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Music Listings – 11/24 through 11/30/2014

1. Ambient-Chaos presents Cyborg Salon

Date: Monday, November 24, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Spectrum (121 Ludlow, Second Floor, New York, NY, 650-400-5100)
Ticket: $10 – $20
Genre: jazz/improv/electronics

Read bios of all artists here: https://www.facebook.com/events/682393501837244/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

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Music Listings – 11/17 through 11/23/2014

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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Music Listings – 11/3 through 11/9/2014

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

Music Listings – 10/20 through 10/26/2014

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 20th, 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