BRIGHT DOG RED

ABOUT BACKGROUND

Bright Dog Red (BDR), a quintet from Albany, New York, BDR has its roots in a series of marathon jam sessions. fuses free improvisation, electronica, jazz, hip hop, Pignato, a faculty member at the State University of New psychedelia, and noise music into a proliferation of York, Oneonta, explains. “I was inspired by one of my beats, bars, and blasts of sonic energy. The group’s teachers, Yusef Lateef, who held jam sessions with his performances at once echo and respond to a wide students. I’d have students out to my cabin in the range of influences including Miles Davis, David Bowie, Catskills and we’d play for hours, all of it improvised. Albert Ayler, King Crimson, Can, and Radiohead, as well They had such singular voices, different references than as more recent voices such as Flying Lotus, Avishai I anticipated. I recorded all of it, often thinking it might Cohen, and the contemporary jam band scene. become something.”

PRESS That “something” remained little more than an inkling until some 10 years later. Pignato relocated to the "Put Albany’s Bright Dog Red on your radar as this jazzy Albany area and found himself rummaging through psychedelic hip hop posse has potential for some recordings of the long past sessions. Encouraged by progressive golden era goodness" – thebolg.com what he heard, He decided to formulate a fixed incarnation of the group, reaching out to former MEMBERS students from the SUNY Oneonta Experimental Music Group and Jam Band, two ensembles he directs at the In addition to leader Joe Pignato (joepignato.com), a college. drummer and composer known for his work with atom3, BDR features: BDR stands apart from the members’ previous endeavors. Righteous explains, “I haven’t been part of a . MC Righteous project like this before. It’s freed up a certain kind of (soundcloud.com/righteousmc) creativity.” Bassist Berman notes, “It’s like spontaneous, . Electronic musician Palmen collective meditation.” Guitarist Westbrook adds, “BDR allows us to get to a different level, to transcend our (palemen.bandcamp.com/) individuality.” Palemen concurs, “You have to give in. . Guitarist Zak Westbrook of Squid Parade There’s an interdependency to BDR. It feels more like we (http://squidparade.com) push each other to be vulnerable rather than jam or . Bassist Anthony “The Colonel” Berman play tunes” (Long-form bio available on request). (albanyjazz.com/musicians/tonyberman.html)

NOTABLE APPEARANCES CONTACT BDR has opened for George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, played BSP Lounge in Kingston NY with visual artist Michael Milton, and has headlined the Dairy Field (201) 766-2811 Music & Art Festival. 2016 bookings include launching [email protected] Spectrum NYC’s 2016 Friday Night Prog Series, and

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