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Hamzat Modine’s new CD and videos!
One of New York’s original bands, HAZMAT MODINE delivers a rustic, deliriously Dionysian blend of whorehouse Blues, Reggae, Klezmer, Country and Gypsy-tinged music. In the video below Hazmat Modine are performing live “The Tide” at the BBC.
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HAZMAT MODINE’S new CD CICADA is out (13 Tracks, 24 page booklet with special guests on the CD)
Two years in the making, this epic CD is the result of five years or worldwide touring and countless collaborations which makes Hazmat the most global of all American bands. With special guests The Kronos Quartet, Natalie Merchant and Benin’s extraordinary Gangbe Brass Band. Out May 17.
FULA FLUTE’s new videos!
(About the video: a new video of FULA FLUTE featuring Bailo Bah and Sylvain Leroux. Performing the song “Ndougouse Baobara” in an environment of works by French sculptor Alain Kirili.)
Sylvain Leroux (alto sax & fula flute) was born in Montréal. He studied classical music at Vincent d’Indy School of Music and
BROOKLYN EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC FESTIVAL!
w/ Talibam! — Brian Chase, Seth Misterka, & Matthew Welch — Mike Pride Bass Trio — Foxglove — Jackson Moore — Long Distance Poison — Silver Ash — Instant Conductors — Kevin Uehlinger’s Alchemusic — Philip Gayle — Che Chen and Robbie Lee — Brandon Evans — Brooklyn Raga Association — Jenny Electrik — The Electronic Border Patrol.
After a decade of hosting shows and events, the News…onic Loft is coming to a close this spring. It all started back in 2001 with a series of rooftop bbqs and experimental music shows, so to celebrate the end of the space, I’ve put together a day-long celebration of experimental and improvised musics beginning with a free rooftop bbq followed by 14 acts of some of Brooklyn’s finest experimental musicians, a lighting installation by White Light Prism, and a late night after party.
CD review – Sven Kacirek’s twenty first century statement of downsizing profit paradigms and a swelling of sensual experience created in African community art!
Artist: Sven Kacirek
Title: The Kenya Sessions
Label: Pingipung
Cat.#: PINGIPUNG 20
Genre: contemporary roots music
CD review by Anika Lani
