1. Bring Prudence/Clare Sands/Marco Foster/The Ryan Scott Four/Mikki Hommel/Greg Joseph & Teddy Kumpel LOOPestra w/ Aaron Steele and David Lizmi
Date: Monday, August 31, 2015
Time: 9pm – 12am
Venue: Rockwood Music Hall (196 Allen St, New York, New York 10002)
Ticket: $10
Genre: singer-song writer/pop/indie rock
| 6:00pm | Bring Prudence |
| 7:00pm | Clare Sands |
| 8:00pm | Marco Foster |
| 9:00pm | The Ryan Scott Four |
| 10:00pm | Mikki Hommel |
| 11:00pm | Greg Joseph |
| 12:00am | Teddy Kumpel LOOPestra w/ Aaron Steele and David Lizmi |
2. Afro Roots feat. Timbila with Mbira Master Chartwell Dutiro
Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: 647 Columbus Ave near W 92nd st (Goddard Riverside)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Mozambican xylophone (timbila) and hypnotic dream melodies of Zimbabwean thumb piano (mbira)
Chartwell Dutiro grew up in Zimbabwe and started playing mbira at age 4. From his village childhood, when he played at ceremonies with a local spirit medium, to his years performing and recording with Zimbabwe’s iconic Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited, to his more recent career as an mbira teacher, solo artist, and bandleader in the UK, Chartwell has cut a remarkable path through African music.
Timbila blazes ecstatic African rock with an East Village edge. The trance of spirit possession merges with the trance of free-spirited head-bangers. The surreal buzzing beauty of Mozambican xylophone (timbila) and hypnotic dream melodies of Zimbabwean thumb piano (mbira) soar with delirious guitar riffs, violin and sassy celestial vocals in grooves that are deeply funky, fierce and danceable.
Special guest host: David Ellenbogen
3. A New Worldly Trio
Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: East Village Vintage Collective (545 E 12th Street, New York, New York 10009)
Ticket: $10
Genre: world music?
Come check out this new original sound featuring Yumi Kurosawa (koto), Isabel Castellvi (cello) and Deep Singh (tabla).
4. Metamorphosis / A Report to an Academy
Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: Pioneer Works (159 Pioneer Street (between Imlay & Conover streets)
Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York 11231)
Ticket: $10
Genre: modern music
‘Metamorphosis / A Report to an Academy,’ part V, an ongoing composition cycle RecomposingArt (2011– ) by composer Bojan Vuletic, takes inspiration from a combined text created in collaboration with author Uwe Schareck. The text rearranged materials from Franz Kafta’s novels ‘Metamorphosis’ and ‘A Report to an Academy’ which narrate the transformation from human to animal and vice versa. ‘Metamorphosis’ and ‘A Report to an Academy’ removes the text from its original context to create a new musical form. Vuletic’s composition, a large musical piece in which intelligence and civilization are expressed in high polyphony, whereas instinct and wildness are searched for in various parameters of improvisation.
Nate Wooley – trumpet
Matt Moran – vibraphone
MIVOS quartet
Olivia de Prato – violin
Joshua Modney – violin
Victor Lowrie – viola
Mariel Roberts – cello
Bojan Vuletic – composition
‘Metamorphosis / A Report to an Academy’ is funded by Kunststiftung NRW and Kulturamt Duesseldorf, Germany and supported by Pioneer Works.
5. BRM Weekly Sessions: Pt Krishna Bhatt Gurukul
Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: Sky Gallery (460 Union St, Brooklyn, New York 11231)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Indian classical music
Doors 8PM, Concert 8:30PM
Raga Jam Session 10-midnight
We are excited to team up with Samadhi Arts and bring our weekly session to Sky Gallery this week as part of their month long residency. This will be a special one. Pt. Krishna Bhatt is guru and mentor to many in the BRM community. The Gurukul performance will feature 4 sitars, sarod and 2 tablas. Also look out for our friends from Delhi Dance Theater who will be bringing some movement into the jam session!
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6. Dervisi
Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Time: 9pm
Venue: TROOST (1011 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Ticket: donation
Genre: Greek Blues/Rembetika music
DERVISI performing exotic Greek Gangsta Blues called Rembetika. Rembetika originally the songs of hashish clans and outlaws; and Smyrnaika, the elaborate oriental cafe music of the refugees from Greek Asia minor.
CHECK them out on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/barba-yiorgi/sets/dervisi-live-2014-3-songs
7. 75 DOLLAR BILL
Date: Saturday, September 5, 2015
Time: 6pm
Venue: Barbes (376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: lo-fi world/blues
75 DOLLAR BILL. In Residence Every Saturday in September.
Rick Brown and Che Chen play an idiosyncratic take on Mauritania’s music, using homemade percussion and electric guitar. Their music doesn’t strive to any sort of authenticity, yet conjures up the best of African desert music. It is both beautiful and hypnotic and is equally relevant performed in concert form, in a bar, or in an art gallery. Press has been very generous in its praise of the band, but our favorite is still the Paper of Records’ remark that “Rick Brown’s “equipment looked as if it cost no more than a pretty good sandwich.” NY Times.
This week, with special guests: Zeke and Karen at 6:00pm sharp.
8. InnoVe Gnawa
Date: Saturday, September 5, 2015
Time: 10pm – 12am
Venue: The Bitter End (147 Bleecker St, New York, New York 10012)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Gnawa music
INNOVA GNAWA. The New York-based group of Moroccan musicians plays Gnawa music – the southern Moroccan trance music with roots in pre-islamic animist traditions. Led by master Maalem Hassan BenJaafer, InnoVe Gnawa uses traditional instrumentation such as the lute-like Sintir and the large castanet type Krakebs to accompany its ancient chants. Their approach is resolutely innovative though – an hypnotic, take on this ecstatic, trance-inducing tradition which has enthralled and inspired generations of musicians from around the world.
9. NoPop/DearLeader/FlopWash/KissingBooth
Date: Saturday, September 5, 2015
Time: 8pm
Venue: Don Pedro (90 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11206)
Ticket: $5
Genre: alternative rock/noise/free rock
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10. C.P. Unit, Key of Shame, Sexy Thoughts & Rodenticide
Date: Sunday, September 6, 2015
Time: 7pm
Venue: Kings County Saloon (1 Knickerbocker Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11237)
Ticket: $10
Genre: free music/improv/noise/electronics
11PM
C. P. Unit
-Chris Pitsiokos: Sax, Composition
-Brandon Seabrook: Guitar
-Tim Dahl: Electric Bass
-Dave Treut: Drums
10PM
Key Of Shame
-Mark Morgan: Guitar, Vocals
-Pat Murano: Synth, Electronics
9PM
Sexy Thoughts
-Kevin Shea: Drums
-Stuart Popejoy: Guitar, Synth
8PM
Rodenticide
-Samantha Riott: Vocals
-Richard Lenz: Guitar
-Christ P: Drums
-(Special guest) Michael Evans: Sax
11. Guy Mintus hosts Ahmet Erdoğdular & Anjna Swaminathan
Date: Sunday, September 6, 2015
Time: 3pm
Venue: Spectrum (121 Ludlow, Second Floor, New York, New York 10002)
Ticket: $15
Genre: improv with influences ranging from stride piano and the Greek Rebetiko blues, to Turkish Makam, Indian Ragas and Bach-styled counterpoint,
Israeli born New York based pianist & composer, Guy Mintus, will arrive at Spectrum for an intimate, improvisational, afternoon set. With his musical influences ranging from stride piano and the Greek Rebetiko blues, to Turkish Makam, Indian Ragas and Bach-styled counterpoint, Guy’s “boundary-crossing” musical voice weaves textures and colors together from many cultures. He will joined by two absolutely stellar musicians: classical Ottoman/Sufi vocalist, Ahmet Erdoğdular, and Carnatic violinist, Anjna Swaminathan. Together, they will explore through each other’s musical traditions with original works that will be paired alongside traditional music and other surprises.
At 24, Guy has won awards from ASCAP, Downbeat Magazine, and the America-Israel Cultural Foundation as well as shared the stage with Jazz legends Jon Hendricks, Jimmy Cobb, Howard Levy, Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, and more. He has performed on stages such as the Kennedy Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Apollo Theater, Symphony Space, Red Sea Jazz Festival and the Israel Festival. His passion for harnessing the power of music to connect people across cultures has led him to collaborate with master musicians from Turkey, Greece, Iran, Azerbaijan, India, Cuba, and Mali and also participate in multi-disciplinary works with artists in the visual, dance, spoken word and theater worlds.
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