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A Bleeding in Black Leather

by The Red Microphone

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    Album cover art by Javier Hernandez Miyares
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ESP-Disk artists The Red Microphone’s radical poetry and free improvisational music draws on the fervent history of outsider jazz, revolutionary poetry and New York’s raw downtown underground. The band’s latest, A Bleeding in Black Leather, exemplifies its fusion of sound and word in new and daring ways, conjuring not only the Beat Generation, but a century of spoken word and music on the edge, from early Greenwich Village salons to the punk poets of our streets. With this collection, the Red Microphone has secured a a body of work and line-up of musicians that reconstructs its 12-year history.

Corresponding with the newly published book by ensemble founder John Pietaro, also entitled A Bleeding in Black Leather (UnCollected Press, 2022), the band’s latest album has been deemed a throbbing roller-coaster ride through latent modernism, sounds, naked improvisation and the city itself. Threading the album together are the three distinct “phases” of the title piece, its powerful theme composed by Rocco John Iacovone and transfigured across the album within various moods and levels of urgency. The rest of the music, envelope-pushing, of the moment, utterly free, by way of tenor saxophonist Ras Moshe Burnett, trumpet player Mac Gollehon(David Bowie, James Chance), alto saxophonist Iacovone, bassist Laurie Towers and the twin electric guitars of Dave Ross and Javier Hernandez Miyares paint a backdrop for tales of steaming asphalt, East Village nightlife, Brooklyn legend and Cold War myth.

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released September 30, 2022

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The Red Microphone was founded as a quartet of Pietaro, Towers, Moshe and Iacovone in 2010 to record “Brecht Breakdown” for British label IAR’s The Beat Sounds from Way Out. The band has performed widely, recording independent CD The Red Microphone Speaks in 2013, and for ESP-Disk, the critically acclaimed Amina Baraka & the Red Microphone (2017), followed by And I Became of the Dark (2021). ... more

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