WAKE UP! IN YOUR FACE!!!

WAKE UP! - UPCOMING SHOWS IN JANUARY

WAKE UP! UPCOMING GIGS AT "THE STONE" & "ISSUE PROJECT ROOM"
THE STONE - 1/18/11 - 10:00PM - corner of ave C & 2nd st. $10 cover.
ISSUE PROJECT ROOM - 1/19/11 - 8:00PM - 232 3rd st. 3rd floor,brooklyn NY 11215 -(at the old american can factory) - $5 cover. (718) - 330 - 0313.

CELEBRATE the Winter Solstice Eclipse!!

it's been 456 years since an eclipse has taken place on the same day as a winter solstice...
some say this planetary alignment-- which is also includes other alignments with the center of the galaxy, occurring with constellations: gemini and sagittarius-- could play out to be a very special time--let's find out tuesday, 12/21/10!!!




*photo, courtesy of realitysandwich.com

defining the REBEL in us all...

author/psycho-spiritual revolutionary, daniel pinchbeck, quotes albert camus' book
"the rebel":

We don't know when or if we will reach the critical threshold where a current of rebellion becomes a wave and then a mass movement. As Albert Camus discusses in The Rebel, when a person can compromise no further, they resist, and when they resist, their rebellion brings about inner transformation, leading them beyond themselves. "When he rebels, a man identifies himself with other men and so surpasses himself, and from this point of view human solidarity is metaphysical," Camus writes. At the unknown point where people can no longer bear to be controlled or enslaved and begin to resist, they discover something supra-personal within themselves, a source beyond the personal ego. They discover their willingness to sacrifice -- even if it costs them their lives -- for a principle, for justice, for freedom.

Resistance leads to rebellion -- to a complete identification with values that go beyond the individual, that define human nature in its essence. "What was at first the man's obstinate resistance now becomes the whole man, who is identified and summed up in this resistance,"Camus writes. The ruling elite employ teams of experts in social psychology and neuro-linguistic programming, trained in places like the Tavistock Institute, in order to keep the multitudes from recognizing their own interests in a movement of unified defiance. Despite these intensive efforts, it could happen anyway.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYBODY!!!

from everyone here at team WAKE UP!
we wish you a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
celebrate to the fullest and EAT as much
as you possibly can!!!!!

WAKE UP LIVE AT NIAGRA 10/23/10

WAKE UP LIVE AT NIAGRA 10/23/10

NEW SONGS IN THE WORKS!!!!

we're working out several new songs
of which we can't wait to present to YOU!!
we also look forward to documenting
a lot more tunes that feature more vocals,
YES!!! it's on it's way people!!!! stay tuned
to the ever-flowing bio-waves of just the right
amount of synthesis and balance for your ears

LIVE TONIGHT

TONIGHT LIVE AT NIAGARA

AVE A AND 7TH STREET

MANHATTAN

8PM

have you awoken to what's always been A W A K E ?????

just a glimpse of L I F E ....

photo 1--courtesy of everythingiselectric.com

photo 2--courtesy of picsdigger.com

photo 3--courtesy of rockvalleycollege.edu

photo 4--courtesy of exponent.com

WAIT....LISTEN.....

SSHHH!!
people are sleeping (whispering) and we're about to
go over to "MATCHLESS" ON THE CORNER OF MANHATTAN AVE.. & DRIGGS AVE., GREENPOINT, TOMORROW NIGHT (MONDAY SEPT. 27), NO COVER
and wake them up....but we have to be quiet until we play at 11pm, that way we'll
catch everyone at one time.....and then..............................



**BAM!!!**




LADIES AND GENTLEMAN....IT'S SHOWTIME .......



AND IT'S ........WAKE UP TIME!!!!!!!


STARRING.....

***WAKE UP!***

September 27th

WAKE UP! will perform at Matchless (Williamsburg) this Monday!

LIVE SHOW AT ***BROOKLYN BOWL*** 9/15/10

Hello UNIVER-SOULS!!!

WAKE UP! will make its debut performance at *BROOKLYN BOWL* in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (NYC), Wednesday, September 15, 2010. You got to come out for realzzz!! The sound, room, and vibes are slammin'!! So get out of your apartments..... if you dare, and prepare to get rocked and awoken!!!!
More details to come.....

WHERE'S THE FIRE?!!!

In times of extreme complacency and apathy, one must question:
"WHERE'S DID THE FIRE GO?"

One session recently, we were freestylin' over a melody and a beat, and suddenly we started singing without thinking about it:

where's the fire?
we need the fire
bring the FIRE!!!

where's the fire?
we need the fire
bring the FIRE!!!!!

FIRE!!!!
FIRE!!!!
FIRE!!!!

***VIBRATION IS LIFE***

cymatics is the study of visible sound and vibration, check out this mind blowing video!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05Io6lop3mk

NEW SET LIST!!

We are making some serious modifications to our set list right now!
Integrating new tunes and finding ways to navigate through the multiple worlds within the set.
Once it's ready, the next show is going to kill!!!

WAKE UP! SHARES A BILL WITH "WHITE TRASH", JULY 31, 2010

This Saturday night, July 31, 2010 we will rock harder than ever and share the bill with "White Trash", a band that has been around for over 15 years! Guaranteed be a blast from the present you all! The info for the gig is on this website: www.kjfarrells.com
PEACE!! for REALZZZ!!!

Applying for a grant

Many of us artists, dancers and writers rely on grants to fund our creativity. After years of research and study we've come up with the ultimate guide to help you in your grant applications.

A wonderful educational video will show you how easy this often painful experience can be.

WAKE UP! live in Williamsburg at New York Jazz Festival 6/23/10

WAKE UP! LIVE in Williamsburg-New York jazz festival 6/23/10

NEW YORK JAZZ FESTIVAL

Wednesday at 8:30pm WAKE UP! will play at Zebulon as part on the New York Jazz Festival which is something we've been looking forward to for about 5 months (since we got the gig).

WAKE UP! isn't just a group that mixes rock with jazz. We are playing sounds that we have a strong connection with: rock, improv, punk, jazz, hardcore, jewish music -- however you want to label it....in the end it's all music and it's where we come from. We've arrived at this point from different worlds and now we're mixing it all up and freeing ourselves to play what we feel, what we like and who we are. It's 2010 music, baby. And on top of that Zebulon is one of the best venues in NY. Come down and party.

Zebulon, 258 Wythe Ave @ Metropolitan, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

http://www.nycjazzfestival.com/index.php?Event=52

Itunes

WAKE UP! on Itunes!!!!

www.nycjazzfestival.com

www.nycjazzfestival.com/index.php?Event=52

Hoy hace calor!!!

WAKE UP! clandestinos
Peruano clandestino
Africano clandestino
Marijuana illegal

NEW CD REVIEW

CD REVIEW FROM ALL ABOUT JAZZ

Wake Up!


By Mark Corroto

If the solicitation from the members of this band is to indeed Wake Up!, then their plea recorded here will agitate, and, yes, maybe even activate some. This quartet of saxophonist Daniel Carter (Test, Other Dimensions in Music), trumpeter Demian Richardson, Italian drummer Federico Ughi, and bassist David Moss apply a vibe that is equal parts electric Miles Davis, Prime Time-era Ornette Coleman, and Sun Ra street jam band.

Ughi is also the label chief for 577 Records. His free jazz sessions always project an immense energy, and it's the same here for these 16 unkempt pieces. The band formed with the same purpose as Carter's street performance band Test, to bring music to the people. The disheveled nature of this outing attests to the band's authenticity. Ughi's drum kit is just as likely to pulse funk as jazz, or swing free over Richardson's wah-wah trumpet playing.

The untreated nature of this music is its triumph. Just as 1970s electric Miles indicated that jazz could rock, and the New York Downtown scene of the 1990s proved that jazz can also be hard-core music, Wake Up! targets undigested energy. Carter can zoom the spaceways or play with quiet passion, as he does on "The Courage to Be," where he dances the graceful pirouette with Richardson, twisting gentle lines. But mostly this disc is about an arousing energy, invigorating the soul, and shaking the blues of conformity. Thankfully, the music is not overproduced, just kept in its wild state.

ACTION FIGURES: DEMIAN

CHILLIN' LIKE BOB DYLAN IN BOHEMIA NEW YORK

THE CD RELEASE AFTER PARTY!!!!!! NYC GOING WILD

PHOTOS FROM THE CD RELEASE PARTY!!!!!!!!

tonite

shake your boody tonite babe

parkside lounge is where is at!!!

9:30pm on east houston and attorney st

cd release party

new songs by WAKE UP!

www.wakeupnyc.com

tomorrow night!!!!

CD RELEASE PARTY!
COME TO THE SHOW AND YELL "EVERYBODY HATES EVERYBODY ELSE"
FIRST 10 YELLERS GET A FREE WAKE UP! CD
Venue: PARKSIDE LOUNGE
Time: TUESDAY, MAY25th, 2010, 9:30, $5
Address: 317 East Houston Street New York, NY, Earth
www.myspace.com/parksidelounge

WAKE UP! ACTION FIGURES: FEDERICO

NEW VIDEO! THEY ARE RISING!!!!!!!!!!

WE made a new video... watch "they are rising"
and taste the madness

click here

FREE DOWNLOAD from The Wire magazine

*THE Wire magazine ALSO features exclusive WAKE UP! AUDIO
recorded live in williamsburg, NYC this winter
listen/download here

CD RELEASE PARTY!!! THIS TUESDAY!!!

from THE WIRE magazine

"With a debut self-titled album due out this year,
WAKE UP! are riding a wave of youthful enthusiasm every bit
as boisterous and impatient as their name."
...read more here ... http://www.wakeupnyc.com/images/10-05wire.gif

CD RELEASE PARTY! MAY 25TH NYC

CD RELEASE PARTY!

Come to this show, yell: "Everybody hates everybody else" and get a free WAKE UP! cd (first 10 yellers)


Venue: PARKSIDE LOUNGE
Time: TUESDAY, MAY25th, 2010, 9:30, $5
Address: 317 East Houston Street New York, NY, Earth
www.myspace.com/parksidelounge


http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=107521502625665

DIGITAL

THE CD IS NOW ALSO AVAILABLE DIGITALLY
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

NEW CD, LISTEN TO IT

LISTEN TO THE NEW CD HERE...

Read new WAKE UP! cd review from DMG

Read new WAKE UP! cd review from 04/30/10

WAKE UP! Featuring Daniel Carter on saxes, Demian Richardson on trumpet, David Moss on electric bass and Federico Ughi on drums. Whoa! This sh*t is truly heavy duty! Since downtown reeds & trumpeter Daniel Carter has played with just about everyone in the downtown scene for the past three decades & can be found on more than a hundred discs, he certainly needs no introduction to those in the know. Drum great Federico Ughi also gets around to playing with many of downtown's best improvisers & runs the 577 Records label. Daniel & Federico have worked together on a half dozen discs so far and recently added young upstart trumpeter Demian Richardson to their ever-growing clan. Bassist David Moss is a newer name for me that I've only seen a couple of discs so far.

Wake Up!'s philosophy is to wake up mankind, since they've become zombies slaving away & blindly accepting what has been handed to them. Wake Up!'s music is strong & spirited & intense! They are into solid grooves with burnin' solos from Daniel's sax and Demian's trumpet. On "The Queen" Demian plays some mighty electric wah-wah trumpet, sparring with Daniel's swirling sax and both interacting with the consistently slamming rhythm team. This is electric jazz at its best, super-tight and often in-your-face and not unlike some of the electric Miles sessions from the mid seventies. I dig the way the rhythm section speeds up and slows down throughout "Aiming to All Voices" which the horns on their toes as they trade ideas back and forth. There is a good deal of spirited interplay between all of the members of this great quartet, each player engaging the other and building the intensity to boiling point time and again. The quartet sound as if they are really having some fun, their vibe is infectious. Bassist David Moss was one who dropped this CD's off with us and was quite proud of the way the music came out. He should be, this is one of this month's hottest discs! - Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery, NYC

strange up/ tolmin

wearing a wire

NEW VIDEO!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/user/WAKEUPVIDEOZ#p/u

let's celebrate!!!!!!!!

first 1000 hits on our website, let's celebrate!!!!!!!! www.wakeupnyc.com

get a free cd!

may 25th parkside lounge, nyc ... WAKE UP! cd release party!!!
first 10 people that say "everybody hates everybody else" get a free cd!

37 years OF HELL

37 years of hell and I just can't take it anymore
Its been 37 years of hell and no one has really cared for me before
All my friends said I would fail or I would end up on the run
Its been 37 years of hell and now I wanna have some fun
Because they've given me 37 years 37 years 37 years of hell

Its been 37 years OF HELL now what am I supposed to do
Its been 37 years OF HELL but I can't think of anything new
Now my future seems so bleak theres nowhere I can go
Its been 37 years OF HELL and my life has been going too slow
Because they've given me 37 years 37 years 37 years of hell

MOSS ACTION FIGURE

WAKE UP! ... brooklyn posse...

WAKE UP! sci fi is here...

NOT JUST A BAND...

WAKE UP! IT'S NOT JUST A BAND...

ITS A GENERATION

Either Or

It's Either RAIN

or BURN !!!

DEADLY DISASTERS!!!

The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in Engines stop running and the wheat is growing thin A nuclear error, but I have no fear 'Cause New York is drowning-and I... I live by the river

Article by Matthew Putman

This was written in October 2009 by our producer and friend Matthew Putman.

Article by Matthew Putman

I have known the four musicians who make up the group Wake Up! for just over 1 year, and during that time they have indeed woke me up. Still, when I saw the name of their band, and the description as social music, I wasn’t sure exactly what they were going for. Daniel Carter certainly is well known as an intellectual and creative free spirit, who brings his own highly radical, but beautifully romantic views on democracy to the forefront of every conversation musically and otherwise. Federico Ughi has created a recorde label, 577 that has the profound ideal of bringing the music of free thought, and free form to the public, even with such little support. David Moss has trained with histories best, like Ornette Coleman, to discover where his own vision fits in the tradition, while finding originality amongst genius. Demien Richardson has been a constant background of perfection on the trumpet, in streets, bars, and recordings. He has followed his unique vision and talent to mental places that are dark, and torturous for him, while letting his audience steal a piece of freedom from him. So perhaps Wake Up! is a call towards a new, more honest form a democracy. When I listen to the music, or am lucky enough to play with them, I find that Wake Up! may have a subconscious implication, which is far more personal.

There is an old urban myth about the brain, that we use only about 10% of it’s capabilities. This is a myth, because there are actual synapses occurring throughout most of the brain during much of the time. By a synapse I am referring to any signal that is chemically sent from one neuron to another. There are over 1 trillion of these occurring in the brain. What is truer however than the 10% myth, is that most of the time these synapses tend to take the path of least resistance. They don’t bridge areas of the brain that are not immediately available to it. So when people say we are not using are brains fully, they are right. In fact the times when are brain is most efficient in areas we don’t generally use, are times of crisis. The brain of an animal being pursued, or of one hunting, which experiences synaptical explosions that we are not experiencing during the underwhelming general anxiety of existence. This response is termed instinctual, but when we, as highly evolved, but highly unnatural beings, use this instinct so little, it tends to atrophy, like a muscle that has not been exercised. This is much different than the common perception of the problems with modern society. It is not all intellect in terms of reading, and mathematical manipulation that we are missing, it is a more basic connection with the nature of survival.

This is what happens when you fully engage with Wake Up! You are in a state of timelessness like the gazelle being chased by the tiger. You are more alive and more awake physiologically than you were before. This may have larger implications. It may mean that you do embrace new political ideas. It may be that you accept more people. It may be, however that unlike the rest of you day, you are living the life your brain has undergone millennia of evolving to become. You are no longer a part of the past or future, but the present, in the brutal forest of survival.

tHe ALBUM uN-VEiLd:

Here we go: our first album completed

So the new album is ready, we got our copies on Friday. It will be for sale on the web site and on Itunes very very soon (keep checking this blog for updates). Thanks all for the work including: ourselves (Federico, Demian, Moss, Daniel), Matthew Putman (producer and more), David Partick (cd artwork), Steve Vavagiakis (mastering), everybody working at Gyro Cafe on Coney Island Avenue, and all you listeners out there that this Summer will be grooving to the sounds of WAKE UP! ...Stay Insane...

LIVE IN BROOKLYN

FROM SUNDAY NIGHT

ONE WAY

LIVE FROM NYC... NIGHT HANG

WAKE UP! SHOW AT GOODBYE BLUE MONDAY!!!!!!

Enter the the magnificant world of WAKE UP! performing tonight (sunday) at Goodbye Blue Monday, no cover, 9:30pm, J,M,Z train to kosciusko station, 1087 Broadway, Brooklyn, Earth.... are you coming out??!!

LATEST SONGS

CHECK OUT THE LATEST SONGS ON THE PLAYER!!!! (girl below)

LYRICS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE WEBSITE:

www.wakeupnyc.com

New Song on Blog!

Check out our new song "Simple Does It"

Let the player play and you'll hear it

It goes... "I don't want to be like you..."

Another hot one from the WAKE UP! factory

WAKE UP! NOW HAS AN OFFICIAL WEBSITE!!!!!!

We invite YOU to check our new website:

www.wakeupnyc.com

Upcoming SHOWS!!!

1.
Venue: Goodbye Blue Monday
Time: Sunday, April 18th, 2010, 8:30, No Cover
Address: 1087 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York, Earth
www.myspace.com/goodbyebluemondayinc

2.
Private Party
World Science Festival
June 3, 2010, 8pm
Soho Grand Hotel, New York, New York, Earth


3.
Venue: Zebulon
Time: June 23, 2010, 9pm, $5 donation
Address: 258 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, Earth
(718) 218-6934

candy

being a kid 1991

going down the hall

looking 'round

doesn't seem that

these leaves begin to fall

'cause I know

when i go to the candy store

gonna get all kind of shit

peanuts? candy!

candy

it's 1990s y'all

it's 1990s

with turtle necks

it's 1990s

it's 1990s

fluorescent tubes

walking down the street

with my big, big, big big big big, big bi-big,

weight lifter pants

pants

pants

check check check it out!!!

We updated the player on this blog! It's a mixture of new songs (with lyrics!) from our demo and the songs that will be released on our new album in about 3 weeks.

check check check it out!!!

WAKE UP! PLAYS "BAR EAST" TOMORROW NIGHT

COME AND CHECK OUT THE MULTI-WORLDS WAKE UP! WILL
TAKE YOU THROUGH, AS YOU LISTEN TO THE WILD SOUNDS GO DOWN!!!
ARE YOU COMING OUT?

BAR EAST, 8pm, $10
1733 1st Ave. @ 90th St.
212-876-0203

CANDY

NAMES

DR. CHAOS--Trumpet
FU--Drums
DC--Saxes
MOSS--Bass

SATURDAY NIGHT

WEB SITE COMING UP SOOOON.......

http://www.wakeupnyc.com/

NEW PICS FROM THE OTHER NIGHT

below our friend Patrick with smoke