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Lucas, Gary

The Essential Gary Lucas [2 CDs]

Lucas, Gary: The Essential Gary Lucas [2 CDs] (Knitting Factory)

A retrospective of the work of guitarist and one-time Captain Beefheart Magic Band member Gary Lucas, in two CDs, the first devoted to songs recorded with Lucas' psychedelic jazz-rock band Gods and Monsters, the second devoted to solo works, rarities and collaborations, with an incredible list of performers reflecting Lucas' diverse 40-year career.
 

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Gary Lucas-guitar, vocals, composer

Billy Fica-drums

Ernie Brooks-bass

Jonathan Kane-drums

Sascha van Oertzen-backing vocals

Jerry Harrison-keyboards

Jason Candler-saxophone

Jenni Muldaur-backing vocals

Alva Rogers-backing vocals

Joe Hendel-keyboards, trombone

Frank London-trumpet

Jack McKeever-backing vocals

Jean Chaine-bass

David Johansen-vocals

Mary Margaret O'Hara-vocals

Jared Nickerson-bass

Palu Nowinski-bass

Tony Thunder Smith-drums

Richard Barone-vocals

Tony Lewis-drums

Elli Medeiros-vocals

Dina Emerson-drums

Anthony Kane-harmonica

Greg Bendian-percussion

Ron McGinty-vocals

Michael Blair-percussion

Keith LeBlanc-drums

Feifei Yang-vocals

Gisburg-vocals

Haydee Milanes-vocals

Suylen Milanes-vocals

Nona Hendryx-vocals

Jesse Krakow-bass

Jordan Shapiro-keyboards

Richard Dworkin-drums

Metropole Orchestra-orchestra

Toni Dezso-guitar

Najma Akhtar-vocals

Nitin Mitta-tabla

Alan Vega-vocals

Jolene Grunberg-vocals

Walter Horn-keyboard

Adrian Sherwood-guitar

Mark Bandola-drums

Chris Joyce-bass


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UPC: 720841114628

Label: Knitting Factory
Catalog ID: CD-KFR-1146
Squidco Product Code: 29971

Format: 2 CDs
Condition: New
Released: 2021
Country: USA
Packaging: Digipack - 3 panel w/ booklet
Recorded at Eastside Sound, in NYC; Knit Noise, NYC; Loho Studios, NYC; Mercury Lounge, NYC; Sorcerer Sound Studios, NYC; Elephant Studios, London, UK; Krypton Studios, NYC;Look and Company, NYC; Unique Studios, NYC; Terry Derkach Studio, NYC; JC STudio, NYC; PM Studios, Havana, Cuba; Beacon Theater, NYC; Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; SkylineStudios, NYC; The UN, NYC; Tom-Tom Studios, Budapest, Hungary; Faust Studios, Prague, Czech Republic; House Of Vibes, Highland Park, New Jersey; 6/8 Studio, NYC; Museum Of The Moving Image, Astoria, New York; On u-Sound Castle, Ramsgate, UK; The Czech embassy, Washington, DC; between 1980 and 2019.

Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

"36 tracks spanning 40 years of groundbreaking and provocative music, released through NYC's legendary Knitting Factory Records. The first CD is devoted to songs recorded with Lucas' psychedelic jazz-rock band Gods and Monsters, and the second CD is devoted to solo works, rarities and collaborations.

Drawing on a wealth of material including rare and never-before released tracks, the double album offers ample evidence of Gary's trailblazing and unique career, going back to his earliest appearances on record and stage with Captain Beefheart (Don Van Vliet) in the early 80's, to his groundbreaking work with the amazing Jeff Buckley (Gary co-wrote and played on Jeff's anthems 'Grace' and 'Mojo Pin'), through his extensive cross-genre legacy of 30-plus albums.

Special guests include Jeff Buckley, Alan Vega (Suicide), David Johansen (NY Dolls), Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads), Ernie Brooks (Modern Lovers), Billy Ficca (Television), Nona Hendryx (Labelle), Chinese star Feifei Yang, French diva Elli Medeiros, avant-legend Mary Margaret O'Hara, Cuba's #1 dance band Los Van Van, UK dub-master Adrian Sherwood, singer Rolo McGinty (The Woodentops) and others."-Knitting Factory


Artist Biographies

"A world class guitar hero, a Grammy-nominated songwriter and composer, an international recording artist with over 30 acclaimed solo albums to date, and a soundtrack composer for film and television, GARY LUCAS is on the move in 2020. He has recorded over 30 acclaimed albums in a variety of genres-jazz, rock, classical, folk, blues and world music-and has performed in over 40 countries to date. He has received many honors and awards-including being invited to perform solo before the General Assembly of the UN on January 27th 2017 to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. He was also recently profiled on National Public Radio (NPR).

Dubbed "The Thinking Man's Guitar Hero" by The New Yorker, "The world's most popular avant-rock guitarist" by The Independent (UK), "One of the 100 Greatest Living Guitarists" (Classic Rock), "Legendary Leftfield guitarist" by The Guardian (UK), "Guitarist of 1000 Ideas" by The New York Times, "a true axe God" by Melody Maker, and "One of the five best guitarists in the world" by the national Czech newspaper Lidove Noviny; the British world music magazine fRoots recently described Gary Lucas as "without question, the most innovative and challenging guitarist playing today." Rolling Stone's David Fricke wrote: "Gary Lucas is one of the best and most original guitarists in America...a modern guitar miracle." Best-selling author/producer Dan Levitin ("This Is Your Brain On Music") recently cited Gary as "the greatest living electric guitarist". Gary was also dubbed "one of the world's greatest guitar players" by HITS Magazine. Pete Frame, music journalist, founder/editor of legendary UK music magazine ZigZag, and author/creator of 5 volumes of "Rock Family Trees" said of Gary, "Can there be another musician as adventurous, ingenious, accomplished, diverse, intrepid, hard-working and well-travelled as Gary Lucas?"

-Gary Lucas Website (http://www.garylucas.com/biog2.shtml)
3/13/2024

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"Trumpeter/composer Frank London is a member of the Klezmatics, Hasidic New Wave, has performed with John Zorn, LL Cool J, Mel Torme, Lester Bowieπs Brass Fantasy, LaMonte Young, They Might Be Giants, David Byrne, Jane Siberry, Ben Folds 5, Mark Ribot, Maurice El Medioni and Gal Costa, and is featured on over 100 cds. His own recordings include INVOCATIONS (cantorial music); Frank Londonπs Klezmer Brass Allstarsπ DI SHIKERE KAPELYE and BROTHERHOOD OF BRASS; NIGUNIM and THE ZMIROS PROJECT (Jewish mystical songs, with Klezmatics vocalist Lorin Sklamberg); THE DEBT (film and theater music); THE SHEKHINA BIG BAND; the soundtrack to THE SHVITZ; the soundtrack to Perl Gluck's THE DIVAHN and four releases with the Hasidic New Wave.

His projects include the folk-opera A NIGHT IN THE OLD MARKETPLACE (based on Y.L. Peretz's Bay nakht oyfn altn mark), DAVENEN for Pilobolus and the Klezmatics, Great Small Works' THE MEMOIRS OF GLUCKEL OF HAMELN and Min Tanaka's ROMANCE. He composed music for John Sayles' THE BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET and MEN WITH GUNS, Yvonne Rainer's MURDER AND MURDER, the Czech-American Marionette Theaterπs GOLEM and Tamar Rogoff's IVYE PROJECT.Live in CrackowPoland, 2001

He was music director for David Byrne and Robert Wilsonπs THE KNEE PLAYS, collaborated with Palestinian violinist Simon Shaheen, taught Jewish music in Canada, Crimea and the Catskills, and produced CD's for Gypsy Ledgend Esma Redzepova, and Algerian Pianist Maurice el Medioni.

He has been featured on HBOπs SEX AND THE CITY, at the North Sea Jazz Festival and the Lincoln Center Summer Festival, and was a co-founder of Les Miserables Brass Band and the Klezmer Conservatory Band."

-Frank London Website (http://www.franklondon.com/bio.html)
3/13/2024

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"Elli Medeiros (born 18 January 1956 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a singer and actress.

The Stinky Toys

Medeiros moved to Paris, France, at the age of 14, dropped out of high school a couple of years later and joined the punk band The Stinky Toys.

Elli et Jacno

After the group disbanded, Medeiros joined another Stinky Toy member Jacno to form the electropop duo Elli et Jacno. Together they released several albums, one of them the soundtrack to an ƒric Rohmer film Les nuits de la pleine lune.

Solo

The singer went solo in 1986. The songs, "Toi mon toit" (1986) and "A bailar calypso" (1987), were big hits in France and had a more Latin sound than her previous records.

She sang back-up vocals on several of pop star Etienne Daho's songs from his 1996 album Eden. She also helped co-write his song "Me manquer" from the same album.

Elli Medeiros appears in a number of French films and has worked with, among others, Olivier Assayas and Philippe Garrel."

-Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elli_Medeiros)
3/13/2024

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Track Listing:



CD1



1. Fata Morgana 3:59

2. Evangeline 3:23

3. Coming Clean 3:39

4. Chime On 3:59

5. Climb the Highest Mountain 5:41

6. Let's Go Swimming 7:00

7. Swamp T'ing 4:25

8. One Man's Meat 5:22

9. Poison Tree 3:30

10. Follow 3:13

11. Skin the Rabbit 3:48

12. Grace (Studio Demo) 4:15

13. Lady of Shalott 6:26

14. Skin Diving 14 4:07

15. After Strange Gods 3:29

16. Whip Named Lash 5:02

17. King Strong 6:53 CD2



1. All Along the Watchtower (feat. Feifei Yang) 2:35

2. The Wall 2:53

3. The Moon Represents My Heart (feat. Feifei Yang, Jason Candler) 2:56

4. Out from Under (feat. Haydee Milanes, Suylan Milanes, Los Van Van) 4:15

5. Her Eyes Are a Blue Million Miles (feat. Nona Hendryx) 3:34

6. Flavor Bud Living 1:16

7. Evening Bell (feat. The Metropole Orchestra) 2:08

8. Bra Joe from Kilimanjaro 5:05

9. Fool's Cap 3:23

10. Janacek's "On an Overgrown Path" No. 15 Allegro 4:50

11. Two Roads (feat. Toni Dezso, Eniko Szabo) 3:23

12. Will 'o the Wisp 3:30

13. Rishte (feat. Najma Akhtar) 3:49

14. Life Kills (feat. Alan Vega) 5:04

15. Story Without Words (feat. Jolene Grunberg, the Metropole Orchestra) 6:02

16. Music for "The Golem" (Main Title / Rabbi Loew Consults the Stars / The Decree) (feat. Walter Horn) 6:07

17. Dream of a Russian Princess 1:46

18. Guanguanco (feat. Adrian Sherwood) 4:46

19."largo" from Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 (From the New World) 7:13

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