MUTAMASSIK + MORGAN CRAFT: BioDiscographies
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:
Queen Elizabeth Hall- London/ Jenaguru Festival- Harare, Zimbabwe/ Transmusicales Festival- Rennes, France/ 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
MORGAN CRAFT: BIO
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, Greg Osby, Rhodri Davies, Johnny Kemp, Marc Ribot, Christian Marclay, Simon H. Fell, Nona Hendryx, Carl Hancock Rux, Daniel Carter, Vernon Reid, Greg Tate.
Discography: "Swan" / Morgan Craft (Clinical Archives), "Hymen" / Morgan Craft (Trugroid), "Adagio" / Morgan Craft (Circle Of Light), "Rough Americana" / Morgan Craft & Mutamassik (Circle Of Light), "Mysterium" / Morgan Craft, Daniel Carter & Eric Eigner(Eavesdrop), "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),
He currently lives in a mountain villa in Toscana, Italia.
MUTAMASSIK - Producer/DJ/Synesthete
(meaning 'stronghold', 'tenacity' in arabic) aka giulia loli is a producer/musician/dj/artist/synesthete who's new music, including "THAT WHICH DEATH CANNOT DESTROY" is: always the SA'AIDI MARTIAL SOUND (blood unable to be washed out with high-tech detergents), MELANQOL BAROQUE parq dunq ARABIFIED SWAMP MUSIC darq punq QUBTI BEATS. the new music emphasizes live element EXPLODED on DRUM MACHINE/programmed/loop CHASSIS.
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-AFROARABIC IMMIGRANT SOUND SOURCES. (afro-oriental 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, Marc Ribot, Joan Osborne, Butch Morris, Natacha Atlas, Elliott Sharp, Bachir Attar, Ilhan Ershahin, Fathy Salama, George Lewis, Leroy Jenkins, Hamid Drake, Suphala, etc.
DISCOGRAPHY:
"Rough Americana"- Dj Mutamassik & Morgan Craft (Circle of Light)
"Mundo Civilizado"- Arto Lindsay(Warner Bros.)
"Hyper Civilizado remixes"- V/A(gutbounce/Rykodisc)
"Melting Pot"- remix for King Chango(Luaka Bop)
"Cultural Alchemy"- V/A(Soundlab)
"Wax Poetic"- Wax Poetic(Atlantic)
"War Booty" 12"- Mutamassik(Soot)
"Colapsus"- V/A(Sound-ink)
"Product 3"-V/A(Trumystic)
"KMT Babomb USA"- Mutamassik(Mercury)
"High Alert" 12"- Mutamassik(Sound-ink)
"Bidoun(Stateless)"dj mix- Mutamassik(mispresents, U.A.E.)
"Maqsoum" & "Meshy el Hal" w/ Fathy Salama(Les Disques Serieux)
"Mawlid el Nur" & "Amel" remixes for Transjoik(NCB)
"Instrumental"- Suphala(Suphala)
"Body Machine"- Transglobal Underground remixes(Nation/MCA)
"The Rites" w/ Butch Morris, Pete Cosey- Burnt Sugar (Avantgroid)
"Black Sex Y'all and Random Bloody Violets"- Burnt Sugar(Avantgroid)
"Masri Mokkassar: Definitive Works"- Mutamassik(Sound-ink)
"The Commo EP"- Mutamassik(RunRiotRecords) 12/08
"S. Ammo EP"- Mutamassik/R.A.(Circle of Light) TBA
"That Which Death Cannot Destroy"-Mutamassik(TBA)