Date: May 16 through June 2, 2013 Venue: La Mama (NY) Review by Dawoud Kringle Produced by Crossing Jamaica Avenue and Big Red Media, Inc. /Commissioned by The Japan Society and Peregrine Arts
Date: May 9, 2013 Venue: Tea Lounge (NY) Review by Dawoud Kringle When I walked in to the Tea Lounge for Brandon Terzic’s Trio performance for the Brooklyn Raga Massive (I was a little late. Sorry guys), the boys were playing for dear life, simultaneously caressing lovely poetics from the maqam and pummeling it into submission. Rufus Cappadocia’s solo […]
Date: April 30, 2013 Venue: Cornelia Street Café (NY) Review by Dawoud Kringle Akshara is a percussion-based group whose compositions and improvisations combine Carnatic and Hindustani classical genres. The group performs original compositions by Bala Skandan, demonstrating the powerful and complex rhythmic structures inherent in South Indian classical music. The leading percussion instrument, the Mridangam, was played by Skandan. The group also featured Sriram Manesh on […]
Artist: The Peeni Waali All Stars Posse Title: Shab Tab Label: Mensch Music Genre: oriental mishmash? Translations of the lyrics & other info in farsi YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiI38FbjnLI&feature=player_embedded
Date: May 3, 2013 Venue: The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York City Text by Dawoud Kringle “There is a war going on in America.” Thus began the book release event for Maroon the Implacable: The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz.
