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Redhooker

About Me

Thanks to Steve Smith for a great review in Time Out New York! Thanks also to John Schaefer and John Diliberto who have been playing "The Future According to Yesterday" on their show "New Sounds" on WNYC and "Echoes", syndicated on public radio stations around the country - go to www.echoes.org to find a station in your area.Hardly a week passes in the TONY classical pages without cause to repeat a certain observation: The borders between classical and popular music have never been as willfully blurred as they are now. That’s not a nod to the pallid oratorios and highfalutin recitals served up by aging rockers, but rather an acknowledgment of the groundbreaking work being done by an emerging generation of composers and performers, for whom Mogwai and Moby can signify as much as Machaut and Messiaen.Stephen Griesgraber is no stranger to locals who have followed this burgeoning trend: His guitar provides a strand in the gossamer music of Christopher Tignor’s postminimalist ensemble SlowSix. Griesgraber’s quartet, Redhooker, named for the Brooklyn neighborhood in which its repertoire gestated, includes two fellow SlowSix collaborators, violinist Maxim Moston and keyboardist Rob Collins; clarinetist Peter Hess completes the group.Griesgraber’s music on The Future According to Yesterday, Redhooker’s debut CD, shares some of SlowSix’s more appealing qualities, most notably the chiming sound of Collins’s electric piano and a sense of narcotic drift enhanced by subtle electronics. The leader’s spare, tonal melodies and repeated rhythms draw upon minimalism, but his compositions develop and conclude more succinctly. Clocking in at less than 30 minutes, the disc includes four pieces that seem to melt into an extended, melancholy dreamscape. (Available at cdbaby.com.) — Steve Smith

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 18/04/2007
Band Members: Stephen Griesgraber and those he's been fortunate to collaborate with....Rob Collins, Peter Hess, Ben Lively, Maxim Moston, Andie "Just a Stranger on the Bus" Springer, and Christopher Tignor.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Preview

In honor of Friday the 13th, I've decided to post a preview track from our upcoming album "Vespers." It is titled "Bedside." Hope you enjoy!
Posted by on Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:15:00 GMT

New Record

Friends, fans, lovers.....I am pleased to report that we are nearly finished with our new record, "Vespers."  The record was tracked in December and the final mixing session is scheduled for this comi...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:01:00 GMT

New Track

For the past two years, the outstanding online music magazine, The Silent Ballet, has been releasing digital compilations of new tracks by some of their favorite new and emerging artists. The Summer ...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:21:00 GMT

CD versus MP3?

Why buy physical CDs these days? Not many reasons left, of course, especially since most of us rip them for play on our computers and iPods even when we do actually buy one. But here's one reason to...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:41:00 GMT

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to everyone and thank you so much for the support this past year! Special thanks to these webzines, writers, and bloggers who included "The Future According to Yesterday" among their n...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:26:00 GMT

The Deli Magazine

Thanks to Nancy Chow for the wonderful piece in the Deli Magazine. I'm not sure yet if it's in the print edition, but you can find it here online. We're sitting just underneath my friend and neighbo...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 08:53:00 GMT

Pitchfork!

Thanks to David Raposa for a great write up in that holy grail of indie e-media, Pitchfork. Check it out here and let me know what you think of the new tune! And special thanks to Cristina Tufino f...
Posted by on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:03:00 GMT

Decoy Music

Thanks to Armand Babian for the funniest record review received yet. It's also well written and intelligent by the way, but props to Armand for not being shy about calling out the absurdity that shar...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 00:29:00 GMT

Enough about me....let’s talk Fergie!

Does anyone else appreciate the irony of Fergie selling her *Hummer* and donating the proceeds to "Global Green"?http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI tem&item=270161208439
Posted by on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:19:00 GMT

Lycanthropy Review

Thanks to Jackman Chiu for a great review on Lycanthropy! There's also a stream of Sunday Silence on the blog - I believe it's the only place on the web where you can find that tune. Also, it's gene...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:15:00 GMT