Photo courtesy of Craig Shapard
Text by Craig Shepard
Dear friends and colleagues,
Recommended Event: globalFEST 2016
globalFEST 2016
World Music/Contemporary | World Music/Traditional
For one night, New York’s Webster Hall becomes home to all of these ideas and to the many faces and offshoots of world music, as globalFEST returns for its 13th edition on Sunday, January 17, 2016. The annual showcase festival gives an instant entry point into the powerfully diverse, wide-ranging world of global music… Read More.
Music Listings – 12/21 through 12/27/2015
1. MITRA SUMARA
Date: Monday, December 21, 2015
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Venue: Cafe Nadery – Manhattan (16 W8th Street, New York, New York 10011)
Ticket: $48/ per person (includes tax and tips)
Tickets must be bought online at Eventbrite.com (no reservations taken)
Genre: Iranian 60’s pop music
Mitra Sumara is New York City’s only Farsi Funk group. This international party band gets down with the vibrant pop and funk music of 60s/70s Iran, an infectious pre-Revolutionary sound which combined the beats of Fela Kuti, salsa, and disco with Middle Eastern melodies and flowery poetry.
Interpreting hits by Iran’s beloved singers Googoosh, Pooran, Aghassi, Leila Forouhar, Nooshafarin, and Zia Atabi’s intoxicating Bandari beat tunes, Mitra Sumara’s repertoire also includes American hits of the era translated into Farsi. East meets West meets East while delighted audiences sing along.
2. Phill Niblock: Winter Solstice
Artists Rights Advocates Make Gains in 2015… Web/Tech Admissions Laid Bare
Text by Trichordist Editor
So many of the issues we’ve been talking about for years are finally becoming part of the larger and more mainstream conversations about artists rights and an ethical internet. Seems like there is a little bit more than a slight draft blowing on house of cards that Silicon Valley has built. Here’s a quick recap. […]
CD Review: the Liberation Music Collective…propel the momentum of jazz toward a sense of spiritual awareness and social responsibility that the world needs
Artist: The Liberation Music Collective
Title: Siglo XXI
Label: Ad Astrum Records
Genre: jazz
CD Review by Dawoud Kringle
The idea of jazz as a catalyst for social change is not new. Throughout its history, jazz musicians have sought to use the art form to articulate societal ills, and present solutions (which almost always focus on spiritual realms, although a few use it as a platform for a political agenda, such as socialism). The most fascinating aspect of this is that, unlike other music genres, folk, rap, etc., many such “jazz activists” have sought to do this through instrumental music. This is unique to jazz. However, those who do this have become rare in recent years.
