Arto Lindsay
Arto Lindsay
Arthur Morgan "Arto" Lindsayis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth28 May 1953
CountryUnited States of America
parent brazil born
My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.
summer knitting europe
We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer.
strong rocks people
The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.
house different band
It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place.
people asian elements
We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.
mistake thinking ambitious
I think the Ambitious Lovers never got their due- we had terrible management and at that point, we were on major labels and we didn't have any music business savvy which we could have used. We made a series of hilarious mistakes not in terms of music but in terms of making it happen.
real guitar being-different
The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me.
thinking years dna
Years ago when DNA was going on, I produced a record in Italy but I didn't think I'd do another one.