1. Deolinda
Date: Monday, October 4, 2010
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Joe’s Pub (425 Lafayette St, NY)
Ticket: $22
Genre: Portoguese modern folklore
Deolinda – platinum selling Portuguese act who is rewriting the rules of Fado by injecting samba rhythms, bright colors and infectious melodies. Their first North American tour brings them to Joe’s Pub this Monday.
Read more about Fado in DBDBD.
2. John Tchicai 6 Points: Ascension Unending
Date: Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Time: 8:3o pm
Venue: The Roulette (20 Greene St., NY)
Ticket: $15
Genre: Jazz
John Tchicai‘s Six Points is a collaborative ensemble consisting of the following six musical personalities: Saxophonist/singer Tchicai, bassist Dmitry Ishenko, violinist/singer Rosie Hertlein, drummer Ches Smith, guitarist Garrison Fewell, and saxophonist Alex Weiss. The ensemble paints wonderful inner landscapes, plays compositions by the groups members and improvises solo’s duo’s trio’s etc. and continues the way of music communication initiated by John Coltrane on his momentous Ascension recordings.
3. Hans Tammen & IRON FOUNDRY ENSEMBLE
Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Time: 10pm
Venue: The Stone (is located at the corner of avenue C and 2nd street)
Ticket: $10
Genre: contemporary/elecctronics
Hans Tammen‘s IRON FOUNDRY score consolidates the endangered guitar’s alien world of bizarre textures, unremitting & mechanistic ensemble passages by Mari Kimura, Jason Hwang, Stephanie Griffin and Tomas Ulrich at the strings, plus the tightly woven motor-rhythms and sonic dissonances by Satoshi Takeishi. Dark, sometimes brooding ensemble passages mix and mingle with extended solo cadenzas, creating layers of intensity, at times unsettling, frantic and anti-sentimental.
Mari Kimura – violin
Jason Kao Hwang – violin
Stephanie Griffin – viola
Tomas Ulrich – cello
Hans Tammen – endangered guitar
Satoshi Takeishi – percussion
4. Built To Spill w. Love as Laughter and ReVoLtReVoLt
Date: Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Time: 9pm
Venue: Highline Ballroom (431 W 16th St, New York, NY 10011, 212-414-5994 )
Ticket: $25
Genre: indie rock
Built to Spill is an indie rock band based in Boise, Idaho, United States. The band is best known for its catchy guitar hooks and the unique voice of frontman Doug Martsch.
5. Underground Horns “big beat” CD release party
Date: Thursday, October 7, 2010
Time: 11pm
Venue: Nublu (62 Ave C)
Ticket: $10
Genre: brass/ Balkan/Jazz
The Underground Horns are cooking audio gumbo… our special recipe includes some funk, jazz, hip hop mixed with brass band traditions, spiced up with african and other world rhythms…music for the people! —
6. Talvin Singh
Date: Thursday, October 7, 2010
Time: 9pm
Venue: Highline Ballroom (431 W 16th St, New York, NY 10011, 212-414-5994 )
Ticket: $22
Genre: Indian music/electronics/tabla/club
Talvin Singh born 1970 in Leytonstone, east London is an accomplished Tabla player, electronic musician, music theorist, record producer and DJ.
As a solo artist, he is perhaps best known as the father of modern Asian electronica music, though he is also a highly celebrated tabla player, record producer and visual practitioner.
Drawing inspiration from the classical Indian arts, Singh first came to prominence as tabla percussionist in the 1980s London music scene.
7. Kronos Quartet w/ the Young People’s Chorus of New York City andmusic of Michael Gordon, Maria Schneider, Bryce Dessner, Missy Mazzoli, and Aleksandra Vrebalov
Date: Friday, October 8, 2010
Time: 8pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $25
Genre: classical/contemporary
For more than 30 years, the Kronos Quartet—David Harrington, John Sherba (violins), Hank Dutt (viola) and Jeffrey Zeigler (cello)—has pursued a singular artistic vision, combining a spirit of fearless exploration with a commitment to expanding the range and context of the string quartet. In the process, Kronos has become one of the most celebrated and influential groups of our time, performing thousands of concerts worldwide, releasing more than 40 recordings of extraordinary breadth and creativity, collaborating with many of the world’s most eclectic composers and performers, and commissioning hundreds of works and arrangements for string quartet. Kronos’ work has also garnered numerous awards, including a Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance (2004) and “Musicians of the Year” (2003) from Musical America.
Program:
Bryce Dessner / Aheym (Homeward) *
Missy Mazzoli / Harp and Altar *
Aleksandra Vrebalov / spell no. 4, for a changing world * World premiere
Terry Riley / Another Secret eQuation *
with special guest Young People’s Chorus of New York City Francisco J. Núñez, Artistic Director
INTERMISSION
Michael Gordon / Exalted * World premiere with special guest Young People’s Chorus of New York City
Traditional (arr. Jacob Garchik) / Smyrneiko Minore +
Traditional (arr. Jacob Garchik) / Boyiwa + World premiere (arr.)
Laurie Anderson (arr. Jacob Garchik) / Flow + World premiere (arr.)
Maria Schneider / String Quartet No. 1 * New York premiere
8. IRON DOG
Date: Friday, October 8, 2010
Time: 10pm
Venue: The Stone (is located at the corner of avenue C and 2nd street)
Ticket: $10
Genre: contemporary/elecctronics
IRON DOG creates sonic landscapes where hypnotic, minimalist structures erupt into frenetic, metallic onslaughts. Sarah Bernstein on processed violin and vocals/text; Stuart Popejoy on distorted bass guitar and synthesizer; Andrew Drury on drumset, textures and sounds.
9. Kronos Quartet w/ special guest vocalist Judith Berkson and music of Michael Gordon,Sebastian Currier,Clint Mansell, J.G. Thirlwell, and Dan Visconti
Date: Saturday, October 9, 2010
Time: 8pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $25
Genre: classical/contemporary
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10. HAZMAT MODINE
Date: Saturday, October 9, 2010
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.
11. Khaira Arby
Date: Saturday, October 9, 2010
Time: 10pm
Venue: Zebulon (258 Wythe Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211)
Ticket: donation
Genre: desert blues/Mali folklore/world music
For women, singing can be the road to personal power. When their voice is as strong as Malian vocalist Khaira Arby’s, that power can move mountains, change minds, and win battles. Arby’s rich, potent sound aims to do just that. She shifts seamlessly between the edgy and progressive and the traditional and deeply rooted. Inspired by her cousin Ali Farka Toure, Arby turns to her mixed Berber and Sonrhai roots and draws on a sweet mixture of desert blues and recording sophistication, blending ripping electric guitar with the forefather of the banjo and funky drum breaks with the traditional percussion of the scraper and the calabash.
12. Gato Barbieri
Date: Friday through Sunday, October 8 – 10
Times: 8pm & 10:30 pm
Venue: Blue Note (131 West 3rd St., New York, NY 10012, 212-475-8592)
Tickets: $30 & $45
Genre: Latin Jazz
Leandro Barbieri (born on November 28, 1932 in Rosario, Santa Fe Province, Argentina) better known as Gato Barbieri (Spanish for “Barbieri the Cat”) is an Argentine jazz tenor saxophonist and composer who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and from his latin jazz recordings in the 1970s.
Though he continued to record and perform into the 1980s, the death of his wife Michelle led him to withdraw from the public arena. He returned to recording and performing in the late 1990s, playing music that would fall into the arena of smooth jazz. his music of the sound track for the film Seven Servants by Daryush Shokof earned him great ratings in Billboard magazine as the top Jazz sound tracks and Jazz music in 1997.
