Author Archives: Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

Future of Music: Newsletter #120 (March 11, 2014)

Greetings, FMC friends! After a long and cold winter, many of us are excited to be escaping to the sunshine of Austin, Texas this week for great music, excellent tacos, and a jampacked SXSW schedule. Meanwhile, there’s plenty of excitement heating up in the world of policy. Read on for all the latest happenings.

1.  FMC On The Road: SXSW
2.  Artist Revenue Streams: New Case Study!
3.  Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger: Bad News For Musicians
4.  On Copyright: Congressional Hearings Resume
5.  Health Care Update
6.  Best of the Blog
7.  Work for FMC
8.  SF MusicTech: Register Now!
9.  How Are We Doing?

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Concert Review: Renato Diz Trio…another jewel in the crown of New York City’s rich music scene

Date: February 27, 2014
Venue: Shapeshifter Lab (NY)

Review by Dawoud Kringle

On a late February night where the intense cold puts one’s endurance to the test and increases the longing for spring, the soon to he legendary Shapeshifter Lab presented Renato Diz‘ Trio. With Diz on piano, Zulfugar Baghirov on soprano sax, and John Doing on drums & percussion, the stage was set for some great music.

A note pantomimes an echo, while fractal harmonies dash in and out of hiding. Percussion makes comments and observations. Then the soprano sax steps up with a melody that coalesced and condensed the primordia into a sensible concept. The pulse on the middle range of the piano continued as improvised musical hieroglyphics manifested around it.

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Concert Review: Pooquette…Their music evokes a world of delicious danger, heavy emotions, and life lived to its extreme.

Photo courtesy of Pooquette

Photo courtesy of Pooquette

Date: February 11, 2014
Venue: Friends And Lovers
Review by Dawoud Kringle

On a freezing February 11th, in a new venue in Brooklyn, a mysterious rubato on an A tonic led the way to a mad Gypsy dance around implied minor chords. After frenetic rhythms and violin pyrotechnics, the song built to a fevered pitch, and abruptly ended.

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Music Listings – 3/17 through 3/23/2014

1. Ladies Got Chops

Date: Monday, March 17, 2014
Time: 7pm – 10pm
Venue: Local 802 AFM (322 West 48th Street, New York, NY 10036)
Ticket: free
Genre: female jazz vocal

LAdy Got Chops Jam hosted by Kim Clarke. Guests: Little Annie, Dinah Vero, Monnette Sudler, Julie Bluestone, and Tim Siciliano. produced as a free service to the community consciousness re Women’s History Month and supporting Live Music

http://ladygotchops.com/
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In Memory of The Fukushima Tsunami Victims…And What A Mess?!

Text bu Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

Last Tuesday was the 3rd anniversary of the Fukushima disaster. Following NHK WORLD and reports from friends in Japan: the government’s efforts to fix all the problems have been insufficient and extremely slow. The people of Japan can’t figure out what the government has been doing. There are still 270,00 refugees, of whom 100,00 live in makeshift housing. The Fukushima nuclear power plant melt down can’t be stopped. Local administrations don’t know what to do. There is a lack of managing and carrying out reconstruction work. In other words: Japan is still a big mess. Who’s responsible for this? Of course, the whole country!

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