Date: December 15, 2011 Venue: Brooklyn’s Irondale Center Photos by Phillip Stearns Review by Augusta Palmer Alex Waterman’s production of Vidas Perfectas is a new Spanish translation of Robert Ashley’s 1979 opera, Perfect Lives. It’s a Buddhist soap opera, a series of visual and vocal images simultaneously held together and pulled apart by illusion. In […]
1. Japan Nite Date: Monday, March 19, 2012 Time: 8:30pm Venue: Public Assembly (70 North 6th St.,Brooklyn, NY) Ticket: $15 Genre: Japanese indie rock Line up: 1. ZZZ’s All-girl trio from Hyogo, featuring members of Hystoic Vein (who played Japan NIte’s US tour in 2011). http://zzzs-jpn.com/ 2. NOKIES! Young Kyoto college students whose loose guitar […]
1. Lukas Ligeti’s Benefit of Clergy Date: Wednesday, Decemember 14 , 2011 Time: 8pm Venue: Café Orwell (247 Varet St., in Bushwick, Brooklyn by the Morgan Ave. L-Train stop) Ticket: free Genre: nu Jazz/improv Lukas Ligeti (Vienna, Austria) is a composer and percussionist. His work incorporates elements of jazz, contemporary classical, and various world musics. For this show he invited Hannis Brown […]
