A NEW YORK MINUTE

ALAN LICHT | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 15, 2003)
• Original Release Date: August 15, 2003
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: XI Records
• ASIN: B0000C8W7U
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #669,734 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. A New York Minute

2. Freaky Friday

3. Muhammed Ali & the Crickets

4. Another Sky

Disc: 2

1. 14, Second, Fifth (

2. Remington Khan (“Hearing Test” mix/12-string version)

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About the Artist

MUSICIAN: Recorded and performed as an improvisor with Rashied Ali, Jim O’Rourke, Lee Ranaldo, Christian Marclay, Thurston Moore, Arto Lindsay, John Zorn, Zeena Parkins, Ikue Mori, Kim Gordon, Lukas Ligeti, Derek Bailey, Peter Brotzmann, Keith Rowe, Mats Gustaffson, Dean Roberts, Charles Curtis, Ulrich Krieger, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Anthony Coleman, I-Sound, Anton Fier, Tetuzi Akiyama, Tim Barnes, Ken Vandermark, Kevin Drumm, Rob Mazurek, Annie Gosfield, Roger Kleier, Nihilist Spasm Band, Joe McPhee, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Axel Doerner, Thomas Lehn, William Hooker, Michael Snow, Keiji Haino, DJ Olive, Raz Mesinai, Aki Onda, Rudolph Grey, Marina Rosenfeld, Fennesz, DJ Spooky (1989-present)

Performed at various festivals in the U.S. & Europe including Musique Action (1996, 2003), No Music Festival (1998, 1999, 2001), Nickelsdorf (1999), Experimental Intermedia Festival with no fancy name (2000),Transmissions (2000), Company (2002), FIMAV (2002), Kulturbro 2002.

Founding member of Text of Light group with Lee Ranaldo; other participants have included William Hooker, DJ Olive, Christian Marclay, Ulrich Krieger, and Tim Barnes. Performances combine live improvisations with films by Stan Brakhage. Concerts in New York, Philadelphia, Real Art Ways (Hartford CT), Pompidou Center (Paris), Berlin, Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis). CDs forthcoming.

Founding member of the bands Run On (1993-1998), Love Child (1988-1993). Toured and recorded two albums of original material with both bands. Current member of The Pacific Ocean. Toured as a guitarist with Tom Verlaine (2001), Brokeback (2001), Papa M (1999-2000), Royal Trux (1999), Plush (1999), Arthur Lee & Love (1993, 1994).

Multiple guitar arrangement of the piece "Betty Ford" performed by Sap Dream Electric Guitar Quartet at the New York Guitar Festival, 2002; performance broadcast on John Schaefer’s "New Sounds" program, WNYC

Performed Phill Niblock’s work at Roulette, Roulette TV, Experimental Intermedia, Tonic, and the Brooklyn Anchorage; also organized performances of multiple guitar pieces by David First, David Watson, and Robert Poss in conjunction with the Niblock concert at the Anchorage (2001).

Sound installations: TBA, Diapason, fall 2003; "Today I Am A Fountain Pen", Studio Five Beekman, NYC (1998) "The Downsizing of Don Dokken", part of "Constrictions" exhibition at Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn (1996).

Video Installation: "Let Me Show You What A Wild-Boy Charge Is Like" Neon Gallery, Brosarp Sweden, September 2003. WRITER: Numerous music features and reviews for The Wire, Time Out NY, Premiere, Tower Pulse, Halana, Forced Exposure, Purple and other publications. (1990-present). Author of the book An Emotional Memoir of Martha Quinn (Drag City Press, 2001), a personal essay about music in the 80’s & 90’s.