1. Afro Roots feat. SPIRIT ENSEMBLE
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: 647 Columbus Ave near W 92nd st (Goddard Riverside)
Ticket: donation
Genre: Afro-Latin music
With a long and dynamic history, the Spirit Ensemble has established itself as the primary source for music that traverses the African Diaspora. The enchanting sounds of the mbira, kora, bala, steel pan and bamboo flute comprise the essence of Spirit’s sound and provide the foundation for rhythmic travels. Each member of the ensemble is a master percussionist who has dedicated his life to the study and sharing of this music, and the magnitude to their devotion is evident to all who experience their performances.
So if you enjoy listening to the sounds of Africa, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Jamaica, and if you enjoy listening to world music, jazz, gospel, hip-hop, R&B, or new age, then you’ll love Spirit, and you’ll discover that their sound is fresh. It is a bright melodic sound driven by strong grooves and pulsating rhythms. Spirit Ensemble’s music will transport, uplift and move people to dance.
Group Members: Kevin Nathaniel (mbira, percussion), Renold Joseph (steel pan), Neil Clarke (congas, percussion), Jimmy Cruiz (flutes, percussion), Hasan Bakr (percussion, vocal), Salieu Suso (kora, vocal), Bill Dotts (bass)
2. Dervisi
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Time: 9pm
Venue: TROOST (1011 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Ticket: donation
Genre: Greek Blues/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.
CHECK them out on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/barba-yiorgi/sets/dervisi-live-2014-3-songs
Interview: George Barba Yiorgi and Dervisi…Greek Gangsta Blues and PunkRembetika
3. Chaka Khan
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Time: 9pm
Venue: Celebrate Brooklyn! (141 Prospect Park W, Brooklyn, New York 11215)
Ticket: free but a little donation
Genre: funk/soul
Yowza! We are kicking off our 37th year at the Bandshell with none other than the “Queen of Funk” herself, Chaka Khan. An international icon who has won ten Grammys and released 22 albums during her 40-year career, Chaka will set the Bandshell on fire with her burning soul/funk grooves and soaring vocals that touch the sky!
From the moment she burst onto the music scene in the 1970s as the 18-year-old lead singer of the multiracial band Rufus, her powerful voice and show-stopping stage presence set her apart from any other singer. Together with Rufus she released over ten albums that included hits such as “Sweet Thing” and “Tell Me Something Good.” She left Rufus five years later to launch a solo career that spanned over two decades, with continual acclaim due to hits “I’m Every Woman” and “Ain’t Nobody.”
4. Invisible Circle / The Spookfish / Sea Fate / Cedar Dreamer / Michael Collins
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Time: 9pm
Venue: The Silent Barn (603 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn, New York 11206)
Ticket: $7
Genre: electronica/ambient/psychedelic rock/nu folk
…a world-scape of sounds…
Sea Fate
soundcloud.com/seafate
Cedar Dreamer (Olympia, WA)
https://soundcloud.com/
Invisible Circle
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The Spookfish
http://thespookfish.com/
Michael Collins
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4. Allison Adams Tucker
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Time: 8:30 -9:45pm
Venue: Rockwood Music Hall (196 Allen St, New York, New York 10002)
Ticket: $18
Genre: jazz/world
Featuring: Allison Adams Tucker – vocals
Mike Moreno – guitar
Matt Aronoff – bass
Mauricio Zottarelli – drums/percussion
“World jazz with urbane cool.” Southern California vocalist Allison Adams Tucker is not your average American jazz singer. With a voice “lustrous in any language” (The Examiner) and “mesmerizing, whether in English, Japanese, French” (GirlSingers.org), Allison Adams Tucker creates a unique montage of jazz-driven melodies and rhythms in 6 languages that is turning heads. From Björk to Piazzolla, Jobim to Monk and beyond– ”expect the unexpected.” (Scott Yanow, LA Jazz Scene)
5. Brooklyn Raga Massive Presents Sylvain Leroux
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Time: 8pm to 11pm
Venue: Bluebird (504 Flatbush Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11225)
Tickets: $10
Genre: Afro/Indian fusion
Our wildly popular Africa/India Series continues with fula flute maestro Sylvain Leroux w/ members of the BRM All Stars.
Arun Ramamurthy-Violin
Neel Murgai- Sitar
Roshni Thomson- Tabla
David Ellenbogen-Guitar
Kevin Nathaniel – Mbira/percussion
Michael Gam – Bass
The concert will be followed by the classic BRM jam session.
Africa/India is Produced by NYC Radio Live, Afro Roots Music Night and Brooklyn Raga Massive
6. Chris Irniger Trio
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: Seeds Brooklyn (617 Vanderbilt Ave, b/w Bergen & St Marks, ground floor, Brooklyn, NY-11238)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: jazz
Chris Irniger Trio is: Chris Irniger – tenor sax, Chris Lightcap – bass & Ziv Ravitz – drums
After the acclaimed album ‘Gowanus Canal’ in 2012, ‘Octopus’ is Christoph Irniger’s second release with his trio of Raffaele Bossard (double bass) and Ziv Ravitz (drums) on Intakt Records. Irniger is a master of orchestration and rejects the hierarchy of soloist-plus-rhythm. Instead of using the compositions as springboards for solos, he finds interesting ways for the improvisations to underline the compositional characteristics. Melody, arrangement, improvisation: the trio fuse them all into one tightly integrated and alluring package,’ writes American jazz critic Kevin Whitehead. The pieces celebrate melody without once degenerating into the trivial. They are tone poems which demonstrate that accessible melodies and complex tonal worlds need not be mutually exclusive and can in fact make sense of each other.
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7. Quickly Quietle & Kid-Z
Date: Thursday, June 4, 2015
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: Passenger Bar (229 Roebling Street, Brooklyn, NY 1211)
Ticket: $ t.b.a.
Genre: edgy indie rock
Set Times: Quickly Quietly: 8:30pm & Kid-Z: 9:30pm
Quickly Quietly formed in 2011, at the end of the year they released their debut Seven EP. The band first played together in prospect-lefferts garden and continued grinding out improv sessions into a fresh sound from analog drum machines, deep guitar and heavy rhythms. The new sound, exemplified by the track “Nothing But Air,” is very electric and very live. Lautaro on drums and samples, Paul on bass and keys, Aaron on guitar and vox. Each member serves double duty to the music creating a eclectic sound and a wide palate, uncharacteristic of a rock trio. If there was an ethos to the band it would be song, texture, rhythm, electrified. Quickly Quietly are: Aaron Hyzen (guitar,vocals/leader), Paul Sikivie (bass & synths), Lautaro Burgos (SoSaLa, drums ), Greg Zweiben (SoSaLa, synths & percussion)- This band plays edgy indie-esque rock.
8. Trauma Salon: Serotonin & Selectivity
Date: Thursday, June 4, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: Panoply Performance Laboratory (104 Meserole Street, Brooklyn, New York 11206)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: performance and sound
The short answer is shit isn’t working properly. We observe defectiveness in nature: the end of laughter.
We feel & know that something is terribly wrong. We absorb. It hurts. Exactly how much is beyond our control.
Little by Little we shock ourselves into truth, trick ourselves into joy, find solace in the fact that nothing lasts, including our biochemical composition. In such a way, we endlessly grow.
Epitaphs Live: Colleen McCarthy & David Grollman
The epitaph is a short verse honoring the deceased, inscribed on his tombstone. It can be a brief record of his life, an aphorism, or words he lived by.
An extreme mood state can cause a warped perspective, in which that ephemeral moment of suffering feels like “the story of my life.” At the lowest depression, one might feel like he is dead already. –Say it were so, how would the epitaph read?
“Epitaphs” (Colleen McCarthy-Smee, 2015) is a book of short verses honoring the deceased and the not-dead-yet who suffer(ed) variously psychoses and suicide.
In performance, David Grollman and Colleen McCarthy improvise of the book, with David accompanying himself on snare.
Natalia Steinbach
I have struggled and suffered with depression and suicidality for most of my life. In this performance piece I will be sharing some of my experiences as recalled through journal entries written about a year ago. As an artist and as an individual who has dealt with trauma, I hope to raise awareness and promote education concerning mental illness, along with providing support and hope to others who are dealing with similar issues. I have learned a lot from personal devastation and I feel that others can too, whether it be from their own trials and strife or through empathy for those around them.
https://www.facebook.com/
Brandon Lopez
I’ll be presenting solo works for upright bass, partially composed elsewhere, mostly composed in real time. The work, for me, is about consecration and organization in derogatory and chaotic sounds. The previous statement is reductive. I hope It helps you think, comforts you, disturbs you, gives you something.
Gives you something, and takes away your time.
https://
Beuys Club
Meow, yowl, fight, publicly fornicate. territory, food, trash, eat. meow yow meow yow. i’m an urban cat. we are cats. mama and babycat, rattle my cans. street. sleep under a tree, in a bush in your yard. eat your trash. chase a rat. meow moew moew. if you dont sepak cat thats a personal problem. cage us, sanitize us, civilize us, transform my meow. impulse to reproduce, soothed. i am we are pre surgical, now post surgical. my yowl my cat i am a terror, idolize me.
http://www.jackiedu.net/
with closing remarks by Esther Neff
9. The True Groove All-Stars
Date: Thursday, June 4, 2015
Time: 8:30pm – 11:30pm
Venue: The Classon (807 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11238)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: funk/blues
Brooklyn Based Record Label/Artist Collective TRUE GROOVE RECORDS presents the inaugural event of their residency at The “Uber-Hip” Classon Social Club.
Featuring: Tomás Doncker, Marla Mase, Kevin Jenkins, Heather Powell, Charlie Funk, Samuel Claiborne, James Dellatacoma, Mark Henry, Mike Griot, Norman Paul Edwards, Manu Koch; and Lael Summer.
10. Christopher Rowland and Dream Seed
Date: Friday, June 5 through Sunday, June 7, 2015
Time: 7pm
Venue: Sacred Arts Research Foundation (107 Green St #G55, Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Ticket: see below
Genre: Native American flute music
Christopher James Rowland is a painter and musician born “Ma’heonehoo’estse” (Man from Holy Place), and was raised on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, at Lame Deer, Montana. His family heritage is Northern Cheyenne (Tsitsistas) and Lakota.
Christopher began his commercial oil painting career at the age of 15. He has been playing and composing with the Native American flute for 15 years. His meditative sounds are sought out by seasoned and professional musicians throughout the world. Overall, his music and compositions bring to life visions of creation, renewal and peace. As a longtime touring native flute player, Christopher has recorded an album entitled, “Blue Warrior: Dreams May Come.”
More recently, Christopher established a non-profit foundation, American Tribes Project, to help educate and care for underprivileged Native Youth from all American Tribes.
Schedule:
Friday June 5, 7-9pm
· Exhibition Opening (FREE entry)
· Talk by the artist on the artistic PROCESS
· Full vegetarian dinner AVAILABLE for purchase ($10)
Saturday, June 6, 7:30-9:30pm
· Dream Seed: A Shamanic Sound Journey featuring Christopher Rowland
· Cost $20
Sunday, June 7, 2-4pm
· OPEN Gallery
· Exhibit Closing
11. Innove Gnawa Band
Date: Friday, June 5, 2015
Time: 10pm
Venue: Max Cellar (2 Knickerbocker Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11237)
Tickets: $t.b.a.
Genre: Gnawa music/Americana/one man band
Gnawa music is a rich repertoire of spiritual healing songs and rhythms. Its well preserved heritage combines ritual poetry with traditional music and dancing. Gnawa music is performed in a “Lila,” an entire night of celebration, dedicated to healing and trance guided by the Maalem and his group. Maalem Hassan Ben Jaafer, who is a one of a kind master, inherited Gnawa Music from his father Sidi Abdullah Ben Jaafer Sultan Gnawa, and will be playing alongside the young generation master Samir LanGus who learned Gnawa music in the streets of Agadir, Morocco.
Concert review: InnoVe Gnawa Band & Faith at Mercury Lounge (NY)
12. Arooj Aftab
Date: Saturday, June 6, 2015
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, Phone: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $15
Genre: neo-sufi music/world
Arooj Aftab is a New York based Pakistani female vocalist, composer and music producer. Arooj has spent the last few years developing a new genre in world music. Naming it Neo-Sufi, Arooj has created a sound that culminates the energy and sensibilities of jazz upright bass tones, inverted chords and modal scales, americana acoustic folk guitar, south asian ancestral vocal melodies and lastly, sufi/mystic poetry from the 13th century and beyond.
Through exposure to diverse musical genres and incredibly talented artists in Boston and in New York City, Arooj is inspired to continuously develop her art and deepen her understanding of the possibilities of music. Layering subtle, intricate, dynamic vocals over acoustic instrumentation, Arooj skillfully re-imagines indigenous soul with signature ‘cool.’
Her recently released debut album Bird Under Water is quickly catching the attention of indie bloggers, major music publications and countless fans across the globe. (read more at LPR.com)
13. WILLIAM HOOKER PRESENTS “3 BECOME 1”
Date: Saturday, June 6, 2015
Time: 7pm
Venue: Funkadelic Studios (209 West 40th Street, 5th Fl, New York, New York 10018)
Ticket: $15
Genre: jazz
For those of you who have never been in a studio where musicians play,practise and get together…Saturday, 06 June 2015 07:00 PM is your chance! As you come into the studio you may run into any number of musicians that play all sorts of musical styles.We are going to set up chairs in the largest studio room but it will remain an intimate concert where you will hear some of the finest musicians in NYC – in their own element.
WILLIAM HOOKER PRESENTS “3 BECOME 1”,
an intimate concert with some of the finest musicians in NYC – in their own element. We hope you will join us!
1. On Ka’a Davis-gtr, Welf Dorr-sax, William Hooker-drums
2. Fay Victor-vocals, William Parker-double bass
3. Daniel Carter-multi reeds, William Hooker-drums.
With Fay Victor,William Parker,Daniel Carter,Welf Dorr and On Davis.
14. Pump Organ BBQ!
Date: Sunday, June 7, 2015
Time: 2:00pm – 8:00pm
Venue: Secret Project Robot Art Experiment (389 Melrose St, Brooklyn, New York 11237)
Ticket: t.b.a
Genre: organ music by various musicians
I’m really super psyched for this event! For a few years now I’ve been in possession of a big old pump organ, an acoustic air powered organ that you pump with your feet. Sunday, June 7th, and Secret Project Robot Art Experiment, a whole bunch of musicians are going to play short sets using this organ. We’ll be hanging out, having a BBQ, and listening to a bunch of awesome music. This event is part of the celebration of 10 years of Secret Project Robot!
Featuring:
Megan Moncrief (Lazurite)
Ellen O’Meara (Ellen O)
Mark Perro (The Men, Dream Police, MPHO)
Erin Durant (Colin L Orchestra)
Michael Hurder (Green Grocer, Drunk Foreigner Band)
Ashraf Rijal (SHRAF)
Dave Kadden (Invisible Circle, etc)
MORE TBA!
