This is an audio/visual montage dedicated to the true patriots involved in the Occupy movement.
Lyrics by William Peck.
Music: “Nightsticks” by Moe Shinola
Text by by Dawoud Kringle
Last night (as if this writing, on November 17th, 2011), I attended a performance by Meshell Ndegeocello at Highline Ballroom in New York City. If memory serves me, this is the fifth time I have heard her live. The group played mostly music from her newest release Weather. Meshell almost never plays her old catalog. The night’s exception was when she offered a ballad – like reworking of her classic “Shooting Up and Getting High.”
Date: Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Time: 7pm
Venue: The Graduate Center The Graduate Center Elebash Hall (365 Fifth Ave., NY, NY 10016, Ph: 212.817.8215)
Ticket: $25
Genre: oriental music
The Iranian-born, Indian-raised Azam Ali has one of the most seductive and effortlessly disciplined contemporary voices. Sublimely interpreted through ultra-modern beats and ambient drones, the traditional and contemporary songs of this unique vocalist smolder with dreamy longing and express the grief of exiles. They also soar with a keen edge of hope. She has already recorded three solo albums. Her new CD, From Night to the Edge of Day (released by Six Degrees Records), explores Iranian, Turkish, Lebanese, and Kurdish lullabies. As lead singer with Niyaz, an Iranian musical trio, she collaborates in creating acoustic electronic music for the 21st century. She has also worked with, among others, the percussionist Mickey Hart, and the rock bands System of a Down, Nine Inch Nails, and King Crimson. For the Live@365 concert, she is accompanied by Ramin Loga Torkian on lafta, a Turkish lute, and kamaan, a bowed lute; Nasser Musa Janinion on the oud, a plucked lute; MISSING NAME on percussion; and Sheila Hanigin on cello. This event is part of the new world music series Live@365.
Date: Monday, November 7, 2011
Venue: Lucky Cheng (NY)
Reviewed by Matt Cole
On Monday, the 7th of November, Butch Morris led his newest project, the Lucky Cheng Orchestra, in a two-set conducted musical adventure at Lucky Cheng’s (the current residence of Nublu) in Lower Manhattan, the latest in a weekly residency, which started in early September, and will last until the end of November. This night’s players included Tom Swafford on violin, Nicole Federici on viola, Meaghan Burke on cello, Areni Agbabian on voice, Christoph Knoche on bass clarinet, flute, and harmonica, Doug Wieselman on clarinet, Stephanie Richards on trumpet, Brendan Ross and Octavia Romano on guitar, Tom Zlabinger on double bass, Joe Hertenstein and Kenny Wollesen on percussion, and William MacIntyre on vibraphone. This night’s show was also videotaped by the BBC for a news segment.
