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In 1995, Nuscope Record's producer Russ Summers witnessed a performance that Barry Guy and Randy Raine-Reusch had done with Tuvan vocalist Sainkho Namtchylak as part of a tour of "Fleabotics" - an innovative interactive multi- media performance produced by Eric Rosenzveig. Summers approached Ken Pickering, the Artistic Director of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival, about putting Guy and Raine-Reusch together onstage again with either Vinnie Golia or Robert Dick. Thus Barry Guy, Robert Dick and Randy Raine-Reusch came together onstage for the first time at the 1997 Vancouver International Jazz Festival. Two days later they were in the studio recording for Nuscope. Since that time, Randy and Barry played together again at the the 2001 Vancouver Jazz Fest with reed player Mats Gustaffson. Robert and Randy have plans to tour together in 2002, so keep your ears peeled! There hopefully will be another meeting of GUDIRA when the schedules of these three VERY busy people allow. |
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| These sounds draw as much on a sculptor's or a dancer's sensibility as a musician's; mutilating and modifying their instruments, using spur-of-the-moment inspiration as well as techniques that are thousands of years old, these three performers ease sound into an infinite variety of previously unseen stances. But what would you expect from a classical flutist whose primary inspiration is Jimi Hendrix, a bassist who is equally at home with Baroque music and the most cutting-edge of improvisors, and a globetrotting visionary who is the only recognized occidental virtuoso on several oriental instruments?- Alexander Varty, The Georgia Straight, June 24, 1999 Simply put, Gudira is a recording of monumental proportions and implications as the teaming of three modern day innovators have crafted a series of improvisations - compositions which are unlike anything this writer has heard.- Glenn Astarita - All About Jazz.com Reviews More Reviews! |
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| Barry Guy - Double-bass Barry Guy is an innovative bass player and composer whose creative diversity in the fields of jazz improvisation, solo recitals, and chamber / orchestral performances is the outcome both of an unusually varied training and a zest for experimentation. Guy underpins this zest with a dedication to the double bass and the ideal of musical communication. He is the founder and Artistic Director of the London Jazz Composers Orchestra, and has recorded over 80 albums with a very wide range of artists."Guy is, of course, nothing short of a phenomenan" - CADENCE |
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| Robert Dick - Flute (sometimes with "glissando headjoint"), alto flute, bass flutes in C & F, piccolo Robert Dick, soloist, improviser and composer, is frequently compared to Paganini and Jimi Hendrix as a creative virtuoso who has not only mastered his instrument, but also redefined it. He plays the full range of flutes, from the contrabass flute up to the piccolo. He is a member of A.D.D. Trio, New Winds, Steel and Bamboo, Oscura Luminosa, and Tombastics, and has played with Steve Lacey, John Zorn, Mark Dresser, and George Lewis, amongst others. "There are few musicians who are truly revolutionary. Robert Dick is one of them." - Bill Shoemaker, JAZZ TIMES |
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| Randy Raine-Reusch - Asian zithers, Asian and Middle Eastern winds, percussion Randy Raine-Reusch is an improvisationally based composer / concert-artist specializing in new and experimental music for world instruments. An innovator interested in extending the boundaries of music, he has created distinct new performance styles on a number of instruments. He has recorded and performed with Aerosmith, the Cranberries, Yes, Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Sainkho Namtchylak, ASZA and Han Mei, amongst others."Raine-Reusch - the Beethoven of the Avant-Garde"- KIT LEE, Malaysia |
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