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Sucre Du Sauvage

by Quintron and Miss Pussycat

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    This is the first book from New Orleans organist and inventor, Quintron: a multi-layered tome that pays tribute to the perilous world of devoted musical road-dawgs. The setting is Europe, but the book is just as much about the myriad illusions of American identity. A not-so-glamorous life in rock gets pulled apart to reveal vivid blood vessels running beneath the obvious. The tales are funny and thrilling—and mostly true. Someone almost dies on every page!

    Renowned puppeteer Panacea Theriac (aka Miss Pussycat) has contributed drawings throughout. Foreword by novelist and psychoanalyst Timothy Lachin.

    “If Dr. Frankenstein were working with raw material from Madame Curie, Delia Derbyshire, James Brown, and Wilhelm Reich, the result might be something like Quintron. Underground inventor, composer, record maker, impresario, and performer par excellence. There is nothing and no one like him and this is his first book and it’s a gas!” —Ian Svenonious

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Spirit Hair 04:06
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Bells 06:28
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Train Ride 05:02
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Jazz Bar 02:41
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Morning 03:51

about

Imagine being a kid in 2010 and finding yourself on a trip to the famous New Orleans Museum of Art. You pass by the Rodin sculpture on the grand marble stairway and the vaults of ancient Japanese pottery on the third floor; you breeze through the French impressionists, the Faberge collection, the Joseph Cornell and the Warhols in the modern wing. Then suddenly you pass through a soundproof glass door into a room with a crazed looking person wearing headphones, banging on an organ and screaming into an old microphone. Is this an exhibit? The cacophonous display is indeed behind a velvet rope with a sign cautioning us not to speak to the screaming man. Why do portraits of sexy ladies cover every inch these solemn white walls? What the @#!& is going on here?

Witness the recording of the latest Quintron album, Sucre du Sauvage (“Sugar of the Savage”). From January 29th through May 2nd of 2010, Quintron punched a time clock and reported to work at NOMA to write and record this album in a public gallery space. During the final seven days of the session, the artist imprisoned himself within the museum and its surrounding grounds—a beautiful swampy nature preserve called New Orleans City Park. He roamed the park by night making field recordings and then weaved them into the final mixes of the album by day. The week concluded with a blindfolded listening party in the NOMA auditorium (see album cover).

Part one of this severely schizophrenic dual album is Quintron with far wider instrumentation than usual. Tympani, vibraphone, whistling and tape loops join the ranks of drum machine and electric organ. There is also a noticeable increase in the number of chords used per song compared to previous Quintron albums—like from one chord to maybe more than one chord. There are also two dreamy Miss Pussycat tunes entitled “Banana Beat” and “Spirit Hair.” Noise and field recordings creep into this first half of Sucre du Sauvage. In part two, these elements win the battle as music and structure completely surrender to disparate sounds running wild. Electronic and acoustic instruments blur together with ducks, insects, birds, water and even museum elevators until they all become brutal hypnotic madness.

The NOMA sessions yielded literally thousands of hours of tape. This album is the cream of that crop—the Sucre du Sauvage. No post-production or overdubs were done. When the exhibit closed, the work was finished. It is what it is, and it probably ain’t happening again any time soon.

credits

released April 12, 2011

Recorded entirely on the premises of the New Orleans Museum of Art for the exhibit "Parallel Universe"

Illustration [Pencil Drawings - ADC # 253977] – John Henry Kelly
Mastered By – Joe LaPorta
Organ [Electric Organ], Electric Piano [Rhodes Piano], Drum Programming [Drum Buddy], Drum Machine [Drum Machines], Drums [Drum Kit], Vibraphone, Marimba, Timpani [Tympani], Bells, Electronics [Bent SK-1], Dulcimer, Loops [Tape Loops], Turntables, Sampler, Vocals – Quintron
Photography By [All Other Photography] – Miss Pussycat
Photography By [Cover Photo, Tent Photo, And Painting / Studio Photos Photographer] – Judy Copper
Songwriter [All Songs By] – Miss Pussycat, Quintron
Vocals, Maracas, Drum Programming [Drum Buddy] – Miss Pussycat
Words By [Album Title] – King Khan

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Quintron and Miss Pussycat New Orleans, Louisiana

Quintron & Miss Pussycat have been making genre-defying noise and hard rocking dance music in New Orleans for over 15 years. Their music has the psychedelic soul of traditional New Orleans party music, filtered through a vintage Hammond B-3, technicolor puppets, and a battalion of homemade instruments.

Watch them perform at the Spellcaster Lodge in New Orleans or on one of their many world tours.
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