Morgan Craft

Morgan Craft is a musician / electric guitarist born in New Brighton, Minnesota. He moved to New York in 1994. He founded Circle Of Light Recordings in 2001. He has played with Butch Morris, Talib Kweli, Pete Cosey, Ikue Mori, Meshell Ndegeocello, Anton Fig, Beans, Muzz Skillings, Greg Osby, Rhodri Davies, Johnny Kemp, Marc Ribot, Christian Marclay, Simon H. Fell, Nona Hendryx, Carl Hancock Rux, Daniel Carter, Vernon Reid, Greg Tate.
Currently based in Toscana, Italia, he has spent the last five years constructing a new machine.

MORGAN CRAFT / "A Cycle Of Seven" (Circle of Light Recordings) 2011.
Limited time edition.

http://www.roughamericana.com/publicfiles/MorganCraft-ACycleOfSeven.zip

ALL SOUNDS MADE BY, ON, OR THROUGH SOLO ELECTRIC GUITAR. IMPROVISED AND RECORDED LIVE.

"It's absolutely human. The body and its intelligences are a machine. It's about using all of your talents and all of your interests as one complete expression, without having to divide yourself up to fit into a box. I'm obsessed with composite forms, new kinds of agglomerations and energies. The new machine is not some fixed definition, it's a constant unfolding. It's a phrase that keeps my attention facing forward. I've talked a lot about the new black American avant-garde and improvisation. For myself this involves a melding of my particular cultural attributes to the point where there is no division or hesitation between the parts. I'm interested in rhythm, the rhythms found in nature, the relationships we have with the seasons, the ocean, cosmology, literature, photography, digital video, volume, excess, discipline. The new machine isn't concerned with boundaries, only whether it can be of use or not. It can take energy from any arena and apply it where needed. But it must be functional, it must be real and not languishing in theoretical musings. The new machine should be severely physical."