C/D Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber

There's a surprising amount of Burnt Sugar on Spotify.

keyboardist Marc Cary (who was once in DC go-go band Northeast Groovers) just did a weekend of shows at the Apollo and the Kennedy Center with percussionist Go-go Mickey and go-go drummer Kenny Kwick Gross plus a bunch of jazz folks. Cary is playing a lot of Rhodes organ these days. He's got a new album out too (haven't heard it yet).

http://somethingelsereviews.com/2015/03/06/marc-cary-rhodes-ahead-vol-2-2015/

The new 20th Anniversary Mixtapes set is excellent

Yeah, those are really good - I reviewed them for The Wire.

Great news, thsnks. Hadn't seen this thread before. Yeah, they've always been amazing. This is from my Pazz & Jop comments re 2017 Top Ten:

Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber: All You Zombies Dig The Luminosity---precarious, hopeful ballads are accosted by punks staking a claim to "My Black Uncertainty" and singing "Are You Insaaaane?" (not a rhetorical question, not always) to self and other, all and sundry, everyone, everyone while balancing on and unbalancing guitars and a lot to gain and lose and learn and burn at stake and yes it's still a family affair.
So for instance what's with put-downs of gentrification if you're from the projects or just can't take upward mobility or even running place for granted anymore, no matter where you're from. Or is that just bullshit rationalization, also(that one gets pushback in the same song). Anyway, science friction etc(zombies can be strength in numbers btw, or that's a suggestion here): https://burntsugarthearkestrachamber.bandcamp.com/album/all-you-zombies-dig-the-luminosity

(Incl. elements of jazz and hip hop/use of tape effects---in fact the whole thing might be tape, sound quality/ambience/timbre etc not quite the bandcamp usual, in my experience. but that's not a complaint, just a comment.)

Free show in LA tomorrow night: https://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2022/burnt-sugar-arkestra-chamber

From my blog round-up of 2021 picks:
Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber, Making Love to the Dark Ages–LiveWired 2009

...Meanwhile, archival 2021 release Making Love To The Dark Ages incl at very least an LP's-worth of instrumental goodness-to-greatness(good measure, in this vinyl-high, "post-album" age)---that is, my fave raves so far are the second half, at least impact-wise: "Dominata (the gabri ballad)"(15:47), and the two-part title work: https://burntsugarthearkestrachamber.bandcamp.com/album/making-love-to-the-dark-ages-livewired-2009

Now listening to yet another of their 2021 releases, younger contingent up front this time, Tate & other elders still along for the ride: https://burntsugarthearkestrachamber.bandcamp.com/album/the-darknuss Brides of Funkensteinoid for openers– "No culuds, no culuds allowwwed,"The Darknuss, by REBELLUM ~ Burnt Sugar Arkestra's Avant Funk & Roll Splinter Cell—and the set finds, mined and minds a deep sweetness, w/o ever going mushy (only disappointment, at least to non-prog-me, is that Vernon Reid shows up to play what sounds like guitar synthesizer, vintage if you want to say it politely---but may come around to this cameo, in such persuasive context). Healing heat grasp of this set also lights the enterprising horizon skylines of Burnt Sugar's Angels Over Oakanda, with not the same kind of zoom lens as The Darknuss, but also within a budding trove, here seeded by persistent glimmers of something not unrelated to yet another previously unheard-of electric Miles situation/refreshment.

(Have not yet a hold of this meaty bete noir, which always has me trying to ride with one hand x lobe waving free: Burnt Sugar, The Rites ~ Butch Morris Conductions Inspired By Stravinsky's Le Sacre Du Printemps---w Pete Cosey, Melvin Gibbs, Mazz Swift, many more of course: https://burntsugarthearkestrachamber.bandcamp.com/album/the-rites-butch-morris-conductions-inspired-by-stravinskys-le-sacre-du-printemps Founding member Vijay Ilyer's pianoizm the stomping kicking hairline clarity centering this aquarium Big Bang 4everin progress, however: spin w him, and won't ever quite founder in the wonder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyTjpf47MZk

Musicians who played with Greg Tate talking about him for NPr and the Pop Conference 2022

https://www.lincolncenter.org/series/lincoln-center-presents/the-burnt-sugar-smokehouse-179

Burnt Sugar Arkestra 25th anniversary gigs at Lincoln Center in NY

Former Burnt Sugar pianist & synth & organ player Marc Cary now lives near Baltimore and is doing a birthday gig for himself Saturday at Takoma Station in Maryland near DC with his group Marc Cary and Indigenous People. The group membership varies but always includes DC go-go musicians because of Cary's lifelong love of go-go and that he played in go-go bands in high school

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/661091/marc-cary-tick-tickboom-and-more-best-bets-for-jan-25-31/

Vernon Reid conducted Burnt Sugar Arkestra through a Love Supreme outside Brooklyn library as a tribute to recently deceased Casey Benjamin today as Solar Eclipse happened

Mike Rubin shared video clips on his IG

https://www.instagram.com/p/C5g9l1xuQFa/?igsh=MTJ2a3p0YXcxZHlidQ==