{"id":179671,"date":"2021-02-06T08:21:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T06:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/fay-victor-album-release-for-soundnoisefunks-weve-had-enough\/"},"modified":"2021-02-06T08:21:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T06:21:51","slug":"fay-victor-album-release-for-soundnoisefunks-weve-had-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/fay-victor-album-release-for-soundnoisefunks-weve-had-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Fay Victor: Album Release for SoundNoiseFUNK\u2019s WE\u2019VE HAD ENOUGH!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fay Victor: Album Release for SoundNoiseFUNK\u2019s WE\u2019VE HAD ENOUGH!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A Africa Event on 2021-02-11 00:00:00<\/i><\/p>\n

Roulette is pleased to present the album release concert of Fay Victor\u2019s SoundNoiseFUNK<\/strong>\u2018s WE\u2019VE HAD ENOUGH!<\/em><\/p>\n

The idea of developing an avant-garde \u2018dance\u2019 group has been on vocalist\/composer Fay Victor\u2019s mind for sometime. Victor started SoundNoise with drummer\/percussionist Reggie Nicholson<\/strong> and soprano saxophonist Sam Newsome<\/strong> in 2015 as an open exploration that hit hard their first time out. As SoundNoise developed, Victor thought about how best to pursue keeping improvisation at the core of the group while keeping a pulse in the music that was organic and alive. With the addition of guitarist Joe Morris, what you have is SoundNoiseFUNK, a free improvisational unit of master musicians with a penchant for exploring this and more sonic terrain within the sound world they create while keeping the groove going. In the summer of 2018, the group released Wet Robots to great critical acclaim (see reviews below). In addition, SoundNoise & SoundNoiseFUNK has performed on the Vision Festival, The Earshot Jazz Festival, Capital Bop (Wash. DC), New Revolution Arts, The Harlem Jazz Series, the Arts for Art InGarden Series and at the WinterJazzFest 2018 where Downbeat magazine had this to say about the group\u2019s performance:
\u201c\u2026while Morris astounded with his staccato runs, sounding at times like a cross between Johnny Smith and James \u201cBlood\u201d Ulmer, and Newsome showcased his expansive vocabulary, alternately making his straight horn sound like a digeridoo, a duck call, a fuzz guitar, it was Victor\u2019s finesse, ferocity and freestyle abandon that led the way.\u201d-Bill Milkowski, Downbeat Magazine<\/p>\n

On this occasion, SoundNoiseFUNK celebrates their sophomore release that boasts a more integrated sound with political protest at the core of the expression.<\/p>\n

Fay Victor \u2013 bandleader, voice, compositions, texts
Joe Morris \u2013 electric guitar
Sam Newsome \u2013 soprano saxophone
Reggie Nicholson \u2013 drums<\/p>\n

SoundNoiseFUNK<\/strong>, a quartet led by vocalist\/composer Fay Victor and includes Sam Newsome (soprano saxophone), Joe Morris (guitar) and Reggie Nicholson (drums) is an improvisational unit of master musicians and composers exploring vast sonic terrain within the sound worlds they create while the groove keeps going. \u201cThis record stands out from the usual free jazz gestures and credit belongs to Victor. It\u2019s not just that this is her band, but her unique singing concept leads the way. She has a familiar toolbox of vocal sounds, but it\u2019s the way she uses her notes that matter\u2014she has exceptional intonation and it sounds like it comes effortlessly, so she improvises with pitches and melodically logical and coherent tonal phrases. On top of that, she manages the challenging high-wire act of improvising text while always keeping it interesting and fresh. It\u2019s a measure of a first-rate intelligence\u2014 take that F. Scott Fitzgerald.\u201d \u2013 The New York City Jazz Record
Highlighted appearances for SoundNoiseFUNK: Vision Festival, Dartmouth College, The Earshot Jazz Festival, WinterJazzFest 2018, Pioneer Valley Jazz Shares \u2013 to name a few.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s essentially invented her own hybrid of song and spoken word, a scat style for today\u2019s avant-garde.\u201d-Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times<\/em>
Fay Victor<\/strong> is a sound artist that uses performance, improvisation and composition to examine representations of modern life and blackness. Based in Brooklyn, NY, Victor\u2019s \u2018everything is everything\u2019 aesthetic permeates her work in performance, composition and improvisation. Victor\u2019s released eleven critically acclaimed albums as a leader and performed with luminaries such as Randy Weston, Archie Schepp, Gary Bartz, Nicole Mitchell, Marc Ribot, Misha Mengelberg and Tyshawn Sorey to name just a few. Victor is currently on the faculty of the New School of Jazz & Contemporary Music in New York City, NY. Victor\u2019s latest release, \u201cWE\u2019VE HAD ENOUGH!\u201d with her improvising quartet SoundNoiseFUNK (ESP-Disk) was released in October 2020. Nate Chinen at WBGO Jazz had this to say about one of the compositions on the new album, \u201cWhat\u2019s Gone Wrong\u201d is an impassioned lament that finds Victor repeating its title phrase, along with a secondary clause (\u201c\u2026with the world?\u201d). There is despair in her rhetorical question, which doesn\u2019t seem to expect an answer \u2014 but there\u2019s also clear determination in the way Victor and her improvising partners work through their development. Without putting words in their mouth, I\u2019d suggest that their cohesive oneness is one answer to another open question: what\u2019s going right?\u201d<\/p>\n

Sam Newsome<\/strong> is a jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator. His music combines straight-ahead jazz, world music (drawing influences from North Africa and East Asia) and experimental jazz, which uses extended techniques. Newsome is an associate professor of music and the coordinator of the music program at Long Island University\u2019s Brooklyn Campus. In 2005, Newsome began focusing on solo saxophone performance. In 2007, he released Monk Abstractions, on which he recorded the compositions of Thelonious Monk. Mark Corroto from All About Jazz wrote: \u201cNewsome expands the sound of a single soprano saxophone into a one man band.\u201d] All About Jazz \u2013 New York named it one of the top tribute CDs of the year. In 2010, Newsome released his second solo saxophone CD, the blues-based Blue Soliloquy. which received five stars in Downbeat magazine. In addition to his solo recordings and performances, Newsome has collaborated with saxophonist David Liebman, drummer Andrew Cyrille, pianists Ethan Iverson and Jean-Michel Pilc. Newsome also plays regularly as a member of Francisco Mora Catlett\u2019s AfroHorn, The Bad Plus: Science Fiction, Fay Victor\u2019s SoundNoiseFUNK and On the Quiet Side, and Meg Okura\u2019s Pan Asian Chamber Jazz Ensemble.<\/p>\n

Joe Morris<\/strong> is a jazz guitarist, bassist, composer, and educator. In 1981 Morris formed his own record company, Riti, for his own recordings. He has led a group called Sweatshop, the sextet Racket Club, and quartets featuring, separately, Mat Maneri, Jamie Saft, and Rob Brown. In 1994 he became the first guitarist to lead his own session for Black Saint\/Soul Note, with Symbolic Gesture. He has continued to record extensively for many labels such as Knitting Factory, AUM Fidelity, and Hathut. In addition to leading his own groups, he has recorded and performed with, among others: Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Joe Maneri, and Ivo Perelman. He has lectured and conducted workshops throughout the US and Europe and is on the faculty at New England Conservatory in the jazz and improvisation department.<\/p>\n

Continuing in the tradition of drummer bandleaders such as Max Roach, Art Blakey, Tony Williams, Andrew Cyrille, Milford Graves and Jack DeJohnette, Reggie Nicholson<\/strong> has firmly established his reputation in this great tradition. \u200bReggie first gained a reputation as an outstanding drummer and percussionist in his hometown of Chicago. In 1979, he joined the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), a consortium of composers and performers devoted to the art of improvisation and the creation of original music. Relocated to New York City in 1987, Nicholson has performed with Ahmed Abdullah, Myra Melford, Billy Bang, Roy Campbell, Bryan Carrott, Marty Ehrlich, Yuko Fujiyama, Eli Fountain, Dewey Redman, Jon Hendricks, D.D. Jackson, Amira Baraka, Wilber Morris, Butch Morris, Sam Newsome, Fay Victor, Oliver Lake, Ned Rothenberg, just to name a few. Nicholson was nominated for a Cal-Arts Award in 1993.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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