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"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"

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A little throwaway logistics, a whole worldview of downtown music-making. Arto Lindsay isn’t selling a masterpiece here; he’s reporting from the trenches of creation, where the work is always half-finished, half-booked, and somehow already public. “We recorded that trio and it’s out” lands with the casualness of a scene where releasing a record isn’t a coronation, it’s a dispatch. The Knitting Factory label isn’t just distribution; it’s a stamp of a particular ecosystem: New York’s post-punk/jazz-adjacent, genre-melting culture where the venue, the community, and the catalog blur together.

The subtext is the anti-myth of artistic certainty. “Another record in the can” is studio slang that makes the art sound like inventory, as if inspiration can be warehoused. Yet that practicality is itself an aesthetic: Lindsay’s career has long treated friction, process, and imperfect edges as the point, not the problem. Naming “Marc” without explanation (Marc Ribot, almost certainly) assumes an insider audience that follows players like characters in an ongoing serial, reinforcing how these scenes run on relationships more than on branding.

The best tell is the deadline: “hopefully finish some time before next summer.” Hope, not hype. It’s an artist admitting that momentum exists, but control is limited-by touring, money, mixing, life, taste. The intent is modest on the surface, but it’s a quiet manifesto: art happens in bursts, in rooms with friends, under time pressure, and the future is always a tentative promissory note.

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Lindsay, Arto. (2026, January 17). 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. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-recorded-that-trio-and-its-out-on-the-knitting-37552/

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Lindsay, Arto. "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." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-recorded-that-trio-and-its-out-on-the-knitting-37552/.

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"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." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-recorded-that-trio-and-its-out-on-the-knitting-37552/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Arto Lindsay (born May 28, 1953) is a Musician from USA.

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