Author Archives: Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

Concert Review: Arto Tunçboyaciyan & Friends Performing “Avantgarde Folk”

Date: October 27, 2013
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (NY)

Review by Dawoud Kringle

On an early Sunday night, Le Poisson Rouge was packed to the rafters for a performance of Armenian jazz. The show was billed as “Armenian Jazz with Arto & Friends.” The concert was dedicated to Paul Motian, and Armenian American whose musical legacy barely requires an introduction.

Arto & friends is Arto Tunçboyaciyan (percussion, drums, vocals, guitar), Lucy Yeghiazarayan (violin, vocals), Tatev Yeghiazarayan (piano, vocals, percussion), Michael Sarian (trumpet), and Noah Garabedian (bass).

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Music Listings – 11/4 through 11/10/2013

1. Wieland Möller

Date: Monday, November 4, 2013
Time: 9pm
Venue: Spectrum (121 Ludlow, Second Floor, New York, NY, 650-400-5100)
Ticket: $10-20 dollar floating donation
Genre: jazz/improv

Wieland Möller is a drummer, sound artist and performer in the field of jazz, improvised music and dance. Environmental strains and the evolutionary process of the pieces of music stimulated by them are especially important for his work.

Wieland works as a drummer with international bands of different stylistics, e.g. the jazz trio ATOS and his own trio which recently released the debut album Akvariet. He has been a guest at the Buenos Aires Jazz Festival, Jazz International Rotterdam and North Sea Jazz Festival, among others, and has toured the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Argentina and Island. Being a composer and performing musician, Wieland Möller has been involved in dance theater projects e.g. the Reykjavik Dance Festival, Danceworks Rotterdam and Perform(d)ance Stralsund and has worked together with the dancer Konrad Szymanski. What does fascinate him when taking part in dance projects is to be able to make sounds visually real and motion audible.

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DooBeeDoo Endorses: JUSTICE FOR JAZZ ARTISTS & ST. PETER’S CHURCH SPONSOR “BATTLE OF THE SAXES”

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Justice for Jazz Artists will gather at St. Peter’s Church Wednesday evening for great music and a talk about obtaining basic security for musicians who are needlessly struggling in New York City.
J4JA  attempts to work with the most successful, affluent clubs around the City to find common sense solutions for musicians who are often forced to retire into poverty  or near poverty after long productive careers.

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Indiegogo Campaign (6 more days): Susan Deyhim – The House is Black: a 75-minute stage and film performance

A multimedia project inspired by the life and works of Iranian icon, poet and filmmaker, Forough Farrokhzad, presented at CAP UCLA.

(This campaign is raising funds on behalf of C3 Center For Conscious Creativity, a verified nonprofit. The campaign does not necessarily reflect the views of the nonprofit or have any formal association with it. All contributions are considered unrestricted gifts and can’t be specified for any particular purpose.)