Sunday, May 30, 2010
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
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
Monday, May 24, 2010
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
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
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
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
recorded live in williamsburg, NYC this winter
listen/download here
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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
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
Monday, May 17, 2010
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
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
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Friday, May 14, 2010
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
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
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
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!
Monday, May 10, 2010
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
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
Sunday, May 9, 2010
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Saturday, May 1, 2010
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 riverArticle 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.
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