Category Archives: NY Musicians

Linebreak: Poetics of Iran in Brooklyn, New York.


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Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

Let me introduce a new Iranian-Turkish music and poetry project from Brooklyn, New York: Linebreak. 

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Daniel Schnyder’s “SUNDIATA KEITA” concert with the RSB at the Philharmonie Berlin 6 Mai, 2009!

Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

One important activity in life is to interact with people around you. Every day you meet people here and there. If you like them and care for them, they become friends later. Or the other extreme way…they could become enemies. Music, which is an element and part of life, is also about interaction. Such as the interaction between a musician and his audience, between a composer and the orchestra performing his composition, between musicians and musicians of the same group.

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Introducing Matthew Shipp – is Jazz dead?

Photo by Edvard Vlanders

Yes……..No………..?

Jazz pianist Matthew Shipp, who after moving to New York in 1984 quickly became one of the leading lights in the New York jazz scene. discusses the world of Jazz and his work with Dusty from Culture Catch. In this video he is performing Matmos.

 

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