.the man i love.

.moody confetti.

Beach House - Master of None
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beautiful baltimore duo, beach house, will be performing at le lovely le poisson rouge october 17 @ 7pm. called "baltimore round robin's" celebrates some of baltimore's newfound gems: dan deacon, beach house, jana hunter(my new favorite moody), thedeathset, video hippos and more.

ugh!

.white sands.

c.r.e.a.m.

.el michels affair.

beware: the changing of seasons induces neo-soulness in my daily soundtrack.

fleet foxes

.unabashedly crosby, stills, nash reincarnated.

Oct 4-5, 8pm @ Webster Hall

for some reason, i feel like jethro tull's solstice bells follows this up nicely. enjoy.

queen of the jukebox

to say the least, dinah washington is fascinating. between her don't mess with mama attitude, gin drinking, gentlemen callers and mink stolls, she puts any current diva to shame. her vocal intensity would out-quake her sidemen...at some point in their careers that included the likes cannonball adderley, milt jackson, junior mance, and charles mingus among many.

medley

leo kottke. is. awesome.

for the roma in your soul

for those who know me, you know that i have an insatiable love for gypsy music. whether its gypsy jazz or a hurdy gurdy woman in the subway...it is impossible not to dance!

New York Gypsy Festival 2008:

All Shows at Drom (85 Ave A, b/w 5th & 6th St.) in E. Village

Wed, Sept 24 ~ Baba Zula with belly dancers

Thurs, Sept 25 ~ Slavic Soul Party + Balval

Fri, Sept 26 ~ Mames Babaganoush + Eastern Blok

Sat, Sept 27 ~ Zlatne Uste, NY Gypsy All-Stars

Sun, Sept 28 ~ Dotschy Reinhardt + Sanda Weigl

Tue, Sept 30 ~ Viva Patshiva, Alessandra Belloni, I Giullari Di Piazza

Wed, Oct 1 ~ Watcha Clan + Ansambl Mastika

Thurs, Oct 2 ~ Romski Boji + The Cintron Brothers

Fri, Oct 3 ~ Frank London, Red Barat Festival

Expect everything from traditional gypsy-jazz to klezmer, psychedelic belly-dancing to balkan gypsy folk. from new york to istanbul, gypsy souls align at drom! i can't wait!

tickets are here: http://www.dromagypsyfest.com/

bamboo blues

more interested in what moves people, rather than how people move, pina bausch and her tanztheater wuppertal returns to BAM december 11-20.

i think pina bausch is one of the most intruiging beings on this earth. simply beautiful. her collage style choreography is an avalanche of folly, desperation, stamina, and love.



click here for tickets
http://bam.org/events/09PINA/09PINA.aspx

electric junkyard gamelan

gamelan music is traditional to indonesia...in my musical learning, most specifically bali. as a continuation of my first blog, and homage to all strange sounds: i bring you electric junkyard gamelan, new york's conception of the heavily percussive art. the most beautiful concept in gamelan music is that all the instruments are built and tuned to stay together - instruments from other gamelan [bands, i guess you could say] cannot be integrated.

catch electric junkyard gamelan at barbes (9th street at 6th avenue, bklyn) august 20 @ 8pm.

iannis xenakis

known for his mathematical approach to composition and particularly revered for his developments in electronic and computer music of the 1950s. xenakis, who was also an architect, would draw upon theories in algebra, game theory, probability, and group theory to compose...but it wasn't the intention for the listener to be aware of formulas used for his sound art. one of his most famous compositions, "metastasis" , is based upon the architecture of the pavillion phillips in brussels (which he also designed) .



the miller theater will be presenting iannis xenakis' only opera, "Orestia" september 13-17...incorporating dance, noh theather, and multimedia projections.