Author Archives: Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

CD Review: Spaghetti Eastern Music…using any musical device, any genre, any instrument, any abstract and ambient sound to make his statement

 Spaghetti Eastern MusicArtist: Spaghetti Eastern Music
Title: Sketches of Spam
Label: Bad Egg Records
Genre: rock/post-rock/experimental

CD Review by Dawoud Kringle

Every now and again, my friend Sohrab Saadat (editor / publisher of DBDBD) just loves to give me music that challenges my ability as a reviewer. He did it again with Spaghetti Eastern Music‘s new release Sketches of Spam, the solo project of New York based musician Sal Cataldi.

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Music Listings – 2/15 through 2/21/2016

1. No Orpheus: vocal music of Mohammed Fairouz
w/ Wayne Koestenbaum , Lloyd Schwartz , Adrian Daurov , and Rebecca Ringle

Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, NY, NY 10010)
Tickets: $15/$20/$25
Genre: music which integrates Middle-Eastern modes into Western structures

Music Listings – 2/8 through 2/14/2016

1. Leni Stern

Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Time: 10pm
Venue: The 55 Bar (55 Christopher St., (Sixth/Seventh Avenue), New York, ( 212 ) 929-9883)
Ticket: $10
Genre: trad. West African arranged music

Acclaimed guitarist and vocalist Leni Stern brings her African music ensemble to Barbés. The music juxtaposes Stern’s trademark inventive guitar and vocal explorations with the indigenous sounds of accomplished African instrumentalists. The result is at once haunting, exuberant, cinematic, personal and resoundingly assured. Featuring Leni Stern on n’goni, electric guitar, vocals, and calabash/Alioune Faye on sabar and djembe,  James Genus and Leo Genovese.

2. Hungry March Band W.  Jonathan Toubin / New York Night Train and Baby Soda

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