The Red Microphone is a NYC-based quartet of seasoned improvisational musicians who engage in ongoing progressive arts activism. The influence of earlier revolutionary cultural workers is brought to light in the quartet’s performance through sound, statement and intent. Plainly put, the Red Microphone’s art is as radical as its politics.
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from
Institute For Alien Research compilation "the beat sounds from way out" (volume four),
released December 20, 2012
This session is dedicated to the spirit of revolution, the unshackling inherent in free improvisation, the people's united voice and the artists' tenacious creativity here in the belly of this capitalist beast.
John Pietaro, vibraphone, percussion, voice
Ras Moshe, tenor saxophone
Rocco John Iacovone, soprano saxophone
Laurie Towers, electric bass
"Brecht Breakdown" (poetry by Bertolt Brecht: “Questions from a Worker Who Reads”, 1935; spontaneous composition/free improvisation by the Red Microphone)