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Brooklyn Raga Massive Presents: Nakshatra / Tranpe

May 13, 2024

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7pm doors 8pm music

Full dinner menu available

Seating is first-come first-serve

Brooklyn Raga Massive Presents

Nakshatra: Trina Basu & Arun Ramamurthy

Violinists Trina Basu and Arun Ramamurthy reimagine the potential of string chamber music with a unique sound both deeply intimate and cinematically expansive. Deeply rooted in traditions of South Indian classical music, Western chamber music, jazz and folk styles, the duo creates a sound that feels ancient, orchestral, and contemporary or as The New Yorker put it, “free-flowing and globe-spanning.” Trina and Arun reach both deep into their past and high into the celestial realm, culminating in a lush and spiritual collaboration that bridges traditions and defies genres.

Tranpe: Rufus Cappadocia & Sheila Anozier

Sheila Anozier‘s deep relationship with Haitian folk melodies and Vodou converges with Rufus Cappadocia’s mastery of modal music and polyrhythm to produce Tranpe’s transcendent version of the “Mizik rasin”.

Adnata Ensemble / Brandon Seabrook & Henry Fraser

May 5, 2024

7pm doors 8pm music

Full dinner menu available

Seating is first-come first-serve

ADNATA ENSEMBLE

double bass quartet

Scott Colberg, Ari Folman-Cohen, Michael Isvara Montgomery, Ran Livneh

BRANDON SEABROOK & HENRY FRASER

DUAL 3 curated by Savannah Harris

April 28, 2024

7pm doors, 8pm music

Full dinner menu available

Seating is first-come first-serve

 

 

performing live in the back room

KEY HUTCHINSON

is a musician, composer, and producer from Brooklyn, NY. Though primarily known for her work as a professional guitarist, Keyanna is newly embarking on channeling her knowledge of guitar and production into a creative exploration of original compositions.

ALCOVE

Alfredo Colón – saxophone

Hank Mason – electronics

Dominican-American saxophonist and composer Alfredo Colón is a proud New York City native. His playing has been described as authoritative and fiery yet mournful and melodic. Drawing on his interest in Dominican folklore and the works of visionary saxophonists Albert Ayler and Ornette Coleman, Colon creates a musical atmosphere that highlights beauty by framing it in disarray.

Hank Mason is a real person living in Queens, New York. He builds new worlds & tries to better understand the one we live in through music, drawing, and code. Right now he’s most interested in developing hybrid electronic/analog systems for live improvisation-based concerts.

 

 

 

Sam Weinberg 2024 Residency

April 25, 2024

7pm doors 8pm music

Full dinner menu available, seating is first come first serve

performing live in the back room

SAM OSPOVAT HEADVOICE 

Peter Evans – trumpet

Brandon Seabrook – guitar

John Hebert – bass

Sam Ospovat – drums

TILT brass 

Led by composer, trombonist, and concert producer Chris McIntyre, TILT Brass is a Brooklyn-based organization dedicated to creating new content and contexts for contemporary brass music by producing inventive concert programs, recording projects, and commissioning initiatives. TILT boldly positions itself as the vanguard presenter and advocate for new brass music in New York City. Founded in 2003 by McIntyre and Gregory Evans, TILT Brass’ various projects present the work of living composers with over 50 premiere performancesthus far. Its personnel includes many of the brightest stars from the local brass community in ensemble configurations ranging from solo and chamber groups to experimental brass orchestra. TILT can be heard on releases by the Tzadik, New World, Non-Site, and POTTR labels.

SAM WEINBERG 

solo saxophone

$10-30 sliding scale at the door (cash/Venmo, no advance tickets)

Lao Dan, John McCowen, Charmaine Lee

March 27, 2024

7pm doors 

full dinner menu available 

seating is first-come, first-served 

8pm music 

performing solos, duos and as a trio:

LAO DAN is a classically trained Chinese flutist at Shenyang Conservatory of Music (SYCM), Lao Dan sticks to his own vision of and approach to the bamboo flute and its sounds. His playing continues to push the limits of artistic expression on this instrument, exploring the possibilities of free, energetic, and nonconformist ways of sound-making confined by neither Jazz nor traditional Chinese musical conventions. His improvisation often brings to the audience an overwhelming sonic experience in which the East and the West, the ancient and the modern clash dramatically on each other. Bandcamp

JOHN MCCOWEN‘s musical life has become an obsession with discovering a polyphonic language on a historically monophonic instrument – the clarinet. This has led him to a unique acoustic vocabulary that is akin to a shifting soundscape of electronic feedback. John’s multi-phonic approach is based in drones, difference tones, and beating harmonics as a means to showcase the compositional potential within a single, acoustic sound source. His work has been described by The New Yorker as “the sonic equivalent of microscopic life viewed on a slide” and by The Wire as “an astonishing demonstration of pure sound & human will.”

CHARMAINE LEE is a New York-based vocalist. Her music is predominantly improvised, and favors a uniquely personal approach to vocal expressed concerned with spontanaeity, playfulness, and risk-taking. Beyond extended vocal technique, Charmaine uses amplification, feedback, and microphones to augment and distort the voice.