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Music listings – 8/8 through 8/14

1. Chicha Libre

Date: Monday, August 8, 2011
Time: 9;30pm
Venue: Barbes (376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: a mixture of latin rhythms, surf music and psychedelic pop

Chicha Libre plays a mixture of latin rhythms, surf music and psychedelic pop inspired by 1970′s Peruvian music from the Amazon. The Brooklyn-based band mixes up covers of forgotten Chicha classics with French-tinged originals, re-interpretation of 70’s pop classics as well as cumbia versions of pieces by Satie and Ravel. With Greg Burrows – percussion; Joshua Camp – Hohner Electravox; Olivier Conan – Cuatro & Vocals – Nicholas Cudahy – bass; Vincent Douglas – Guitar – Neil Ochoa – percussio

2. Eric Harland+Marcus Strickland

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Music listings – 6/27 through 7/3/2011

Will be updated during the week!

1. Hot & Cold

Date: June 27, 2011
Time: 10pm
Venue: Freddys Bar (627 5th Ave at 17th Street – one block from the Prospect Avenue R-stop, Brklyn, N.Y. 1215)
Ticket: $10
Genre: guitar music

Hot & Cold will premier a few works they’ve been co-writing over the last year on their electric guitars. Fusing their common love of improvisation and composition, guitarists Anders Nilsson and Aaron Dugan create musical layers that transgress denominations and -isms and embrace the universe’s constant mandate to create anew.

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