1.The Dissident Arts Orchestra w. SANA SHABAZZ
Date: Monday, April 8, 2013
Time: 8 pm
Venue: Sycamore (1118 Cortelyou Rd, Brooklyn, near the Q train)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz/improv
The Dissident Arts Orchestra is now in the process of establishing gigs beyond improvised film scores and beyond the walls of their original base at 17 Frost. This ensemble engages not with film this time but the art of spoken word!
SANA SHABAZZ (spoken word)
JOHN PIETARO (vibraphone, percussion, musical direction)
CHERYL PYLE (flute)
NICK GIANNI (bass flute, baritone saxophone)
ROCCO JOHN IACOVONE (soprano and alto saxophones)
RAS MOSHE (tenor and soprano saxophones, flute)
STEVE BLOOM (electric guitar)
LAURIE TOWERS (electric bass)
Concert Review: The Dissident Arts Orchestra Plays Battleship Potemkin
2. Mari Kimura & Kyoko Kitamura
Date: Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Roulette (509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217)
Ticket: $15
Genre: modern music
Mari Kimura & Kyoko Kitamura – Poly-Monologue, World Premiere of “Shin-rin Yoku” (Forest Bathing) by Michael Gatonska!
Poly-Monologue is a part of a large-scale multimedia project “ONE” which will tour in Fall, 2013, written for a versatile experimental singer Kyoko Kitamura using trilingual (English, French, Japanese) text. Kitamura interacts with Mari Kimura’s Augmented Violin, created by the Realtime Musical Interaction Team at IRCAM, as well as interactive graphics created by Japanese visual artist in new media, Tomoyuki Kato.
Mari Kimura will also give the world premiere of “Shin-rin Yoku” (Forest Bathing) written for her by composer/painter Michael Gatonska. “Shin Rin Yoku” is an interactive audio/visual work, also using Kimura’s “Augmented Violin” system. Both Kimura’s “ONE” and Gatonska’s “Shin Rin Yoku” are supported by the generous grant from the Composer Assistance Program from New Music USA.
3. Echosuite & The Bright Silence
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Mercury Lounge (217 East Houston St., New York, NY 10002)
Price: $12
Genre: indie rock
Echosuite is a NYC based rock band founded by classically trained tenor, Justin Wands. Their music has been described my Spin Magazine as “epic arena rock balladry.” The band just finished recording their debut EP which can be purchased on iTunes. –
4. Banning Eyre & Abdoulaye Diabate
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013
Time: 8pm
Venue: Barbes (376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: West African roots music
5. Hadar Maoz: Old Soul, New Groove Bukharian Jewish Roots
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013
Time: 7:15pm
Venue: Drom (85 Avenue A, NY, NY 10009, Ph: 212- 777-1157)
Ticket: $15
Genre: oriental music
6. Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Gamak
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $15
Genre: jazz
Few musicians share the ability of saxophonist/composer Rudresh Mahanthappa to embody the expansive possibilities of his music with his culture. Time and again, Mahanthappa has eloquently displayed the capacity to absorb numerous styles and genres of music, combine them with the language of modern jazz, and emerge with a new form still recognizably jazz.
What has materialized is a sound that hybridizes progressive jazz and South Indian classical music in a fluid and forward-looking form that reflects Mahanthappa’s own experience growing up a second-generation Indian-American. The manifestations of that trajectory include the latest version of his quartet setting, currently named Gamak, and now featuring guitarist David “Fuze” Fiuczynski, whose own microtonal vocabulary has opened new possibilities for Mahanthappa’s compositional imagination…
7. Craig Harris and The Harlem Night Songs Big Band
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013
Time: 9 & 10:30pm
Venue: MIST Harlem (46 West 116th Street, between Malcolm X Blvd. and Fifth Avenue, 646-688-5886)
Ticket: $15
Genre: jazz/big band jazz
Trombonist/composer Craig Harris and The Harlem Night Songs Big Band playing lush, tight arrangements with room for expressive solos, creating that special sound where composition and improvisation intersect and become one.
The line up:
Craig Harris—Trombone
Richard Fairfax—Reeds
Jay Rodriguez—Reeds
James Stewart—Reeds
Eddie Allen—Trumpet
Franz Hackl—Trumpet
Pete Drungle—Keyboards
Fred Cash—Bass
Tony Lewis—Drums
Milton Suggs—Vocals
8. Hans Tammen’s Zavodnicks
Date: Friday, April 12, 2013
Time: 7:pm
Venue: Spectrum (121 Ludlow, Second Floor, New York, NY, 650-400-5100)
Ticket: $10-20 dollar floating donation
Genre: electronics/soundscapes
Unsettling, frantic and anti-sentimental, Hans Tammen’s ZAVODNIKS – for whom machine oil is mother’s milk – fuse relentless polyrhythmic machinations with ethereal yet roughly sewn soundscapes, like a mix of Mwandishi, Bitches Brew and Sextant, with a hint of Magma. Dark, sometimes brooding ensemble passages mix and mingle with tightly woven drum-loops, and extended solo cadenzas build up to a mighty hymn to machine work, music of a metallic nightmare.
Machine 2: Ursel Schlicht, Shoko Nagai
Machine 3: Dafna Naphtali, Lola Regenthal
Machine 4: Jonas Tauber
Machine 5: Andrew Drury, Michael Evans
Hans Tammen – modular, composing, binary conducting
http://tammen.org/zavodniks-
9. Yoshie Fruchter’s Pitom
Date: Friday, April 12, 2013
Time: 10pm
Venue: The Stone (is located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street)
Ticket: $10
Genre: free rock/noise/improve
Avant-rock meets the Jewish sound in Pitom, a shredding instrumental band led by guitarist Yoshie Fruchter. Cacophonic guitar, surly heavy metal bass and a soaring violin echo Mahavishnu and the Melvins, with catchy melodies drawing from the Jewish tradition. With two records on Tzadik, the band is rocking hard as ever, and continues to develop its unique sound in the Radical Jewish Culture scene.
10. HAZMAT MODINE
Date: Saturday, April 13, 2013
Time: 7pm & 10pm
Venue: TERRA BLUES (149 Bleecker Street, NY, 212-777-777)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: nu blues/ New Orleans brass
One of New York’s original bands, HAZMAT MODINE delivers a rustic, deliriously Dionysian blend of whorehouse Blues, Reggae, Klezmer, Country and Gypsy-tinged music.
11. Joanie Leeds & The Nightlights
Time: 11am
Venue: 92YTribeca (200 Hudson Street, New York City)
Ticket: $15
Joanie Leeds is that cool babysitter who would let you try on her lip gloss once your mom left the house.
12. Music Now! At The Brecht Forum
Date: Sunday, April 14, 2013
Time: 6pm
Venue: The Brecht Forum (451 West Street, New York)
Ticket: $11
Genre: jazz/improve
6pm – Daniel Carter-Charles Downs (Rashid Bakr) – Michael Moss -Ras Moshe
7pm – 10pm – “Open Set”, Bring your instruments. There will be short sets with different combinations of cats. The audience will watch this “jam” process develop. Seriously. New music coming your way.
