Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Time: 6pm to 9pm
Venue: The Village @ Gureje – Renate Albertsen-Marton Gallery (884-886 Pacific St, Brooklyn, New York 11238)
Ticket: $20
Genre: fusion rock
Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Douglass Street Music Collective (295 Douglass Street, between 3rd & 4th Ave., Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz/improv
Transcending the boundaries of genre, composer-percussionist Lukas Ligeti has developed a musical style of his own that draws upon downtown New York experimentalism, contemporary classical music, jazz, electronica, as well as world music, particularly from Africa. Known for his non-conformity and diverse interests, Lukas creates music ranging from the through-composed to the free-improvised, often exploring polyrhythmic/polytempo structures, non-tempered tunings, and non-western elements. Other major sources of inspiration include experimental mathematics, computer technology, architecture and visual art, sociology and politics, and travel. He has also been participating in cultural exchange projects in Africa for the past 15 years.
Lukas Ligeti Quintet:
Thomas Bergeron (trumpet), Travis Sullivan (sax), Shoko Nagai (piano), Michael Bates (bass), Lukas Ligeti (drums) Continue reading
Date: Monday, August 18, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: Mercury Lounge (217 East Houston St., New York, NY 10002)
Price: $10
Genre: power pop
Toronto-based, progressive, power-pop trio Ménage features three siblings, Basilio Fernando (guitar/vocals), Bela (keyboard/vocals), and Gabriel (drums/percussion) Ferreira. With family based in a small town in Portugal, the three Ferreira siblings combined their traditional roots with worldly experiences and those spent with their parents’ extensive vinyl collection during long Canadian winters, establishing the eclectic but accessible sound of Ménage.
Menage released the radio-friendly, anthemic track, “Our Time is Now,” an introduction to their forthcoming EP, the second in a series of four mini EP’s, due out October 14, 2014. This gleaned two nominations at the International Portuguese Music Awards in Massachusetts in March of 2014, as well as wins for Rock Song of the Year at the International Portuguese Music Awards (presented by guitarist Nuno Bettencourt (Rihanna, Extreme)). The song’s momentous feedback led to performances at Portugal Week 2014 alongside Deolinda (EMI Portugal) in Toronto, Portugal Day in NYC’s Central Park, and Portugal Day Montreal, Canada. Ménage was also requested to perform at Toronto’s Portuguese Walk of Ceremonies in the heart of the city’s downtown core, and received significant airplay on various college radio stations and specialty radio shows throughout the US.
Date: Monday, August 11, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Saint Vitus (1120 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11222
Tickets: $10
Genre: jazz/improv/free style
Weasel Walter (first name, last name) is a Brooklyn, New York based multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser best known for leading the seminal punk-jazz/no-wave/brutal-prog band The Flying Luttenbachers between 1991 and 2007 on 16 full-length releases.
Seamlessly uniting the intensity and abstraction of improvised music with the nihilist aesthetics of extreme rock forms, Walter is committed to violent momentum, idiomatic unpredictability and rapid articulation.
Here is what is coming up that might be of interest to my New York readers.
– West African blues (Noura) at Joe’s Pub next week!
– French and indie with a little comedy, (Erin and her cello) at Joe’s Pub July 31st
– Ethiopian reggae show (Zvuloon) at Meridian 23 Aug 1st
– Remix EP from Brooklyn based Afrobeat group Underground System (with a concert at Meridian 23 on Aug 15th)
Noura Mint Seymali – Mauritanian Blues; Noura Mint Seymali at Joe’s Pub 7/29 – 07/29/2014 – New York, NY
Noura Mint Seymali, from Mauritania, comes from an ancient family of griots, and she has a commanding, wide-open voice…the pentatonic melodies of her songs had something in common with the blues. But her fusion was particular and selective…She only meets American music on her own terms. +++New York Times, January 13th, 2014
