1. The Mast & East India Youth

Date: Monday, November 17, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: Mercury Lounge (217 East Houston St., New York, NY 10002)
Price: $10
Genre: electronic/experimental/pop

The Mast is vocalist and instrumentalist Haleh Gafori and percussionist and beatsmith Matt Kilmer. Merging live electronics, vocals, and percussion, The Mast creates a full-spectrum sonic experience that features “Haleh’s phenomenally powerful, nuanced, and hypnotic voice and Matt’s gorgeous deft beats (both sequenced and live)” (Wompblog). Influenced by early IDM, post dubstep, and experimental beat music as well as acts like Mount Kimbie and Bonobo, The Mast delivers a warm and inviting sound that booms through the subwoofers, propels the body to dance, and soaks the mind in a bath of endorphins.

William Doyle, better known by his stage name East India Youth, is an electronic musician from Bournemouth, England. His first album, Total Strife Forever, was released by Stolen Recordings on 13 January 2014.It was nominated for the 2014 Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize Album of the Year award.

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1. Skye Steele & Karlie Bruce and Chris Parrello 

Date: Monday, November 10, 2014
Time: 7:30pm & 8:15pm
Venue: Rockwood Music Hall (196 Allen St, New York, New York 10002)
Ticket: $10
Genre: singer-song writer/folk

1. Marc Ribot Trio

Date: Monday, November 3, 2014
Time: 10pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $20
Genre: free/punk/jazz

Marc Ribot Trio w/ Henry Grimes & Chad Taylor – European Tour kickoff and Henry Grimes 79th Birthday Celebration!
Marc Ribot’s experimental trio with Henry Grimes (bass) and Chad Taylor (drums) draws on the improvising telepathy developed performing together in the years working together as Spiritual Unity to reach new heights and depths of free/punk/jazz. The trio format allows for greater compositional flexibility. Continue reading →

1. William Hooker w. THE DOUBLE QUARTET

Date: Monday, October 20, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $15
Genre: jazz

The William Hooker Double Quartet which premiered at The David Rubenstein Atrium  at Lincoln Center will appear – in concert – at Shapeshifter Lab, Brooklyn, NY on October 20^th, 2014. Featuring: TAYLOR RYAN, RAS MOSHE, MATT LAVELLE, CRISTIAN AMIGO, SKY STEELE and TOM SZLABINGER.

The group(s) propel themselves with the use of two different types of compositional frameworks, initiated from Mr. Hooker, from the drums. Continue reading →

1. Tom Johnson + The Dedalus Ensemble

Date: Monday, October 13, 2014
Time:  8pm
Venue: The Roulette (509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217)
Ticket: $15
Genre: contemporary music

Counting to Seven is a new large scale work written by Tom Johnson for the Dedalus Ensemble. Seven voices count to seven in about 30 different languages from all over the world. Each piece explores a way of counting as well as a language sonority giving birth to a new musical form. From Okinawa (dialect from Japan) whispering words to Malinke (Africa) rhythmic patterns with additional small percussions, each continent is represented. Counting to Seven received the support from the French Institute, French Government (DRAC), Région Languedoc-Roussillon and SPEDIDAM.

Created in 1996, DEDALUS Ensemble is a contemporary experimental music ensemble based in Montpellier, France. Their repertoire gives a large place to flexible scores from across the United States and European New Music from the 1960′s to today. DEDALUS is a collective where every musician collaborate to orchestration and interpretation. DEDALUS is a leading ensemble in France and performs extensively in festivals and concert series across France and Europe. A noted champion of contemporary American experimental music, the Ensemble has premiered works by Tom Johnson, Christian Wolff, Alvin Lucier, Phill Niblock, Frederic Rzewski, James Tenney before French audiences. Continue reading →