Dada Strain Presents... 3 x Bklyn Sounds in NYC, March 2024
LIVE SHOW INVITES: Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few + Shara Lunon / Graham Haynes, Adam Rudolph & Hassan Hakmoun / Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Gèbru + sinonó + Laraaji
Dada Strain is co-presenting three great community shows in early March 2024 in New York City — and you’re invited.
On Monday, March 4th, Sisters & Dada Strain presents live music by Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few, plus Shara Lunon + Dada Strain (DJ), at Sisters, 900 Fulton St. (at Washington), Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Doors at 7p, music begins at 8p. Advance tickets are $33.85.
Chicago/Brooklyn tenor saxophonist Collier leads an incendiary spiritual jazz quartet that is among my favorite current live experiences. The vocalist-wordsmith-improvisor-Afrofuturist-technologist Lunon will play a live electronics set.
On Tuesday, March 12th, FourOneOne presents Gift of the Gnawa with Maalem Hassan Hakmoun, Abdu Rrahim Hakmoun, Graham Haynes, and Adam Rudolph + Dada Strain (DJ), at The Sultan Room, 234 Starr St., Bushwick, Brooklyn. 7p. Advance tickets are $19.57.
The opening event of the FourOneOne’s residency by cornetist, trumpeter and composer Haynes is a night of conversation and music centered on Gift of the Gnawa. That is a 1991 album that the Chicago percussionist Rudolph made with the then-young Hassan Hakmoun, a gifted musician in Morocco’s gnawa music tradition, and the legendary trumpeter Don Cherry. The result was an ancient African music of healing and trance, mixing globally mined free jazz and new-music improvisation that left a permanent impression on Graham Haynes.
On Wednesday, March 13th, Mississippi Records & Dada Strain present The Music of Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Gèbru (performed by Thomas Feng) and sinonó, with special guest Laraaji, at St. Mark’s Church on the Bowery, 131. E. 10th St., Manhattan. Doors 6:30p, music begins at 7:30p. Advance tickets $20/limited door $25.
The event is a special double album-release celebration of two wholly different new records that cast a similarly dusky, natural light on the beauty of the world: Souvenirs is a posthumous vocal album by Gèbru, the late Ethiopian Orthodox nun and composer whose piano pieces are beloved around the world. (Emahoy’s music will be performed by the pianist Thomas Feng, a music doctoral candidate writing his dissertation on Gèbru.) la espalda y su punto radiante, the debut recording by sinonó, a Bklyn trio featuring vocalist Isabel Crespo Pardo, cellist Lester St. Louis and double-bassist Henry Fraser, is a haunting collection of Spanish-language poem songs, leaning at once towards improvised sounds, bowed string drones, and gothic folk. A closing set by Laraaji will serve as the rhythmic and radiant raveling. Expect the unexpected.
(As always, paid Dada Strain subscribers will receive a discount code to these events shortly.)
I hope you join us for some (or all) of this beautiful music. Thank you for reading, for following and for supporting.