Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Vernon Reid myspace blog!
Checkout Vernon's myspace site. He's posting on his blog from his European tour w/ Masque First post is from backstage in Hamburg!
Monday, January 30, 2006
Vernon Reid and Masque - European Tour 2006
VERNON REID & MASQUE EUROPEAN TOUR 2006
Date Location Venue
JAN-30 PARIS(F) - New Morning
JAN-31 HAMBURG(D) - Knust
FEB-01 BERLIN(D) - Tränenpalast
FEB-02 MUNICH(D) - Bayerischer Hof
FEB-03 FORLI(I) - Naima
FEB-05 CAGLIARI(I) - Fabrik
FEB-07 ROME(I) - Stazione Birra
FEB-08 TORINO(I) - Spazio 211
FEB-09 PORRETTA/Bologna(I) - Kursaal
FEB-10 WINTERTHUR(CH) - Salzhaus
FEB-11 DORTMUND(D) - Domizil
FEB-12 HELMOND(NL) - Plato
FEB-14 VIENNA(A) - Porgy
FEB-15 BRNO(CZ) - Theater
FEB-16 USTI NAD LABEM(CZ) - Narodni Dum
FEB-17 BRATISLAVA(SK) - Babylon
FEB-18 INNSBRUCK(A) - Treibhaus
FEB-19 PRAGUE(CZ) - Palac Akropolis
FEB-20 KATOVICE(PL) - Andaluzja Osrodek Kultury
FEB-21 MARIBOR(SLO) - Narodi Dom Maribor
FEB-22 BELGRAD(YG) - SKC
FEB-23 WARSCHAU(PL) - Fabrika
FEB-24 GÖRLITZ(D) - Vierradenmühle
FEB-25 DRESDEN(D) - Tante Ju
FEB-26 SALZBURG(A) - Jazzit
FEB-27 BERLIN(D) - Garbaty
FEB-28 HALLE(D) - Objekt 5
more info to follow, please check dates, times, and venue to confirm
Date Location Venue
JAN-30 PARIS(F) - New Morning
JAN-31 HAMBURG(D) - Knust
FEB-01 BERLIN(D) - Tränenpalast
FEB-02 MUNICH(D) - Bayerischer Hof
FEB-03 FORLI(I) - Naima
FEB-05 CAGLIARI(I) - Fabrik
FEB-07 ROME(I) - Stazione Birra
FEB-08 TORINO(I) - Spazio 211
FEB-09 PORRETTA/Bologna(I) - Kursaal
FEB-10 WINTERTHUR(CH) - Salzhaus
FEB-11 DORTMUND(D) - Domizil
FEB-12 HELMOND(NL) - Plato
FEB-14 VIENNA(A) - Porgy
FEB-15 BRNO(CZ) - Theater
FEB-16 USTI NAD LABEM(CZ) - Narodni Dum
FEB-17 BRATISLAVA(SK) - Babylon
FEB-18 INNSBRUCK(A) - Treibhaus
FEB-19 PRAGUE(CZ) - Palac Akropolis
FEB-20 KATOVICE(PL) - Andaluzja Osrodek Kultury
FEB-21 MARIBOR(SLO) - Narodi Dom Maribor
FEB-22 BELGRAD(YG) - SKC
FEB-23 WARSCHAU(PL) - Fabrika
FEB-24 GÖRLITZ(D) - Vierradenmühle
FEB-25 DRESDEN(D) - Tante Ju
FEB-26 SALZBURG(A) - Jazzit
FEB-27 BERLIN(D) - Garbaty
FEB-28 HALLE(D) - Objekt 5
more info to follow, please check dates, times, and venue to confirm
Sunday, January 29, 2006
CD Review: Living Colour - Everything is Possible: The Very Best of Living Colour
Do you ever revisit a band that you hadn't listened to in a long time, and when you do, do you start to notice things that you'd never heard before? That's what listening to this Living Colour album was like for me.
Living Colour's first album, Vivid, came out back in 1988, just around the time I was getting into music. I know, later than most, but at least I discovered it, right? Anyway, I really liked this album and the 1990 follow-up, Time's Up. But, as my lack of musical focus attests, my attention drifted to other pursuits. Over the years my tastes have widened somewhat, and my ear has changed. Whether or not that makes me any better a judge of music has yet to be seen. Back to the CD, before I get too sidetracked.
Everything is Possible collects the best cuts from their five albums, plus one from a soundtrack. The two albums with the largest representation are those classic first two, with 11 of the 17 songs. Something else I like about the disk is that it has the tracks in chronological order by album. I've never particularly cared for when songs aren't put in order; one of the best things about greatest hits collections are listening to a bands' progression, or lack thereof.
We begin our tour through Living Colour's history with their biggest hit, "Cult of Personality." The song starts strong with a defined riff progression, and backbeat that you can't help but get sucked into, then the powerful, clean vocals come in over top of everything, tying it all together. From there we move on to the somber "Open Letter (To a Landlord)" and the attack on yuppies with "Glamour Boys."
The highlights of Time's Up are "Pride" and the title track. Included amidst the originals are a couple of cover songs, Jimi Hendrix' "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" from the album Biscuits, and a rather heavy version of Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" from the True Lies soundtrack. Closing the album is a soul/hip hop remix of "Love Rears its Ugly Head," a song that originally appeared on Time's Up.
Listening to Vernon Reid's guitar wizardry was absolutely eye-opening for the entire run. I always recognized him as an exceptional player, but listening with the experience I have amassed over the years, I hear a player who is clearly one of the best out there. He can sustain heavy riffs, play blazing solos, and switch styles at the drop of a hat. Add to that the jazzy, funky rhythm section of Muzz Skillings on bass, and later Doug Wimbish, and William Calhoun on drums. Last but not least is the amazing voice of Corey Glover, delivering lyrical commentary with conviction and soul.
Listening to all of these songs again for the first time in a long time, I am amazed how well they hold up. The music does not feel dated; this could be released as new and blend in with the current musical landscape. Living Colour's fusion of rock and metal with jazz, funk, and blues becomes a truly original sound.
Bottomline. This is a great set that showcases the talent that this band possessed. For anyone looking for some driving rock with a dash of originality, and lyrical content which is still relevant to the current climate, this is a good place to start. I know there must be a lot of younger rock fans looking for something more, this would be a good place to start.
Highly Recommended
Living Colour's first album, Vivid, came out back in 1988, just around the time I was getting into music. I know, later than most, but at least I discovered it, right? Anyway, I really liked this album and the 1990 follow-up, Time's Up. But, as my lack of musical focus attests, my attention drifted to other pursuits. Over the years my tastes have widened somewhat, and my ear has changed. Whether or not that makes me any better a judge of music has yet to be seen. Back to the CD, before I get too sidetracked.
Everything is Possible collects the best cuts from their five albums, plus one from a soundtrack. The two albums with the largest representation are those classic first two, with 11 of the 17 songs. Something else I like about the disk is that it has the tracks in chronological order by album. I've never particularly cared for when songs aren't put in order; one of the best things about greatest hits collections are listening to a bands' progression, or lack thereof.
We begin our tour through Living Colour's history with their biggest hit, "Cult of Personality." The song starts strong with a defined riff progression, and backbeat that you can't help but get sucked into, then the powerful, clean vocals come in over top of everything, tying it all together. From there we move on to the somber "Open Letter (To a Landlord)" and the attack on yuppies with "Glamour Boys."
The highlights of Time's Up are "Pride" and the title track. Included amidst the originals are a couple of cover songs, Jimi Hendrix' "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" from the album Biscuits, and a rather heavy version of Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" from the True Lies soundtrack. Closing the album is a soul/hip hop remix of "Love Rears its Ugly Head," a song that originally appeared on Time's Up.
Listening to Vernon Reid's guitar wizardry was absolutely eye-opening for the entire run. I always recognized him as an exceptional player, but listening with the experience I have amassed over the years, I hear a player who is clearly one of the best out there. He can sustain heavy riffs, play blazing solos, and switch styles at the drop of a hat. Add to that the jazzy, funky rhythm section of Muzz Skillings on bass, and later Doug Wimbish, and William Calhoun on drums. Last but not least is the amazing voice of Corey Glover, delivering lyrical commentary with conviction and soul.
Listening to all of these songs again for the first time in a long time, I am amazed how well they hold up. The music does not feel dated; this could be released as new and blend in with the current musical landscape. Living Colour's fusion of rock and metal with jazz, funk, and blues becomes a truly original sound.
Bottomline. This is a great set that showcases the talent that this band possessed. For anyone looking for some driving rock with a dash of originality, and lyrical content which is still relevant to the current climate, this is a good place to start. I know there must be a lot of younger rock fans looking for something more, this would be a good place to start.
Highly Recommended
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Vernon Reid
“Masque is about identity: Who am I? Really, that question has informed everything I’ve done, from the beginning of my solo career.” Vernon Reid is speaking one recent morning as his band bus idles outside the hotel. The night before, of course, anyone in the crowd would have had no trouble answering his query: He is, among other things, a profound instrumentalist, one of the world’s great guitarists — a player so advanced, in fact, that the estimable Robert Fripp has admitted to aspiring to meet Reid’s standards “as a guitarist, musician, and human being.”More than that: He is also a visual artist, who at this point was spending every spare moment with his laptop, finessing the digital works to be displayed right after Christmas in a New York gallery. He’s a poet and essayist, a film composer, a father and husband. But like all the music he has played — with his first, two-time Grammy Award-winning band, Living Colour, on sessions with artists ranging from Carlos Santana to Public Enemy, Mariah Carey to the Ramones, in solo projects and countless live appearances — Other True Self, the second album by Vernon Reid & Masque, on Favored Nations, is more about search than discovery. The title says it. In fact, the titles Reid attached to all of his own work, beginning with his solo debut Mistaken Identity and continuing with the first Favored Nations Masque CD, Known Unknown, outline a journey of self-discovery that’s well underway but far from over.
Friday, January 27, 2006
Living Colour won't repeat past, except for its latest retrospective
Friday, January 20, 2006
Gary Graff
Even though Living Colour's latest release is a retrospective -- "Everything Is Possible: The Very Best of Living Colour" (Epic/Legacy) -- guitarist Vernon Reid says what's keeping the band together these days is a desire not to repeat the past -- or even think that much about it.
"I'm very clear in my own head you cannot fix the past," Reid says. "Every band is its own little militia. Every militia has its own history, its own heroes and villains. But we're in the here and now. It's an interesting place to be."
After busting out of the New York-based Black Rock Coalition thanks to the patronage of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger and 1988's multiplatinum album "Vivid," the quartet put out three more albums before splitting in 1995. Living Colour reunited in 2000 and released a new album, "Collideoscope," in 2003.
"Everything Is Possible" features hits such as "Cult of Personality" and "Glamour Boys," plus a remix of "Love Rears its Ugly Head" and a rare cover of Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love." Nowadays, Reid says, the band members are "more willing to be real about real things. I would say my relationship with Corey Glover has been the best it's ever been with the lead singer. We all understand what it means to be dedicated to this band again."
Gary Graff
Even though Living Colour's latest release is a retrospective -- "Everything Is Possible: The Very Best of Living Colour" (Epic/Legacy) -- guitarist Vernon Reid says what's keeping the band together these days is a desire not to repeat the past -- or even think that much about it.
"I'm very clear in my own head you cannot fix the past," Reid says. "Every band is its own little militia. Every militia has its own history, its own heroes and villains. But we're in the here and now. It's an interesting place to be."
After busting out of the New York-based Black Rock Coalition thanks to the patronage of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger and 1988's multiplatinum album "Vivid," the quartet put out three more albums before splitting in 1995. Living Colour reunited in 2000 and released a new album, "Collideoscope," in 2003.
"Everything Is Possible" features hits such as "Cult of Personality" and "Glamour Boys," plus a remix of "Love Rears its Ugly Head" and a rare cover of Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love." Nowadays, Reid says, the band members are "more willing to be real about real things. I would say my relationship with Corey Glover has been the best it's ever been with the lead singer. We all understand what it means to be dedicated to this band again."
Will Calhoun @ Blue Note - New York, NY
January 26th-29th, 2006
Will Calhoun's "Native Lands" performances at the Blue Note in NYC
Featuring:
Will Calhoun: Bandleader, Drums, Loops, Ambient Percussion
Stacy Dillard: Tenor & Soprano Saxophones (Thursday only)
Marcus Strickland: Tenor & Soprano Saxophones (Friday thru Sunday)
Orrin Evans: Piano, Keyboards
Corey Wilkes: Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Mark Kelley: Bass
Blue Note
131 W 3rd St. NYC
Visit the Blue Note Web site or call the box office at 212-475-8592 for show times and additional details.
Will Calhoun's "Native Lands" performances at the Blue Note in NYC
Featuring:
Will Calhoun: Bandleader, Drums, Loops, Ambient Percussion
Stacy Dillard: Tenor & Soprano Saxophones (Thursday only)
Marcus Strickland: Tenor & Soprano Saxophones (Friday thru Sunday)
Orrin Evans: Piano, Keyboards
Corey Wilkes: Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Mark Kelley: Bass
Blue Note
131 W 3rd St. NYC
Visit the Blue Note Web site or call the box office at 212-475-8592 for show times and additional details.
MTV News : Vernon Reid
Vernon Reid & Masque will release their second album, Other True Self, April 18. Tracks include "Prof Bebey," "Flatbush and Church Revisited," "White Face" and covers of Radiohead's "National Anthem" and Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence." In addition to his work with Masque, the Living Colour guitarist recently contributed music for the Laurence Malkin film "Five Fingers," the upcoming PBS documentary "Almost Home" and the new Derek-Wan-directed horror movie "Shadow: Dead Riot."
Vernon Reid and Artifical Afrika - TONIGHT!
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Curated by Vernon Reid and C. Daniel Dawson
Curatorial Advisors Brooke Davis Anderson and Danny Simmons
January 27 - March 17, 2006
Please join us for the OPENING RECEPTION on Friday, January 27, 6-9PM
(click the picture for more info as well)
Introduction:
Gigantic ArtSpace [GAS] proudly presents Artificial Afrika, an exhibition that considers contemporary artistic appropriations of African visual culture through mythology, religious traditions, musical forms, and other culturally-specific practices. The exhibition's scholarly and artistic contributions deconstruct myths and inventions to challenge the validity of images that continue to define the idea of Africa, an idea often rife with thoughts of disease, poverty, and corruption. It is through this lens that the exhibition will consider a variety of cultural and artistic forms that not only represent ideas of the past, but more importantly, contribute to the evolving social transformation of the present.
Two of the main techniques used by the artists in the exhibit are irony and humor. For me this irony is the technique of using the tools and materials of the "Western World" to tell the story of the "African World," two supposedly separate technologies, even universes, that have, in the telling of an accurate history, really cross-fertilized and enriched each other for centuries. The humor that is used is borne out of the international African experience. It is a humor that can be quietly reflective, subtly revealing and ravagingly accusatory. - C. Daniel Dawson
Participating artists include: Richard Admiral, Willie Birch, Guillermo Brown, Sonya Clark, Renee Cox, Stephanie Dinkins, Ze Frank, Victor Gama, Michael Harris, Satch Hoyt, Jack Kirby, William Parker, Patricia Payne, Vernon Reid, Alison Saar, Kevin Sampson, Eneida Sanches, Dread Scott, Accra Shepp, Yinka Shonibare, Xaviera Simmons, and Charles Stone.
A full-color, 32-page catalog with contributions by C. Daniel Dawson, Vernon Reid, Robert Farris Thompson, and Greg Tate will be available.
Curated by Vernon Reid and C. Daniel Dawson
Curatorial Advisors Brooke Davis Anderson and Danny Simmons
January 27 - March 17, 2006
Please join us for the OPENING RECEPTION on Friday, January 27, 6-9PM
(click the picture for more info as well)
Introduction:
Gigantic ArtSpace [GAS] proudly presents Artificial Afrika, an exhibition that considers contemporary artistic appropriations of African visual culture through mythology, religious traditions, musical forms, and other culturally-specific practices. The exhibition's scholarly and artistic contributions deconstruct myths and inventions to challenge the validity of images that continue to define the idea of Africa, an idea often rife with thoughts of disease, poverty, and corruption. It is through this lens that the exhibition will consider a variety of cultural and artistic forms that not only represent ideas of the past, but more importantly, contribute to the evolving social transformation of the present.
Two of the main techniques used by the artists in the exhibit are irony and humor. For me this irony is the technique of using the tools and materials of the "Western World" to tell the story of the "African World," two supposedly separate technologies, even universes, that have, in the telling of an accurate history, really cross-fertilized and enriched each other for centuries. The humor that is used is borne out of the international African experience. It is a humor that can be quietly reflective, subtly revealing and ravagingly accusatory. - C. Daniel Dawson
Participating artists include: Richard Admiral, Willie Birch, Guillermo Brown, Sonya Clark, Renee Cox, Stephanie Dinkins, Ze Frank, Victor Gama, Michael Harris, Satch Hoyt, Jack Kirby, William Parker, Patricia Payne, Vernon Reid, Alison Saar, Kevin Sampson, Eneida Sanches, Dread Scott, Accra Shepp, Yinka Shonibare, Xaviera Simmons, and Charles Stone.
A full-color, 32-page catalog with contributions by C. Daniel Dawson, Vernon Reid, Robert Farris Thompson, and Greg Tate will be available.
Vernon Reid Apple In-store - today
January, 27 2006 at Apple Store : SoHo
103 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. New York Guitar Festival Presents: Vernon Reid Grammy winning artist, Vernon Reid, takes center stage to discuss his latest project, Artifical Africa, a multimedia performance created with assistance from his desktop and notebook Macintosh computers. (Made on a Mac)
103 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. New York Guitar Festival Presents: Vernon Reid Grammy winning artist, Vernon Reid, takes center stage to discuss his latest project, Artifical Africa, a multimedia performance created with assistance from his desktop and notebook Macintosh computers. (Made on a Mac)
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Monday, January 23, 2006
Vernon Reid & Masque's "Other True Self" Continues Versatile Musician's Journey, Set for Release on Favored Nations on April 18
Vernon Reid is scheduled to tour in spring and summer.
Sherman Oaks, CA (PRWEB) January 20, 2006 -- Vernon Reid, one of the world’s great guitarists and a legendary exponent of the New York downtown music scene, has finished work on the second Vernon Reid & Masque album. Titled "Other True Self", it is his third “solo” album in all. The self-produced CD is set for April 18 release on Favored Nations Recordings.
Reid, who has just returned from U.S. and global tours with his mothership group Living Colour, will look to the spring and summer for U.S. tour dates with Masque, his band of accomplished New York players.
On "Other True Self", he exposes a vivid personal landscape. Each track illuminates one or another side of Vernon Reid: his African lineage in “Prof. Bebey,” the Latin flavor of the melodies he casts over Hank Schroy’s bass pulse and Don McKenzie’s crisp reggae rhythm bed in “Flatbush and Church Revisited,” the exhilaration of his unison sprint with keyboardist Leon Gruenbaum on “Game is Rigged,” the swirling Middle Eastern energies in “Mind of My Mind.”
In addition to many new Reid originals, the album features material written by Masque band members. Gruenbaum contributed “White Face,” a heavy, wall-of-guitar rocker in a slow 6/8, while McKenzie created “Kizzy,” a slow-turning mobile of glittering sounds. Schroy wrote the enigmatic and abstract “Oxossi.”
Speaking of Masque, Reid says, “Chemistry is so important. When you’re around great musicians, it can improve what you do. Leon, for example, pushes me because he’s such a phenomenal musician. He brings out the best in me. Now, when you can have wonderful musicians who fight for every scrap of space, the music will feel like that. But there’s also something to be said about spending time with that challenge. Playing at a high level is a challenge. And when the guys in the band all enjoy what the other guys are doing, that can create something fantastic.”
The album also offers three cover songs: The Tony Williams Lifetime’s “Wild Life,” Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy the Silence” and Radiohead’s “National Anthem.”
In his life outside the worlds of Masque and Living Colour, Reid has busied himself with scoring. He just completed work on the Lions Gate film “Five Fingers” starring Laurence Fishburne. He also scored the forthcoming PBS documentary “Almost Home” and a soon-to-be-released horror film, “Shadow: Dead Riot.”
Reid was also an omnipresence at the recent New York Guitar Festival. “My relationship with the guitar is not ambivalent at all,” he states. “After having played it for so long, everything I do now comes down to getting the body, the mind, the heart, and the ear to all work together. I know I can execute certain things with more finesse, but what counts more is that my playing is tied completely to the moment I’m in.”
And on "Other True Self", the moment is worth sharing.
Sherman Oaks, CA (PRWEB) January 20, 2006 -- Vernon Reid, one of the world’s great guitarists and a legendary exponent of the New York downtown music scene, has finished work on the second Vernon Reid & Masque album. Titled "Other True Self", it is his third “solo” album in all. The self-produced CD is set for April 18 release on Favored Nations Recordings.
Reid, who has just returned from U.S. and global tours with his mothership group Living Colour, will look to the spring and summer for U.S. tour dates with Masque, his band of accomplished New York players.
On "Other True Self", he exposes a vivid personal landscape. Each track illuminates one or another side of Vernon Reid: his African lineage in “Prof. Bebey,” the Latin flavor of the melodies he casts over Hank Schroy’s bass pulse and Don McKenzie’s crisp reggae rhythm bed in “Flatbush and Church Revisited,” the exhilaration of his unison sprint with keyboardist Leon Gruenbaum on “Game is Rigged,” the swirling Middle Eastern energies in “Mind of My Mind.”
In addition to many new Reid originals, the album features material written by Masque band members. Gruenbaum contributed “White Face,” a heavy, wall-of-guitar rocker in a slow 6/8, while McKenzie created “Kizzy,” a slow-turning mobile of glittering sounds. Schroy wrote the enigmatic and abstract “Oxossi.”
Speaking of Masque, Reid says, “Chemistry is so important. When you’re around great musicians, it can improve what you do. Leon, for example, pushes me because he’s such a phenomenal musician. He brings out the best in me. Now, when you can have wonderful musicians who fight for every scrap of space, the music will feel like that. But there’s also something to be said about spending time with that challenge. Playing at a high level is a challenge. And when the guys in the band all enjoy what the other guys are doing, that can create something fantastic.”
The album also offers three cover songs: The Tony Williams Lifetime’s “Wild Life,” Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy the Silence” and Radiohead’s “National Anthem.”
In his life outside the worlds of Masque and Living Colour, Reid has busied himself with scoring. He just completed work on the Lions Gate film “Five Fingers” starring Laurence Fishburne. He also scored the forthcoming PBS documentary “Almost Home” and a soon-to-be-released horror film, “Shadow: Dead Riot.”
Reid was also an omnipresence at the recent New York Guitar Festival. “My relationship with the guitar is not ambivalent at all,” he states. “After having played it for so long, everything I do now comes down to getting the body, the mind, the heart, and the ear to all work together. I know I can execute certain things with more finesse, but what counts more is that my playing is tied completely to the moment I’m in.”
And on "Other True Self", the moment is worth sharing.
Vernon Reid Covers Radiohead
by Paul Cashmere
January 20 2006
Former Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid has covered Radiohead’s ‘National Anthem’ on his next record.
Reid has completed his second Vernon Reid & Masque album for Steve Vai’s Favoured Nations Records. It will be his third album outside Living Colour, the band which he still considers his “mothership”.
The new record ‘Other True Self’ will also feature covers of The Tony Williams Lifetime’s “Wild Life,” and Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy the Silence”.
The rest of the album will feature Reid originals as well as songs written by Masque members Leon Gruenbaum and Don McKenzie.
When talking about the difference between Living Colour and Masque, Reid says “Chemistry is so important. When you’re around great musicians, it can improve what you do. Leon, for example, pushes me because he’s such a phenomenal musician. He brings out the best in me. Now, when you can have wonderful musicians who fight for every scrap of space, the music will feel like that. But there’s also something to be said about spending time with that challenge. Playing at a high level is a challenge. And when the guys in the band all enjoy what the other guys are doing, that can create something fantastic.”
‘Other True Self’ album will be released on April 18.
January 20 2006
Former Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid has covered Radiohead’s ‘National Anthem’ on his next record.
Reid has completed his second Vernon Reid & Masque album for Steve Vai’s Favoured Nations Records. It will be his third album outside Living Colour, the band which he still considers his “mothership”.
The new record ‘Other True Self’ will also feature covers of The Tony Williams Lifetime’s “Wild Life,” and Depeche Mode’s “Enjoy the Silence”.
The rest of the album will feature Reid originals as well as songs written by Masque members Leon Gruenbaum and Don McKenzie.
When talking about the difference between Living Colour and Masque, Reid says “Chemistry is so important. When you’re around great musicians, it can improve what you do. Leon, for example, pushes me because he’s such a phenomenal musician. He brings out the best in me. Now, when you can have wonderful musicians who fight for every scrap of space, the music will feel like that. But there’s also something to be said about spending time with that challenge. Playing at a high level is a challenge. And when the guys in the band all enjoy what the other guys are doing, that can create something fantastic.”
‘Other True Self’ album will be released on April 18.
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Living Colour - Everything is Possible (best of ) CD
Tracklisting:
1. Cult of Personality
2. Open Letter (To A Landlod)
3. Funny Vibe
4. Glamour Boys
5. Middle Man
6. Memories Can't Wait
7. Elvis Is Dead
8. Type
9. Solace Of You
10. Pride
11. Times Up
12. Go Away
13. Nothingness
14. Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
15. Sunshine Of Your Love
16. Flying
17. Love Rears Its Ugly Head - (Soulpower Hip Hop Remix)
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Thursday, January 12, 2006
Artificial Afrika
click title/link for direct link to giganticartspeace.com
Curated by Vernon Reid and C. Daniel Dawson
Curatorial Advisors Brooke Davis Anderson and Danny Simmons
January 27 - March 17, 2006
Please join us for the OPENING RECEPTION on Friday, January 27, 6-9PM
(click the picture for more info as well)
Introduction:
Gigantic ArtSpace [GAS] proudly presents Artificial Afrika, an exhibition that considers contemporary artistic appropriations of African visual culture through mythology, religious traditions, musical forms, and other culturally-specific practices. The exhibition's scholarly and artistic contributions deconstruct myths and inventions to challenge the validity of images that continue to define the idea of Africa, an idea often rife with thoughts of disease, poverty, and corruption. It is through this lens that the exhibition will consider a variety of cultural and artistic forms that not only represent ideas of the past, but more importantly, contribute to the evolving social transformation of the present.
Two of the main techniques used by the artists in the exhibit are irony and humor. For me this irony is the technique of using the tools and materials of the "Western World" to tell the story of the "African World," two supposedly separate technologies, even universes, that have, in the telling of an accurate history, really cross-fertilized and enriched each other for centuries. The humor that is used is borne out of the international African experience. It is a humor that can be quietly reflective, subtly revealing and ravagingly accusatory. - C. Daniel Dawson
Participating artists include: Richard Admiral, Willie Birch, Guillermo Brown, Sonya Clark, Renee Cox, Stephanie Dinkins, Ze Frank, Victor Gama, Michael Harris, Satch Hoyt, Jack Kirby, William Parker, Patricia Payne, Vernon Reid, Alison Saar, Kevin Sampson, Eneida Sanches, Dread Scott, Accra Shepp, Yinka Shonibare, Xaviera Simmons, and Charles Stone.
A full-color, 32-page catalog with contributions by C. Daniel Dawson, Vernon Reid, Robert Farris Thompson, and Greg Tate will be available.
About the Organizers:
C. Daniel Dawson | Vernon Reid | Brooke Davis Anderson | Danny Simmons
Special Event - Panel discussion:
Art Official Africa. Thursday, February 9, 7pm at the American Folk Art Museum. Moderated by C. Daniel Dawson, with panelists Brooke Davis Anderson, Dread Scott. $10, $5 museum members, seniors and students. Tickets are available through the American Folk Art Museum: (212) 265-1040, ext. 160.
Curated by Vernon Reid and C. Daniel Dawson
Curatorial Advisors Brooke Davis Anderson and Danny Simmons
January 27 - March 17, 2006
Please join us for the OPENING RECEPTION on Friday, January 27, 6-9PM
(click the picture for more info as well)
Introduction:
Gigantic ArtSpace [GAS] proudly presents Artificial Afrika, an exhibition that considers contemporary artistic appropriations of African visual culture through mythology, religious traditions, musical forms, and other culturally-specific practices. The exhibition's scholarly and artistic contributions deconstruct myths and inventions to challenge the validity of images that continue to define the idea of Africa, an idea often rife with thoughts of disease, poverty, and corruption. It is through this lens that the exhibition will consider a variety of cultural and artistic forms that not only represent ideas of the past, but more importantly, contribute to the evolving social transformation of the present.
Two of the main techniques used by the artists in the exhibit are irony and humor. For me this irony is the technique of using the tools and materials of the "Western World" to tell the story of the "African World," two supposedly separate technologies, even universes, that have, in the telling of an accurate history, really cross-fertilized and enriched each other for centuries. The humor that is used is borne out of the international African experience. It is a humor that can be quietly reflective, subtly revealing and ravagingly accusatory. - C. Daniel Dawson
Participating artists include: Richard Admiral, Willie Birch, Guillermo Brown, Sonya Clark, Renee Cox, Stephanie Dinkins, Ze Frank, Victor Gama, Michael Harris, Satch Hoyt, Jack Kirby, William Parker, Patricia Payne, Vernon Reid, Alison Saar, Kevin Sampson, Eneida Sanches, Dread Scott, Accra Shepp, Yinka Shonibare, Xaviera Simmons, and Charles Stone.
A full-color, 32-page catalog with contributions by C. Daniel Dawson, Vernon Reid, Robert Farris Thompson, and Greg Tate will be available.
About the Organizers:
C. Daniel Dawson | Vernon Reid | Brooke Davis Anderson | Danny Simmons
Special Event - Panel discussion:
Art Official Africa. Thursday, February 9, 7pm at the American Folk Art Museum. Moderated by C. Daniel Dawson, with panelists Brooke Davis Anderson, Dread Scott. $10, $5 museum members, seniors and students. Tickets are available through the American Folk Art Museum: (212) 265-1040, ext. 160.
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Does LIVING COLOUR allow video taping?
The answer to your question is NO; only still pictures are allowed... audio recording is allowed!
from diamondust @ sacred ground as well as vernon reid's guitar tech. THANKS D!
from diamondust @ sacred ground as well as vernon reid's guitar tech. THANKS D!
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
VERNON REID & MASQUE EUROPEAN TOUR 2006
VERNON REID & MASQUE EUROPEAN TOUR 2006
Date Location Venue
JAN-30 PARIS(F) - New Morning
JAN-31 HAMBURG(D) - Knust
FEB-01 BERLIN(D) - Tränenpalast
FEB-02 MUNICH(D) - Bayerischer Hof
FEB-03 FORLI(I) - Naima
FEB-05 CAGLIARI(I) - Fabrik
FEB-07 ROME(I) - Stazione Birra
FEB-08 TORINO(I) - Spazio 211
FEB-09 PORRETTA/Bologna(I) - Kursaal
FEB-10 WINTERTHUR(CH) - Salzhaus
FEB-11 DORTMUND(D) - Domizil
FEB-12 HELMOND(NL) - Plato
FEB-14 VIENNA(A) - Porgy
FEB-15 BRNO(CZ) - Theater
FEB-16 USTI NAD LABEM(CZ) - Narodni Dum
FEB-17 BRATISLAVA(SK) - Babylon
FEB-18 INNSBRUCK(A) - Treibhaus
FEB-19 PRAGUE(CZ) - Palac Akropolis
FEB-20 KATOVICE(PL) - Andaluzja Osrodek Kultury
FEB-21 MARIBOR(SLO) - Narodi Dom Maribor
FEB-22 BELGRAD(YG) - SKC
FEB-23 WARSCHAU(PL) - Fabrika
FEB-24 GÖRLITZ(D) - Vierradenmühle
FEB-25 DRESDEN(D) - Tante Ju
FEB-26 SALZBURG(A) - Jazzit
FEB-27 BERLIN(D) - Garbaty
FEB-28 HALLE(D) - Objekt 5
more info to follow, please check dates, times, and venue to confirm
Vernon's new album "Other True Self" on Favored Nations is scheduled for release on April 18. thank you roger!
Date Location Venue
JAN-30 PARIS(F) - New Morning
JAN-31 HAMBURG(D) - Knust
FEB-01 BERLIN(D) - Tränenpalast
FEB-02 MUNICH(D) - Bayerischer Hof
FEB-03 FORLI(I) - Naima
FEB-05 CAGLIARI(I) - Fabrik
FEB-07 ROME(I) - Stazione Birra
FEB-08 TORINO(I) - Spazio 211
FEB-09 PORRETTA/Bologna(I) - Kursaal
FEB-10 WINTERTHUR(CH) - Salzhaus
FEB-11 DORTMUND(D) - Domizil
FEB-12 HELMOND(NL) - Plato
FEB-14 VIENNA(A) - Porgy
FEB-15 BRNO(CZ) - Theater
FEB-16 USTI NAD LABEM(CZ) - Narodni Dum
FEB-17 BRATISLAVA(SK) - Babylon
FEB-18 INNSBRUCK(A) - Treibhaus
FEB-19 PRAGUE(CZ) - Palac Akropolis
FEB-20 KATOVICE(PL) - Andaluzja Osrodek Kultury
FEB-21 MARIBOR(SLO) - Narodi Dom Maribor
FEB-22 BELGRAD(YG) - SKC
FEB-23 WARSCHAU(PL) - Fabrika
FEB-24 GÖRLITZ(D) - Vierradenmühle
FEB-25 DRESDEN(D) - Tante Ju
FEB-26 SALZBURG(A) - Jazzit
FEB-27 BERLIN(D) - Garbaty
FEB-28 HALLE(D) - Objekt 5
more info to follow, please check dates, times, and venue to confirm
Vernon's new album "Other True Self" on Favored Nations is scheduled for release on April 18. thank you roger!
Monday, January 09, 2006
Vernon Reid and Masque in the Netherlands
Vernon Reid & Masque
feb 12, 2006
venue: Plato
town: Helmond
country: Netherlands
tickets available on Ticketmaster.nl
feb 12, 2006
venue: Plato
town: Helmond
country: Netherlands
tickets available on Ticketmaster.nl
Friday, January 06, 2006
EmpyreLounge.com interview w/ Corey Glover
Empyrelounge.com interview Corey Glover @ the Paradise - Boston, MA show. Click title link to listen.
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Chat Live With Doug Wimbish - Jan 12th, 2006
Chat Live With Doug Wimbish on www.rockhousemethod.com
January 12, 2006
9:00pm -10:00pm EST.
Chat live with the legendary bassist about his diverse career, using effects and is Rock House DVD New Dimensions for Bass. This is a great opportunity to hear from a musician who has been at the genesis of nearly every modern musical genre.
With Rock House's innovative live chats you will ask your questions in the chat window and hear Doug's answer to your questions through your computer's speakers! The audio quality is automatically optimized for your Internet connection speed.
If you would like to submit a question before the Live Chat begins send an email to Joe P. of Rock House at jp@rockhousemethod.com
For more information go www.rockhousemethod.com
January 12, 2006
9:00pm -10:00pm EST.
Chat live with the legendary bassist about his diverse career, using effects and is Rock House DVD New Dimensions for Bass. This is a great opportunity to hear from a musician who has been at the genesis of nearly every modern musical genre.
With Rock House's innovative live chats you will ask your questions in the chat window and hear Doug's answer to your questions through your computer's speakers! The audio quality is automatically optimized for your Internet connection speed.
If you would like to submit a question before the Live Chat begins send an email to Joe P. of Rock House at jp@rockhousemethod.com
For more information go www.rockhousemethod.com
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