Category Archives: Musicians

Have you heard of the E SE Festival 2010? What if…?

Date: Decemeber 12th & 13th, 2010
Venue: Epistrophy Cafe (NY)

Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

I had no idea about the E SE Festival. This year was the 6th time?! The last two years since coming to NY I haven’t heard anything about this festival. Every week when I work on the DooBeeDoo music listings I’m kind of informed about what’s happening in this city. When I found out about it I decided to check out this festival because I felt nobody was interested in covering this event.

Martin Bisi was the first person to mention this festival because the drummer he used in Germany in November, Sven Kacirek, was invited by the festival to play their two shows. I contacted him and he emailed me the dates and the contact address of the festival. Surprisingly I knew one of the organizers: Jason Candler. What a surprise?! I just met him before at a show introduced to him by Billy Ficca of Television. Both are members of the Gary Lucas band. So another reason to cover this festival.

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William Ruiz – Taino percussionist!!

Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

Since this morning this gentleman – William Ruiz – has been following me on Twitter. I searched him in the internet and found out that he is a very talented percussionist. He’s playing the 12 tongue modern log drum and  a tribal drum set along with various percussion instruments in the NY subway and on the streets of NY. He’s an off/on stage musician creating great percussion sounds and rhythms.

Hope to see him soon in the subway and play with him. Enjoy the videos!

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Don Van Vliet, better-known as Captain Beefheart died yesterday!!!!


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Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

Yesterday one of my music heroes died !!! Don Van Vliet, better-known as Captain Beefheart,  has died from multiple sclerosis in California, aged 69. He leaves behind his wife of more than 40 years.

The first time when I heard of him was in Osaka,Japan in 1976 when my French buddy had a cassette of Trout Mask Replica which was released in 1969 on Frank Zappa’s newly formed Straight Records label. Some time later, when I toured California for the first time I bought the album in LA, which I gave as a present to my Japanese girlfriend. Listening to Capatain Beefheart in Japan was like a foreigner eating umeboshi for the first time. It was satori!!!

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“Is America A Part Of The World?” Part 3: challenging the way we think about American and World Music!!

Date: Friday, December 10, 2010
Venue: Littlefield (Brooklyn, NY) 

Text by Jim Hoey and Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi 

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