The Div Self comes back 2 NY! This is the last show of our bebe tour 😀 New album out meow take a peep. This is a v spiritual show✨
✿ the divided self (PVD/WORC) ✿ jangly psychic freak rock. happy goth trash hippies.
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✿ sam lisabeth (NYC) ✿ guitar pop songmaster. “this is the devil’s music” –tim, war vet, drawer of satanic imagery.
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✿ frank hurricane (NYC) ✿ “spiritual mountain psychedelic gangsta folk.” this copy’s too perfect to change
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✿ dougie poole (NYC) ✿ lo-fi space cowboi
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Juniper Park Civic Association, Maspeth Federal Savings, Knockdown Center and Newtown Historical Society are sponsoring a Polish Music Festival as part of the celebration of Maspeth’s 375th Anniversary. FREE ADMISSION. Food and beverages will be sold and there will be raffle prizes awarded. Please contact us if you would like to volunteer.
Knockdown Center’s newly minted monthly music series, VIRTU, features a cross section of the finest and most cutting-edge artists and DJs from a wide array of musical communities in New York and beyond. Featuring simultaneous musical gatherings throughout the month, uniting various and sundry outsiders beneath Knockdown Center’s giant roof!
APRIL 1
Bardo Pond headlines with M AX NOI MACH, ERIC ARN in the Old Gallery, tix: http://bit.ly/2ncQA5p. Meanwhile Chthonic Streams’ “No Workers Paradise” release show fills the room we call “Texas” w/ harsh noise featuring WORK/ DEATH, THE VOMIT ARSONIST, GNAWED, & more tix: http://bit.ly/2lNfXdd
APRIL 6
Rapoon: Pas Musique: House of Blondse: On A Clear Day: Lucienraga: Live Visuals by Jim Tuite – An evening of expansive ambient noise headlined by former member of Zoviet France. Tix: http://ticketf.ly/2o4aShA.
APRIL 8
Worlds collide as Fake Accent celebrates their 3 year anniversary with rap artist Jay Boogie, Ase Manuel, Tygapaw and more takes the stage (tix: http://ticketf.ly/2nnCIqW) at the same time as composers and instrumentalists David Grubbs, Eli Keszler, Das Audit, and Mary Jordan pay tribute to late composer and visionary Tony Conrad, tix: http://ticketf.ly/2nzXfZV.
APRIL 14
Popgun Presents: Pavo Pavo, Charlie Looker Ensemble, & Ziemba. A showcase of masters of craft not to be missed. Plus, we hear Ziemba, who last year released a line of incense to accompany her album Hope is Never, will play a set that is especially fragrant. Tix: http://bit.ly/pavopavo.
APRIL 15
Young Magic makes a guest appearance to DJ our bar, the Ready Room (Free!), while On the Sly presents a showcase of club killers behind the decks, with DJ J Heat, Eaves, Gooddroid and more! Tix: http://bit.ly/2lA4Mop.
GROOVY GROOVY presents Aïsha Devi
AÏSHA DEVI (Danse Noire, Houndstooth) – US Debut
Aïsha Devi emerged in 2013 with the EP Aura 4 Everyone on her own sanctuary-label Danse Noire followed by the 12″ Hakken Dub/Throat Dub in Summer 2014. Danse Noire is dedicated to exploring abstracted club structures, and Devi’s own music mines her Nepalese-Tibetan heritage, using her machines to transmute deep meditation. Whether they are guttural or soprano, Devi’s warped pop mantras instruct us to find the unseen through a tense, visceral musical landscape that is often gnarled and industrial as it is danceable. Her debut LP ‘Of Matter And Spirit’, a “materialisation of her initiatic journey through her spiritual and origin quests”, was released October 2015 via Houndstooth and followed by March 2016′s lauded remix EP and video game by Emile Barret. Her live collaboration with Beijing artist Tianzhuo Chen (the artist behind her ‘Mazdâ video) and his collective Asian Dope Boys was debuted during CTM 2016 at Berghain. The A/V show featuring the visual artist Emile Barret- a declination of the videogame that includes material by Tianzhuo Chen – has since gone on to be presented all over the world including Montreal, Moscow, Mexico City and Tokyo as well as at prestigious festivals across Europe. We are excited to have her on this side of the pond for her US debut performance.
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GENG (PTP)
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EMBACI (NON)
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GREG ZIFCAK
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PARTS 1&2 (SWEAT EQUITY)
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VESNA (GROOVY GROOVY)
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Celebrating the music and spirit of a true original.
Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda was an American jazz pianist, organist, harpist, singer, composer and the wife of John Coltrane, the most venerated and influential saxophonist in the history of jazz. Alice’s recording catalog dates back to 1957, and during the last decade of her career – starting in the mid-’80s – she self-released four brilliant cassette albums. They contained a music she invented, inspired by the gospel music of the Detroit churches she grew up in, mixed together with the Indian devotional music of her religious practice.
Ten years after Alice’s passing, in what would have been her 80th year, we will celebrate her music and spirit at the stunning arts and performance space Knockdown Center in Queens. The first part is presented with New York label Luaka Bop, and inspired by the Sunday ceremonies Alice held at her Sai Anantam Ashram in California. Timed to coincide with sundown, the powerful, spiritual music will be performed by an ensemble led by music director Surya Botofasina, who grew up at the Ashram. The latter half will be a concert led by her son, Ravi Coltrane, featuring an all-star band playing music from throughout Alice’s career.
SUNSET SET: The Sai Anantam Singers & Special Guests
EVENING SET: Ravi Coltrane, Brandee Younger and more