1. Skye Steele & Karlie Bruce and Chris Parrello
Date: Monday, November 10, 2014
Time: 7:30pm & 8:15pm
Venue: Rockwood Music Hall (196 Allen St, New York, New York 10002)
Ticket: $10
Genre: singer-song writer/folk
Called “rustic and worldly” by the New York Times, Skye Steele’s songs range from quotidian confessional to surreal deep-space sound explorations. His rough hewn voice and otherworldly fiddling are the yin and yang of this unmistakeable performer. His new record Up From The Bitterroot is set for release in January on HouseTown.
watch/listen:
Karlie Bruce & Chris Parrello
Karlie Bruce and Chris Parrello draw upon many loves in music. The result is often stark, sometimes complex, frequently understated, and perhaps unsettlingly vulnerable. They’ve collaborated with members of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kneebody, Grizzly Bear, M83, Robert Glasper Experiment, Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings and Polyphonic Spree. Songs for guitar and voice.
“Swoonsome” – Time Out New York
watch/listen:
http://karliebruce.bandcamp.com
http://vimeo.com/61982625
2. John Welsh/Tyshawn Sorey, Chris Pitsiokos, Brandon Lopez & Birth Rattle
Date: Monday, November 10, 2014
Time: pm
Venue: Manhattan Inn (632 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, New York 1122)
Ticket: donation
Genre: ?
Featured artists:
John Welsh plays solo
Tyshawn Sorey, Chris Pitsiokos, Brandon Lopez play trio
Birth Rattle is Derek Baron, Adam Gundersheimer, B Lopez
3. Richard Bennett “Pure” Duo
Date: Monday, November 10, 2014
Time: 7:30pm & 8:15pm
Venue: Whole Foods (95 E Houston St, New York, New York 10002)
Ticket: free
Genre: Indian influenced instrumental music/world/new age
Richard Bennet on piano and Naren Budhkar on tabla. Performing originals songs of love, lust, joy and despair… part of the Bowery Sessions concert series.
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4. Daniel Lanois , The Antlers , Tinariwen , and Lonnie Holley
Date: Monday, November 10, 2014
Time: 7:30pm & 8:15pm
Venue: Brooklyn Masonic Temple (317 Clermont Ave #4, Brooklyn, NY 11205)
Ticket: $45
Genre: ambient electronica/desert blues/nu blues/singer-songwriter
WFUV, Le Poisson Rouge & Anti Records proudly present Antithesis-An evening to celebrate forward thinking music with full sets by Daniel Lanois, Tinariwen, The Antlers, & Lonnie Holley.
About the artists and videos here: http://lepoissonrouge.com/lpr_events/daniel-lanois-brooklyn-masonic-temple-november-10th-2014/
5. Father Figures & Kristin Slipp, Adam Schatz and Sarah Pedinotti
Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Time: 9:30pm
Venue: Manhattan Inn (632 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, New York 1122)
Ticket: free
Genre: jazz zombie
Zombie Jazz outfit Father Figures began as a Brooklyn basement band like any other — or maybe unlike any other. Instrumental jams with wild horns and trance-inducing keys, not to mention a whole host of otherworldly sounds coming from make this combo totally captivating.
Father Figures is back!. And Kristin Slipp, Adam Schatz and Sarah Pedinotti will be performing music together for the first time.
The Untempered Ensemble was founded in 1992 by Bill Cole as a trio. The first members of the group were Bill Cole, Warren Smith and Joe Daley. Later in the 1990’s bassist William Parker and multi-instrumentalist Cooper-Moore joined the group. Soon after that the reed player Sam Furnace was asked to join and then at the end of the 1990’s Cole’s son Atticus became a member of the group, playing hand drums. This group recorded four CDs for Boxholder Records during the early 2000’s and gave numerous performances, including at the Weil Recital Hall at Carnegie Music Hall in New York.
More recently bassist Shayna Dulberger became a member of the ensemble, followed by sax player Ras Moshe. The Untempered Ensemble had appeared in the Vision Festival in New York City seven times when, in 2009, the organizer of the Festival invited the group to appear again, but this time asked whether the group could include a vocalist. So, for the Vision Festival performance that year, Cole’s daughter Althea SullyCole was added to the group.
– See more at: http://billcole.org/untempered_ensemble/#sthash.XdEAPNsL.dpuf
6. Bill Cole’s Untempered Ensemble
Date: Thursday, November 13, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: The Commons Brooklyn (388 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11217)
Tickets: $15
Genre: jazz/improv
Bill Cole’s Untempered Ensemble with:
Bill Cole – Sona,Hojok,Piri,Didgerido
Warren Smith– percussion
Joseph Daley– tuba & euphonium
Ras Moshe– tenor sax & flutes
Lisette Santiago– bata,conga & theremin
Gerald Veasley– bass
Bill Cole is an American jazz musician, composer, educator and author. An admired innovator in the music world, Cole successfully combines Eastern sounds with an American art form – jazz. Cole specializes in non-Western wind instruments, especially double reed horns – including Chinese sonas, Korean hojok and piri, Indian nagaswarm and shenai and Tibetan trumpet, as well as the Australian digeridoo and Ghanaian flute. Cole is the leader of the Untempered Ensemble which he founded in 1992. He has performed with Sam Rivers, Billy Bang, Jayne Cortez, Julius Hemphill, Ornette Coleman, James Blood Ulmer, William Parker, Fred Ho, Gerald Veasley and others, at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Town Hall, Symphony Space and venues around the U.S., and has recorded for Boxholder Records.
The Untempered Ensemble was founded in 1992 by Bill Cole as a trio. The first members of the group were Bill Cole, Warren Smith and Joe Daley. Later in the 1990’s bassist William Parker and multi-instrumentalist Cooper-Moore joined the group. Soon after that the reed player Sam Furnace was asked to join and then at the end of the 1990’s Cole’s son Atticus became a member of the group, playing hand drums. This group recorded four CDs for Boxholder Records during the early 2000’s and gave numerous performances, including at the Weil Recital Hall at Carnegie Music Hall in New York.
7. Mamady Kouyate
Date: Friday, November 14, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: OCabanon (245 W 29th St, New York, New York 10001)
Tickets: t.b.a.
Genre: Guinean music
With Nepo Soteri on bass & Daniel Villeneuve on congas + special guest
Mamady Kouyaté was born to musical royalty. The Manding (or Mande) ruled West Africa in the 13th and 14th centuries, and the Kouyaté family served as the kings’ traditional griots (virtuoso musicians and praise historians). Guinea’s Kouyatés are famously linked to the wooden-slotted balafon, but by the time Mamady was born in 1956, guitarists were transposing balafon riffs onto guitar.
Throughout the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, Kouyaté worked the scene, leading a regional band for ten years, and subbing for guitarists in national bands. In the late ’90s, he helped resurrect the legendary Bembeya Jazz, and played next to guitar hero Sekou Bembeya Diabaté on the group’s 2003 comeback album Bembeya, and two world tours. Back in Conakry, he labored to revive classic bands using young players, but the callousness of Guinea’s politicians angered him.
“Musicians had put in 40-year careers for their country,” says Kouyaté, “and they couldn’t even feed themselves. I said this publicly, and I went to prison four times. They said I was trying to sabotage the government.”
In March 2004, Kouyaté fled a fifth arrest and came to New York. He located a young relative, Mohammed Kouyaté—who is also a talented guitarist—and formed the Mandingo Ambassadors. The duo located veteran Guinean singer Émile Benny Soumah—former star of the national band Balla et ses Balladins—who despaired of finding musicians to accompany him, and had lived in obscurity in the New York area without performing for ten years.
“When we rehearsed for the first time,” says Kouyaté, “Émile spent the whole night crying.”
It’s not hard to see why. The group is spot-on with percussion, balafon, bass, drums, two vocalists, and two guitars. Kouyaté’s sound is pointed and fierce when soloing at spit-fire velocity, and smooth and sweet when accompanying. In addition, his picking technique—learned from guitarists back home who were hesitant to use effects because they might break and become impossible to replace—produces varied and evocative tones.
“If you want to blend, you play in the middle of the strings,” he says. “If you want to create a slightly different feeling, you move a little up toward the neck. If you want to go crazy, and make the sound that really hits, you move all the way to the bridge.”
And when Kouyaté “goes crazy,” the glorious sound and spirit of 1960s Guinea lives again.
8. KGenius
Date: Friday, November 14, 2014
Time: 7:30pm & 8:45pm
Venue: Drom (85 Avenue A, NY, NY 10009, 212- 777-1157)
Ticket: $15
Genre: reggae
KGenius was born in St. Catherine, Jamaica (West Indies). At the age of 18 KGenius migrated to the US, and not long after linked up with rapper MC Eric (with international hits such as “The Beat is Technotronic”), and Manuela Kamosi a.k.a. Ya Kid K of Technotronic who recognized his talents. KGenius embarked on a Hemispheric tour with Ya Kid K across the US, Puerto Rico and Canada, as a backup dancer and opening act.
KGenius resides in Brooklyn, NY and is a self-taught guitarist who began his journey as an independent reggae artist more than 10 years ago. KGenius’ original lyrics and music compositions are inspired by the social, political and spiritual quandaries of everyday life. He is an avid songwriter with several songs awaiting to be recorded; his music is a blend of his traditional reggae roots and his spirituality.
In 2010 KGenius launched CityLine Open Mic (citylineopenmic.com) in Brooklyn with the hopes of bringing the community together through positive artistic measures, in a family-friendly constructive atmosphere for all ages to appreciate. KGenius is on a mission to capture the essence of the old teachings of helping the community to build a better society.
KGenius is currently working on projects with his newly established band “KGenius and the bretheren”; the bretheren is a band of multi-talented musicians from across the tri-state area. KGenius’ ultimate goal for his music is to enlighten, motivate, unite and serve as a message of upliftment for the people.
9. TONGUES IN TREES
Date: Saturday, November 15, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Barbes (376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Sonic Youth meets Bjork meets Sufi trance
TONGUES IN TREES. Inspired by ragas, mantras and forces of nature, Tongues in Trees is the project of vocalist Samita Sinha, drummer SunnyJain (Red Baraat), and guitarist Grey McMurray (itsnotyouitsme). Drawing from North Indian classical and folk music, sonic texturing, propulsive beats and multiple languages, the trio blurs the line between East and West, traditional and experimental, acoustic and electronic. Each a lauded composer in their own right, longtime collaborators Sinha and Jain bring their distinctive musical voices as Indian-Americans alongside McMurray’s avant new music textures.
