. - Public Relations, Marketing:
Boston Fielder has displayed a high level of commitment over the years to giving creative artists a vehicle to showcase their talents. He has focused on building a foundation of credibility, integrity and consistently great work. I have enjoyed working with him and appreciate the strength of vision in URB ALT and his staying true to it.
Ben Tyree
(founder of Miscellaneous Flux and MuthaWit Guitar Conspiracy Theorist):
May URB ALT continue to help artists and musicians with their heads up their asses organize and share their weirdness with NYC and the world...
The Bunkbeds:
When The Bunkbeds played the URB ALT series the experience was uplifting. Our own crowd was supplemented by the diverse audience Boston Fielder brings in through URB ALT. Although we were just a duo at the time, it felt like we had a whole band behind us, the crowd roaring us on as we played our flavor of electro-pop. We were equally exposed to excellent music that night from the rest of the acts. Now when an URB Alt is in town, I know that it's something to check out.
Tella:
Not to mention that Boston is a dear friend and sole inspiration for my jump head-first into forming a band in New York City, but he also is the creator of the unique URB ALT series. I was extremely pleased and excited to be a part of the first URB ALT here in the city. I didn't know what to expect, other than some local artists he'd gathered. What I discovered that night, was that there are beautiful, creative, talented artists in this city living under the radar. That evening was a magical, full-house of freaks, geeks and local ragamuffins. We all stood wide-eyed at Blackbeard's sonic explosion and at Boston's angelic, yet soulfully sexy voice. I stood onstage with my band, performing in awe of the audience, who couldn't have been more supportive and loving. That URB ALT was probably the best gig I've had in the city nothing more cohesive or comfortable have I experienced since.
Dan The Man
What do U get when U put the WorldStrongestDAN on the most AlturbanistiK stage in front of the On-looking-ist Listeners in the World? -The Most DAN-gerous Affair on URth!!!- "URB-ALT"
Elliptical Ferns
The Ferns used their knowledge of NYC waterways to circumvent the effects of a transit strike and the URB ALT crew met them at the river guiding them through a steller evening of music.
Influences
Amber De, Medicine Woman. :-)
Sounds Like
MuthaWit, "Give It To Me": URB ALT Fest 08 BAMcafe 6/27
URB ALT Festival Trailer - extended (music by various artists)
URB ALT is everything and nothing.
Whorish and chaste.
URB ALT is a marketing strategem or demographic to insure that creators can speak in numbers to capitalist forces and it's a self-determination-DIY artistic/political/social ideal that exists without the need for patrons.
Capitalist and Socialist.
URB ALT is a music/film series/company founded by Boston Fielder in 1998 to serve the creator and audience seeking uncut entertainment and artistic expression. URB ALT has offered transcendant visuals and revolutionary music to enthusiastic attendees throughout Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, Los Angeles and New York. The ultimate mission of URB ALT is to provide venues and support to artists who are interested in introducing work that may not immediately receive mainstream acceptance and exposure.
Metaphysical and never critical.
All labels are a box. Create your own box.
URB ALT is a load of bullshit borne of fertile ground that any idea can be harvested from.
Everything and nothing.
I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)
....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our fourth LP release...
LEILA ADU has been described as 'A Nina Simone for the Noughties', and her two acclaimed albums infuse a broadly 'art-rock' approach with elements of torch song, speakeasy blues, avant garde jazz, gamelan, post-rock textures, and a David Lynch style dreamlike b-movie melodrama. As her website has it, exploring the "dissonant edges of familiar forms", but with that kind of 'dissonance' that they once accused Thelonious Monk or Debussy of, the kind that soon betrays it's own compelling melodic and harmonic logic to the attentive listener...
'Dark Joan', Leila's third album as a solo artist, was recorded in Chicago with the legendary Steve Albini (PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsome, Nirvana, Pixies), and Albini's genius has been to strip her sound back to it's essence, and hold it's most distinctive qualities up to the light. It doesn't hurt that this is by far Leila's most powerful set of songs to date, and if anything we are lead even deeper into her world by the pictures painted with just piano (or in some cases harpsichord or a grime-encrusted electric piano) and that voice...
Capable of anything from delicate heartbreaking purity to a fearsome dramatic power, her powers are seemingly limitless, yet unlike most other singers of her calibre, never does she resort to melodrama or show-boating, or any kind of pastiche, instead she employs her resources fully in the expression of her distinctive musical vision and the deep well-spring of her imagination. Nothing ever sounds as though it could have not been sung...
....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our fourth LP release...
LEILA ADU has been described as 'A Nina Simone for the Noughties', and her two acclaimed albums infuse a broadly 'art-rock' approach with elements of torch song, speakeasy blues, avant garde jazz, gamelan, post-rock textures, and a David Lynch style dreamlike b-movie melodrama. As her website has it, exploring the "dissonant edges of familiar forms", but with that kind of 'dissonance' that they once accused Thelonious Monk or Debussy of, the kind that soon betrays it's own compelling melodic and harmonic logic to the attentive listener...
'Dark Joan', Leila's third album as a solo artist, was recorded in Chicago with the legendary Steve Albini (PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsome, Nirvana, Pixies), and Albini's genius has been to strip her sound back to it's essence, and hold it's most distinctive qualities up to the light. It doesn't hurt that this is by far Leila's most powerful set of songs to date, and if anything we are lead even deeper into her world by the pictures painted with just piano (or in some cases harpsichord or a grime-encrusted electric piano) and that voice...
Capable of anything from delicate heartbreaking purity to a fearsome dramatic power, her powers are seemingly limitless, yet unlike most other singers of her calibre, never does she resort to melodrama or show-boating, or any kind of pastiche, instead she employs her resources fully in the expression of her distinctive musical vision and the deep well-spring of her imagination. Nothing ever sounds as though it could have not been sung...
....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our third LP release...
"Anutha Kinda Brotha" is the debut LP from underground legend ART TERRY. Since moving to the UK from his native Los Angeles in the early 90s, Mr Terry has established himself as one of London's characters.
Describing Art's sound to the uninitiated usually involves debunking some of the stereotypes of what the 'typical' black Californian might play. Despite his jazz training, and coming of age to the sounds of classic soul and funk, these styles are only a part of his musical vision. His fascination with folk styles, classical music, punk rock, pure pop, easy listening, musical theatre and the European avant garde have taken him on different paths from most...
The result is an orchestral pop record full of sonic inventiveness, whether it's the blend of Shuggie Otis's 60s California and Sun Ra's ancient Egypt on 'Bible', Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons leading a mariachi band on 'Escort', or the Walt Disney music box orchestra of 'Miss Dominatrix', but whilst this is very much a sonic feast, we shouldn't overlook Art's extraordinary lyrical adeptness, and the distinctive character this brings to the proceedings, with a knack for unique and colourful imagery, and how like a great short story writer he is able to paint an engaging picture whilst keeping back from casting judgement on his characters, always leaving open ends for the listener to tie; giving us the feeling that however far astray someone might have gone, there is always sympathy and human feeling for them in Art's mind...
....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our second official LP release...
"Modern Mediaeval" is the third LP from singer-songwriter DAVID GARSIDE, and the first to receive the full Frizz Records vinyl treatment. It’s also clearly the most fully-realised statement of his distinctive vision so far…
It’s an easy route to locate David in the tradition of his ‘classic’ influences (McCartney, Nick Drake, Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, The Beach Boys, Love, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, Dexy’s…), but there are few songwriters working today that have absorbed these influences so fully, and arrived at a mature style as David has…
This is ’singer-songwriter’ music in the sense that it’s focus is on song-craft and the unfolding of the lyrical vision of a single individual, but if so then it’s definitely at the sophisticated end of the scale (’progressive’ if that term isn’t too loaded…), filed alongside ‘Bryter Layter’, ‘The Hissing Of Summer Lawns’, ‘Pretzel Logic’ or ‘Surf’s Up’...another FRIZZ RECORDS instant classic!
"Modern Mediaeval" can be downloaded from the iTunes Store
The album is also available on heavyweight vinyl LP, or on Digipack CD from www.FrizzRecords.com & all good retailers
....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our first official LP release...
"It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic" is the debut release from AUGUST, the London based band centred around the songwriting partnership between vocalist VEDINA MOSE and multi-instrumentalist / producer RAPHAEL MANN (MR HUDSON / JOY JOSEPH / ART TERRY), with master drummer CLEAN CUT MARK and clarinetist / vocalist MAREE CHOIE completing the core line-up, and a supporting cast including ART TERRY (keyboards), SHOHEI KAWAMOTO (AKA Japanese producer Baraki, Bass clarinet, soprano sax and flute), and KAI HOFFMAN (French horn)
Always an act that juggled a diverse set of influences, the album has been compared to artists as diverse as KATE BUSH, PRINCE, DE LA SOUL, SLY STONE, MADLIB, SERGE GAINSBOURG and THE DELFONICS, for its concoction of wild experimentation and traditional song craft, organic production and futuristic electronic touches, funk bass & drums and jazz & orchestral references, infectious melodies and lyrical flights of fancy...with nods towards classic soul, JB funk, Studio One, 60s pop, psychedelia, left field hip hop, new wave, doo wop, tropicalia, high life, & avant garde jazz, without any song ever fitting squarely into any of those categories...new music, basically...and an instant classic!
"It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic" can be downloaded now from the iTunes Store
The album is also available on heavyweight vinyl LP in a sumptuous gatefold sleeve, or on Digipack CD from www.FrizzRecords.com & all good retailers
Yes!!!! Another friend...LOL....it's definitly our pleasure......now you know this friendship thing is long term so you gotta stop by and drop a comment from time to time...
It's been a long time, my friend. I hope that you've been well and happy and enjoying the adventure of life, one marvelous moment at a time!
Lots of exciting things happening for this daughter of the sun! I'll be writing another blog some time soon (at least that's the plan) and will let you know when that's done.
In the meantime, please come for a visit real soon and let me know what's going on in your world. Have a glorious weekend!
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Sup brotha, glad i caught you, i'll definitely join your urb alt network, would love to join forces with yall, one love, genie “What is Scratch Guitar” airs on U.S. and U.K. national TV. Recently aired on U.S. and U.K. national TV
It was a great show (especially since it was FREE!)
