Category Archives: Concert And Event Reviews

Follow Up of the Dark Circuits Festival 2014: First Videos

Dark Circuits FestivalText by Hans Tammen (producer of the Dark Circuits Festival 2014)

Date: Saturday, June 14 through Monday, June 23, 2014
Venues: Harvestworks, REVERSE, Silent Barn, Outpost Artists Resources, Spectrum, MakeMusicNY, The Firehouse, Eyebeam and Shapeshifter Lab.
Genre: contemporary electronic music

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Another Concert Review: The Road to Jajouka featuring the Master Musicians of Jajouka w/Bachir Attar, Billy Martin, Marc Ribot, Shahzad Ismaily, DJ Logic, and opening set by Eliot Sharp and Bachir Attar

IMG_0119Date: June 15, 2015
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (NY)

Review and photos by Keith Brooks and Ann Fawcett Ambia

Thanks to a couple of free tix from Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi, my friend Ann and I got to see the Road to Jajouka performance at Le Poisson Rouge on June 15th. For those, like us, who were not familiar with the Master Musicians of Jajouka, (although Ann and I caught a brief glimpse of their music when they appeared at the Ornette Coleman tribute at Prospect Park a few nights before) perhaps the first question to be addressed is : who are they, and why have so many diverse musicians sought them out to play and record with going back to 1971?

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Concert Review: Kosi’s “Pictures of Us” CD Release Party In Harlem

Kosi (photo by Dawoud Kringle)

Kosi (photo by Dawoud Kringle)

Date: June 2, 2014
Venue: Silvana (NY)
Review by Dawoud Kringle

It was a warm spring night in Harlem when Silvana hosted the CD release party of songwriter and jazz vocal stylist Kosi‘s (a.k.a. Kosi Gyebi Sorensen) newest recording Pictures of Us. The show was webcasted through concertwindow.com (and got good reviews).

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