Monthly Archives: December 2010

PandA System – Dub Techno Sessions With Live Electric Cello!

Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

photo courtesy of PandA System

Two weeks ago when I interviewed the German percussionist and electronica performer Sven Kacirek in a Turkish restaurant in the West Village, he wanted to recommend musicians from Hamburg, Germany who might be interesting for me  to cover. So a couple of days ago he surprised me with an interesting project from his hometown, PandA System with cellist Andreas Otto and DJ Prashant from Bangalore, India.

DJ Prashant uses recordings of Indian instruments to create beats with two turntables. And Andi Otto plays short, minmal melodies and rhythm patterrns, over the top with an electronic cello he calls a Fello. – his own unique performance instrument combining a cello with his ” magic” bow and a computer.

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Red, Hot + New Orleans Rips the Roof off the Brooklyn Academy of Music

Trombone Shorty

Text by Augusta Palmer   

Photos by Jack Vartoogian   

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William Ruiz – Taino percussionist!!

Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

Since this morning this gentleman – William Ruiz – has been following me on Twitter. I searched him in the internet and found out that he is a very talented percussionist. He’s playing the 12 tongue modern log drum and  a tribal drum set along with various percussion instruments in the NY subway and on the streets of NY. He’s an off/on stage musician creating great percussion sounds and rhythms.

Hope to see him soon in the subway and play with him. Enjoy the videos!

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Music listings – 12/20 through 12/26

1. Chicha Libre

Date: Monday, December 20, 2010
Time: 9;30pm
Venue: Barbes (376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: a mixture of latin rhythms, surf music and psychedelic pop

Chicha Libre plays a mixture of latin rhythms, surf music and psychedelic pop inspired by 1970′s Peruvian music from the Amazon. The Brooklyn-based band mixes up covers of forgotten Chicha classics with French-tinged originals, re-interpretation of 70’s pop classics as well as cumbia versions of pieces by Satie and Ravel. With Greg Burrows – percussion; Joshua Camp – Hohner Electravox; Olivier Conan – Cuatro & Vocals – Nicholas Cudahy – bass; Vincent Douglas – Guitar – Neil Ochoa – percussio

2. Mike Stern

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