Search - Guillermo E. Brown :: Soul at the Hands of the Machine

Fresh from his work with Matthew Shipp for the landmark release
"Nu Bop", tenor sax giant David S. Ware, and electronica supergroup
Spring Heel Jack, multi- instrumentalist/percussionist
Brown now steps out on his own.
Brown's "Soul at the Hands of the Machine" creates a signature
sound through the landscape of groove based electro-jazz mixing
elements of avant-jazz, hip hop and Afro-Cuban elements.
"Soul at the Hands of the
Machine" features Brown s
flowering ensemble, including
multi-instrumentalist,
downtown heavyweight
Daniel Carter (Project
Logic, Other Dimensions in
Music); spoken word
songstress Latasha
Natasha Diggs (Straight
Ahead Records, Bill
Laswell, Ryuchi
Sakamoto); guitar wizard
Morgan Michael Craft (,
Michelle Ndege Ocello);
emerging saxophone colossus
Andre Vida (Anthony
Braxton), future bass doctor
Shahzad Ismaily
(Graham Haynes) and
engineer Chris Flam who
has developed a knack for
mixing live and electronic
sounds in his work with DJ
Spooky, Matthew Shipp,
and William Parker.Hailed by The New York
Times, Village Voice,
JazzTimes and The
Washington City Paper as
"aggressive," having a
"smart sense of pyrotechnics,"
and "briskly explosive,"
Brown is poised to
make mind-blowing sound
waves in 2002.