1. The Mast & East India Youth
Date: Monday, November 17, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: Mercury Lounge (217 East Houston St., New York, NY 10002)
Price: $10
Genre: electronic/experimental/pop
The Mast is vocalist and instrumentalist Haleh Gafori and percussionist and beatsmith Matt Kilmer. Merging live electronics, vocals, and percussion, The Mast creates a full-spectrum sonic experience that features “Haleh’s phenomenally powerful, nuanced, and hypnotic voice and Matt’s gorgeous deft beats (both sequenced and live)” (Wompblog). Influenced by early IDM, post dubstep, and experimental beat music as well as acts like Mount Kimbie and Bonobo, The Mast delivers a warm and inviting sound that booms through the subwoofers, propels the body to dance, and soaks the mind in a bath of endorphins.
William Doyle, better known by his stage name East India Youth, is an electronic musician from Bournemouth, England. His first album, Total Strife Forever, was released by Stolen Recordings on 13 January 2014.It was nominated for the 2014 Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize Album of the Year award.
The name East India Youth derives from the East India Docks area in East London, where Doyle lived during the writing of ‘Total Strife Forever’. And the Youth part? “That’s probably because this place was the start of something new for me; I was creatively reborn”.[4] Doyle was previously lead singer of indie band Doyle and the Fourfathers.
2. Time Dilation and the Acoustical Orb(it)
Date: Monday, November 17, 2014
Time: 8pm – 11pm
Venue: Panoply Performance Laboratory (104 Meserole Street, Brooklyn, New York 11206)
Ticket: $5-15 suggested donation
Genre: modern music/accoustic sound-sculptures/noise
Time Dilation and the Acoustical Orb(it)
w/ SULT (Norway)
https://sult.bandcamp.com/
David Grollman/Nathaniel Morgan
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Sam Ospovat
http://www.samospovat.com/
Causings w/ Sandy Gordon
Causings is a Brooklyn-based improvised duo project with percussionist Derek Baron and pianist/cinematographer Adam Gundersheimer.
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Time Dilation will be seduced and explored by these performers as they engage the acoustic fields of scraping, sculpting, noise, object manipulation, and performance driven experimentation.
more info – http://
3. JC Sanford Orchestra & Mike McGinnis + 9
Date: Monday, November 17, 2014
Time: 7:30pm – 10pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $10
Genre: big band jazz
Trombonist/composer/conductor JC Sanford is a musician of rare breadth, deeply rooted in the traditions of Jazz and Classical music, yet constantly pushing at their boundaries. His collaboration with fellow composer David Schumacher and their jazz orchestra Sound Assembly yielded the CD Edge of the Mind, which received many accolades including CD Baby’s Top 10 Jazz Records of 2009. JC also conducts the twice-Grammy-nominated John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, the Alan Ferber Nonet with Strings, and the Alice Coltrane Orchestra featuring Ravi Coltrane and Jack DeJohnette. His large ensemble compositions push the limits of what is “expected” in a specific musical setting without totally abandoning the tradition of the genre, sounding adventurouswhile remaining “accessible.” This iteration of his ever-evolving ensemble features his unique blend of modern jazz and chamber music, employing several colors rarely seen in the traditional “big band” instrumentation including orchestral strings, vibraphone, F horn, double-reeds, and accordion.
JC Sanford Orchestra
JC Sanford – composer, conductor, trombone
Dan Willis, Ben Kono, Chris Bacas, Kenny Berger – woodwinds
James De La Garza, Matt Holman – trumpets
Chris Komer – F horn
Mark Patterson – tenor trombone
Jeff Nelson – tuba, bass trombone
Sam Bardfeld – violin
Jody Redhage – cello
Jacob Garchik – accordion
Tom Beckham – vibraphone
Aidan O’Donnell – bass
Satoshi Takeishi – percussion
Mike McGinnis + 9
Mike McGinnis – clarinet
Matt Blostein – alto sax
Peter Hess – tenor sax
Barry Saunders – bari sax
Jeff Hermanson – trumpet
Brian Drye – trombone
Justin Mullens – french horn
Jamie Reynolds- piano
Dan Fabricatore – bass
Vinnie Sperrazza – drums
4. Infernal Machines and Friends
Date: Monday, November 17, 2014
Time: 9pm
Venue: The Silent Barn (603 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn, New York 11206)
Ticket: $8
Genre:
A special visit by Danish label c l a n g (http://clang.cl/) with sets by:
Infernal Machines are Hans Tammens’ guitar-add-computer hybrid, and a vehicle for unending sonic explorations. Together with Lars Graugaard’s sophisticated interactive computer sounds, patterns and grooves they become Infernal Machines, and a world of rhythms and sonic escapes opens up.
Krishve
Miguel Frasconi
Radio Wonderland
More info
Performers:
Krishve – http://clang.cl/krishve/ – https://
Miguel Frasconi – http://frasconimusic.com/
Infernal Machines – http://clang.cl/
– http://www.l–l.dk/ – https://
Radio Wonderland – http://
Label:
http://clang.cl/
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https://www.facebook.com/
https://www.youtube.com/
5. Ambient-Chaos presents Duos and Trios
Date: Wednesday, November, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Spectrum (121 Ludlow, Second Floor, New York, NY, 650-400-5100)
Ticket: $10 – $20
Genre:
Robert L. Pepper (PAS Musique) presents a night of Ambient-Chaos featuring: Duos and Trios!
Robert L. Pepper is an electronic/experimental musician and visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His projects include PAS Musique, Limax Maximus, The Jazzfakers, and Magic Zorillo. Robert is one of the co-founders of the Alrealon Musique label. He also coordinates the yearly Experi-MENTAL Festival in Brooklyn, New York, and various music nights around the New York area.
www.pasmusique.net
Line up: WvS, Aaron Moore, Robert L. Pepper (Pas Musique), Claudio Quartero (Argentina), Scott Rifkin, Ron Anderson, Sarah Bernstein, Eric Barry Drasin, Lauren Lee, Nisi Jacobs, David Grollman, Ken B. (Bloater), and Kevin Bud Jones
Two duos and three acts of trios. Two predetermined duos and three surprise trios with the above musicians.
Acts scheduled in the order below:
1) Ist Surprise Trio
2) Ken B. (Bloater) and Kevin Bud Jones Duo
3) 2nd Surprise Trio
4) Robert L. Pepper (Pas Musique) and Claudio Quartero (Argentina) Duo
5) 3rd Surprise Trio
6. Meredith Monk Birthday Celebration w/ pianists Ursula Oppens and Bruce Brubaker
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $15/$20/$25
Genre: modern music
An event within Meredith Monk’s Debs Composer Chair Residency at Carnegie Hall
Celebrating Monk’s 72nd Birthday and the release of the CD Piano Songs on ECM Records earlier this year
This program of all-piano works by composer Meredith Monk features several new transcriptions by Monk and Bruce Brubaker from compositions created between 1972-2006, and includes solo compositions Railroad (Travel Song), Paris, Window in 7’s, and St. Petersburg Waltz as well as Ellis Island, Folkdance, Phantom Waltz, totentanz, urban march (shadow), Tower, Parlour Games and Obsolete Objects (for two pianos).
Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, and creator of new opera and music-theater works. Over the last five decades, she has been acclaimed by audiences and critics as a major creative force in the performing arts. A pioneer in what is now called “extended vocal technique,” Monk has been hailed as a “magician of the voice” and “one of America’s coolest composers”. Her groundbreaking exploration of the voice as an instrument, as an eloquent language in and of itself, expands the boundaries of musical composition, creating landscapes of sound that unearth feelings, energies, and memories for which there are no words. Among her many accolades, Monk was recently named an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters by the Republic of France, and the 2012 Composer of the Year by Musical America. She is also one of NPR’s 50 Great Voices, and has received a 2012 Doris Duke Artist Award and a 2011 Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts.
7. Emel Mathlouthi
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: The Graduate Center, Elebash Hall (365 Fifth Avenue, bet. 34th and 35th Streets, New York, NY
Ticket: $25
Genre: Arabic trip hop
Firebrand Tunisian singer, songwriter, and composer Emel Mathlouthi stands with the great divas of the Arab World but has also inherited the legacy of protest singers from the ’60s. She gained attention when her song “Kelmti Horra (My Word is Free)” was adopted by the Arab Spring revolutionaries on the streets of Tunis and soon became an anthem throughout the regions. Mathlouthi’s gorgeous, intricate sound moves between rock (she plays guitar and cites Joan Baez as an influence), trip-hop (she has collaborated with Tricky), and electronica, with a strong Arabic music connection. Her intimate songs express love, suffering, and longing for home, in a deeply confessional style verging on sacred Sufi music.
“It’s the astonishing range and sensuousness of Mathlouthi’s voice that is most compelling. There are swoops and growls reminiscent of Bjork, whom she cites as a major influence, and even traces of her goth past as she picks out minimal, reverberant lines on electric guitar which make you wonder if she’s also been listening to the xx.” – The Guardian
More info: http://liveat365.org/
8. Sylvain Leroux’s “Kickstarter Music Education Project in Guinea” Closing Celebration
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: Judson Memorial Church (55 Washington Square S, New York, NY 10012)
Ticket: free
New York/ Canadian composer Sylvain Leroux achieved what many told him was impossible: he raised $25,000 to conduct a four-month experimental music education project in Guinea. After the successful Kickstarter campaign, Sylvain arrived in Conakry, Guinea this February and used his invention, the chromatic tambin (an updated version of the local traditional tambin–or Fula flute) to teach a group of children to read and write music.
9. Cinema Cinema w. Bassoon, Timo Ellis & Telecommunists
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: The Grand Victory (245 Grand St, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: indie rock/heavy metal noise/punk
Cinema Cinema was established in 2008 when two Brooklyn-born and -raised cousins, Ev Gold and Paul Claro, joined forces. With Gold seamlessly intertwining guitar, pedals, and vocals, and Claro laying down a ferocious foundation, a new sound burst forth from the seeds of no-wave and hardcore.
Throughout the past six years, the two have financed and managed their own D.I.Y. touring schedule, playing over 350 shows, more than 30 U.S. states, and seven different countries.
Some of their most rewarding moments include five American tours with Greg Ginn (SST Records), opening multiple shows for Black Flag in their home city of Brooklyn, as well as touring Europe with world-renowned producer Martin Bisi.
10. Marie Incontrera & The Eco-Music Big Band “Tribute To Fred Ho” & Warren Smith Ensemble
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Roulette (509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217)
Ticket: $15
Genre: jazz
An evening of new compositions expanding the tradition of jazz and improvisation. Composer Marie Incontrera directs the Eco-Music Big Band in a tribute to the life and work of Fred Ho, featuring Ho’s music, as well as Cal Massey, Marie Incontrera, and Liberte-Anne Lymberiou. Composer and percussionist Warren Smith premieres a new hour-long composition for quartet, with Sonelius Smith (piano & keyboard), James Stewart (woodwinds), Ratzo Harris (bass and cello), and Warren Smith on multiple percussion.
11. The TRUE GROOVE DUB EXPERIMENT – Ft. Doc Israel, Hanni Mekonnen, and The True Goove All-Stars
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Milk River (960 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11238)
Tickets: $15
Genre: dub
A special evening featuring revolutionary dub artist Dr. Israel, Ethiopian singer Hanni Mekonnen and The Groove All Stars ( Tomas Doncker BAND ).
Brooklyn based revolutionary dub artist Dr. Israel has been producing underground Bass Music for close to twenty years. He boasts releases on Universal, ROIR Records, Wordsound, and MOD Technologies, as well as collaborations, remixes and vocal guest appearances with musical legends such as Bill Laswell, Mad Professor, Rancid, Sublime, Lee Perry, Dub Gabriel, DJ Krush, and many more. Major publications like Rolling Stone, Vibe, LA Times, and The Village Voice among others have consistently sung his praises. The good Doctor is currently working on a new solo EP “Love In A Time of Violence,” along with a new EP “2014” from the well received project Dreadtone International.
True Groove All Stars:
Tomas Doncker – guitar, vocals
Josh David Barrett – bass, vocals
Michael J Faulkner – drums, vocals
Nick Rolfe – keyboard, vocals
James Dellatacoma – guitar
David A. Barnes – harmonica
Marla Mase – performance artist
Charles Maynard – aka Charlie Funk!! (“Sexy Cutie”)
Kevin Jenkins – bass, vocals
Heather Powell – vocals
Lael Summer – vocals
Mac Gollehon – trumpet
Hanks Hothouse – sax
Samuel Claiborne – vocals, guitar, auraluminence
12. The Black Atlas (EP Release Party)
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2014
Time: 7:pm – 9pm
Venue: The Bowery Electric (327 Bowery, New York, NY 10003)
Ticket: free
Genre: ambient, art/grunge rock
After having lent his drumming skills to various touring artists and appearances at Warped Tour with Testing for Echo, The Black Atlas was formed by Koronios’ independent vision in 2013. Drawing on the heaviness of Dredg and Queens of the Stone Age, vocal baritone of The National and ethereal qualities of Pink Floyd, The Black Atlas’ debut EP introduces an introspective concept that examines the initiation of change and how that process can either cripple or evolve a person’s state of mind. California-based visual artist and musician Colin Frangicetto (Circa Survive, Psychic Babble) will be completing three cover pieces as conceptual artwork for the EP series.
Please celebrate the ambient, art/grunge rock solo artist The Black Atlas’ debut EP The Other (out 11/18). With features on Ghost Cult Magazine, Diffuser.fm, and The Au Review, among others, the new EP is making a mark on heavy music with its “brooding, dark, beautiful sounds” (Diffuser.fm).
Stream the title track “The Other.”
13. Dawoud: Music Meditation
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2014
Time: 8pm – 10pm
Venue: Golden Drum (97 Green St Apt G24,Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Ticket: $20
Genre: sitar/electronics
This live music meditation is guided by the mystical Sufi sounds of Dawoud. Dawoud has developed a system wherein meditation is guided by sound and musical form. in his meditation sessions, he uses acoustic and electronic sound and musical processes from all parts of the world and all historical periods to lead the journey through various levels of mystic experience.
One of the standard aspects of the practice of guided meditation is in using suggested imagery to lead the seeker into different states of consciousness. However, while sound is employed, musical form has been overlooked. Each set of melodic forms (i.e. different scales, musical patterns, etc.) can create different emotional, visceral, and subconscious reactions.
Bio:
Dawoud is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, improviser, producer, writer, artist, audio engineer, has toured the US and Europe, and has composed and recorded music for film, theater, and dance performances. He studied Indian Raga, Jazz, and other music, as well as various systems of enlightenment, concentrating on Islam / Sufism (and has 17 years of experience as an Islamic minister for the NYC prisons).
http://www.goldendrum.org/
14. Dervisi
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2014
Time: 8:30pm – 10pm
Venue: Espresso 77 (35-57 77th Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372, 718-424-1077)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: Rembetika music
DERVISI performing exotic Greek Gangsta Blues called Rembetika. Rembetika originally the songs of hashish clans and outlaws; and Smyrnaika, the elaborate oriental cafe music of the refugees from Greek Asia minor.
Three audio files: https://soundcloud.com/barba-yiorgi/sets/dervisi-live-2014-3-songs
15. Neel Murgai Ensemble & Karavika
Date: Friday, November 21, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Greenwich House Music School (46 Barrow Street, New York, New York 10014, 212-242-4770)
Ticket: $15
Genre: combining Indian classical and folk music with Western classical and jazz in new, innovative ways
Brooklyn Raga Massive and Caffe Vivaldi present a double bill of Raga-Chamber music featuring two stellar ensembles comprised of core BRM members. These like-minded, forward thinking groups are receiving praise for combining Indian classical and folk music with Western classical and jazz in new, innovative ways.
The Neel Murgai Ensemble performs raga chamber-jazz, combining Neel’s sitar with violin, cello and tabla. The raga and tala of Indian classical music is the root of their sound, but they remain free to wander through other territories including jazz, minimalism and experimental music. Neel’s original compositions and rearrangements of traditional material are brought to life in their dynamic group improvisations. Innova Records has released their self-titled debut CD to critical acclaim, including a feature on NPR’s Song of the Day. They have performed to packed, enthusiastic audiences at Mexico’s 2012 Sinaloa Cultural Festival, the Sun to Stars Festival in New York, Le Poisson Rouge, and the Museum of Natural History amongst many others. http://neelmurgai.com/
Neel Murgai – sitar, Sameer Gupta – tabla, Arun Ramamurthy – violin, Trina Basu – violin, Marika Hughes – cello
Karavika, led by violinist Trina Basu & cellist Amali Premawardhana, draws from the rich classical & folk traditions of India, Europe and America. In their debut album, “Sunrise”, they feature original music inspired by the rhythmic complexities of Indian Classical music as well as collaborative arrangements inspired by old film and folk music from South Asia. On November 21st at Greenwich House, they will be performing new instrumental music inspired by lullabies, Carnatic javali’s, Tagore poetry and Sri Lankan folk melodies. http://
Trina Basu – Violin, Amali Premawardhana – Cello , Perry Wortman – Bass
Sameer Gupta – Tabla
16. Benefit Concert For Kutumb – Classic and Contemporary Hindi Film Music
Date: Saturday, November 22, 2014
Time: 5pm
Venue: The Duncan Family Sky Room/Saint Peter’s University (782 Montgomery street, Jersey City, NJ 07306)
Ticket: http://www.visionbuilders.org/buy-your-tickets/
Genre: Classic and Contemporary Favorites from Hindi Film Music
Vision Builders Invites you and family to a concert of Golden Classic and Contemporary Favorites from Hindi Film Music by Sanjeev Ramabhadran & Armeen Ramabhadran.
All funds generated by this Benefit event will go towards the project we are currently supporting in Varanasi, India called“Kutumb”. Kutumb, meaning “family” in Hindi, was created with a vision to provide a family to anyone in need without discrimination. Initially started as a clinic for children from the slums of Varanasi, today it provides a home for underprivileged children. Currently, Kutumb is home to 26 children rescued from the streets and railway platform. The Kutumb organization also runs a ‘baalwadi” providing education to about 90 slum kids of the vicinity. Additionally, it provides vocational training and adult literacy to underprivileged women, as well as medical services to the poor people of the community. Your participation will help Vision Builders support the work Kutumb is doing for the underprivileged people of our society.
17. V B A, Beech Creeps & Harlem 70
Date: Saturday, November 22, 2014
Time: 11pm
Venue: Wild Kingdom (97 S. 6th Street, New York, New York 11249, South Williamsburg BK)
Ticket: $5
Genre: indie rock/psychedelic/noise/alternative-grunge-jam-lo-fi rock
Line up:
Harlem 70 (Colin Langenus, Awesome Allison, Dave Kitten!)
18. HAZMAT MODINE
Date: Saturday, November 22, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: TERRA BLUES (149 Bleecker Street, NYC 212.777.7776)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: nu blues/ New Orleans brass
One of New York’s most original bands, HAZMAT MODINE delivers a rustic, deliriously Dionysian blend of whorehouse Blues, Reggae, Klezmer, Country and Gypsy-tinged music.
19. Dawoud and Friends
Date: Saturday, November 22, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Harlem Flophouse (242 W 123rd St, New York, New York 10027)
Ticket: $10
Genre: nu sitar music
Dawoud (sitar, dilruba), and guest Dan Kurfirst (percussion) at the Harlem Flophouse
20. Lauren Lee “Space Jazz” Trio
Date: Saturday, November 22, 2014
Time: 10pm
Venue: Tea Lounge (837 Union St., bet. 6th & 7th Aves., Park Slope, Brooklyn)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz
With influences ranging from bebop and free jazz to glam rock and romanticism, Lauren Lee‘s “Space Jazz” Trio takes you on a whirlwind, abbreviated tour through music history with a very modern, sophisticated, and exciting flavor palate sure to please even the most discerning music lover. Featuring Charley Sabatino on bass and Andy O’Neill on drums.
21. Aurelio
Date: Saturday, November 22, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Peter Norton/Symphony Space (2537 Broadway and 95th St., NY, 212-864-5400)
Tickets: $35/$45 (general admission)
Genre: Garifuna music/world
Torch-bearer of the Garifuna tradition and the first black member of Honduras’s National Congress, the soulful singer, guitarist and percussionist Aurelio Martínez (or simply Aurelio as he is known) has come a long way from the tiny fishing village in which he was born. He assumed the lead in preserving the culture’s unique language and extraordinary sound after the passing of its first musical ambassador, Andy Palácio. He’s been casting the warm glow of the Caribbean upon audiences ever since, enchanting all with his bittersweet vocal style, guitar-accompanied paranda ballads and hypnotic percussion. This concert celebrates the release of Aurelio’s new album, Landini, which is the Garifuna term for a canoe’s landing spot on shore.
