Author Archives: Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

Music Listings – 5/5 through 5/11/2014

1. Evolving Music feat. Dave Sewelson

Date: Monday, May 5, 2014
Time: 7:30pm to 11pm
Venue: Clemente Soto Velez Center (107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002)
Tickets: $11 per set
Genre: jazz/improv

7:30 The Three Flats
Dave Sewelson – reeds
Daniel Carter – reeds/trumpet
Will Connell – reeds

8:45 Smooth Freejazz
Dave Sewelson – tenor sax
Mike Neer – steel guitar
Jesse Krakow – bass
Doug Wygal – drums

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Kavita Shah’s brand new EPK video!

unnamedCheck out the brand new EPK video below which offers a “behind-the-scenes” look at vocalist/composer Kavita Shah‘s debut album VISIONS, including interviews with co-producer Lionel Loueke, saxophonist Steve Wilson, and band members Yacouba Sissoko (kora), Stephen Cellucci (tablas), and Guilhem Flouzat (drums).

Release date: May 27, 2014 (Inner Circle Music).

Now available for pre-sale on iTUNES & AMAZON:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/vis…
http://amzn.to/1kpgYyT

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Double-7-inch with an additional 3″-mini-CD review: Shoukichi Kina/Pascal Plantinga..The music here is unique, and invites the listener into a place wherein a proud people strive to hold their place in the modern world

3489Artist: Shoukichi Kina / Pascal Plantinga
Title: Washinnayo
Label: Ata Tak Rec (Germany)
Genre: Okinawa electronica

CD Review by Dawoud Kringle

When Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (DooBeeDoo’s editor, publisher, and founder) handed me some CDs to review, one of them was an elaborate, ornate folder containing two vinyl 45s and a mini CD. It definitely stood out from the usual CD packaging that one sees. But, as we all know, packaging is not everything.

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Documentary Film Screening: Docunight Features Mehran Tamadon’s “Bassidji” (Iran)

Date: Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Venue: Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Ave, New York, NY 10003)
Ticket: $10

Every last Wednesday of every month, Docunight will screen a documentary about, around, in, made by Iran or Iranians.  The screenings will take place on the same night across several cities, including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto, Dubai, New York (the list of locations is growing). Docunight films will be diverse in subject and will run the gamut.  All films will have English subtitles. Tomorrow they will feature Mehran Tamadon‘s Bassidji.