Reminds me a little of the stuff Ray Russell used to produce back in the early 1970s. Intelligent and genteel anarchy, most welcome change from the industrial effluvia piped through mainstream media for mass consumption.

Buy it here
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-the-knitting-factory

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)

Performed, Recorded And Produced By Javier Hernandez-Miyares And Tremayne Miller
Tremayne Miller - Voice
Javier Hernandez-Miyares - Guitars, Mellotron, Bells, Percussion

As Tears Go By (Tremayne Miller and the Night Kitchen Sinfonia)

The Other Side

Fee Fi Fo Fum Fee Fi Fo Fum 16 Track Original.MP3

May 13th Performance in Bushwick Brooklyn

John Pietaro: Xylophone and Percussion
Laurie Towers: Bass
Quincy Saul: Clarinet
Javier Hernandez-Miyares: Guitar and Effects

Music Written By John Pietaro and Laurie Towers

Kaleidoscope (Bonus Track: Live At Goodbye Blue Monday)

"Kaleidoscope" by Radio NOIR (John Pietaro- xylophone/percussion), Laurie Towers (electric bass), Quincy Saul (clarinet), Javier Hernandez-Miyares (electric guitar and effects). Recorded live in performance at Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn NY, on 5/13/12, this piece grew out of a minimalist-oriented concept of Pietaro and Towers and grew, with the full quartet into a series of intertwining motifs and melodies bolstered by free improvisation. 

Radio NOIR- kaleidoscope - 5-13-12

Nascio Herb Brown's 1930s dance music classic "Temptation" as realized by Radio NOIR: John Pietaro (xylophone, frame drums, percussion), Laurie Towers (electric bass), Javier Hernandez-Miyares (electric guitar & effects), Quincy Saul (clarinet). Recorded at 17 Frost Theatre of the Arts (Brooklyn NY) with overdubs at Sinlab Studio (Rego Park NY); produced by Javier Hernandez-Miyares, engineered by Natalie Scarborough, 2011

Radio NOIR - Temptation

THE RED MICROPHONE

-John Pietaro, vibraphone, percussion, voice-
-Ras Moshe, tenor saxophone-
-Rocco John Iacovone, soprano saxophone-
-Laurie Towers, bass-

"Brecht Breakdown" (poetry by Bertolt Brecht: “Questions from a Worker Who Reads”, 1935; spontaneous composition/free improvisation by the Red Microphone)

Recorded at The Hornet's Nest studio, New York City, October 7, 2012
Produced by the Red Microphone
Engineered by Denise Iacovone
Photography by Denise Iacovone

…This session is dedicated to the spirit of revolution, the unshackling inherent in free improvisation, the people's united voice and the artists' tenacious creativity here in the belly of this capitalist beast.

FOR MORE INFO SEE:  www.DissidentArts.com and http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Red-Microphone/415589728496907?ref=ts&fref=ts

THE RED MICROPHONE - Brecht Breakdown

Orchestral version written by Javier Hernandez-Miyares and arranged by Ariel de la Portilla.
Mixed and produced by Javier Hernandez-Miyares

Where The Pieces Fall (Overture)

Featuring Ingrid Sertso (vocals); Warren Smith (drums); Francois Grillot (bass); Joe Hertenstein, Hollis Headrick, John Pietaro (percussions); Kirk Knuffke, Thomas Heberer (trumpets); Westbrook Johnson (trombone); Yatsuno Katsuki (euphonium); Welf Dorr, Mercedes Figueras (alto saxes); James Brandon Lewis (tenor sax); Ras Moshe (tenor sax/flute); Bill Ylitalo (baritone sax/piccolo); Nick Gianni (bass flute); Jason Candler, Miguel Malla (clarinets); Josh Sinton (bass clarinet); Jason Hwang, Sana Nagano, Chern Hwei Fung, Julianne Carney (violins); Ken Ya Kawaguchi (shakuhachi); Sylvain Leroux (African flutes)

EXCLUSIVE: Karl Berger's Improvisers Orchestra @ ShapeShifter Lab

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)

CONTACT INFO: 
Email: leftmus@earthlink.net

THE RED MICROPHONE - Brecht Breakdown

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