Monthly Archives: September 2010

Music listings – 9/20 through 9/26

1. Filmmakers Steven Blush and Paul Rachman’s new documentary LOST ROCKERS reception w. special acoustic performance by Jake Holmes.

Date: Thursday, September 23, 2010
Time: 6pm – 8pm
Venue: The  Bleecker Street Theater (45 Bleecker St, New York, NY‎ 10012, 212-260-8250‎)
Ticket: free
Genre: reception and music

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Mohamed Badawi’s road movies.

Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

The road movie Streets of Cairo was made and produced by Mohamed Badawi (Sudan) and Hubl Greiner (Germany) in January 2007, when both of them recorded at the studio of the Cairo Academy of Music  at the University Asyout. The soundtrack is from Mohamed Badawi’s CD D’Omdurman à Timimoun.


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Hubl Greiner – leader of the legendary Dada German band “The Blech”

Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

I can’t remember when and how exactly I met Hubl Greiner, a German musician, composer and brain of the experimental-dada-world fusion band The Blech. But what I remember, is that when I met him for the first time  I lived in Tokyo. I was a musician myself and earned my living teaching English and German and writing as a freelance music journalist for Japanese music journals.

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Music listings – 9/13 through 9/19

1. STONE SEMINAR 37: Gary Lucas’ Beefheart Symposium

Date: Monday, September 13, 2010
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Stone (located at Avenue C and 2nd Street)
Ticket: $30
Genre: music seminar

Gary Lucas performed on stage during the 1980/81 Beefheart tours and played lead guitar on the album Ice Cream For Crow. For this symposium he presents a lecture/demonstration about the music and methodologies of rock legend Captain Beefheart, followed by a Q&A.

2. Avant Ghetto Presents : Greg Davis And Ben Vida + Geoff Mullen + Lussuria + Brad Loving

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