ROUGH AMERICANA
R.A. " is dedicated to a new, urgent, improvisational & functional music existing wholly in the 21st ct while embracing all that has come before (umpth to 1st generational). Craft's 'AfroAmerican'-Viking and Mutamassik's Italicized-Egyptian roots draw bridges between MEMPHIS, USA and MEMPHIS, AFRICA........picking up frequencies from Unseen Forces. Raw, visceral, blazing new trails in sound....stay open to receive messages. This is the new hard-core grit-prov that brings fire to electronic music. nicca metal." MUSIC TO INCITE/INSIGHT
CONCERTS & VENUES: Seperately & Together these two have gigged extensively around N.Y.C. and beyond, including at: Brooklyn Academy of Music/ Knitting Factory/ Tonic/ Joe's Pub/ Brooklyn Anchorage/ Central Park Summerstage/ CBGB's/ Webster Hall/ Symphony Space/ Bottom Line/ Aaron Davis Hall/ Basement Bhangra/ Konkrete Jungle/ the Cooler/ Nell's/ Village Underground/ Lincoln Center/ Makor/ Bowery Ballroom/ The Tunnel/ SoundLab(Haus of Ouch, Dragon Park, Frying Pan, The Power Plant, etc)/Massmoca/ Richmond Museum of Art/... INTERNATIONAL shows include: Jazz Em Agosto Festival- Portugal / Queen Elizabeth Hall- London/ Jenaguru Festival- Harare, Zimbabwe/ Transmusicales Festival- Rennes, France/ DNK Club- Amsterdam / Clandestino Festival- Sweden / BellworkBelluard Art Festival- Friburg, Switzerland/ FujifilmWorld Music Festival- Istanbul, Turkey/ WOMEX- Stockholm, Sweden/ Natjazz Festival- Bergen,Norway/ Link- Bologna, Italy/ Virgin Megastore & Bidoun- Dubai, U.A.E./ Cafe de la danse(Belles Nuits du Ramadan), RadioNova & Divan du Monde- Paris, France/ Beursschouwburg- Brussels, Belgium/ Beit el Harrawi, Cairo Opera House, Cairo Jazz Club, Nile Sat. T.V....- Cairo, Egypt. Rough Americana European tour w/ Marc Ribot's Mystery Trio/ Mediterranean Tour-Schio, Thessaloniki-Greece, Sardegna...
MORGAN CRAFT
is from New Brighton, Minnesota. He moved to New York in 1994. He founded Circle Of Light Recordings in 2001. He has played with Butch Morris, Talib Kweli, Pete Cosey, Ikue Mori, Meshell Ndegeocello, Anton Fig, Beans, Muzz Skillings, Greg Osby, Rhodri Davies, Johnny Kemp, Marc Ribot, Christian Marclay, Simon H. Fell, Nona Hendryx, Carl Hancock Rux, Daniel Carter, Vernon Reid, Greg Tate.
He currently lives in Toscana, Italia.
Discography:
"Absence of Day and Night" / Morgan Craft (Circle of Light) 2010
"Morgenkraft" / Morgan Craft (Klanggold) 2010
"The Silver Bullet" / Morgan Craft (Clinical Archives) 2009
"Tilting Against A Paper Sky" / Morgan Craft (Dark Winter) 2009
"Swan" / Morgan Craft (Clinical Archives) 2008
"Hymen" / Morgan Craft (Trugroid) 2007
"Adagio" / Morgan Craft (Circle Of Light) 2001
"Rough Americana" / Morgan Craft & Mutamassik (Circle Of Light) 2003
"Mysterium" / Morgan Craft, Daniel Carter & Eric Eigner(Eavesdrop) 2004
"Quality" / Talib Kweli(MCA)
"Apothecary Rux" / Carl Hancock Rux (Giant Step)
"Soul At The Hands Of The Machine" / Guillermo E. Brown (Thirsty Ear)
"Black Sex Yall And Random Bloody Violets" / Burnt Sugar (Trugroid)
"Blood On The Leaf" / Burnt Sugar(Trugroid)
"The Sirens Return" / Burnt Sugar(Trugroid)
"The Crepescularium" / Burnt Sugar(Trugroid)
"Fubractive Since Antiquity Suite" / Burnt Sugar(Trugroid)
"The Rites" / Burnt Sugar(AvantGroid)
MUTAMASSIK
(meaning 'Stronghold', 'Tenacity' in arabic) a.k.a. Giulia Loli is a producer/musician/dj/artist/synesthete who is: always the SA'AIDI MARTIAL SOUND (blood unable to be washed out with high-tech detergents), SA'AIDI BUTTAFUOCO ON A GLANDULAR LEVEL
AfrabiQ BaroQ.+Martial MelanQ.+DarQ PunQ Qubti FunQ.+===Arabified Swamp Music
a.k.a. Pioneer of Sa'aidi Hardcore & Baladi Breakbeats: Egyptian & Afro-Asiatic Roots mixed with the head-nod of hip-hop & the bass and syncopation of hardstep.
RELENTLESS RHYTHMS FROM THE PAN-AFRABIC IMMIGRANT SOUND SOURCES. (afro-oriental ohio punk roots in a rich broth of hip hop; garnished with junglistic bass and syncopation: first-generation punk jaw electronic hip hop roots raggamuffin pan-african derivatives) in addition to transcendental sonic experiments.
...has worked with David Byrne's Luaka Bop, Arto Lindsay, Musicians of the Nile, Ikue Mori, Marc Ribot, Joan Osborne, Butch Morris, Greg Tate, Elliott Sharp, Bachir Attar, Kaffe Matthews, Fathy Salama, George Lewis, Leroy Jenkins, Hamid Drake, Morgan Craft, etc.
Born in a speeding vehicle in Italy>>> Raised in the Rustbelt of America (Steubenville OH, WV & Pittsburgh PA)>>> Moved to N.Y.C.>>> Lived in Cairo>>> Makes Beats and Art in a Cave surrounded by Volcanoes in Tuscany.
She founded Sa'aidi Hardcore Productions in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1996 and publishing/label KMT BABOMB USA. She runs her studio G.G.S.S/Rocca AlMileda which has been set up as both fixed and mobile in Brooklyn, Cairo & Tuscany.
Discography:
"That Which Death Cannot Destroy (Dah Elel Mut Ma'darsh Yahattamu)"-Mutamassik(Sa'aidi Hardcore/KMT BABOMB USA) 2010
"The Commo EP"- Mutamassik(RunRiotRecords) 2009
"Masri Mokkassar: Definitive Works"- Mutamassik(Sound-ink) 2005
"Mawlid el Nur" & "Amel" remixes for Transjoik(NCB) 2004
"Black Sex Y'all and Random Bloody Violets"- Burnt Sugar(Avantgroid) 2003
"The Rites" w/ Butch Morris, Pete Cosey- Burnt Sugar (Avantgroid) 2003
"High Alert" EP- Mutamassik(Sound-ink) 2003
"Rough Americana"- Dj Mutamassik & Morgan Craft (Circle of Light) 2003
"War Booty" 12"- Mutamassik(Soot) 2002
"Bidoun(Stateless)"dj mix- Mutamassik(mispresents, U.A.E.) 2002
"Colapsus"- V/A(Sound-ink) 2001
"Maqsoum" & "Meshy el Hal" w/ Fathy Salama(Les Disques Serieux) 2001
"Instrumental"- Suphala(Suphala) 1999
"Cultural Alchemy"- V/A(Soundlab) 1999
"Product 3"-V/A(Trumystic) "KMT Babomb USA"- Mutamassik(Mercury) 1998
"Melting Pot"- remix for King Chango(Luaka Bop) 1998
"Wax Poetic"- Wax Poetic(Atlantic) 1998
"Hyper Civilizado remixes"- V/A(gutbounce/Rykodisc) 1997
"Body Machine"- Transglobal Underground remixes(Nation/MCA) 1997
"Mundo Civilizado"- Arto Lindsay(Warner Bros.) 1996