Selected Clips:
The Clown of Osaka
  
New York Dissolution
  

Seth Misterka began his musicial activity in the underground noise scene of Western Massachusetts. With his friends Diagram:A, and proof of the shooting... he started the cassette label "Sound Probe Recordings" which released intricately packaged cassettes of electronic noise. Misterka issued his first project "Rock and Roll Deconstruction Structures" (1996), a cassette wrapped in a melted vinyl with the sounds of Misterka destroying well-known rock records, on Sound Probe.

After spending time living in Spain as an exchange student, Misterka returned to the U.S. determined to pursue a career in music. He began playing saxophone and working with computer music as a philosophy student at Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT). Under the mentorship of Anthony Braxton, he aided the development of a vibrant creative music scene in Middletown through his activities as a perfomer, promoter, and record producer . He was a co-founder of The Middletown Creative Orchestra, the leader or co-leader of a number of smaller groups (including CCM4, The Middletown 3, and Scrapyard N), and the founder of Newsonic Records. Misterka was also a member of Braxton's Ghost Trance Ensmble performing at a number of European festivals including Jazz em Agosto, Verona Jazz, and Banlieues Bleues.

In 1999, he moved to New York entering a period of intense poverty and solitude. The musical result of this period was the critically accalimed solo CD "MOH". After releasing "MOH" Misterka began organizing concerts around the city with CIC (Kevin Norton, James Fei, Brian Glick, Jackson Moore, Chris Jonas, and Misterka). He also began performing solo concerts as well as leading his own bands including Seth Misterka and the Misterka Clones, The Demon, and Dynasty . In the summer of 2001, Misterka toured Japan with his old Middletown cohorts CCM4. Upon returning, he issued critically acclaimed CDs from the Misterka Clones, and The Demon.

Currently, Misterka resides in his Brooklyn studio where he hosts recording sessions and concerts.

Dynasty
   Seth Misterka (saxophones)
   Jennifer Deveau (bass)
   Edward Kasparek (drums)

We continue to be impressed with Seth's development and his concept of the "jazz" aesthetic.  If you want to hear where the next generation of saxophonists is taking jazz, you definately want to take this disc on.   The sound is raw and in your face...nothing subtle about it...just pure energy without a seatbelt.  If Brötzmann was just starting out today, this is no doubt where he would be.

Comes with our highest recommendation.

"Dynasty is dirty, mean, and in your face.   Once again, Misterka proves he ranks among the meanest blowers of his generation." -- Francois Couture, All-Music Guide, Four Stars

"Drama, frenzy, sax, sexy lady on bass with a bow and a just f****-with-me stance, and the craziest drummer.  They belong in a David Lynch film." -- A.J. Duric

8 tracks in 40:27 minutes

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