Category Archives: Music Listings

Music Listings – 9/7 through 9/15/2015

1. CHRIS STROMQUIST-MATT BAUDER Duo

Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Time: 7pm
Venue: Barbes (376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: sax-drum duet improv/jazz

CHRIS STROMQUIST/MATT BAUDER. Drummer Chris Stromquist is a member of Slavic Soul Party and Kultur Shock. He seems to be equally at ease playing Balkan, Afro-Cuban or or Ghanaian music.
Matt Bauder is a saxophonist and composer based who has performed with many iconic figures in avant-garde and rock music including Anthony Braxton Roscoe Mitchell, Iron and Wine and Arcade Fire. His recordings as a leader and co-leader on 482 Music and Clean Feed have received wide critical acclaim.

2. littleBits Band Synth Workshop with Hans Tammen (includes 4 sessions)

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Music Listings – 8/31 through 9/6/2015

1. Bring Prudence/Clare Sands/Marco Foster/The Ryan Scott Four/Mikki Hommel/Greg Joseph & Teddy Kumpel LOOPestra w/ Aaron Steele and David Lizmi

Date: Monday, August 31, 2015
Time: 9pm – 12am
Venue: Rockwood Music Hall (196 Allen St, New York, New York 10002)
Ticket: $10
Genre: singer-song writer/pop/indie rock

6:00pm Bring Prudence
7:00pm Clare Sands
8:00pm Marco Foster
9:00pm The Ryan Scott Four
10:00pm Mikki Hommel
11:00pm Greg Joseph
12:00am Teddy Kumpel LOOPestra w/ Aaron Steele and David Lizmi

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Music Listings – 8/24 through 8/30/2015

1. 75 Dollar Bill w. DAS AUDIT

Date: Monday, August 24, 2015
Time: 6pm
Venue: TROOST (1011 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: psychedelic/low-fi indie music/experimental

Brooklyn-based guitar and percussion duo 75 Dollar Bill will play every evening at Greenpoint’s Troost Café beginning Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015. The duo, comprised of Che Chen and Rick Brown, will play a set each evening, sharing the bills with a variety of soloists and groups: Sue Garner, Das Audit, Low-Ways, Chris Nelson, Zimbabwean mbira master Chartwell Dutiro and NYC Haitian Vodou drummers Makandal.

Formed in late 2012, 75 Dollar Bill has caught the attention of music fans and fellow musicians in NYC through regular engagements in both established venues and unusual settings in Brooklyn and Manhattan. The duo has shared stages with well-known popular and experimental musicians including Omar Souleyman, David Grubbs, Thalia Zedek, Steve Gunn and Mecca Normal.

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Music Listings – 8/17 through 8/23/2015

1. Afro Roots feat. Jomion & The Uklos 

Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: 647 Columbus Ave near W 92nd st (Goddard Riverside)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Voodoo Jazz from Benin

At the crossroads of Benin’s traditional vodun rhythms, Caribbean styles and jazz, Jomion & The Uklos make festive, colorful music. These three blood-brothers from the coastal West African city of Cotonou amaze audiences at home and abroad with their furious rhythms and mystical harmonies. They joyfully flirt with reggae, salsa and jazz, while drawing on their vast knowledge of traditional vodun (voodoo) music and culture to create vibrant, relaxed dance music. Their voices blend in melodious harmony, delivering messages of hope, faith and traditional wisdom. Their music is simultaneously complex, profound and simple. Their songs connect to the depths of human experience, while lightening the heart with joy.

Jomion & The Uklos

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Event Recommendation: “DISSIDENT ARTS FESTIVAL” Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Full Weekend of Music, Spoken Word, Dance Toward Social Change

DISSIDENT ARTS FESTIVAL 2015 POSTERThe Dissident Arts Festival, the annual gathering of revolutionary creativity, will fete its 10th anniversary with a special weekend-long “2 nites/2 sites” edition. The event takes place on Saturday August 15 and Sunday August 16 at El Taller Latino Americano (Manhattan) and ShapeShifter Lab (Brooklyn), respectively.

Highlights of this year’s special anniversary Festival will be the reunion of free jazz master Daniel Carter and 1980s hardcore/no wave band Dissipated Face. Other features include modern dance/new music performance by Patricia Nicholson-Parker (co-producer of the Vision Fest/Arts for Art) which includes averitable all-star line-up including Jason Hwang and Michael TA Thompson. Another feature will be Downtown stalwart Trudy Silver and her multi-media radical group Where’s the Outrage? which can count violinist Rosie Hertlein and saxophonists Daniel Carter and Ras Moshe among its ranks. Additionally, make way for the neo-Beat spoken word of Steve Dalachinsky, the Nueva Cancion of Bernardo Palombo, liberation jazz by the Red Microphone, the expansive sound of the 12 Houses Orchestra (conducted by Matt Lavelle), poet Raymond Nat Turner’s Remembrance of the Victims of Police Violence, the “other-world art music” of Sumari, topical spoken word by Chris Butters, Safiya Martinez and Sana Shabazz, and Festival founder John Pietaro’s Literary Warrior Project which fetes the heritage of revolutionary poetry and prose over the past century.

The event is sponsored by the Len Ragozin Foundation and endorsed by the National Writers Union-New York UAW Local 1981 and DooBeeDooBeeDoo NY world music magazine.

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