1. Ambient-Chaos presents Cyborg Salon

Date: Monday, November 24, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Spectrum (121 Ludlow, Second Floor, New York, NY, 650-400-5100)
Ticket: $10 – $20
Genre: jazz/improv/electronics

Read bios of all artists here: https://www.facebook.com/events/682393501837244/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

Line up:

1) Torben Snekkestad
http://torbensnekkestad.com/projects/solo/

2) The Jazzfakers
https://www.facebook.com/thejazzfakers

3) Amanda Chaudhary and Polly Moller
http://pollymoller.com/
http://amandachaudhary.com/

4) ALPHAMALE
https://soundcloud.com/dad-dreams
Protection music : viola x electronics
australia/nyc

5) Rawmean
http://rawmean.bandcamp.com/music

2. Faith & InnoVe Gnawa Band

Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Mercury Lounge (217 East Houston St., New York, NY 10002)
Price: $10
Genre: funk/r&b/reggae/soul & Gnawa Music

Faith has formed a musical style, “Unlike virtually any other sound out there” (J. Lien – CMJ). “If Nina Simone had a power trio with a rock/soul and reggae flair, it would sound something like this” (Doug DeFalco, Talent Buyer, Southpaw). Felice Rosser “Sings in a voice both plangent and wailing” (New York Times). With sweet and powerful guitars from Nao Hakamada and funky polyrhythms from drummer Paddy Boom (x-Scissor Sisters), Faith has developed an immensely colorful sound., “…tunes that are not rock, not funk, not r&b, so much as deeply soulful tone poems back by multiculti dream pop” (Village Voice).

Innove Gnawa Band is made of musicians from different parts of Morocco all the way to NYC gathering to innovate Gnawa Music.

3. Quickly Quietly and Friends

Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Rakit Club (338 Moffat Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237, Unit L)
Price: $5
Genre: edgy indie rockand live painting

Line up:
Quickly Quietly
DanyLion
UBI&Youth+Perkin Barnes
Ultra bunny
AND LIVE PAINTING by MASM and Yuki Abe

Quickly Quietly formed in 2011, at the end of the year they released their debut Seven EP. The band first played together in prospect-lefferts garden and continued grinding out improv sessions into a fresh sound from analog drum machines, deep guitar and heavy rhythms. The new sound, exemplified by the track “Nothing But Air,” is very electric and very live. Lautaro on drums and samples, Paul on bass and keys, Aaron on guitar and vox. Each member serves double duty to the music creating a eclectic sound and a wide palate, uncharacteristic of a rock trio. If there was an ethos to the band it would be song, texture, rhythm, electrified. Quickly Quietly are:  Aaron Hyzen (guitar,vocals/leader), Paul Sikivie (bass & synths), Lautaro Burgos (SoSaLa, drums ), Greg Zweiben (SoSaLa, synths & percussion)- This band plays edgy indie-esque rock.

4. Anders Nilsson – Marco Cappelli Guitar Duo & Hashtag Blessed

Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Time: 8:30 pm
Venue: Freddys Bar (627 5th Avenue Brooklyn, NY, 718-768-0131)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz/improve

8:30pm: 1-on-1 series, where one player selects a duo partner for the night, On The Way Out presents guitarists Anders Nilsson from Sweden and Marco Cappelli from Italy on acoustic alto guitars, 11 and 13 strings respectively. The alto guitar is a quiet and richly sonorous nylon string guitar designed by Swedish luthier Georg Bohlin in the 70′s. It has the regular 6 strings up a minor third and a slew of extra bass strings tuned down a scale of the player’s choice. In a sense it’s a lute-guitar and is most often used by guitarists when they play renaissance, baroque and new music. Tonight Anders and Marco will play an unplugged set on these rare axes.

10:00pm: Hashtag Blessed is an improvisational rock trio consisting of guitarist Aaron Dugan (Matisyahu, Bill Laswell), drummer Jason Loewenstein (Sebadoh, The Fiery Furnaces) and bassist Reid Taylor (Balk, The Flail). The trio have worked together for a few years recording and performing in Reid’s rock band “Balk”. This is their first time performing together in this fashion. You can expect singular, no-frills improvisation from this unit.

5. FLY MAGIC

Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Time: 1pm
Venue: St. Peter’s Church (619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street, New York, NY 10022, Telephone 212 935 2200)
Ticket: donation
Genre: jazz

FLY MAGIC‘s dynamic and emotive music merges the free spirit of Berlin with the urban vibrancy of NYC and combines elements of jazz with minimalism, classical, post-rock and today’s song culture. The quartet features Timo Vollbrecht– sax, Keisuke Matsuno-guitar, Sam Anning-bass, and Nathan Ellman-bell-drums.

6. Cocek! Brass Band & NY Gypsy All-Stars

Date: Friday, November 28, 2014
Time:  10pm
Venue: Drom (85 Avenue A, NY, NY 10009, 212- 777-1157)
Ticket: $15
Genre: Gypsy Soul with funky refinement/jazz/sounds of Eastern European brass bands

Cocek! Brass Band is the brainchild of trumpet player Sam Dechenne. The band performs original music by Dechenne based on the sounds of Eastern European brass bands. They are a 5-piece group (2 trumpets, trombone, tuba and bass drum) that rocks the house on a very regular basis. The band’s members come from internationally touring ensembles like John Brown’s Body and Itzhak Perlman and bring a blend of dance music with stellar improvisation and melodies that evoke crazy dancing, contemplative thoughts and good times.

New York Gypsy All-Stars jump the turnstiles of Balkanalia, Turkish Roots, and Gypsy Soul with funky refinement:

Ismail Lumanovski / Clarinet
Tamer Pinarbasi / Kanun
Panagiotis Andreou / Bass
Jason Lindner/ Keys
Engin Kaan Gunaydin / Drums

“Frontman clarinetist Ismail Lumanovski is an extraordinary player in his own right, leading the group through a blistering series of haunting dance numbers and a couple of one or two-chord jams that the players used to show off their sizzling chops.” – Alan Young, Lucid Culture Blog

7. Indradeep Ghosh, Fatick Choudhury & Polash Gomes

Date: Sunday, November 30, 2014
Time: 4pm
Venue: Rageshree Music Institute (4029 48th St, Long Island City, New York 11104)
Ticket: donation
Genre: Indian classical music

A Baithaki style concert with Indradeep Ghosh on violin, Fatick Choudhury on vocals and Polash Gomes on tabla.

8. Lukas Ligeti

Date: Sunday, November 30, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: Spectrum (121 Ludlow, Second Floor, New York, NY, 650-400-5100)
Ticket: $15
Genre: electronic (nu African) marimba music

Lukas Ligeti in a solo electronic marimba lumina set for New Sounds Africa.

Transcending the boundaries of genre, the Austrian, New-York-City and Johannesburg-based composer-percussionist Lukas Ligeti has developed a musical style of his own that draws upon downtown New York experimentalism, contemporary classical music, jazz, electronica, as well as world music, particularly from Africa. Known for his non-conformity and diverse interests, Lukas creates music ranging from the through-composed to the free-improvised, often exploring polyrhythmic/polytempo structures, non-tempered tunings, and non-western elements. Other major sources of inspiration include experimental mathematics, computer technology, architecture and visual art, sociology and politics, and travel. He has also been participating in cultural exchange projects in Africa for the past 15 years.

9. Beyond Trio

Date: Sunday, November 30, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: the University of the Streets (130 east 7th street. 2nd floor. NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz/improv/experimental

Beyond trio is: Cheryl Pyle on flute, Roberta Piket on piano and Newman Taylor Baker on washboard percussion.

The new trio, Beyond Trio, has been performing in the New York city area since 2013 at Spectrum, ShapeShifter Lab and other fine jazz venues. The trio has an in the moment improvisational sound with experimental and classical elements within the jazz foundation. Each concert is a journey in pathways of new sounds to the jazz heart.
For more history on the musicians go to our websites-