By: Tsaurah Litzky A giant egg cracks over our heads, thunder and lightening, out from the piano keys the ship tosses the storm, worlds tremble, oceans crest and curl, Africa splits at the equator, Kilimanjaro rises, falls into the raging seas of eternal sorrow, hurricane winds knock out the windows, blow off the doors, he … Read more
Miles Davis, Supercontinents, Mega-Oceans, and Human Prehistory
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by Patrick Kosiewicz From 1972-1975 Miles Davis and a band of warrior musicians took audiences back to the furthest reaches of human and earth history with their elemental, organic, universal, and utterly spontaneous sound. It began as a return to Africa, site of the first human revolution, radiated to the Indus Valley and the jungles … Read more
Armory & Accessories
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An extremely long and image-dense New York art fair report by Janet Bruesselbach Everything I shot from Wednesday to Sunday is here. FIRST COURSE: The Armory Show I registered as press in advance for this and showed up about ten minutes after the press conference to pick up my badge. I briefly glanced at Pier … Read more
THE NYC LATTE COMPOSER FOR THOUGHT
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by Phaedra Pinkston Staten Island, New York vocalist/guitarist Dorian Spencer can be seen performing live around New York City making the commutes around town a little bit more relaxing for the always-on-the-go New Yorker. Originally born in Puerto Rico, the self taught musician was greatly impacted by musical legend Jimi Hendrix additionally, all of Spencer’s … Read more
Local bass musician is a graduate of the Sarah Lawrence College music department. Only twenty-four and McEvoy has already previously performed Lincoln Center and the BlueNote however McEvoy makes it a point to perform live once at month Tribes Gallery in the East Village of Manhattan. Heavily influenced by artist such as Jimmy Hendrix, Duke … Read more
Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica by Amy Ouzoonian
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It’s mid-December and the temperature in New York has finally reached 46 degrees. New Yorkers clamor for their sweaters and snow boots and complain that it hasn’t been the sunny 65 degrees they were spoiled with up to this point. It’s December, the sparrows in New York have not gone south and they’re fighting over … Read more
by: Kim Amir Sitafalwalla For the simple fact that everything good has already been done I seldom follow contemporary anything. There are a few bands, however, that demand attention and I wholeheartedly follow their releases, tour dates, and if they have any, causes they are fervent about. Yet, again and again I am disappointed … Read more
MOROCCO, HIP-HOP FRONTIER : Revelations at the 2008 Fes Festival of Sacred World Music
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By Brian Boyles Let’s agree that, like the blues or most folk music, hip-hop is concerned with observation and storytelling. Let’s not argue about its usefulness in today’s America or the clarity of its lens. The form is a tool for these reporting functions and, as such, its appeal long ago spread to other parts … Read more
Even an especially accommodating definition of what jazz is will not place its beginnings much before the first few years of the 20th century, and so this world of music, this hallowed tradition which constitutes an entire paradigm of musical practice, is barely one hundred years old. Among many implications of this, one is that … Read more
For Nora, in that moment, righteousness was a sound awash in tears. On that bright November day, folks on the street stopped, looking up with her to meet a warm rush of sound flowing effortlessly like a tropical tide, bright with the myriad colors and forms of a living coral reef. In that moment, as … Read more
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