Ron Anderson | |
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 Ron Anderson with PAK in 2010 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 1959 |
| Genres | Progressive rock, free jazz |
| Instrument(s) | guitar, bass |
| Website | |
Ron Anderson (born 1959) is a New York City-based internationally known musician and composer. He is known for collaborations with many famous musicians, and has a large catalog [1] of releases and compositions.
Anderson formed the group Rat At Rat R in Philadelphia in 1980. Anderson then moved to New York City in the early 1980s, where he recorded music for NPR as well as museum pieces. In 1989 he moved to California, where he formed The Molecules. In 1998 he moved to Switzerland, returning to the New York City in 1999, where he formed PAK. [2]
Ron's first project was a band called The Molecules, who has a number of releases. A retrospective, Friends, received positive reviews. [3]
Ron's current project is called PAK, [4] which first released, Motel. [5] PAK has had a line-up change recently but still performs in the New York area, notably at John Zorn's selective club, The Stone. In 2011 the Pak album Secret Curve was released on Zorn's Tzadik label.
Ron collaborated with Japanese musician Tatsuya Yoshida's project Ruins to create Ronruins, which released one album, Big Shoes. [6] When Yoshida performs in NeW York, Ronruins will frequently be a part of the act. [7]
Anderson performed a show with French musician Jac Berrocal at the Bowery Poetry club in New York City. [8] They were also working on an as-yet-unreleased CD.
John Zorn is an American composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category". His avant-garde and experimental approaches to composition and improvisation are inclusive of jazz, rock, Jewish music, hardcore, classical, contemporary, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and world music. Rolling Stone noted that "[alt]hough Zorn has operated almost entirely outside the mainstream, he's gradually asserted himself as one of the most influential musicians of our time".
William Otis Laswell is an American bass guitarist, record producer, and record label owner. He has been involved in thousands of recordings with many collaborators from all over the world. His music draws from funk, world music, jazz, dub, and ambient styles.
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Painkiller is an avant-garde jazz and grindcore band that formed in 1991. Later albums incorporated elements of ambient and dub.
Kato Hideki is a Japanese musician and composer. He was a seminal member of the Tokyo Noise music scene of the late 80s and early 90s, collaborating with Japanese experimental musicians such as Otomo Yoshihide, Tatsuya Yoshida, Makigami Koichi, and Yamatsuka Eye. He led his own bands, Player Piano and Bass Army. He was a member of the original Ground Zero with Otomo and Uemura Masahiro. In 1992 Kato moved to New York City where he still resides.
Tatsuya Yoshida is a Japanese musician; drummer and composer who is the only consistent member of the renowned progressive rock duo Ruins, as well as of Koenji Hyakkei. He is also a member of the progressive rock trios Korekyojinn and Daimonji. Outside his own groups, Yoshida is renowned for his tenure as drummer in the indie progressive group YBO2, a band also featuring guitarist KK Null, whom he also joins in the current line-up of Zeni Geva and he has played drums in a late edition of Samla Mammas Manna. Since 2001, he and bass guitarist Takeharu Hayakawa have worked jazz pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura in the Satoko Fujii Quartet. He has been cited as "[the] indisputable master drummer of the Japanese underground".
Jesse Harris is an American singer-songwriter, producer, and guitarist. He has worked with Norah Jones, Melody Gardot, Madeleine Peyroux, and Lizz Wright.
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Mark Feldman is an American jazz violinist.
Jérôme Noetinger is an improviser and composer of electroacoustic music based in Rives, Isère, France.
Anthony Coleman is an American composer and avant-garde jazz pianist. During the 1980s and 1990s he worked with John Zorn on Cobra, Kristallnacht, The Big Gundown, Archery, and Spillane and helped push modern Jewish music into the 21st century.
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Jesse Krakow is an American musician, bassist, producer, and composer based in New York City.
PAK is an American, New York City based, band. They are signed to John Zorn's Tzadik label.
Secret Curve is a 2011 album by Ron Anderson's PAK. It was released on John Zorn's Tzadik label as part of the composer series.
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Episome is a collaborative album by Bill Laswell, Otomo Yoshihide and Tatsuya Yoshida. It was released on April 18, 2006 by Tzadik Records.
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