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Pak (band)
PAK is an American, New York City based, band. They are signed to John Zorn's Tzadik label. PAK was originally formed by Ron Anderson in 2000, after he spent some time with The Molecules. The original line-up consisted of Anderson, Jesse Krakow, Will Redmond, and Race Age. This line-up released the album ''100% Human Hair''. In 2003, Race Age was replaced by Kim Abrams, Redmond left the group, and that version released Motel, which was well received. This version of the group also performed at the Bowery Poetry Club with Jac Berrocal. In 2007, Anderson reconfigured the group, switching from guitar to bass, and recruiting Tim Byrnes on various instruments. This version of the group toured Europe (as a duo, with Abrams and Anderson along with occasional guest musicians), and is currently working on their next release. The band played shows in 2012 with Nonoko Yoshida. Reviews Norwegian publication ''Tarkus Magazine'' described PAK as a combination of Otis Redding, Captain Beef ...
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New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ...
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Nonoko Yoshida
is a New York City based Japanese saxophonist. She is a member of Pet Bottle Ningen, and has also played with Ron Anderson (musician), Ron Anderson's PAK (band), PAK and Yoshida Tatsuya. She has also worked with John Zorn. Her solo work in 2015 was received well. Discography * Lotus with Pet Bottle Ningen * Pet Bottle Ningen * Non-Recyclable with PAK * NYJPN (with Tatsuya Yoshida) with Eighty-pound Pug * speechless other collaboration * DEN SVARTA FANAN [JOE MEROLLA/RON ANDERSON/NONOKO YOSHIDA/WEASEL WALTER] References External links

* Japanese saxophonists Living people Japanese expatriates in the United States 21st-century saxophonists Year of birth missing (living people) Women saxophonists {{saxophonist-stub ...
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Secret Curve
''Secret Curve'' is a 2011 album by Ron Anderson's PAK. It was released on John Zorn's Tzadik label as part of the composer series. Track listing #"Overture" #"Let Me Tell You Something" #"Caffeine Static Rendezvous" #"No Future" #" Caro-Kann" #"Secret Curve" #"Mama’s Little Anarchist" #"E4 or D4?" #"Trebuchet" #"Blinding Light" #" Kempelen's Automaton" Personnel *Ron Anderson: Bass Guitar *Keith Abrams: Drums, Percussion *Tim Byrnes: Trumpet, French Horn, Keyboards *Anthony Coleman: Piano * Jérôme Noetinger: Electronics, Tape Manipulation * Eve Risser: Piano, Prepared Piano * Tom Swafford: Violin * Stefan Zeniuk: Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, Bass Saxophone, English Horn The Ashfield Sessions Anderson released an earlier version of the compositions on Secret Curve as a limited edition live CDR called The Ashfield Sessions in 2008. 150 hand numbered copies were made. Alex Lozupone Alex Lozupone is a New York City–based jazz and rock musician and film direct ...
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The Ashfield Sessions
''Secret Curve'' is a 2011 album by Ron Anderson's PAK. It was released on John Zorn's Tzadik label as part of the composer series. Track listing #"Overture" #"Let Me Tell You Something" #"Caffeine Static Rendezvous" #"No Future" #" Caro-Kann" #"Secret Curve" #"Mama’s Little Anarchist" #"E4 or D4?" #"Trebuchet" #"Blinding Light" #" Kempelen's Automaton" Personnel *Ron Anderson: Bass Guitar *Keith Abrams: Drums, Percussion *Tim Byrnes: Trumpet, French Horn, Keyboards *Anthony Coleman: Piano * Jérôme Noetinger: Electronics, Tape Manipulation * Eve Risser: Piano, Prepared Piano * Tom Swafford: Violin *Stefan Zeniuk: Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone, Bass Saxophone, English Horn The Ashfield Sessions Anderson released an earlier version of the compositions on Secret Curve as a limited edition live CDR called The Ashfield Sessions in 2008. 150 hand numbered copies were made. Alex Lozupone Alex Lozupone is a New York City–based jazz and rock musician and film director ...
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The Stone (music Space)
The Stone is a not-for-profit experimental music performance space located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood in New York City. It was founded in April 2005 by John Zorn, who serves as the artistic director. It was named for the late Irving Stone, an "inveterate concertgoer" in the New York City music community. Location In February 2018, Zorn relocated The Stone to The Glass Box Theatre, at 55 W. 13th St., a venue on the ground floor of Arnhold Hall at The New School university. Until February 2018, The Stone was situated on the northwest corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street, in a building which used to be the Golden Dragon Chinese restaurant. The only signage visible was the wording The Stone in small gold lettering painted on the door which was visible after the metal security gate was rolled up a few hours before each performance. Admission and administration Unlike most musical venues in the area, The Stone does not serve food or drinks. Dancing is also not permitted, as Th ...
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Alex Lozupone
Alex Lozupone is a New York City–based jazz and rock musician and film director. As a musician, he is a member of Marc Edwards & Slipstream Time Travel, and has played with Percy Jones and Stephen Moses. As a director and cinematographer, he shoots mainly music shows in New York City, and has put up videos for artists such as Pet Bottle Ningen, Weasel Walter, Gato Loco, 24-7 Spyz, and Melvin Van Peebles, as well as readings by Samuel Delany. He has also received airplay on WFMU. In 2011, he released the first video associating the Occupy Wall Street movement with the Melvin Van Peebles song, Love, That's America. The video spawned several imitators. In 2012, he recorded and mixed Melvin Van Peebles' first album in 17 years, Nahh… Nahh Mofo. He then shot and edited, with Van Peebles, a video to accompany the album for Lilly Done The Zampoughi Every Time I Pulled Her Coattail. Also in 2012 he joined Marc Edwards & Slipstream Time Travel, performing at a fundraiser at the C ...
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Gentle Giant
Gentle Giant were a British progressive rock band active between 1970 and 1980. The band were known for the complexity and sophistication of their music and for the varied musical skills of their members. All of the band members were multi-instrumentalists. Although not commercially successful, they did achieve a cult following. The band stated that their aim was to "expand the frontiers of contemporary popular music at the risk of becoming very unpopular", although this stance was to alter significantly with time. Gentle Giant's music was considered complex even by progressive rock standards, drawing on a broad swathe of music including folk, soul, jazz, and classical music. Unlike many of their progressive rock contemporaries, their "classical" influences ranged beyond the Romantic and incorporated medieval, baroque, and modernist chamber music elements. The band also had a taste for broad themes for their lyrics, drawing inspiration not only from personal experiences but fr ...
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Captain Beefheart
Don Van Vliet (; born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. Conducting a rotating ensemble known as The Magic Band, he recorded 13 studio albums between 1967 and 1982. His music blended elements of blues, free jazz, rock music, rock, and avant-garde music, avant-garde composition with idiosyncratic rhythms, absurdism, absurdist wordplay, a loud, gravelly voice, and his claimed wide vocal range, though reports of it have varied from three octaves to seven and a half. Known for his enigmatic persona, Beefheart frequently constructed myths about his life and was known to exercise an almost dictatorial control over his supporting musicians. Although he achieved little commercial success, he sustained a cult following as an incalculable influence on an array of avant-garde music, avant-garde and experimental rock artists. A child prodigy, prodi ...
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Otis Redding
Otis Ray Redding Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an American singer and songwriter. He is considered one of the greatest singers in the history of American popular music and a seminal artist in soul music and rhythm and blues. Nicknamed the " King of Soul", Redding's style of singing gained inspiration from the gospel music that preceded the genre. His singing style influenced many other soul artists of the 1960s. Redding was born in Dawson, Georgia, and at age two, moved to Macon. Redding quit school at age 15 to support his family, working with Little Richard's backing band, the Upsetters, and by performing in talent shows at the historic Douglass Theatre in Macon. In 1958, he joined Johnny Jenkins's band, the Pinetoppers, with whom he toured the Southern states as a singer and driver. An unscheduled appearance on a Stax recording session led to a contract and his first hit single, " These Arms of Mine", in 1962. Stax released Redding's debut album, '' Pain ...
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Jac Berrocal
Jacques "Jac" Berrocal (born 22 October 1946, Saint-Jean d'Angély) is a French trumpeter, singer and composer. He has been active since the 1970s in the independent and avant-garde music scene, and has released many albums. He also founded and performed in the group Catalogue, and has collaborated with Ron Anderson. Berrocal has appeared in several films. Select discography Berrocal * 1964, " Be-Bop-a-Lula", 45rpm * 1973, ''Musiq Musik'', LP (2019, Rotorelief) * 1976, ''Parallèles'', LP (2019, Rotorelief) * 1979, ''Catalogue'', LP (2019, Rotorelief) * 1992, CD, ''La nuit est au courant'' * 1996, ''Hotel Hotel'', LP * 1996, ROCK'n ROLL STATION, VINCE TAYLOR & JAC BERROCAL, 45rpm * 1997, ''Oblique Sessions'', CD (with Pierre Bastien, Pascal Comelade and Jaki Liebezeit) * 1999, ''Flash'', 33rpm 10" * 2002, ''Prières'', 33rpm 10" * 2008, ''Marie-Antoinette is not dead'' * 2011, ''Superdisque'', CD, LP (with David Fenech and Ghédalia Tazartès) * 2014, ''MDLV'', CD, LP * 2015, ...
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New York (state)
New York, officially the State of New York, is a state in the Northeastern United States. It is often called New York State to distinguish it from its largest city, New York City. With a total area of , New York is the 27th-largest U.S. state by area. With 20.2 million people, it is the fourth-most-populous state in the United States as of 2021, with approximately 44% living in New York City, including 25% of the state's population within Brooklyn and Queens, and another 15% on the remainder of Long Island, the most populous island in the United States. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east; it has a maritime border with Rhode Island, east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the north and Ontario to the northwest. New York City (NYC) is the most populous city in the United States, and around two-thirds of the state's popul ...
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