Date: Sunday, September 23, 2012
Time: 5pm
Venue: The Roulette (509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217)
Ticket: $15
Genre: shakuhachi music
Photo by courtesy of the Roulette
Plus special guests: Elizabeth Brown, Ned Rothenberg, Ralph Samuelson & Laurie Sogawa
Text and photo by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
The reason for my trip to come to Tokyo, as you already know, was to attend my wife’s mother funeral who passed away recently. As usual I took one of my horns with me, this time it’s my soprano saxophone, which is smaller and lighter than my tenor saxophone. I had no idea, how my sax would get involved in my life in Tokyo. Of course no concerts were planned by me and playing on Tokyo streets was out of question.
In the morning of the day when I was going to say my farewell to my mother-in-law before the cremation, I went to the Sozen-Ji Temple near by. I took my soprano with me. When approaching the temple the Kannon worship ceremony had already started. I did my prayer which was dedicated to my wife and her mother. After the ceremony I took a walk in the temple site and sat down on a bench on the east side of the temple complex. It was a lovely morning, around 6:30am. I just observed the people around me who were mostly elderly people, some joggers and young Chinese women who seemed to live and work here.
After a while I got the impulse to play my sax…a musical ode to my mother-in-law. A piece of music which would take off the fear from her and would make her “hot” trip to the other world easier and faster. I recorded the music with my iPhone.
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Date: Sunday, September 16, 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: NYU Skirball Center (566 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY 10012)
Ticket: $20-32
Genre: Ethiopian funk, jazz, and rock/rural party music of NE Brazil
The Joshua Light Show, perhaps the most legendary visualists of live music are joined by Debo Band who harness the power of 1970s Ethiopian funk, jazz, and rock with rolling, psychedelic grooves and Forro in the Dark perform the hip-swiveling, rural party music of NE Brazil.
Date: Sunday, Sept. 16th, 2012
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Littlefield (622 Degraw St, Brooklyn, New York 11217)
Tickets: $5 in advance / $8 at door
Presented by BMI, The Defiant Giant, Brooklyn Indie Music Fest, and Live in Your Living Room*
The Brooklyn Indie Music Fest, which started last year (read here last year’s festival review), is a celebration and showcase of the community of vast talent and dedication that fuels the independent music scenes of Brooklyn and the surrounding boroughs. At the heart of the Brooklyn Indie Fest impetus is an attempt to unify various local independent music scenes, artists, and fans – in order to help inspire, motivate and promote these groups collectively.
