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Radio I-Ching NYC

About Me

The problem with some music in the avant garde realm is one of source material. Much like jam bands that only listen to the Grateful Dead or Phish become pale replicas – their improvisations a xerox of a xerox so to speak – groups without external stimuli other than other improvised music become tired clichés. Radio I-Ching demonstrates what an avant garde mindset can do when coupled with an eclectic set of nfluences. The influences come from an equally eclectic trio of musicians. Drummer Dee Pop is dually known as a member of the ‘80s rock band Bush Tetras and the curator of the now-defunct Freestyle Creative Music Series in New York. Andy Haas, who plays sax, piri and live electronics on this, the group’s second disc, previously released a politically motivated solo record for shofar and raita. And string-player (guitar, lap steel, banjo, glissentar and mandolin) Don Fiorino’s commitment to historic preservation goes past music with a career working to preserve Ellis Island. When these three come together, the aesthetic is Downtown; it is just not clear in what city…New York? Cairo? Memphis? 12 tracks run the gamut from group originals to works by noted Egyptian musicians Mohammed Abdel Wahab and Hamza El Din, Jamaican drummer Count Ossie, film composer Alfred Newman, folkie Jimmy Driftwood, Captain Beefheart and more “traditional” jazz composers like Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Sonny Simmons/Prince Lasha and Thelonious Monk. With the players, what they play and what they play it on, The Fire Keeps Burning sounds like a stew on paper. But remarkably, the trio has created a new aesthetic equal parts jazz, rock and world music that is both sincere and appealing. Each piece is a flavor in the aforementioned stew but none of the nuance is lost. The group is summed up by a variation on the old maxim: musicians should play 10% of what they know. - Andre Hemkin

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Member Since: 09/10/2006
Band Website: facebook.com/deepop
Band Members: Andy Haas - curved soprano saxophone, fife, morsing, raita, electronics Don Fiorino - guitar, mandolin, glissentar, banjo, lotar, lap steel Dee Pop - drums, percussion & things that go boom in the night /
Influences: Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, King Tubby, Steve Lacy, Paul Desmond, John Lee Hooker, The Stooges, The Viscounts, Othar Turner, Tinarwen, Getachew Mekuria, Elvin Jones, The Skatalites, Count Ossie, Ravi Shankar, John Coltrane, Paul Desmond, Thelonious Monk, Uncle Monk, Ramones, Bill Monroe, Earl Bostic, Cedric Brooks, Jimi Hendrix, Bad Brains, Tom Waits, Dr. John, Voodoo, Dirty Three, Blurt, Howling Wolf, Duke Ellington, The Band, Steve Lacy, Sun Ra, The Contortions, Mickey Baker, Tim Rose, Slim & Slam, Flipper, Hound Dog Taylor, Professor Longhair.
Sounds Like: Esorteric party music, stoner swing, no wave, ambient folk electonica, punk jazz, our world music and beyond, skavant chamber music, disembodied dub blues.
Record Label: ResonantMusic
Type of Label: Indie

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Review from Music News & Notes

RESONANT MUSIC - Sax master Andy Haas was just brilliant as a member of the original Canadian pop group Martha & The Muffins. Especially on their first two albums, Haas embelli...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:09:00 GMT

DMG reviews New Hanuman Sextet CD

THE HANUMAN SEXTET [ANDY HAAS/DON FIORINO/MIA THEODORATUS/MATT HEYNER/DEE POP/DAVID GOULD] - 9 Meals From Anarchy (Resonant 07; USA) Featuring Andy Haas on sax, raita, morsing & live electronics, Don ...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:55:00 GMT

Reviews of Radio i-Ching and Haas solo in Jersey Beat

The following are released by RESONANT MUSIC, a label run by DEE POP and ANDY HAAS (myspace.com/deepopnyc) ...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:52:00 GMT

EXLAIM MAG REVIEWS NO WAVE AU GOGO

Radio I ChingNo Wave Au Go Go By David Dacks RadioI Ching's new disc features a more conventional sound than ever before.The trio of Andy Haas, Don Fiorino and Dee Pop swing nicely but thi...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:55:00 GMT

DMG reviews No wave Au Go Go

RADIO I-CHING [ANDY HAAS/DON FIORINO/DEE POP] - No Wave Au Go Go (Resonant 06; USA) Featuring Andy Haas on sax & electronics, Don Fiorino on guitar, banjo, mandolin & glissentar and Dee Pop on drums &...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:43:00 GMT

Time Out NY reviews No Wave Au Go Go

Posted in The Volume (Music News of Note) by Hank Shteamer on March 18th, 2009:The term fusion usually connotes something brainy and maybe even a little effete. A noteworthy contemporary exception is ...
Posted by on Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:18:00 GMT

Big Takeover reviews Radio I-Ching

Review of The Fire Keeps Burning in Big Takeover Magazine:You wouldn't necessarily expect members of the Bush Tetras and Martha and the Muffins to join forces as part of a space jam ensemble, but that...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:55:00 GMT

Fire Keeps Burning review in GAZ ETA

From GAZ ETA on line music magazine: October 2008   Radio I-ChingThe Fire Keeps Burning While some remember saxophonist Andy Haas as a member of Canada's pride and joy Martha and the Muffins, I t...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:41:00 GMT

Jazz Times reviews The Ruins of America

Jazz Times November 2008 Saxophonist Andy Haas, a former member of Martha and the Muffins and collaborator with such downtown icons as John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Zeena Parkins, and Ikue Mori, works with...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:56:00 GMT

Time Out NY blurb on The Ruins of America

Time Out New York October 23  30, 2008  Radio I-Ching member Andy Haas plays in support of his new solo effort, The Ruins of America, on which he overdubs and electronically processes his probin...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:54:00 GMT