1. Death w. The Everymen & Purling Hiss
Date: Monday, July 1, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $22
Genre: indie rock/punk
Established in Detroit in 1974. Death is one of Rock-N-Roll’s most unique and inspiring bands. Three brothers who played some of the hardest-driving Rock-N-Roll and recorded a now classic album in 1975. Rejected for their sound, their name, and their color, 34 years later the band Death began receiving what is now world-wide recognition for the Rock-N-Roll music they created in Detroit throughout the seventies. Their music and message is universal, and the sound of Death is unique and tight! The new Death album tracks have just been completed for an exciting array of new Death music to be presented in the upcoming 2013/14 season.
2. Sirius Quartet/Flandrew Fleisenberg/ Valerie Kuehne
Date: Monday, July 1, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: Panoply Performance Laboratory (104 Meserole Street, Brooklyn, New York 11206)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: imrov/electronics/drum solo/nu music
Born and bred in the downtown scene of New York City, the Sirius Quartet blends the precision of classical music with the energy of a rock band. The four conservatory-trained musicians are also highly skilled improvisers. Whether playing acoustically or with electronic effects they push beyond the conventional sonic vocabulary associated with string instruments. From Lincoln Center and the Köln Triennale to the Knitting Factory and CBGB’s the Sirius makes itself at home in a wide range of venues and musical styles.
Fresh outta Boston, Flandrew Fleisenberg will do unthinkable things with drums.
Brooklyn-based cellist/singer Valerie Kuehne will play all the songs that get stuck in her head.
3. The Fay Victor Ensemble
Date: Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Time: 8:15pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $10
Genre: vocal jazz/improv
The Fay Victor Ensemble play music from the upcoming release ABSINTHE & VERMOUTH.
Fay Victor – voice, compositions
Anders Nilsson – electric guitar, effects
Ken Filiano – double bass, effects
Look forward to whimsical, wacky, cinematic compositions and improvisational abstractions.
“Fay Victor has a rich, commanding voice that’s matched by a sense of adventure, like Betty Carter if that late singer hung around the current Downtown New York scene. Guitarist Anders Nilsson, bassist Ken Filiano and drummer Michael T.A. Thompson work closely with Victor, combining free improvisation, blues, and some kind of rock style…they always stay on an even keel with the vocals, whose ease blurs the lines between written word and spontaneous story.”
– Mike Shanley , JazzTimes
4. Brian Landrus’ Kaleidoscope Quintet with a string quartet
Date: Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Joe’s Pub (425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003, 212-967-7555)
Tickets: $15
Genre: jazz
Brian Landrus – bari sax, bass clarinet, alto flute
Kenny Wessel – guitar
Frank Carlberg – Rhodes & piano
Lonnie Plaxico – electric & acoustic bass
Billy Hart – drums
Sara Caswell – violin
Joyce Hammann – violin
Judith Insell – viola
Jody Redage – cello
Ryan Truesdell – conductor
5. The Garifuna Collective and Danny Michel
Date: Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: Highline Ballroom (431 W 16th St, New York, NY 10011, 212-414-5994)
Ticket: $18
Genre: Afro-Amerindian music
The Garifuna Collective
Andy Palacio & The Garifuna Collective‘s 2007 album Wátina is one of the most praised world music albums ever released. On the cusp of tremendous fame, Andy passed away suddenly a year after Wátina was released, leaving the world to wonder just how big he could have become. His band has continued where Andy left off, and with Wátina producer Ivan Duran back at the helm, have produced a soul-stirring collection of songs inspired by their unique Afro-Amerindian cultural heritage. With a lineup that consists of the best musicians in the fertile Garifuna music scene, The Garifuna Collective promises to carry the torch of cultural preservation and promotion passed on by Andy Palacio far into the future.
Danny Michel
Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me is Danny Michel’s 10th album, and first on a label in almost five years. The lyrically poignant, 3 time Juno nominated singer-songwriter’s new album is a gem, and brings Michel and his committed audience to Six Shooter Records.
Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me was recorded in Belize with The Garifuna Collective, a unique Afro-Amerindian cultural group. It is currently nominated for a Juno and released world wide through Stonetree Records (Belize), Cumbancha (U.S.) and Six Shooter Records (Canada) alongside a new album by The Garifuna Collective. Black Birds dives into the waves of Belize’s musical deep, featuring Maya guitar, turtle shells, donkey jaw-bone and traditional Garifuna segunda and primero drums. Michel cultivates lush rhythms and sounds as the perfect backdrop for his buoyantly eloquent songwriting style.
6. Moshe/Cole/Dulberger
Date: Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Time: 7:30pm – 11:30pm
Venue: Spectrum (121 Ludlow, Second Floor, New York, NY, 650-400-5100)
Ticket: $10-20 dollar floating donation
Genre: improv/free
Ras Moshe on tenor saxophone, Bill Cole on Ghanaian atenteben, Chinese suona, Korean hojok and piri, South Indian nagaswaram, North Indian shehnai, and Australian didjeridu and Shayna Dulberger on upright bass.
Moshe, Cole and Dulberger revisit their small improv trio dipping deep into the roots or free jazz and art music. Cole best known for his work with Sam Rivers, Billy Bang and William Parker has been performing on reed instruments from through out the world since the 1970’s.
7. Rokh-e Khåk (رخ خاک)
Date: Thursday, July 4, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Stone (is located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Classical Persian music and poetry
Rokh-e Khåk is: Jessika Kenney (voice), Hidayat Honari (tar, setar) and Eyvind Kang (viola, setar)
8. James Chance & The Contortions , Sal P (of Liquid Liquid) , R. Stevie Moore , and Endless Boogie
Date: Saturday, July 6, 2013
Time: 10pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $15
Genre:
One of the original punk jazz groups of the New York No Wave scene, the Contortions were led by saxophonist James Chance, aka James White (birth name James Siegfried). The group formed in New York City in 1977 and ended along with the No Wave scene in 1979.
Their first recorded appearance, credited solely as the Contortions, was on the 1978 compilation, No New York. The following year, two albums were issued almost simultaneously on the ZE label, Buy the Contortions (an extreme jazz-punk LP) and Off White (a disco/standards hybrid released under the moniker James White and the Blacks, with one side vocals, the other side instrumentals). The same line-up recorded both records, although no one aside from Chance appears or is credited on the jacket of the Buy album. Following Chance and manager Anya Philips’ acrimonious break with many of the original Contortions, the line-up changed frequently.
Chance was romantically linked with another New York No Wave luminary, Lydia Lunch; in 1979 Lunch appeared on the album Off White as “Stella Rico”). Original Contortions guitarist Pat Place went on to found the group the Bush Tetras. Guitarist Jody Harris formed neo-surf combo the Raybeats with Don Christensen, George Scott III and Pat Irwin. Keyboardist Adele Bertei formed the Bloods. In 1979 George Scott toured with John Cale as documented on the album Sabotage Live. Some of the African-American band members of “the Blacks,” notably Joseph Bowie, later separated from Chance and formed the band Defunkt.
-via last.fm
9. Renegade Sufi
Date: Sunday, July 7, 2013
Time: 10pm -11pm
Venue: The Delancy (168 Delancy Street, NY)
Ticket: free
Genre: sitar-based electronic jazz
Renegade Sufi plays a singular blend of sitar-based electronic jazz. Led by multi-instrumentalist and composer Dawoud—who has performed and recorded with such artists as Lauryn Hill, James Blood Ulmer, and Nona Hendryx—the group expands upon classical raga with otherworldly electronics, hypnotic drum loops, and free-jazz-style improvisation to produce deep, trancelike grooves. He will be joined by Jimmy Lopez (percussion) and Rahn, Holly Cordero (bass), and special guests.
