Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Venue: on the sidewalk outside of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Gala, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Broadway at 60th Street, New York City
Text and photos by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
Date: April 22, 2015
Venue: Joe’s Pub (NY)
Review by Dawoud Kringle/Photos by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
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Date: Monday, April 27, 2015
Time: 8:30pm & 10:30pm
Venue: Iridium (1650 Broadway New York, NY 10019, 212-582-2121)
Ticket: $25
Genre: blues/New Orleans brass
HAZMAT MODINE plays the kind of Blues one might have found in a barrelhouse in New Orleans had the city been inhabited by gypsies who performed with Otis Redding and the city had been built on the Black Sea. The band is driven by harmonicas, accordion, tuba, drums, guitars, and a full horn section. Guests play such exotic instruments as the Romanian cimbalom, the banjitar, and the Claviola. Front man Wade Schuman has the appropriately throaty voice of someone who has both hopped freight trains and collaborated with the Throat Singers of Tuva.
For the past eight years, the band has been touring in over 35 countries worldwide. They have collaborated/performed with a vast range of artists including Bombino, Kronos Quartet, Cat Empire, the Gangbe Brass band from Benin, and Natalie Merchant. The title track from their first CD BAHAMUT was recently used in the 3D film Pina by Wim Wenders, and currently in a performance by Pina Bausch and the Stuttgart Ballet. Their second CD Cicada was awarded the Charles Cross award in France for best blues album of the Year, and topped number one on the World Music Charts in Europe.
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Date: April 14, 2015
Venue: Shapeshifter (Brooklyn, NY)
Review by Dawoud Kringle – Photos by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
Black Cube SP “Return of the Tides” tour came to NYC on Tuesday, April 14th to celebrate the release of their debut CD Return of the Tides: Ascension Suite & Holy Ghost. Led by Chicago’s Rob Mazurek (cornet, electronics,) the band includes Brasil’s Guilherme Granado (keyboards, electronics, sampler), Mauricio Takara (percussion, cavaquino, electronics), and Thomas Rohrer (rabeca, soprano saxophone). Black Cube SP is Rob Mazurek’s newest ensemble which features his long standing São Paulo Underground trio with the addition of Thomas Rohrer.
