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Ron Anderson, Anthony Coleman and Gary Lucas to perform at the 1st
anniversary celebration of the avant garde music magazine The Squid’s
Ear.
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January 29, 2004
8:00 pm
Issue Project Room
619 East 6th Street
New York, NY 10009
$10
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The Squid’s Ear music magazine celebrates its first anniversary on
January 29 with special performances by three of the musicians who have
written articles for it during its inaugural year. Veteran guitarist Gary
Lucas, a former member of Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band, pioneering
downtown pianist Anthony Coleman and postpunk guitarist (now oudist)
Ron Anderson will present solo sets at East Village gallery Issue Project
Room to mark the birthday of the online publication.
Guitarist, composer, arranger and manipulator Ron Anderson plays
“anything that can make a sound, including the recording studio. He has
42 recordings to his credit, including recent CDs with his group PAK and
Jason Willett. Ron was a co-founder of the notorious noise rock group
RAT AT RAT R in Philadelphia 1980, and in 1990 founded the bad-boy
new music group The Molecules in Oakland, CA. He has also worked
extensively with Tatsuya Yoshida and The Ruins, the French band Ulan
Bator, and performed at the 2003 Victoriaville festival (in Quebec) with
his group The Infusion. He has performed and recorded with James
Chance, Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, the Sun City Girls, Shelley Hirsch, The
Poool, Otomo Yoshihide, Seiichi Yamamoto, John Zorn, Donald Miller,
Daniel Carter, Terrie Ex and many others.
Gary Lucas got his reputation as a guitarist's guitarist during the five
years he spent playing with his childhood hero, the avant-garde rock
visionary Captain Beefheart. A graduate of Yale University, Lucas used to
cut classes to sneak off to hear his hero play, and eventually recorded
two albums ("Doc at the Radar Station" and "Ice Cream for Crow") with
Beefheart and the Magic Band in the early 80's. In 1988, Lucas began a
solo career with a show at the Knitting Factory, and was soon dubbed
"guitarist of 1000 ideas" by the New York Times. Lucas’s talent and
adaptability has led to his working with Leonard Bernstein, Lou Reed, Jeff
Buckley, Nick Cave, John Cale, DJ Spooky, Captain Beefheart, John Zorn,
Patti Smith, Future Sound of London, Joan Osborne, Matthew Sweet, Iggy
Pop, Bryan Ferry, Sophie B. Hawkins, the Mekons, Allen Ginsberg, Dr.
John, Graham Parker, Bob Weir, and many others. In addition, he is part
of a reunion of The Magic Band (without the participation of Captain
Beefheart) which debuted live in the UK last April, where Gary plus some
of the original classic Beefheart Magic Band members triumphed before
4,000 cheering fans at London’s Shepard’s Bush Empire and at the UK All
Tomorrow’s Parties Festival. He was just cited by the editors of DownBeat
Magazine as one of their “66 Hot 6-Stringers” alongside the likes of B.B
King, John McLaughlin, Leo Kottke, Pat Metheny, Richard Thompson and
others.
Keyboardist and composer Anthony Coleman has been an invaluable
asset in the downtown scene for over 20 years. His encyclopedic
knowledge and his proficiency as a player has allowed him to contribute
to numerous experiments in different genres, from leading the bands
Self-Haters Orchestra and Sephardic Tinge, to work with John Zorn,
Elliott Sharp, Dave Douglas, David Krakauer, Marc Ribot and others. His
duo with Jazz Passengers saxophonist Roy Nathanson led to unique and
charming recordings for Knitting Factory Works and Tzadik. Coleman has
received commissions for his compositions from various ensembles
including Bang On a Can, Concert Artists Guild, and The Crosstown
Ensemble. His compositions can also be heard on harpist Carol
Emanuel's Koch release, Tops of Trees, and Guy Klucevsek's accordian
extravaganza, Manhattan Cascade, among others.
The Squid's Ear was founded in 2003 to
provide intelligent and insightful coverage of New York's thriving
experimental and avant-garde music scene and to create links with other
avant-garde music communities around the world. The magazine is an
outgrowth of Squidco, a website initially developed in 1995 to
spread information about unusual music and arts to the online music
community. Squidco also operates an online music store at .
The Squid's Ear models itself after print magazines in that it has cover
stories and features presented on a roughly quarterly basis. It
distinguishes itself by updating weekly with reviews, live listings, comics
and news. To date five issues of The Squid's Ear have been published,
with articles about New York sound galleries, the Victoriaville Festival,
Peter Kowald, psychogeography, Encyclopedia of Jazz, British guitarist
and composer Fred Frith, the Amplify 2003 festival, The Vision Festival,
and an exclusive issue covering John Zorn's 50th birthday celebration at
Tonic. We also have featured exclusive article written by such
distinguished artists and bands as Butch Morris, Marc Ribot, Eugene
Chadbourne, Jon Rose, Ikue Mori, Anthony Coleman, Ron Anderson, Gary
Lucas and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.
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Among the musician-written columns that regularly appear in The
Squid’s Ear is the Bottom Shelf feature, in which artists are asked to
share the “guilty pleasures” from their record collections. Anderson,
Coleman and Lucas all wrote Bottom Shelf features during the first year
of the magazine’s publication. The essays can be seen on the magazine’s
website http://www.squidsear.com or by going to the following links:
Ron Anderson
Anthony Coleman
Gary Lucas
Issue Project Room provides an open and versatile space where both
established and emerging artists can conduct, exhibit and perform new
and site-specific work according to their respective visions. Through an
evolving collaboration with curators, artists and educators, the Project
Room fosters a wide-range of artistic projects that challenge and expand
conventional practices in art. The Project Room fulfills its mission
through a series of diverse programs, events, exhibitions, performances,
talks and concerts. It is a filling zone for creativity where possibilities
manifest openness for change, new perceptions and experiences. The
programs presented are designed to invoke innovation and promote first
time showings, rare artist appearances, one-off events and eclectic
happenings.
Baby Squid by Madeleine Fix
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