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LiveWired Music is the brainchild of entrepreneur and architect Colin Faber, a music company launched as a non-profit, with a set of lofty goals including education, community activism and artistic freedom. It’s no pun to say “lofty,” as the LiveWired will eventually create spaces to make these ideals accessible in its building projects.
Bill Murphy, who was recruited by Faber from Bill Laswell’s Axiom label, described LiveWired’s manifesto is as follows:
“LiveWired is committed to empowering artists, building communities, preserving culture and legacy, and providing a workable and accessible model for sharing the arts. LiveWired works in a cutting-edge fashion to utilize new technologies, foster sustainable planning through education, and engage leading masters to nurture and guide the LiveWired imperative, which promotes cross-cultural creative exchange across all media platforms.”
The first four projects released under the LiveWired Music imprint are by Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber (Making Love to the Dark Ages); Melvin Gibbs’ Elevated Entity (Ancients Speak); M. Nahadr (Eclectic is M) and On Ka’a Davis (Seeds of Djuke). LiveWired plans to release the debut from SociaLybrium, the Bernie Worrell/Blackbyrd McKnight/Melvin Gibbs/JT Lewis powerhouse.
I would describe the music as underground jazz, r&b, and funk, but infused with the consciousness of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, George Clinton, Bitches’ Brew-era Miles and Ornette Coleman’s explorations among others. Melvin Gibbs, the massive presence on bass that supports several of the initial LiveWired Music projects, describes the area he is working in as the Black Atlantic Continuum:
“For me, there’s a different arc than the one that’s usually traced between Jamaica, New York City, England and the West Indies. For me, it’s New York City, South Carolina, the Caribbean and Brazil. New York is the center; the whole world is here. You can make ten thousand records here just walking down the street. You just gotta look for them.”
At LiveWired Music, the search for the future of music is on!
