![]() ![]() Before I started playing chords and scales I played slide using the test tubes from my chemistry set. When I started playing slide guitar I felt even more attached to this sound, because it is so vocal. I read a lot about these musicians, and began being interested in Country Blues. That’s how I found my way to records by Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf and Robert Johnson. From the very beginning, I was interested in who wrote those songs. “My first contact with Blues was through the Yardbirds and the Rolling Stones. His Blues aren’t playing in the Mississippi Delta or on Chicago’s South side, but in the witch’s cauldron of the Hudson Delta, the most famous island of which is named Manhattan. Yet, he does not copy the alleged Romanticism of the pre-modern cotton fields. His songs on ”Secret Life” are of archaic beauty. He looks for authenticity, continuity and stability in his Blues. When Elliott Sharp speaks about the Blues, he does not mean translating the Blues into futuristic corset, regardless of how it is defined. With his band Terraplane he has been piloting the abyss of the Blues for some years now. ![]() His folk-rock band, Mofungo, is legendary. In addition to all of these innovative bands and projects Sharp also occasionally returns to the traditional. He has written works for orchestras and string quartets, which have been performed by the Kronos Quartet and the Soldier String Quartet with his Band Carbon he redefined the Jazzcore together with Ned Rothenberg and Samm Bennett he formed the avant-garde Trio, Semantics he has improvised with John Zorn, Zeena Parkins, Christian Marclay, Marc Ribot, Joey Baron, DJ Soulslinger and many others with his Tectonics project he brought the triumphs of Techno and Drum ‘n’ Bass together with experiences in free improvisation he has celebrated pure rock power with such bands as the Boodlers, Bootstrappers or most recently Raw Meat formed the guitar trio, Guitar Oblique, with Vernon Reid and David Torn and his State Of The Union compilations he regularly takes stock of the New York scene – just to name a few of his activities. There is hardly another artist who is active in so many areas of music than Sharp. Following 9/11, only few have regained this language. The innovation of this biotope, the achievements between Noise and the Postmodern dominated Jazz and the likes for over two decades. It is not all that long ago, that guitarist, saxophonist and composer, Elliott Sharp, was one of the protagonists in New York’s Downtown Scene, hanging around in such clubs as the Knitting Factory, the Kitchen or Tonic. this is the real blues of the 21st century." (Mike Shanley, Jazztimes)
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