A few weeks ago we mentioned that Gary has been doing a lot of “cross-cultural melding lately,” but hey — he’s always doing that! And in one of his best interviews yet, on Leadel, he talks about “Fusing Jewish Music.” We love Gary’s genius for bridging cultures, and for his ability to work with difference to create beautiful and challenging music.
November 23, 2008
Report from Valladollid
Borja Sanchez Mayoral reports on Gary’s Golem performance and film screening in Spain, with some great photographs, too, by Hector Marquez. HERE. It’s in Spanish, but you can always run it through the Babelfish translator, if you don’t speaka da lingo.
November 21, 2008
Gods and Monsters, Flower Travellin,’ and Theremins
Oh you lucky people over there on the East Coast. You can see GODS AND MONSTERS as part of the Third Annual Halleluwah Festival of Enthused Arts, featuring the U.S. debut of Japan’s legendary Flower Travellin’ Band! This is going to be killer.
SUNDAY NOV. 23rd
KNITTING FACTORY MAINSPACE
74 LEONARD ST., NYC 9:
Gods and Monsters with Roswell Rudd.
Flower Travellin’ Band.
and on Dec. 3rd, Gods and Monsters
at the Cake Shop, 153 Ludlow St., NYC, 10pm
w/special guest Mike Edison on THEREMIN.
November 19, 2008
gary lucas faves
A Gary Lucas playlist of favorites on Rhapsody’s Playlist Central, via Nate Cavalieri. Go HERE for Gary’s comments on his picks.
November 17, 2008
the good work
Gary has been doing a lot of cross-cultural melding lately, and one fruitful combination has been his work of a spiritual nature with jazz/blues vocalist Dean Bowman in their Chase The Devil Project. Check out their MySpace website HERE, for a healing earful. Here is what they have to say about their project:
CHASE THE DEVIL (Dean Bowman and Gary Lucas) formed in the summer of 2008 over a mutual love of spiritual roots music. Both jazz/blues vocalist DEAN BOWMAN and guitarist extraordinaire GARY LUCAS are steeped in deep roots music both sacred and secular since their earliest musical strivings. World-class musicians, between them they have played on hundreds of albums both as leaders and as sidemen, and have toured the globe in their search for musical excellence and truth. They recognize that the common denominator in both country blues, sanctified Christian gospel music, Jewish liturgical music, Islami quawwali music, and their own original songs, is the passionate element of human struggle, which informs all their work. That–and a desire to elevate the proceedings around them–to lift the bandstand. CHASE THE DEVIL explodes into ecstasy by reinvigorating the music and poetry of such transcendental artists such as Rev. Gary Davis, William Blake, Blind Willie Johnson, the Sabri Brothers, Joseph Spence, the Staple Singers, Nusrat Fatah Ali Khan, Shlomo Carlebach, and many others. They also are busy writing their own new original spirituals. The duo have performed several times in NYC to overflow crowds who were always on their feet dancing by the end of their show. They look forward to bringing their intense and emotional music to the multitudes world-wide. Their aim is to lift and inspire…to transmit joy and to teach, not preach. This is where the soul of Man never dies. for more info: www.deanbowman.com www.garylucas.com
November 17, 2008
Valladolid
We are always blown away by the awesome magic of both Gary’s music, and the film, Der Golem. Here’s a clip from Gary Lucas’ performance in Valladolid Spain this year: “Estreño der Gollem.”
November 17, 2008
if you know what’s good for you
…and of course you DO, so you’ll subscribe to the OutFromUnderLive Channel on You Tube, and get your latest video on Gary and Gods and Monsters. So step right up, go there right now!
July 19, 2008
Gary Lucas on Van Bram Plunteren
Gary Lucas on Dutch TV: Van Bram Plunteren. In which you get a little bit of everything, and dissonance, too. We like the atmospherics on this one — where is that set: Frankenstein’s workshop?
July 8, 2008
Foggy Road
There is a growing collection of Gary Lucas videos on You Tube – check it out! One of our favorites is Gary playing his version of “Foggy Road” (Burning Spear) on Czech National TV. Enjoy…
