Date: July 14, 2013
Venue: Iridium (NY)
Review by Dawoud Kringle, photo by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
On a warm, humid summer Sunday night in NYC, Iridium hosted Cuban pianist/composer Elio Villafranca. He was joined by Ulysses Owens Jr. (drums), Gregg August (bass), and Terell Stafford (trumpet).
Artist: Liquid Casing
Title: A Separate/Divide
Label: self released
Genre: Rock/Progressive Rock/Post-Punk
Review by Dawoud Kringle
With the first chords of “A Path of Footprints Forged in the Midnight Sun,” the opening track of A Separate/Divide, Liquid Casing goes for the throat.
Date: July 1, 2013
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (NY)
Review by Dawoud Kringle
Hailing from Detroit, Death is one of those bands whose innovation and fearless trailblazing was lost or ignored by history. They were founded by the Hackney brothers (Bobby, bass and vocals, Dennis, drums, and David, guitar; who died of lung cancer in 2000, and was succeeded by Bobbie Duncan) in 1974, and after decades in the shadows, they return with new music, new life in their classics, and are the subject of a new documentary.
Artist: Comfort Food
Title: Dig It
Label: self released
Genre: experimental-funk-jazz-noise-progressive
CD Review by Matt Cole
Dig In is a recent EP by the Chicago bass and drums duo Comfort Food. The band consists of Daniel Wolff on bass and vocals, and Jake Marshall on drums. The group describes their sound as experimental noise jazz; Dig In also has funk, psychedelia, and blues as part of the recipe. Dig In is a promising appetizer from a young band, still a little raw around the edges, which will leave the listener hungry for more. (OK, enough with the food analogies…)
Date: June 28, 2013
Venue: Clemente Soto Velez Center (NY)
Text and photos by Mehran Farahbakhsh
