Monthly Archives: July 2012

Recommended Event: 2012 ISTANBULIVE IV at Lincoln Center (NY)

Date: Saturday, July 28, 2012
Time: 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM
Venue:Damrosch Park Bandshell’s Lincoln Center (W. 62nd Street, b/w Amsterdam & Columbus Aves, NY)
Ticket: free
Genre: from Turkish pops to traditional music to Jazz

Presented by Serdar Ilhan and Mehmet Dede Supported by the Turkish Ministry of Culture & Tourism

Istanbulive is back for a fourth year this summer.  Istanbulive IV will debut at Lincoln Center Out of Doors on Saturday July 28, 2012. In order to make this year’s Istanbulive the best to date, the producers invite you to participate in their $10,000 donation campaign at Kickstarter.com. The additional funding will help cover the extensive production and marketing expenses

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CD review: Sylvain Leroux’s music of “French Creole…Creoles of color”.

Artist: Sylvain Leroux
Title: Quatuor Creole
Label: Engine Rec
Genre: world/jazz
Review by Leo Volf

Sylvain Leroux‘s debut recording Quatuor Creole might not necessarily be groundbreaking or earth shattering, but at times is quite pleasant. The music is a mix of two New Orleans’ cultures: the “French Creole” and “Creoles of color”. While one can nitpick and pin point exactly where one can hear each particular influence, that does not seem to be Leroux’s prerogative. The album and this cultural fusion manage to create its own kind texture, one that is predominantly jovial. With that being said, there is still enough variety throughout the recording, mostly due to the ensemble’s diverse instrumentation, to keep the listener engaged for the full duration.

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Music Listings – 7/16 through 7/22

1. Trio Mundo & Dawoud

Date: Monday, July 16, 2012
Time: 8:30pm (Trio Mundo) & 9:30pm (Dawoud)
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215,  646-820-9452)
Ticket: $10
Genre: World/Jazz fusion

Inspired by the vast musical traditions from around the world – east and west, acoustic and electronic, modern and ancient – these varied genres provide a creative and sacred inspiration for Dawoud. Through his artistic vision and unprecedented use of the Indian sitar, he is illuminating a new musical path.
If Dawoud’s music could be defined, it would be World – Jazz Fusion. It’s a jazz experience from an other-worldly realm; a New Age experience with a Downbeat / electronica edge. His music is peaceful, and will awaken within you a hidden source of energy as a friend and guide on your journey.

Dawoud – sitar, dilruba, and whatever else he feels like playing. Jimmy Lopez – acoustic & electronic percussion

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Film documentary: Birders – The Central Park Effect featuring Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi for “32 seconds of fame.”

 

Title: Birders: The Central Park Effect
Director: Jeffrey Kimball
Producer: OTHER NOISES PRODUCTION
Music composer: Paul Damian Hogan
Editor: Daniel Baer
Length: 60 minutes
Country: USA
Media: HBO Documentary Films
Premier show date: Monday, July 16, 2012 at 9pm and it will be shown for 6 months or more
DVD release: by the end of this year

Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

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Concert Review: Fishbone at CBGB FESTIVAL 2012

Date: July 9, 2012
Venue: Brooklyn Bowl (NY, Brooklyn)
Concert review by Jim Hoey

While the first ever CBGB Festival was raging all over town this week and bands were playing in the hot sun defying expectations, some of the older bands on these round-town bills were trying to bring back the magic of ’02, ’92, or ’82. This is the agenda of the CBGB Fest: present emerging and established artists in the spirit of early NYC punk and Hilly Kristal (CBGB’s owner).

When Fishbone took the stage this Sunday at Brooklyn Bowl for the final performance of the festival, they did just that, playing a raucous, hard hitting set that dwarfed the efforts of the opening act, Paranoid Social Club, and probably most of the other bands playing on bills across town at venues like Central Park Summer Stage and Times Square. Groups like Agnostic Front, Guided By Voices, the So So Glos, Superchunk, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, and the Hold Steady all fanned out across the city and presented a battering array of sounds for curious fans to attempt to experience. Fishbone was the one act I was able to catch.

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