Heavy Florals VII curated by Shara Lunon
March 17, 2024
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Doors 7pm, music starts at 8pm
Seating is first come-first served
ALMOG SHARVIT’S CORALITION
Almog Sharvit is an “irrepressibly mischievous and highly skilled” (The Big Takeover) bassist and composer who is never content to stay too long in one mode. His debut album Get Up or Cry has been called a “startlingly imaginative record” and “a masterpiece of syncopated sound” (Bass Magazine, Goldmine Magazine). In addition to his own project, Almog can be heard playing with his collective trio KADAWA, Sunny Jain’s Wild Wild East, The NYChillharmonic, Forager, Julia Easterlin, Ashni, Ambrose Getz, Ella Mar and many more. Website
NOAH ROTT’S ELECTRIC QUARTET
Music starts at 8pm
Full dinner menu available
Seating is first come-first served
performing live in the back room
No Land & Luke Stewart present works for poems, bass, and spirit
No Land’s work continues in the lineage of the downtown NYC avant garde, honoring an intuitive vow towards creation. She performs her poem-mosaic-ruminations with different formations of musician collaborators including Daniel Carter, Oliver Ray (Patti Smith Group), Bentley Anderson, & more.
Luke Stewart is a musician, performer, improviser-composer whose work represents a deep reverence for the history and tradition of Creative Music: a tradition which encompasses the diverse styles of expression within the body of Black Music in the United States, Africa, and throughout the world. Stewart’s regular ensembles include Irreversible Entanglements and the experimental rock duo Blacks’ Myths
Neti Neti (Amirtha Kidambi + Matt Evans)
Neti Neti is the ritual music duo of Matt Evans (drums/electronics) and Amirtha Kidambi (vocals/electronics) that formed amidst their mutual experiences surrounding grief after the death of loved ones. The pair shape a vessel for processing this loss using hazy rhythmic interplay, dredging piles of noise, and serene moments of ethereal melodic counterpoint. Neti-Neti, translated as “It is not this, it is not that” from Sanskrit, is a contemplation on the nature of reality, life, death, birth and rebirth extracted from the Hindu text of rituals The Upanishads.
Qasim Naqvi
When not touring in lauded trio, Dawn of Midi, Pakistani-American composer Qasim Naqvi creates original music for film, dance, theatre and international chamber ensembles. His most recent works delve deep into the timbres of analogue synthesisers and orchestral configurations.
+ all night selector
Gabriel Jermaine Vandlandingham-Dunn (Cow Arts)
$20 at the door (cash/Venmo)
7pm doors 8pm music, full dinner menu available
performing live in the back room
ALAARA & QASIM NAQVI
Brooklyn-based trio Alaara (pronounced ahlah-ahrah) includes Grey McMurray on guitar, Sonya Belaya on piano, and Nicole Patrick on drums. The trio creates long form improvisations that prioritize patience, effortlessly traversing the spaces of jazz, experimental minimalism, and ambient music.
Pakistani-American composer Qasim Naqvi might be best known as drummer in lauded trio Dawn of Midi. When he’s not on tour he creates original music for film, dance, theatre and international chamber ensembles. His most recent works delve deep into the timbres of analogue synthesizers and orchestral configurations.
CHRIS WILLIAMS
solo work for expanded trumpet
heavy florals is a bi-monthly showcase
that creates space for a community
of POC musicians and their allies to exhale
Doors 7:30pm
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performing live in the back room
CLEO REED Website
Ella Moore performs under the alias “Cleo Reed,” modeled after two ancestors. Born and raised in NYC and Uptown DC, Cleo creates under the musical influence of black underground sounds.
YVA LAS VEGASS Archive
Venezeulan-born, NYC-based singer songriter “whose songs feel like deep primal screams, each accompanied by a traditional Venezuelan ‘cuatro’ – a small stringed instrument similar to a ukelele”
+ all night selector DARKY RAMONE
$10-20 sliding scale at the door (cash/Venmo/Cash App)
Doors 7pm, music 8pm
Full dinner menu available, seating first-come first serve
Sam Weinberg 2024 Back Room Residency April Edition
featuring poets Joey Yearous-Algozin (Website) & Bahaar Asan (Website)
and a special set by The Sam Weinberg Trio (Bandcamp) with Jason
Nazary & Henry Fraser
7pm doors, full dinner menu available, seating is first come first-served
Two sets: 8pm & 9:30pm
JONATHAN SHILLINGFORD QUINTET
Jonathan Shillingford is a jazz trumpet player based in New York City. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, he draws inspiration from his hometown’s rich culture, especially from his Caribbean heritage.
A current student of the Manhattan School of Music, Shillingford has studied with Stefon Harris, Marc Cary, and Jon Faddis. In 2023 herecieved his masters degree from Berklee Global Jazz Institute on a full scholarship playing and studying alongside Danilo Perez, John Patitucci, Terri Lyne Carrington, Adam Cruz, Ben Street and Joe Lovano
Since arriving in NY, Jon has played on historic stages (such as Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall, Birdland Jazz Club, Smoke Jazz Club, the Jazz Gallery, Dizzy’s Club and Smalls Jazz Club) in service of expanding the boundaries of his musical voice and fully surrender to the creativity of the moment. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music.
Kevin Oliver Jr – alto sax
Mwanzi Harriot – Guitar
Gervis Myles – bass
Gary Jones III – drums
and featuring Mar Vilaseca & Haku Leaf – vocals
Doors 7pm, music 8pm
Full dinner menu available
DUAL is a new back room series curated by Savannah Harris featuring fresh stylistic pairings & novel genre cross-pollination
performing live
Zoh Amba & Savannah Harris
Aden Website
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