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Ann Rupel - bass, vocals
Chris Cochrane - guitar, tape, tambourine, vocals
Zeena Parkins - harp, sampler, eggs, vocals
Doug Seidel - guitar
Tim Spelios - traps

NO SAFETY "Take Me" from "Live At The Knitting Factory" (Cuneiform Records)

JOHN PIETARO IS A WRITER, POET, SPOKEN WORD ARTIST AND MUSICIAN FROM BROOKLYN, NY. Columnist/critic of The NYC Jazz Record, Pietaro's latest work is the poetry/fiction collection 'A Bleeding in Black Leather' to be published by Uncollected Press/Raw Art Review, 2022. In late 2020, his 'The Mercer Stands Burning: Night Poems' was published by Atmosphere Press, and in 2019 Pietaro self-published chapbook 'Smoke Rings'. He's a contributing arts reporter to PleaseKillMe, The Wire (UK), Z, Sensitive Skin, AllAboutJazz, The Nation, The Village Sun, Counter Punch, People's World, TruthOut and others, and is currently deep into first novel.

Other credits include seven entries in the upcoming edition of 'The Encyclopedia of the American Left' (Verso), and poetry or fiction for numerous international anthologies as well as multiple journals. Pietaro also penned contemporary proletarian fiction collection 'Night People & Other Tales of Working New York' (2013) and contributed a chapter to Paul Buhle and Harvey Pekar's 'SDS: A Graphic History' (Hill & Wang 2007).

Pietaro hosts radio shows 'Beneath the Underground' (WFMU-FM/Sheena's Jungle Room stream) and 'Jazz Just After Dark' (makerparkradio.nyc), and  fronts post-punk free jazz/poetry ensemble the Red Microphone, recording artists of the ESP-Disk label. The band's planning on a new release 'A Bleeding in Black Leather' for summer 2022. In 2020 they released 'And I Became of the Dark', and in 2017 the Red Microphone collaborated with Amina Baraka for 'Amina Baraka & the Red Microphone' (ESP-Disk). Ms. Baraka also performed Pietaro's "Her Side of the Road" as a dramatic reading in 2018.

A guest speaker at Left Forum and the Vision Festival, Pietaro has been featured at The International Human Rights Arts Festival, Great Weather for Media's Spoken Word Sundays, People's Music Network Festival, Workers United Film Festival, UpSurge JazzPoetry Festival and other venues. He's been the subject of interviews by Word City Lit, Levure Litteraire , l'Unita, WBAI-FM, WDST-FM and others. Pietaro has collaborated with Allen Ginsberg, Pete Seeger, Amina Baraka, Karl Berger, Steve Dalachinsky, Nora Guthrie, Erika Dagnino, Ras Moshe, historian Paul Buhle, record producers Ivan Julian and Kramer and more.

Pietaro produces the Brecht Lives! Festival, and the Dissident Arts Festival, among numerous concerts, readings and panel discussions throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn as well as the Hudson Valley. 
 Selected Discography:
-The Red Microphone: 'A Bleeding in Black Leather' (ESP-Disk) to be released summer 2022
-The Red Microphone: 'And I Became of the Dark' (ESP-Disk, 2021)
-Amina Baraka and the Red Microphone:  ‘Amina Baraka & the Red -Microphone’ (ESP-Disk, 2017)
-Matt Lavelle and John Pietaro: 'Harmolodic Monk' (Unseen Rain 2014)
-Erika Dagnino Quartet: 'Signs' (Slam 2013)
-The Red Microphone: 'The Red Microphone Speaks' (Dissident Arts 2012)
-The Flames of Discontent: 'Revenge of the Atom Spies' (2007)
-The Flames of Discontent: 'I Dreamed I Heard Joe Hill Last Night' (Rhode Island Labor Society 2005)

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Cuneiform Records is an independent record label releasing adventurous, boundary-bursting music by artists from around the world. Founded in 1984.

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“The avant garde is dead. That is its triumph. Let it lie.” - Chris Cutler in “Not As We Choose: Music, Memory and Technology”. (Highly recommended!)

“… there is increasingly less call to exercise an already too rare generosity of aesthetic hospitality.” - Chris Cutler

" Music is one of the great Mysteries. It gives life. It is not a career, nor a business, nor a craft. It is a gift... and a great responsibility. Because one can never know where the creative spark comes from or why it exists, it must be treasured as a Mystery. For the most part I believe creativity chooses you, not the other way around." - John Zorn (excerpt from the liner notes to 'Magick')

“Listen as if you were being told a secret” - Federico Fellini

“Experimental and electronic music was once not-so-benignly tolerated at the margins of western art music, but it has over the last decade or so moved toward a central position as something of the soundtrack of our digital culture. Where it once was merely tolerated it is now more engaged and doesn’t have to apologize to anyone”.  - Douglas Kahn 

"Through technology, voices are amplified and silence is broken. Spaces are shared." – Laurie Anderson

"I frequently hear music in the heart of noise." - George Gershwin

"'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds." - 
Malaclypse the Younger in 'Principia Discordia'

“Let us cross a great modern capital with our ears more alert than our eyes and we will get enjoyment from distinguishing the eddying of water, air and gas in metal pipes, the grumbling noises that breathe and pulse with indisputable animility, the palpitation of waves, the coming and going of pistons, the howl of mechanical saws, the jolting of the tram on its rails, the cracking of whips, the flapping of curtains and flags. We enjoy creating mental orchestrations of crashing down of metal shop blinds, slamming doors, the hubbub and shuffle of crowds, the variety of din from the stations, railways, iron foundries, spinning mills, printing works, electric power stations and underground railways.” — Luigi Russolo in 'The Art of Noises' (L'arte dei Rumori)

Urban Dictionary (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mesmo)
(New Norberian English)

1. lit. in a state of mesmerism, hypnotism; in a trance
2. in a state of bewilderment or confusion, daydreaming; 'out of it'
3. mind bogglingly awesome, spellbinding, captivating

(1) "He swung that watch in front of her face and she got all mesmo"
(2) "When the teacher called me to the board I had just woken up and was still pretty mesmo"
(3) "The new N64 cartridge is totally mesmo, bro”

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