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The Residents will never die, they are what they were!!!!!

25.04.2011 by Sohrabeyal Category Concert and event review

Date: March 31, 2011
Venue: Highline Ballroom (NY)

Concert review by Jim Hoey

The Residents still baffle and riddle their audience with questions of identity: Who are these freaks? Where did they come from? How do they turn out such twisted songs? What their fans DO know for sure is that they’ve been around almost as long as the Rolling Stones or Black Sabbath, have put out over 60 albums, and they came out of some swamp or dark lair of Louisiana, before heading to San Fran in the late 60′s. The rest is just hearsay. Although they did release Meet The Residents in 1972, (a parody of Meet the Beatles more in line with Zappa or Captain Beefheart), since that time they have been popping up in different incarnations, with consistently demanding and challenging punk, gothic, and noise releases over the past 3 decades.

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Japan Benefit Event in NY: WA-GO – Global unity

30.03.2011 by Sohrabeyal Category Events, Japan

和合~ Unity ~ Vol.1

Date: Friday, April 1, 2011
Time: 6:30pm til midnight (performances: 7:30-11pm)
Venue: 239 W. 14th St. 2F (btwn 7th & 8th Avenues)
Ticket: $10 (All donations will be sent to the Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate Prefectural governments)
Genre: Classical music, Japanese traditional music, martial arts demonstration,
oriental Dance, Salsa Dance and African music

YEMEN BLUES (Israel) creating “moments of soul” @ Le Poisson Rouge (NY)

26.03.2011 by Sohrabeyal Category Concert and event review

Date: March 9, 2011
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (NY)

Photo by Zohar Ron

Text by Jim Hoey, videos and interview by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

In New York city, musicians come from all over the world to hook up and put a band together in the hopes of touring the world and living that dream. The players in YEMEN BLUES are in the middle of that process, not yet “on top of the world”, but rising up and starting to play venues and cities farther and farther away from New York.

Tully Scope Festival presenting Tyondai Braxton’s “Selection from Central Market (2008)”

22.03.2011 by Sohrabeyal Category Concert and event review

Date: March 7, 2011
Venue: Lincoln Center/Alice Tully Hall

Concert review by Jim Hoey

I clearly remember the day in Williamsburg when I first saw Tyondai Braxton making sounds, sitting surrounded by a circle of pedal effects in the middle of a street festival, sun beaming down, the East River a block or so away, one of a few performers set to play. He just sat blaring into a microphone, tweaking his electronics.

Interview – Bassam Saba and April Centrone speak about their “baby”: the NY Arabic Orchestra

02.03.2011 by Sohrabeyal Category Interview

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Text and interview by Jim Hoey
Video camera: Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

The New York Arabic Orchestra has quietly been honing their craft for the past three years, after forming out of a series of workshops started by founders Bassam Saba (oud, nay, flute, violin) and April Centrone (lead percussion). What they accomplished on February 12th at the Symphony Space was unique: the only Arabic orchestra in NYC comprised of musicians from the Middle East, the United States, Latin America, and Asia to be joined here by star vocalists Salma Habib (of Palestine) and Naji Youssef (of Lebanon) for a presentation of authentic Arabic songs.

Bassam Saba and his New York Arabic Orchestra @ Symphony Space this coming Saturday!!!

05.02.2011 by Sohrabeyal Category Event listings

Text by Jim Hoey

Date: Saturday, February 12, 2011
Time: 8 pm
Venue: Peter Jay Sharp Theatre /Symphony Space (2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY 10025-6990)
Tickets: $25; Members, Students, Seniors, Children $20; Day of Show $30 – buy tickets
Genre: Arabic tradtional music

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Just as protests around the Arabic world are gaining momentum and causing real change in nations like Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen, the internationally acclaimed New York Arabic Orchestra returns to Symphony Space for its annual winter event.

A documentary film: Live From Tokyo – Tapping Into the Tokyo Music Underground!

14.01.2011 by Sohrabeyal Category Film screenings, Japan

Date: October 29, 2010
Venue: Asia Sociey (NY)
Presented by Asia Society and New York-Tokyo

Text by Jim Hoey

What first caught my eye about the film Live From Tokyo was the mention of these obscure Japanese bands that most people I meet from Japan have never heard of: Kirihito, the Boredoms (or one of their side projects) or eX-girl. Float these names to your average Japanese visitor in New York and you get a blank stare or some polite response, just like if an American visits Tokyo and some crazed Japanese music-obsessive with a knowledge of enough English starts to ask questions about Lightning Bolt, Sonic Youth, Fugazi, the Minutemen, or Faith No More. The average guy on vacation is just like, “Sorry man, I don’t know those bands”. And if you meet someone who DOES, and YOU are the obsessive, you have an instant connection and end up in a long conversation about what’s new and on the way up, and you feel good exchanging information that has yet to permeate the further layers of the cultural experience elsewhere in the world.

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Doo-Bee-Doo-Bee-Doo……HaPPY nEw Yearrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

01.01.2011 by Sohrabeyal Category What's happening today

DooBeeDooBeeDoo’s chief and assistant editors perform a Happy New Year 2011 song for their dear readers. It is the first time they got together in such a way.

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