Arthur Morgan "Arto" Lindsay (born May 28, 1953) is an American guitarist, singer, record producer and experimental composer. He first achieved recognition as part of New York no wave group DNA in the late 1970s.
He has a distinctive soft voice and an often noisy, self-taught guitar style consisting almost entirely of extended techniques, described by Brian Olewnick as "studiedly naïve ... sounding like the bastard child of Derek Bailey".[2] His guitar work is contrasted frequently with gentler, sensuous Brazilian music themes.
Although Lindsay was born in the United States, he spent many years in Brazil with his missionary parents. He grew up during the Tropicália, which included musicians Caetano Veloso, Gal Costa, Os Mutantes, and Gilberto Gil, as well as the visual artists Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark, and Antonio Dias. This time of cultural experimentation and artistic cross-pollination made a lasting impact on him.
In New York City, Lindsay began his artistic ambitions as a writer but quickly became interested in the art and music scenes that were evolving out punk rock. In the late 1970s, he helped form the no wave band DNA with Ikue Mori and Robin Crutchfield, although Tim Wright of Pere Ubu soon replaced Crutchfield. In 1978, DNA was featured on the four-band sampler No New York (produced by Brian Eno) which brought an early taste of international notoriety to the group and which became the essential document of No Wave. Rock critic Lester Bangs called the group's ritualistic vocals and deliberately primitive, shredding guitar "horrible noise".
In the early 1980s, Lindsay performed on early albums by The Lounge Lizards and The Golden Palominos. These groups destroyed distinctions between rock, pop, improvisation, and avant-garde music.[citation needed] After Lindsay becoming friends with John Zorn, he played in several of Zorn's bands, including Locus Solus.
After the Lounge Lizards, Lindsay and keyboardist Peter Scherer formed the Ambitious Lovers, influenced by pop, samba, and bossa nova. In an interview with Bomb magazine, Linsday said, "the whole idea was Al Green and samba. That against this; this against that; not a blend, a juxtaposition, loud/soft. There's no particular point in putting these things together. The point is what comes out in the end."
The band's three albums, Greed, Envy, and Lust, were Lindsay's entry into a major record label. But the band's experimental music was ignored by fans in the mainstream. In 1991 Ambitious Lovers broke up, though Lindsay continued to work with Scherer.
In the early 1990s Lindsay began to rarefy his singing voice and started a solo career influenced by his Brazilian roots. In Portuguese he sang bossa nova songs such as "Este Seu Olhar" by Antônio Carlos Jobim. With Melvin Gibbs, Vinicius Cantuária, and producer Andres Levin, he moved to electronica on the albums O Corpo Sutil (The Subtle Body) (1996), Mundo Civilizado (1997), Noon Chill (1998), Prize (1999), Invoke (2002), and Salt (2004). He composed soundtracks, dance commissions, and continued No Wave-related styles in the Arto Lindsay Trio with Gibbs and Dougie Bowne. Their album Aggregates 1–26 (1995) was released by Knitting Factory.
In 1998, he collaborated with Arnaldo Antunes and Davi Moraes on the track "Sem Você" for the AIDS benefit compilation album Onda Sonora: Red Hot + Lisbon produced by the Red Hot Organization. In 2004, he co-produced and played with Seb el Zin on the album Anarchist Republic of Bzzz with Marc Ribot, Mike Ladd, and Sensational.
Lindsay has also worked with Laurie Anderson, Animal Collective, Alain Bashung, David Byrne, Gal Costa, Bill Frisell, Kip Hanrahan, IlIe AiyIe Krisma, Cibo Matto, Marisa Monte, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Selena, Naná Vasconcelos, Caetano Veloso, and Tom Waits.
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