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Music Listings – 8/20 through 8/27

1. Bravo Combo

Date: Monday, August 20, 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Joe’s Pub (425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003, 212-967-7555)
Tickets: $20
Genre: pops/rock

Brave Combo’s catalog of recordings range from Japanese pop to Latin American dance tunes, to the orchestral classics to rock and roll at its finest. The band has recorded with the late Tiny Tim, and were the band Talking Head’s David Byrne chose for his wedding reception. From festivals and fairs of all varieties across the globe, rock clubs big and small, colleges, roadhouses, dances, cultural centers (including the annual Midsummer Night’s Swing at Lincoln Center in New York City) Brave Combo has charmed countless listeners and won avid devotees. The band has won two Grammy Awards and been nominated for their work 7 times.

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Music listings – 7/9 through 7/15

1. MADAGASCAR MEETS NEW YORK

Date: Monday, July 9, 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Gospel / Jazz / Latin with  native rhythms from Madagascar

PATRICK ANDY BAND is: Eli Menezes: guitar, Tim Reyes: guitar, Carlos Mendoza: drums, Dave Rodriguez: keyboard, Ivory McDonald: vocal and Patrick Andy: bass.

Patrick Andy blends Gospel / Jazz / Latin with his native rhythms from Madagascar. A Patrick Andy Band live is a unique listening experience that’s guaranteed to bring Joy to both musicians who are always in search of intricate-different stuff, and to non-musicians who just wanna enjoy good music.

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Music listings – 7/2 through 7/8

1. Franz Hackl’s  IDO

Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Time:  7pm
Venue: Drom (85 Avenue A, NY, NY 10009, 212- 777-1157)
Ticket: $20
Genre: new Tyrolean Folk music

Franz Hackl (on trumpet, flugelhorn) leads his own group: Franz Hackl’s IDO . A Quartet with Mino Cinelu on percussion, Matt Garrison on bass and Adam Holzman on keyboards. IDO means dialect for everybody and brings Tyrolean Folk tunes, the music he grew up with, to the world stage by developing his own international musical language by combining his tradition with Jazz, world grooves and electronics.

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Welcome to Japan, Sohrab!!

Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

How did I fall in love with Japan? What made me go to Japan in 1974?

#1 Two movies: James Bond’s You Only Live Twice and Akira Kurosawa’s The 7 Samurai. Both movies inspired me to make my own research about this country and its people: about the old and modern Japan of that time. Before watching these movies I had already started to practice Japanese martial arts, such as Judo, Karate and Kendo. At that time Germans and Europeans in general had no interest in Japan. During my school days nobody taught or talked about the country “of the rising sun.”

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Introducing The Chromatic Tambin

Text by Sohrab Saadat

“March 6th was my SoSaLa Nu World Trash CD release party at Nublu. I invited Sylvain Leroux, who’s from Canada and has been living and performing in NY for many years, to play with me in some of the songs because I love his flute playing. Gladly he accepted  my invitation and played in the songs which he had recorded with me. Before the gig he showed me about his Chromatic Tambin, and I think he used it during the show. So let him tell us what his new flute is about.

“The Chromatic Tambin, a new flute, has been invented by me, which I will unveil and demonstrate at the New York Flute Fair on Saturday, March 24. I will introduce the Chromatic Tambin, my innovative re-design of the traditional Guinean three-holed, side-blown tambin during a group concert entitled “The Dynamic Flute.” The new instrument has extraordinary possibilities.

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