(Paul Simon, Bob Dylan et al) selects Gary Lucas as one of his favorite artists in his recent Huffington Post blog:
New York native guitar monster and devilish-voiced composer Gary Lucas lives in his own frequency. A compulsive truth-teller and an earnest artist with a riveting presence. The Grammy-nominated Lucas co-penned Jeff Buckley's "Grace" and "Mojo Pin" and Joan Osborne's "Spider Web", to name a few. Collaborations include the great Captain Beefheart, Jerry Harrison (of Talking Heads), John Cale, Lou Reed, Yael Naim, Iggy Pop, Van Dyke Parks, and Chris Cornell. Lucas's music imagination is infinite, but startwith his take on the Syd Barrett title "Astronomy Domine," from the 1992 album "Gods and Monsters". It's spooky and enigmatic. Currently touring.
Check out live clips from all over
the world spanning Gary's career now on YouTube at the OutFromUnderLive Channel — new clips added frequently
Many of Gary Lucas' Long Out of Print Catalog Albums and New
DVD now upgraded visually using the best source print currently available ("restored" and colour tinted), and all CDs and DVDs for sale are now autographed by Gary — see the merchandise section
Read the program notes (in Italian) for Gary and Najma Akhtar's appearance at the Madame Guitar Festival in Tricesimo Italy Friday Sept. 24th
08/15/2010
Check out photos from Gary's recent mainland China debut performance with Sally Kwok at the Chinatown Shanghai club, and also an interview with Gary about his "Edge of Heaven" 30's Chinese pop project, conducted by Dr. Robert Lai, as well as live clips from Gary's concert at Shanghai Today.com!!
Check out a new YouTube clip of Gary's mainland China performing debut at the Chinatown Shanghai Club 8/5/10, performing Bai Kwong's "If I'm Without You" with vocalist Sally Kwok
The US premiere of Gary's Spanish "Dracula" project is now confirmed for the closing weekend of the 48th New York Film Festival on Saturday Oct. 9th at 9:30pm at the Walter Reade Theater in Lincoln Center!!
Check out a new YouTube clip of Gary playing one of Phillip Jarrell's beautiful acoustic guitars at Phillip's guitar showroom in Shanghai (besides being an ace luthier, Phillip co-wrote the #1 hit "Torn Between Two Lovers")
08/03/2010
Read a NY Times article about a new production of "Romeo and Juliet" featuring the songs of Jeff Buckley—including "Grace", co-written by Gary—opening this week at the Williamstown Theater Festival
Check out a rave review of Gary and Najma live in London at the Jazz Cafe from Spinner.com!!
07/15/2010
Gary sings the praises of his late friend the legendary Tuli Kupferberg (1923-2010) in an obituary by Richard Gehr in this week's Village Voice
06/30/2010
Gary's solo acoustic show this Monday at Bohemia Hall in Astoria is a Pick in the Village Voice today!
06/25/2010
Flash!! Gary is just confirmed to play the UK premiere of Spanish-language "Dracula" on Sunday Nov. 21st at Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of the London Jazz Festival in association with BBC 3!
06/22/2010
It's official—on July 27th, Maysles Films' award-winning 2001 documentary "Lalee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton", featuring an original score by Gary Lucas, will be available at last for purchase on DVD from both Amazon.com and HBO.com!!
06/21/2010
Check out 2 clips from Gary's recent solo acoustic show at acoustic guitar mecca McCabe's in Santa Monica, and read a rave review from HITS hereTheme from "Sex and Lucia" (Alberto Iglesias)
"Dance of Destiny" (Lucas)
06/18/2010
Listen to Jing Li's recent "Sounds of China" radio show devoted to Gary's 30's Chinese pop project "The Edge of Heaven"—2 full hours featuring songs from the album and an interview and live performance by Gary, broadcast 5/22/10 on WKCR (Columbia University)
06/15/2010
Gary is collaborating with UK visual artist Paul McGowan on a new psychedelic environmental installation for The Eden Project in Cornwall, opening Nov. 5th—check out the article from the Western Morning News (UK)
06/10/2010
Nice review from Kronika.ro of Gary's Spanish "Dracula" premiere at Banffy Castle for the Transylvania Film Festival (English translation here)
Read a review of Gary's Spanish "Dracula" premiere at the Transylvania Film Festival from Monitorul de Cluj (English translation here), and read a rave review and see a live clip of Gary's Spanish "Dracula" premiere at the Transylvania Film Festival from The Vampire's Crib (Romania), (English translation here)
06/04/2010
Read an article on Gary's Spanish "Dracula" premiere at the Transylvania Film Festival from CineFan.ro (English translation here)
06/01/2010
Rave review of Gary's Spanish "Dracula" European premiere at the Transylvania International Film Festival from Adevarul.ro (English translation here)...see photos here...see Gary in the TIFF daily wrap-up here
Check out an excerpt from Gary's press conference at TIFF
05/30/2010
Interview with Gary in the Romanian music magazine Click Zoom Bytes on the eve of the European premiere of his Spanish "Dracula" score tonight at the 9th Transylvania International Film Festival
05/26/2010
Nice article about Gary and Gods and Monsters in the latest Jeff Buckley International Newsletter!
05/22/2010
Flash!! Gary makes his mainland China performing debut during Shanghai World Expo 2010 at the Chinatown Shanghai Club in Shanghai, China on Thursday August 5th, playing a solo concert concert featuring songs from his "Edge of Heaven" album with special guest vocalist Sally Kwok
Gary's solo acoustic show this Saturday at Joe's Pub NYC is a Pick in The New Yorker this week!! View the poster here
05/09/2010
Lovely Brazilian singer Fernanda Cabral was in NYC recently and wrote and recorded a new song with Gary, "Wind Village"
05/05/2010
French chanteuse Melissa Mars and Gary perform "Grace" live in a new YouTube clip filmed at Gary's recent solo show at Le Point Ephemere in Paris 3/22/10, with Daniel Yvinec on bass
Read a rave review of Chase the Devil's new album in Vintage Guitar, and check out a great review from Gapplegate Guitar and Bass blog
To commemorate the recent passing of Gary's friend Charlie Gillett, a major force for good in music, here's a page from Charlie's website concerning his 30th Anniversary show in 2002, which Gary performed on along with fellow guests Mariza, Nick Lowe, and Nick Hornsby
04/18/2010
Just confirmed!! Gary will play the European premiere of his Spanish "Dracula" project at the Transylvania Film Festival, May 25th-June 6th, actual date and time tba soon
The new Chase the Devil album, and the reissue of Gary's celebrated 30's Chinese pop album "The Edge of Heaven" with bonus tracks, are now available for purchase!
Gary's solo acoustic show at The Magic Room in Boston this Saturday is a Pick in the Boston Phoenix, read an interview with Gary here
04/02/2010
Listen to Gary perform live with Spanish spoken word alchemist Bruno Galindo on legebdary WBAI host Bob Fass' "Radio Unnameable" program at http://archive.wbai.org/—just scroll down and click on the April 2nd program link
03/31/2010
Read a rave review in German of Gary's performance last week at Dresden's 6th Jazz Welten Festival from Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten newspaper
The new Chase the Devil album receives a rave review in Blurt Magazine
Read a feature on Gary at Fender.com
Read a review of Gary"s "Edge of Heaven" reissue from Gapplegate Guitar and Bass blog
03/20/2010
Check out Gary's new solo acoustic website
Read a rave review of the new Chase the Devil album from Yahoo.com
Just released on Knitting Factory Records—the new Chase the Devil album, and a reissue of Gary's celebrated 30's Chinese pop album "The Edge of Heaven" with bonus tracks—download them here and here
Check out a new review of Chase the Devil's concert in Venice last December, from Kinematrix.net
02/08/2010
Two recent Gary Lucas interviews for Outsight Radio Hours are now archived here
02/05/2010
Check out three new YouTube clips of Gary and Najma Akhtar live at the WOMAD Festival Las Palmas last November!
"Soul Taker" | "Aksar" | "Rishte"
02/01/2010
Download a podcast interview with Gary about his Rishte" album with Najma Akhtar, and his new Chase the Devil project with Dean Bowman, from Outsight Radio Hours here (iTunes) or here
Gary's upcoming NYC music and film projects—"The Golem" at the Rubin Museum Feb. 5th and "Cinefantastique" at the Gerswhin Hotel Feb. 9th—are picked in The New Yorker and in the NY Post this week
01/26/2010
Check out a clip of Gary playing live at the Tuli Kupferberg Benefit at St Ann's Warehouse NYC last Friday
01/17/2010
Gary is praised in the latest issue of MOJO by psychedelic renegades Amorphous Androgynous, and their collaboration "Opus of the Back Sun" graces the covermount CD (additional article here)
01/15/2010
"Rishte" chosen as one of the Best of 2009 in Sons magazine Spain
English translation of rave review of Gary's Spanish "Dracula" premiere at the Havana Film Festival 12/11/09, plus interview with Gary
12/14/2009
Read a rave review of the world premiere of Gary's Spanish "Dracula" project in Havana from Granma, Cuba's largest newspaper
Read an interview with Gary about his Spanish "Dracula" project from the Diario Del Festival Internacional Del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano from 12/12/09
Read a description of Gary's triumphant world premiere of his new live score for the Spanish-language "Dracula" at the 31st Havana Film Festival from the official festival program
Read an interview in Spanish with Gary about his Spanish language "Dracula" project from the official press conference held in the Hotel Nacional de Cuba from 12/10/09
12/11/2009
Gary selects his Best of 2009 for Portuguese music magazine Bodyspace
