So another weekend is coming up and looks we'll have a great one not just because of the weather but because of the good music paaaarteeeeeies! So here is my weekend music party plan...
Thursday night: Simian Mobile Disco at Highline Ballroom
Friday night: Sub Swara with Glitch Mob at Le Poission Rouge
Saturday night: Matthew Dear at Rebel
Stay tuned for my update!
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
El Haru Kuroi at Barbes
This bar, Barbes, in Park Slope in Brooklyn always has very interesting and unique musicians playing at the night. I have been there a couple of times to see Slavic Soul Party!, who plays there every Tuesday night. However, the last Tuesday night they had a different set of bands playing. I got there with my friends and as often it goes I was drinking and enjoying conversations with some of the folks at the bar area, which is right next from the room where bands play music. So I totally missed the first band while I was having a good time at the bar until the next band all the sudden got my attention.
The band called, El Haru Kuroi. They were playing something like Bosanova type at the time I went into the room where they were playing at. The music was beautiful and chill, it's like the music you want to listen at week nights and feel your life through it. And they went on to more Mexican, Colombian style of folk music, which were very lively and sweaty yet beautiful. Everybody was dancing and some folks were clapping their hands like Framenco, which totally added great sound of latin ethnic spice.
Anyway, this was a total surprise but it was so greatful that I have encountered this band who played such a soulful modern latin music. It was so easy to feel the music and let myself into the vibe created by the audience in the room.
Even luckier, after they finished their play I got to talk with the singer woman and found out that they were all teachers and go off for the show to play their music when they are off. (What a lucky students at the school!) Also the band name is coming from Japanese word 'Harakuroi', which means that you have something behind you that I don't know when we talk or negotiate, umm, yeah it's not so happy name, kind of dark side.... I don't know who taught them the name, whoever that was, hope that was not the lost in translation.... :)
Anyway, I had a great music at the Tuesday night, and this proved again that this bar, Barbes, knows what they are doing. The vibe is always good, great bar with local hang out feeling with bohemian vibe and good sophistication. I'd love to talk to the people at the bar who are booking these great musicians some time.
With El Haru Kuroi!!!
The band called, El Haru Kuroi. They were playing something like Bosanova type at the time I went into the room where they were playing at. The music was beautiful and chill, it's like the music you want to listen at week nights and feel your life through it. And they went on to more Mexican, Colombian style of folk music, which were very lively and sweaty yet beautiful. Everybody was dancing and some folks were clapping their hands like Framenco, which totally added great sound of latin ethnic spice.
Anyway, this was a total surprise but it was so greatful that I have encountered this band who played such a soulful modern latin music. It was so easy to feel the music and let myself into the vibe created by the audience in the room.
Even luckier, after they finished their play I got to talk with the singer woman and found out that they were all teachers and go off for the show to play their music when they are off. (What a lucky students at the school!) Also the band name is coming from Japanese word 'Harakuroi', which means that you have something behind you that I don't know when we talk or negotiate, umm, yeah it's not so happy name, kind of dark side.... I don't know who taught them the name, whoever that was, hope that was not the lost in translation.... :)
Anyway, I had a great music at the Tuesday night, and this proved again that this bar, Barbes, knows what they are doing. The vibe is always good, great bar with local hang out feeling with bohemian vibe and good sophistication. I'd love to talk to the people at the bar who are booking these great musicians some time.
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With El Haru Kuroi!!!
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Rusko at Studio B
Damn!!! This Rusko's live was one of the best Dub Step shows I've even been to!!
After the BLVD's show at Bowery Ballroom and a few drinks at another bar on that Friday, we headed to Studio B in Brooklyn for a good Dub Step party where Rusko and other dub step DJs were playing.
Here is a list of DJs for the night:
The audience was all dancing so hard and enjoying with the journey with him going back and forth between heavy dubstep and a bit light sounds. His joker kind of looking and the performance was definitely the entertainer. He makes really cool dubstep music and he was playing them at the show. But with his performance, with his playing bass, with his maneuver and the way he created the journey, it brought the show to the next level and earned the best dubstep show I've ever seen.
Man, that's why I love Dubstep so much right now, there are so many different styles and many musicians are trying many different creative things. And I really appreciate the creativity and freestyle! Right now there is no establishment around here, many musicians from different background making what they want with this Dub Step sound. There are a lot of room out there where musicians can do a lot of funky things! Viva la Freedom!
Anyway, Rusko, we got to keep our eyes on this guy!
Here are some clips from the night...
After the BLVD's show at Bowery Ballroom and a few drinks at another bar on that Friday, we headed to Studio B in Brooklyn for a good Dub Step party where Rusko and other dub step DJs were playing.
Here is a list of DJs for the night:
- RUSKO Live featuring ROD AZLAN
- THE PHANTOM'S REVENGE (FRANCE) *US Debut!
- BLACK HOLES (Chicago) *NYC Debut
- TROUBLE & BASS CREW DJs (STAR EYES, THE CAPTAIN, AC SLATER)
The audience was all dancing so hard and enjoying with the journey with him going back and forth between heavy dubstep and a bit light sounds. His joker kind of looking and the performance was definitely the entertainer. He makes really cool dubstep music and he was playing them at the show. But with his performance, with his playing bass, with his maneuver and the way he created the journey, it brought the show to the next level and earned the best dubstep show I've ever seen.
Man, that's why I love Dubstep so much right now, there are so many different styles and many musicians are trying many different creative things. And I really appreciate the creativity and freestyle! Right now there is no establishment around here, many musicians from different background making what they want with this Dub Step sound. There are a lot of room out there where musicians can do a lot of funky things! Viva la Freedom!
Anyway, Rusko, we got to keep our eyes on this guy!
Here are some clips from the night...
BLVD & Lotus at Bowery Ballroom
At April 10th Friday evening, my friend from Japan just made all the way from Tokyo right before the show BLVD was going to start at Bowery Ballroom. BLVD is a band I have seen in S.F. and their sound is something like Rock, Hiphop, Electro mix. Their show is always lively and has good drive and groove that gets our ass shaken. This time they were going to play opening up for a main band, Lotus. I like Lotus's sound but not so much that I want to pay for their show, not really my type of music. So this time I purely went for the front act!
And the show turned out to be a lot of fun and good music through out the show. I liked the way they drove the music and audience. It's like when people realized they were already dancing and smiling. Even though the singer guy wearing sun glasses on the stage looked a little cheesy to me, but the performance was great. It's not too crazy, kind of mellow, so it was perfect to start the night yet got good sweat.
Here are some clips from the night....
BLVD:
Lotus:
And the show turned out to be a lot of fun and good music through out the show. I liked the way they drove the music and audience. It's like when people realized they were already dancing and smiling. Even though the singer guy wearing sun glasses on the stage looked a little cheesy to me, but the performance was great. It's not too crazy, kind of mellow, so it was perfect to start the night yet got good sweat.
Here are some clips from the night....
BLVD:
Lotus:
Midival Punditz
Haven't been able to update the blog though I've been going out to many good music parties. The reason is now my friend from Tokyo has been visiting me and so I've been out every night until last night for the last two weeks or so. Finally I've got a little off this evening and find it as a good timing to update my music life in NYC!
First, I went to S.O.B. to see Midival Punditz for their new CD, 'Hello Hello' release party. They played with Karsh Kale and Vishal Vaid. I've seen them played together at Joe's Pub almost a year ago, but the set at the Joe's Pub was not really fun, everybody had to sit down at the tables and listen to their music as if they were playing classic music or something. Especially being from S.F. that sucked and I was so dissapointed. But this time I knew how the parties at S.O.B. typically go so I expected the Midival Punditz show will be a good one. And it turned out to be a good show. Well, the crowd didn't go crazy, only the people in the front area were dancing, but it was much much better than the one at the Joe's Pub...
The music was beautiful, I really like the combination of the band, Midival Punditz, Karsh Kale, and Vishal Vaid, each of them brings different beautiy of sounds. Karsh Kale's tabla/drum and Vishal Vaid's peaceful and soulful singing definitely adds excitements of live to the sounds by Midival Punditz. Though I danced a lot and enjoyed the music, I have to say two things....
One, the Punditz guys need to be more entertainers! If they're just smiling and staring at their laptop computer all the time we didn't really need them on the stage especially when we had Karsh Kale and Vishal Vaid doing some actions getting attention from audience. It's a show, so I expect them to entartain or show some energy or something otherwise I can listen their music at my house with good stereo speakers.
And two, looks Karsh Kale was having a hard time to adjust a microphone sound level for his tabla and looked being frustrated while communicating with the audio setup folks at upstairs. At the beginning that was ok, but towards the end that was too much and the stress he was carrying and showing through out the show totally turned us off as well. And maybe that's one of the reasons not many people were dancing. Sound check before the show was needed or he should have made it though with what he had ? I don't know, but it was unfortunate that the great music live show couldn't connect with the audience because of such thing....
Overall, I still love their music and again I enjoyed the show. But I'm not sure if I'll go to their next live show if I have to pay.
Here are some clips from the night....
First, I went to S.O.B. to see Midival Punditz for their new CD, 'Hello Hello' release party. They played with Karsh Kale and Vishal Vaid. I've seen them played together at Joe's Pub almost a year ago, but the set at the Joe's Pub was not really fun, everybody had to sit down at the tables and listen to their music as if they were playing classic music or something. Especially being from S.F. that sucked and I was so dissapointed. But this time I knew how the parties at S.O.B. typically go so I expected the Midival Punditz show will be a good one. And it turned out to be a good show. Well, the crowd didn't go crazy, only the people in the front area were dancing, but it was much much better than the one at the Joe's Pub...
The music was beautiful, I really like the combination of the band, Midival Punditz, Karsh Kale, and Vishal Vaid, each of them brings different beautiy of sounds. Karsh Kale's tabla/drum and Vishal Vaid's peaceful and soulful singing definitely adds excitements of live to the sounds by Midival Punditz. Though I danced a lot and enjoyed the music, I have to say two things....
One, the Punditz guys need to be more entertainers! If they're just smiling and staring at their laptop computer all the time we didn't really need them on the stage especially when we had Karsh Kale and Vishal Vaid doing some actions getting attention from audience. It's a show, so I expect them to entartain or show some energy or something otherwise I can listen their music at my house with good stereo speakers.
And two, looks Karsh Kale was having a hard time to adjust a microphone sound level for his tabla and looked being frustrated while communicating with the audio setup folks at upstairs. At the beginning that was ok, but towards the end that was too much and the stress he was carrying and showing through out the show totally turned us off as well. And maybe that's one of the reasons not many people were dancing. Sound check before the show was needed or he should have made it though with what he had ? I don't know, but it was unfortunate that the great music live show couldn't connect with the audience because of such thing....
Overall, I still love their music and again I enjoyed the show. But I'm not sure if I'll go to their next live show if I have to pay.
Here are some clips from the night....
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