Keyhan Kalhor by Todd Rosenberg
Musicians: Kayhan Kalhor – kamancheh & Behrouz Jamali on tombak (hand drum)
Date: Saturday, October 03, 2009 8:00PM
Where: Peter Norton Symphony Space, Broadway at 95th St, New York
This is a solo sitar piece; variations of a theme of a composition of mine called “Will to Power”. The scale it is built upon is a hybrid: D Eb F G# A B C D. The improvisation is intended to convey the struggle against conflicts with, and within, human free will. There are a few motifs that the melody constantly returns to; symbolizing the inexorable pull of one’s individual destiny.
Note: this is NOT a raga, and the rhythm is not at all based on tal. I was experimenting with concepts that are neither East nor West.
Yvette’s aouncement
Dear Friends,
Please come out to the first installment of my ‘creative-non-fiction event’ project: “Adoption Story.” This will be part of the tale of my search for my Iranian birth father.
Where: Bar Matchless (directions: corner of Driggs & Manhattan Aves, Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Trains: G train to Nassau, L train to Bedford). This is part of Casey Block’s “This is Pop?” series
Hand Of Fatima DVD cover
The Hand of Fatima is a feature-length documentary structured by two parallel journeys to the remote Moroccan village of Jajouka, where a hereditary band plays music older than history.
The first journey begins in the 1960s, when critic Robert Palmer uncovers “cryptic allusions” to Jajouka in the novels of William Burroughs. On assignment for Rolling Stone in 1971, Palmer finds the place where the musicians spend their days smoking kif, playing music, and “driving possessed tribesmen into mass Dionysian frenzies.”
