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08/11/2018
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Save the Date: On Thurs. Oct. 19th Gary is performing his live solo guitar score accompanying the legendary Spanish-language "Dracula" (1931, d. George Melford) at NYC's pre-eminent arthouse cinema the Metrograph. Filmed in Spanish with an all-Latin cast at night in Hollywood on the sets of Todd Browning/Bela Lugosi's "Dracula", the film is regarded by most cineastes as superior to its more famous companion. This show will mark Lucas' first performance in a new ongoing retrospective series of his live film scores at the Metrograph
Gary's second live film score performance will take place there early in the New Year tba soon, stay tuned!
photo: performing with Spanish "Dracula" at the Jerusalem Film Festival July 2013
Gary's second live film score performance will take place there early in the New Year tba soon, stay tuned!
photo: performing with Spanish "Dracula" at the Jerusalem Film Festival July 2013
08/08/2018
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Listen to Gary's new live solo score accompanying Pudovkin's 1925 silent Russian comedy "Chess Fever", recorded live at the Bolshoi Classical Music Festival in Drvengrad Serbia 7/15/18 by invitation of director Emir Kusturica
08/07/2018
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Author and critic Gary Lippman re: TOUCHED BY GRACE:
The late great Southern novelist Harry Crews often touted the virtue of "getting naked" in the art one makes—and "naked" is exactly what the musical wunderkind Gary Lucas gets in Touched By Grace, his memoir about his friendship and artistic partnership with the late great singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley. Talk about wearing one's proverbial heart on one's sleeve! Lucas is so vulnerable in his book—painfully, beautifully vulnerable—that he surpasses nearly every other first-person music testimony on the market. What's more, Touched By Grace serves as a detailed primer on how to decide on, commit to, remain committed to, and work your proverbial ass off in a lifetime career as a working artist. In prose as well as music, Lucas goes for broke—and wins. Big.
The late great Southern novelist Harry Crews often touted the virtue of "getting naked" in the art one makes—and "naked" is exactly what the musical wunderkind Gary Lucas gets in Touched By Grace, his memoir about his friendship and artistic partnership with the late great singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley. Talk about wearing one's proverbial heart on one's sleeve! Lucas is so vulnerable in his book—painfully, beautifully vulnerable—that he surpasses nearly every other first-person music testimony on the market. What's more, Touched By Grace serves as a detailed primer on how to decide on, commit to, remain committed to, and work your proverbial ass off in a lifetime career as a working artist. In prose as well as music, Lucas goes for broke—and wins. Big.
08/04/2018
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Read two rave reviews of The Edge of Heaven Live at City Winery NY last week from writers Geoffrey O’Brien and Gary Lippman
· Updates made to the Photos
· Updates made to the Photos
07/29/2018
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Gary packed The Loft at City Winery NYC on Wed. July 25th with many Chinese music lovers of all persuasions with his new Edge of Heaven Live trio project featuring Feifei Yang on vocals and erhu and multi-instrumentalist Jason Candler; review from fan Brad Martin:
"Well, Wed. night's Gary Lucas show at the City Winery NYC was every bit as good as I expected it to be! Gary was accompanied by Feifei Yang on vocals and Jason Candler on sax and percussion in a program that featured wonderful renditions of Mid-Century Chinese Pop songs from the Edge of Heaven CD (and the forthcoming Vol 2) as well as a few other classics from American artists Jeff Buckley, Bob Dylan and Jefferson Airplane—sung in Mandarin!"
· Read a new interview with Gary in Sputnik News Serbia, English translation here
· Updates made to the Tour section
"Well, Wed. night's Gary Lucas show at the City Winery NYC was every bit as good as I expected it to be! Gary was accompanied by Feifei Yang on vocals and Jason Candler on sax and percussion in a program that featured wonderful renditions of Mid-Century Chinese Pop songs from the Edge of Heaven CD (and the forthcoming Vol 2) as well as a few other classics from American artists Jeff Buckley, Bob Dylan and Jefferson Airplane—sung in Mandarin!"
· Read a new interview with Gary in Sputnik News Serbia, English translation here
· Updates made to the Tour section
07/29/2018
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Rave review of Gary’s UK solo show "From Beefheart to Buckley and Beyond" at Ramsgate Music Hall in May just surfaced!
07/22/2018
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Jamming with Macedonian guitar legend Vlatko Stefanovski closing the Bolshoi Classical Music Festival in Drvengrad Serbia 7/18/18
07/21/2018
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Interview with Gary in Serbian national newspaper Blic!
07/20/2018
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Gary laying a copy of Ryan H. Walsh's excellent book "Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968" on legendary director and Bolshoi Classical Music Festival curator Emir Kusturica
photo by Ksenia Lamshina
photo by Ksenia Lamshina
07/18/2018
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Gary performing yesterday morning 7/17/18 on Russian National Radio Mayak, broadcasting live from the Bolshoi Classical Music Festival in Drvengrad Serbia—listen here at 2:08
07/17/2018
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Gary with some of the young Serbian classical virtuosos who asked for a photo with him on the way to breakfast the morning after the extremely well-received premiere of his new live solo score for Pudovkin's silent comedy "Chess Fever" at the Bolshoi Classical Music Festival in Drvengrad Serbia 7/16/18
07/16/2018
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Gary's premiere of his new live score for Pudovkin's 1925 silent comedy "Chess Fever" at the Bolshoi Russian Music Festival in Drvengrad Serbia was a big hit last night!! Listen to an interview with Gary for Moscow's Radio Cultura this morning conducted by Ksenia Lamshina
07/14/2018
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Gary just arrived in Kustendorf Serbia to perform at the Bolshoi Russian Music Festival the premiere of his new live score for Pudovkin's 1925 silent comedy "Chess Fever" tomorrow July 15th at the invitation of his friend famed film director Emir Kusturica
07/10/2018
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New recording session with Gary, Jason and Italian vocalist Simone Moncada in NYC 7/6/18
photo by Debbie Sanna
photo by Debbie Sanna
07/10/2018
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Pic recently unearthed taken by Andy Chertow (Papa Andy) of a one-off project known as The ZimmerMen featuring Gary on slide guitar, Andy on bass, Dro Ostrow drums, and Holly Rock vocals, who recorded a reggae version of Bob Dylan's "Positively 4th Street" in 1983
07/06/2018
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With Gary's friend and collaborator Damo Suzuki and the late Michael Karoli (far left) backstage after a gig in 1998 at The Cooler NYC. Thanks to Doug Rotz for spotting this pic in the new MOJO in a great feature about Damo. Thumbs up always, old friend!
07/06/2018
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Facebook Promotion in Russian for Gary's upcoming appearance at the BOLSHOI RUSSIAN MUSIC FESTIVAL in Kustendorf Serbia July 14-18th:
Амерички гитариста Гери Лукас који је наступао са водећим светским џез музичарима, својим јединственим музичким стилом озвучиће неми филм „Шаховска грозница" Всеволода Пудовкина, другог фестивалског дана! Американский гитарист Гари Лукас, который выступал с ведущими джазовыми музыкантами мира, в своем уникальном музыкальном стиле озвучит немой фильм "Шахматная горячка" Всеволода Пудовкина, во второй день фестиваля!
American guitarist Gary Lucas, who performed with the leading jazz musicians of the world, in his unique musical style provides a live sound track for the Russian silent comedy "Chess Fever" by Vsevolod Pudovkin on the second day of the festival!
Амерички гитариста Гери Лукас који је наступао са водећим светским џез музичарима, својим јединственим музичким стилом озвучиће неми филм „Шаховска грозница" Всеволода Пудовкина, другог фестивалског дана! Американский гитарист Гари Лукас, который выступал с ведущими джазовыми музыкантами мира, в своем уникальном музыкальном стиле озвучит немой фильм "Шахматная горячка" Всеволода Пудовкина, во второй день фестиваля!
American guitarist Gary Lucas, who performed with the leading jazz musicians of the world, in his unique musical style provides a live sound track for the Russian silent comedy "Chess Fever" by Vsevolod Pudovkin on the second day of the festival!
07/02/2018
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Thanks to Robert Williams for sharing this hitherto unseen photo taken during the Beefheart tour of Europe in 1980
06/30/2018
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Just confirmed: Thurs. Sept 27th - AN EVENING WITH GARY LUCAS: FROM BEEFHEART TO BUCKLEY AND BEYOND at The Cutting Room NYC, 9:30pm - Gary's solo multi-media show—songs, stories, and rare clips ranging over 30 albums released to date with a focus on his work with Don Van Vliet and Jeff Buckley, special guest vocalist tba
06/23/2018
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Mexico-inspired Gary Lucas t-shirt now available for purchase in the Merchandise section!
06/23/2018
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Gary is honored to have been invited by his old friend and collaborator Hal Willner to perform in his tribute to legendary composer Nino Rota on Fri. July 27th as part of Lincoln Center Out Of Doors Summer Concerts at Damrosch Park
06/20/2018
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From webmaster Tanya: Please join me in wishing Gary a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY today!!
06/13/2018
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With the great Seymour Stein (legendary Sire Records chief who signed The Ramones, Talking Heads, Madonna and many others) at the reception at McNally Jackson Books for Seymour's new memoir "Siren Song"
photo by MaryEllen Cataneo
photo by MaryEllen Cataneo
06/11/2018
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A lovely live review just in of Gary's recent live solo show in Newcastle at The Cluny 5/5/18
06/11/2018
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Save the date: Fri. June 22nd Gary in sitting in with his friend and collaborator Jann Klose for his new album release party at The Cutting Room NYC
06/08/2018
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Gary has just been invited by famed director Emir Kusturica to open the BOLSHOI CLASSICAL MUSIC FESTIVAL on a mountain in Kustendorf Serbia Sat. July 14th with his original live solo score accompanying "Chess Fever" (original title: Шахматная горячка or Shakhmatnaya goryachka), a 1925 short comedy directed by Eisenstein contemporary Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai Shpikovsky. This film incorporates actual footage of the Moscow 1925 chess tournament and features cameos by many top chess masters of the time, and Gary's score will draw on many Russian classical music motifs.
06/02/2018
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Backstage at The Iridium NYC with Gary and Feifei Yang at Gary's Gods and Monsters show 5/31/18
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UK Bookings (Solo):
Reuben Myles Tyghe+44 (0) 1225 333328
www.rmtmusicproductions.co.uk