These hand-selected audio reels are printed on our 45th Anniversary "Audio Archive" Short-Sleeve Tee, available for purchase at rouletteintermedium.square.site. 

Featuring a host of early live recordings at Roulette: Zeena Parkins and Chris Cochrane, Arthur Russell and Peter Zummo, Amiri Baraka w/ Steve McCall & Fred Houn, Ben Johnston, Shelley Hirsch w/ David Simons & Sven Ake Johannson, Wadada Leo Smith, Pauline Oliveros w/ Deborah Hay, Bill Frisell/Ikue Mori/Jim Staley (with an extra S in Frisell!), and John Zorn’s SEBASTOPOL for nine players and rock trio Locus Solus w/ Arto Lindsay, Mark Gustafson, and M.E. Miller.

Listen to Your Shirt: Audio Reels from Roulette's Archive

These hand-selected audio reels are printed on our 45th Anniversary "Audio Archive" Short-Sleeve Tee, available for purchase here. Featuring a host of early live recordings at Roulette: Zeena Parkins and Chris Cochrane, Arthur Russell and Peter Zummo, Amiri Baraka w/ Steve McCall & Fred Houn, Ben Johnston, Shelley Hirsch w/ David Simons & Sven Ake Johannson, Wadada Leo Smith, Pauline Oliveros w/ Deborah Hay, Bill Frisell/Ikue Mori/Jim Staley (with an extra S in Frisell!), and John Zorn’s SEBASTOPOL for nine players and rock trio Locus Solus w/ Arto Lindsay, Mark Gustafson, and M.E. Miller.

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John Zorn 1984

Amiri Baraka, Steve McCall, Fred Houn 1984

Ben Johnston 1981

Wadada Leo Smith 1985

Zeena Parkins 1986

Dutch artist performs on his instrument constructed from cannibalized organ pipes, toilet plungers, and bicycle pumps.

Mercurius Wagen & Horst Rickels 1988 at Roulette

Recorded live on Dec 7th, 2012 at Roulette Brooklyn

TILT Brass 
Chris McIntyre, Jen Baker, Will Lang – trombones
Tom Bergeron, Gareth Flowers, Tim Leopold – trumpets

Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Dianne Berkun, director
John King – live-electronics

John King - Astral Epitaphs (2011) at Roulette [excerpt]

The influential and profoundly brave cross-genre artist (1951–1992) presented “The Deer In The Forest,” and other extended vocal compositions with his ubiquitous amplified cello.

Update 2019: With Peter Zummo, trombone, and possibly Elodie Lauten or Steven Hall on Casio keyboard. Considered early versions of songs that became more focused later. For example, “Each Step Is Moving” (around 7 minutes in), is substantially “This Is How We Walk On The Moon,” which wasn’t released until 1994, posthumously. In this concert, Russell was experimenting with repeated phrases and lines, as if testing them out, which likely emerged later in more developed versions.

Arthur Russell 2 March 1985

New & Adventurous Music! Founded in 1978 and operating out of lofts and galleries for years, Roulette continues its mission to support new and established innovators in music and cross-media performing arts in a glorious 400 seat theater in Brooklyn. Podcasts and excerpts here; you can hear these full concerts, and hundreds more, at roulette.org/archive. Enjoy!

Arthur Russell 2 March 1985

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