Artist: Cassis & Boxerin
Title: Flypaperthin – A Symphonic Suite for Chamber Ensemble
Label: self released
Genre: singer-song writer/soundtrack/alternative rock
CD Review by Dawoud Kringle
The “classical” model of the chamber ensemble of Europe’s antiquity has clearly branched off into directions that Bach, Mozart, and Vivaldi could never have anticipated. Cassis & Boxerin is such a project.
A trailer for the forthcoming feature documentary film of Srey Thy, singer of the The Cambodian Space Project by German director: Marc Eberle.
US film screening: t.b.a.
Date: Monday, March 9, 2015
Time: 7pm
Venue: Theater for the New City / Cino Theater (155 1st Avenue, b/w 10th & 11th street, New York City 10003, 212-254-1109)
Ticket: $15
Genre: psychedelic-ambient jazz/electric sitar music/improv
God’s Unruly Friends! The new musical event led by master musician Dawoud!
God’s Unruly Friends picks up where Dawoud’s previous ensemble Renegade Sufi left off. Featuring Latif Kurfirst (percussion), Chenana Manno (singing bowls, bass, dance, vocals), and led by Dawoud (exotic string instruments, such as the sitar and dilruba, laptop, vocals), and special guest t.b.a.. They offer music improvised from elements from many musical genres, and translates non musical concepts into musical ideas.
Artist: Hypercolor
Title: Hypercolor
Label: Tzadik Rec
Genre: free style/free rock/noise
CD review by Dawoud Kringle
Tzadik has released a CD by the newest of the Downtown No-Wave improv scene: Hypercolor.
Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: Coco SixtySix (66 Greenpoint Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Tickets: $8
Genre: free style rock/improv/alternative country/blues-jazz
NOMOTO ( free style rock/improv)
Bassoon (alternative country)
