Category Archives: Music Listings

Music listings – 7/23 through 7/30

1. Melvin Gibbs Elevated Entity

Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Time: 10:30pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $15 (Special offer: two pairs of give away tickets. Please mail the names to sohrab.saadat@gmail.com by Wednesday 12 noon)
Genre: afro beat alternative funk hip-hop

Listening to Melvin Gibbs’ Elevated Entity and their new album Ancients Speak (LiveWired Music) is like walking down the street in New York and unexpectedly falling into a manhole, only to discover there is an African-American underground music scene where the African diaspora has knocked down all barriers between genres, placing creativity on equal status with groove. Afrobeat is rubbing against Hendrix-style guitar solos, hip hop has gone to Bahia and come back with the most primal electronic beats. Afro-Cuban spirits intermingle with the Holy Spirit. It’s a riotous gathering of all things African.

The line up:

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Music Listings – 7/16 through 7/22

1. Trio Mundo & Dawoud

Date: Monday, July 16, 2012
Time: 8:30pm (Trio Mundo) & 9:30pm (Dawoud)
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215,  646-820-9452)
Ticket: $10
Genre: World/Jazz fusion

Inspired by the vast musical traditions from around the world – east and west, acoustic and electronic, modern and ancient – these varied genres provide a creative and sacred inspiration for Dawoud. Through his artistic vision and unprecedented use of the Indian sitar, he is illuminating a new musical path.
If Dawoud’s music could be defined, it would be World – Jazz Fusion. It’s a jazz experience from an other-worldly realm; a New Age experience with a Downbeat / electronica edge. His music is peaceful, and will awaken within you a hidden source of energy as a friend and guide on your journey.

Dawoud – sitar, dilruba, and whatever else he feels like playing. Jimmy Lopez – acoustic & electronic percussion

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Music listings – 7/9 through 7/15

1. MADAGASCAR MEETS NEW YORK

Date: Monday, July 9, 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Gospel / Jazz / Latin with  native rhythms from Madagascar

PATRICK ANDY BAND is: Eli Menezes: guitar, Tim Reyes: guitar, Carlos Mendoza: drums, Dave Rodriguez: keyboard, Ivory McDonald: vocal and Patrick Andy: bass.

Patrick Andy blends Gospel / Jazz / Latin with his native rhythms from Madagascar. A Patrick Andy Band live is a unique listening experience that’s guaranteed to bring Joy to both musicians who are always in search of intricate-different stuff, and to non-musicians who just wanna enjoy good music.

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Music listings – 7/2 through 7/8

1. Franz Hackl’s  IDO

Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Time:  7pm
Venue: Drom (85 Avenue A, NY, NY 10009, 212- 777-1157)
Ticket: $20
Genre: new Tyrolean Folk music

Franz Hackl (on trumpet, flugelhorn) leads his own group: Franz Hackl’s IDO . A Quartet with Mino Cinelu on percussion, Matt Garrison on bass and Adam Holzman on keyboards. IDO means dialect for everybody and brings Tyrolean Folk tunes, the music he grew up with, to the world stage by developing his own international musical language by combining his tradition with Jazz, world grooves and electronics.

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Music listings – 6/25 through 7/1

1. Evolving Music

Date: Monday, June 25, 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Clemente Soto Velez Center  (107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002)
Tickets: Door: $11 for 1 set, $16 : 2 set , $20 : All Night
Genre: Jazz/impeove/Nu Blues/dance

7:30PM – 8:30PM – Nicholson / Four Women with an Ax to Grind

Patricia Nicholson – dance, words Mazz Swift – violin Kris Davis – piano Tiffany Chang – drums
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