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Arto Lindsay (b. 1953) has stood at the intersection of music and art for more than four decades. As a member of DNA, he contributed to the foundation of No Wave. As bandleader for the Ambitious Lovers he developed an intensely subversive pop music,a hybrid of American and Brazilian styles.. Throughout his career, Lindsay has collaborated with both visual and musical artists, including Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Animal Collective, Matthew Barney, Caetano Veloso and Rirkrit Tiravanija.Having been involved with carnaval in Brazil for many years in 2004 he began making parades.

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Interview

Arto Lindsay: Watch Out Madames!

Read "Arto Lindsay: Watch Out Madames!" reviewed by Enrico Bettinello


Since his DNA and Ambitious Lovers adventures, Arto Lindsay's artistry has been defined by a tireless drive and capacity to bridge musical cultures, sounds and arts, making him one of the most intriguing musicians of our times. His new album, the first CD of new songs in over a decade, Cuidado Madame (Northern Spy Records), has just been released and so All About Jazz decided to catch up with him, in advance of his US tour, to ...

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Arto Lindsay: Cuidado Madame

Read "Cuidado Madame" reviewed by Luca Canini


Un disco tutto nuovo dopo tredici anni. Un'attesa lunga, lunghissima. Addolcita è vero da progetti più o meno laterali (la militanza nello sgangherato collettivo Anarchist Republic of Bzzz), da concerti, esibizioni in solo e deviazioni impreviste (Scarcicity, il duo free-noise con il batterista Paal Nilssen-Love), da comparsate su lavori altrui (agli ordini di Lucas Santtana nel fantastico Sem Nostalgia) e da un doppio antologico che a definirlo raccolta si fa peccato mortale (Encyclopedia of Arto). Ma di un disco vero ...

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Interview

Arto contemporaneo!

Read "Arto contemporaneo!" reviewed by Enrico Bettinello


Artista vulcanico e originalissimo, sin dai tempi dei DNA e degli Ambitious Lovers, ponte tra culture e sonorità, nonché tra le arti, che frequenta con ostinata e eccellente trasversalità, Arto Lindsay è uno dei musicisti più intriganti dei nostri tempi. In occasione dell'uscita del suo nuovo disco Cuidado Madame, l'abbiamo raggiunto per una chiacchierata sul disco e molto altro. All About Jazz: Direi di iniziare la nostra intervista dal titolo del tuo nuovo disco, Cuidado ...

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Lyrics

Save the Date - Luglio 2014

Read "Save the Date - Luglio 2014" reviewed by Luca Canini


Impazza l'estate, impazzano i festival. Rassegne, eventi, raduni, piazze, castelli, arene, vicoli, spettatori sudati che non sanno come sbarazzarsi della coppetta del gelato appena trangugiato, bambini aggrappati ai passeggini, improbabili canotte, pelli bruciacchiate, aperitivi in ogni dove e concerti a non finire. Ma di qualità poca. L'infilata di meraviglie che ha caratterizzato la primavera è un pallido ricordo. Sale la temperatura e si torna al dozzinale. Troppi quelli che puntano sui nomi di richiamo, pochi quelli che cercano di salvare ...

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Arto Lindsay: Invoke

Read "Invoke" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Arto Lindsay’s music has always been deserving of Duke Ellington’s ‘beyond category’ classification. For a guitarist who has never learned to play his guitar, he has been making music since the “no wave” 1970s in the noisy band DNA, the 80s in Lounge Lizards, the Golden Palominos, and Lindsay’s pop band Ambitious Lovers. His music has come to full maturation in his solo projects of the 1990s with a string of albums O Corpo Sutil/The Subtle Body (1996), Mundo Civilizado ...

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Performance / Tour

Whitney Museum of American Art Continues SoundCheck Series with Arto Lindsay

Whitney Museum of American Art Continues SoundCheck Series with Arto Lindsay

Source: All About Jazz

On Friday, October 15, the Whitney Museum's SoundCheck series presents downtown pioneer of avant-garde music Arto Lindsay on guitar. Lindsay, who grew up in Brazil, fuses rhythms, melodies, and verbal expressions from diverse cultures and musical genres. His provocative music transcends the limitations of free improvisation and noise works to embrace pop forms in his own unique synthesis of musical styles. A respected vocalist, musician, producer, and songwriter, Lindsay has collaborated with figures such as David Byrne, Brian Eno, Laurie ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Cuidado Madame

Northern Spy Records
2017

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Scarcity

Güt
2014

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Salt

Güt
2004

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Invoke

Righteous Babe
2002

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