Date: August 9, 2012
Venue: Central Park/SummerStage Theatre
Review by Dawoud Kringle
Photo by Clara Aich
(Sohrab, Lautaro and Greg)
Date: August, 28, 2013
Venue: Nublu (NY)
Review and videos by Dawoud Kringle
Date: August 17, 2013
Venue: 13th St. Repertory Theatre
Review and photos by Dawoud Kringle
In the small, out of the way, and comfortable 13th Street Repertory Theatre, an audience of Saturday evening revellers and aficionados gathered for The Wonderful Remix of Oz (directed and adapted for stage by Haberdasher Theatre‘s Hollie Klem and Jeanette Jaquish). The very name promised an unorthodox comedic romp into an urban retelling of the classic; and a lot of fun. This was a promise they kept.
Venue: Glassland Gallery (NY)
Date: August 18, 2013
My previous exposure to The Mast, the duo of Haleh Gafori Kilmer and Matt Kilmer a year or so past, was impressive. Their live performance and CD release was marvelous (you’ll find my review here: https://doobeedoobeedoo.info/2012/03/13/cd-review-the-mast-wild-poppies-how-did-profit-trump-well-being/). So, on a recent Sunday night, I trekked into an obscure area of Williamsburg to hear what they’re doing these days.
The act before The Mast was Nitemoves, a laptop player / DJ. He had a musical sensibility, and was an interesting performer. While some of his melodies seemed little different from the melodically unsophisticated synth bands of the 80s, he did create some interesting things and made creative use of his computer’s possibilities. His music was always changing and never became monotonous.
Artist: Nashaz
Title: Nashaz
Label: Ziryab Records
Genre: hard driving grooves in 10/8 and 7/8 combine with moments of contemplative beauty that sound at once Arabic, and yet distinctly American
Release date: September 17, 2013
CD release concert: at Drom (NY), September 17, 2013
Review by Dawoud Kringle
In the realm of Persian / Arabic maqam, people like Rabih Abou-Khalil and Simon Shaheen kicked open a door that once open, will never close. I speak, of course, of the introduction of elements of jazz into maqam. Nashaz has taken up the gauntlet on this and run with it.
