1. Evolving Music
Date: Monday, March 31, 2014
Time: 7:30pm to 11pm
Venue: Clemente Soto Velez Center (107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002)
Tickets: $11 per set
Genre: jazz/improv
7:30 Max Johnson Trio
Kirk Knuffke – Cornet
Max Johnson – bass
Ziv Ravitz – drums
8:45 Michael Attias Trio
Michael Attias – alto sax
Mark Helias – double bass
Michael Sarin – drums
10:00 Daro Behroozi Quartet
Daro Behroozi – reeds
Sam Yulsman – piano
Brian Questa – bass
Ethan Kogan – drums
2. Women’s Jazz Festival: Carolyn Malachi and THEESatisfaction
Date: Monday, March 31, 2014
Time: 7pm to 8:30pm
Venue: Schomburg Center (515 Malcolm X Blvd, Harlem, NY 10037)
Tickets: $25
Genre: jazz/hip hop/R&B
Carolyn Malachi blends Jazz, Hip Hop, Spoken Word and lots of imagination into a style Giant Step calls “delicate, refreshing [and] smooth”. She champions global access to education with e-textbook provider Chegg and The School Fund. In 2013, the artist whom MTV calls “one of five R&B artists to obsess over” released a full-length album, GOLD.
THEESatisfaction is an American R&B hip hop duo based in Seattle consisting of rapper Stasia “Stas” Iron and singer Catherine “Cat” Harris-White.
3. Momenta
Date: Monday, March 31, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Center for Jewish History (15 W. 16th St. NY 10011)
Tickets: $10
Genre: old and new Jewishish composed music
The Momenta Quartet presents “Jewish Composers, Old and New”, an exploration of a diverse array of Jewish composers spanning the centuries. Momenta presents two works from its unique personal repertoire, by world music pioneer Adam Rudolph and a world premiere by Yeshiva faculty composer David Glaser. Momenta violist Stephanie Griffin will be joined by pianist Cheryl Seltzer for another world premiere: ‘Above Clouds’ (2013-14) by revered German emigre composer Ursula Mamlok, now in her 91st year and still actively composing. Pianist Yelena Grinberg joins Momenta cellist Michael Haas in Charles-Valentin Alkan‘s dazzling Sonate de concert for cello and piano. Momenta rounds out this eclectic program with a cornerstone of the string quartet repertoire, Mendelssohn‘s youthful op. 12 quartet.
4. Hamell On Trial
Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Time: 9pm
Venue: PIANOS (158 Ludlow St., New York, NY 10002
Ticket: $8
Genre: punk rock
Edward James “Ed” Hamell, performing as Hamell on Trial, is an American punk rock musician, described by Righteous Babe Records as “loud, fast music informed by politics, passion, energy and intelligence,
Hamell on Trial is releasing his long awaited album “The Happiest Man in the World”
5. Alrealon Musique showcase featuring PAS Musique, Heroine, X-NAVI:ET, K0Ks, ROTC
Date: Thursday, April 3, 2014
Time: 7;30pm
Venue: Goodbye Blue Monday (1087 Broadway, Brooklyn, New York 11221)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: electronica/indie rock/experimental/free music
Acts scheduled below:
1) Pas Musique
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2) Heroine
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3) X-Navi:Et – from Poland
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4) ROTC (Rubaiyats of the Cicadas)
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5) K0Ks
A duo of Snaykhunt and Lazurite
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6. PULSE – an evening of electronic music and video art
Date: Friday, April 4, 2014
Time: 6pm – 11pm
Venue: Rubin Museum (150 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011, 212-620-5000)
Ticket: free
Genre: electronic music
In traditional Tibetan medicine, pulse reading is a complex form of diagnosis which requires physicians to listen deeply to the sound waves and vibrations of one’s heartbeat. In collaboration with Warper Party, The Rubin Museum presents a museum-wide multi-media event, PULSE, which invites electronic musicians and video artists to listen deeply and explore their own beats through inspiration from the new exhibition, Bodies in Balance: The Art of Tibetan Medicine.
6pm–10pm – K2 Lounge (free)
Digital remixing with New Jersey producer Friendly Knowledge followed by experimental sound manipulation by artist, musician and DJ – ATOM. Video art projection by Sofy Yuditskaya.
7pm–8:30pm – Theater*
Multimedia performance by the digital electro-funk music/art collective from Brooklyn, NY Comandante Zero with video art by Øh1ØM1ke followed by a live electronic music concert with instrumental and vocal improvisation by Charcole Federation and video performer Permian Strata.
8:45pm – 9:15pm – Spiral Lobby (free)
Brooklyn-based Kentucky native, Honeychild Coleman will be bringing her beats, electrified Bluegrass and folk instruments and her signature melliferous Lover’s Rock vocals for a free live performance in the Spiral Lobby.
9:30pm– 11:00pm – Theater*
Inspired by futuristic pop, experimental beat music, post-dubstep, and early-IDM, Brooklyn-based duo The Mast bring their unique sounds to the stage at The Rubin Museum followed by a special live electronic performance with Warper Party founder and Co-Director, Julie Covello (DJ SHAKEY) and video art collective The Sperm Whale.
7. Underground Horns Album Release & Brown Rice Family Video Launch Party
Date: Friday, April 4, 2014
Time: 11pm
Venue: Drom (85 Avenue A, NY, NY 10009, 212- 777-1157)
Ticket: $15
Genre:
Underground Horns are releasing their new CD “Almost Blue” and Brown Rice Family is releasing their new music video “Latin Goes Ska.”
In “Almost Blue”, their highly anticipated third album, Underground Horns are mixing Afro Funk, Hip Hop, New Orleans, Haitian and Ethio Jazz elements into a dance inducing audio gumbo. They are calling their trademark sound” MUSIC FOR THE PEOPLE!”
Brown Rice Family is a multi national band with members hailing from Japan, Jamaica, Haiti, Nigeria, South Africa and USA.This world roots band normally fuses genres but this time around they just simply fell in love with the “Latin Goes Ska “vibe.
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8. Terry Dame in Black Circuits: New Technology Presented by Hans Tammen
Date: Friday, April 4, 2014
Time: 10pm – 11pm
Venue: Spectrum (121 Ludlow, Second Floor, New York, NY, 650-400-5100)
Ticket: $10
Genre: electronics/improv/experimental
Terry Dame is doing a solo performance this Friday at Spectrum…His first ever full(ish) length 45 minute solo endeavor on my new(ish) set of interactive instruments.
Terry Dame is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and instrument builder. Daughter of a piano teacher from a small western Massachusetts town she began playing trumpet and piano at age 8 and continued playing into high school. Upon entering college she put music aside and studied engineering and Environmental Planning. After working at an environmental planning agency for about a year she couldn’t resist her creative impulses, bought a synthesizer and started composing and performing music with a local theater company. Ms. Dame moved to New York City in 1985 where she has been composing and performing music and sound for film, video, theater, dance, and concerts ever since. She has collaborated with film makers Maria Magenti, Judith Helfand, Jennie Livingston, Diane Bonder and Erin Greenwell, performing artists Lisa Kron, Jennifer Miller, Peggy Shaw, Lois Weaver and choreographer Jennifer Monson.
9. Tyshawn Sorey Trio
Date: Saturday, April 5, 2014
Time: 9pm & 10:30pm
Venue: The Jazz Gallery (290 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10013)
Ticket: $10 & $15
Genre:
The Jazz Gallery will present a night of trio music composed by Tyshawn Sorey during recent years, as well as some newer pieces. The compositions Returns (2007), Template (2006), A Love Song (2008), and a number of other pieces will be performed on this night.
Cory Smythe – piano
Christopher Tordini – bass
Tyshawn Sorey – drums, compositions, arrangements
10. Makandal & 75 Dollar Bill
Date: Sunday, April 6, 2014
Time: 4pm
Venue: Manhattan Inn (632 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, New York 1122)
Ticket: free
Genre: Haitian drumming/guitar percussion music
NYC-based Haitian drumming group Makandal (members of La Troupe Makandal) and guitar/percussion duo 75 Dollar Bill (Che Chen and Rick Brown) play music, both traditional and invented…
Makandal will play first, at 4:30, playing from their repertoire which derives from the sacred music and dance of Vodou, widely misunderstood in the United States as “voodoo” and which includes, as well, the music and dance of springtime festivals, work, and play.
75 Dollar Bill’s recent performance prompted this observation from the New York Time’s Ben Ratliff: “…this wasn’t musicology. Mr. Chen may have manipulated his equipment to make it more Mauritanian, but Mr. Brown has done the opposite: Instead of the tbal, the traditional bowl-shaped hand-drum, he had a wooden box and mallets as well as a small cymbal with a crack in it, and a few shakers. He upset the hierarchy of his material, making the trashy-sounding cymbal or shaker as important to the rhythm as anything else.” The duo’s set will begin around 6:00.
