Dada Strain

This week’s events include ‘Pi Records 25th Anniversary’ / Horse Lords / Ava Rocha / Djrum / Unheard: Emilio Modeste & friends / Chocolate Genius Incorporated / and much more Clockwise from upper left: Luke Stewart Silt Trio (Chad Taylor, Brian Settles, Stewart), Ava Rocha, Horse Lords, Djrum Thank you for reading, listening, following, and supporting the work; and thank you for living through this with me, and with each other. Dada Strain is a reader-supported publication.

This week’s events include ‘Us. V. Them’ Live / Arlo Parks / Orchard Street Jazz Festival / Eli Winter Trio / Papaya Papaya Mamão / Caroline Davis + JoVia Armstrong & alana amore colvin / and more Clockwise from upper left: Eli Winter, Fiery Furnaces, Arlo Parks, ZEKKEREYA EL-MAGHARBEL Scroll down to read about and check the Dada Strain reader discount to the pair of shows that author Ronen Givony has curated for Roulette, all a part of the roll-out for his book, Us V.

Once more, paid subscribers, scroll down to the UPCOMING section for a preview of Saturda’s Outline show at Knockdown Center (with Flying Lotus, Eye, and Black Dice, among many), and a 20% discount code off tickets to that show. Non-paid subs, please consider upgrading your subscription, just $5 a month a cost easily off-set with the regular ticket discounts/offers in Dada Strain.

Clockwise from upper left: Sonny Rollins, Cassie Watson Francillon & Sasha Masakowski, Haruomi Hosono, ‘Bread & Puppet’ wood-cut Paid subscribers, scroll down to the UPCOMING section for a preview of late September’s Outline show at Knockdown Center (with Flying Lotus, Eye, and Black Dice, among many), and a 20% discount code off tickets to that show. Thank you for reading, listening, following, and supporting the work; and thank you for living through this with me, and with each other.

Clockwise from upper left: Josiah McElheny “Blue Cosmic Trumpet,” The Space Lady, Felipe Gordon, Antietam Thank you for reading, listening, following, and supporting the work; and thank you for living through this with me, and with each other. Dada Strain is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Community chooglers Sloppy Heads continue to curate great monthly Heads Happenings in the Mama Tried backyard under the BQE.

Clockwise from upper left: Lloyd, Craig Taborn, Booker Stardrum and Evan Shornstein, Savannah Harris Welcome to Dada Strain, a project about Rhythm Improvisation Community. I hope you’ve all had a pleasant “Summer of New York,” or at least got to enjoy some of its seasonal pleasures, while surviving the stream of societal atrocities many of us and our fellow citizens continue to face.

Clockwise from upper left: Angelique Kidjo, Dopplereffekt, Miriam Elhajli, ‘Dada Strain @ L&SD’ flier by Miss Alicia Coleman Reminder that on Saturday evening, August 22nd, we’ll return to Light & Sound Design Studio in Greenpoint for another edition of Dada Strain @ L&SD.

Clockwise from upper left: clipping., Gunk issue #37, Marcellus Pitman, Christelle Oyiri A trio of notable museum/gallery shows around sound and music close this upcoming weekend. I’ve wanted to write about them all summer, and feel like it’s important to note all three for the broader record—but one especially because it marks the emergence of an incredible multidisciplinary artist for whom musical archive and memory are creative form and subject.

Clockwise from upper left: Tomin, Ali Berger, Lesley Mok, flier by Miss Alicia Dada Strain returns to its favorite NYC arts loft, Light & Sound Design Studios (L&SD) in Greenpoint, for another presentation of rhythm-improvisation-community music, on Saturday, August 22nd. It’s a great dog-days-of-summer program, with grooves, melodies and harmonies deliriously abstract but squarely in-the-pocket.

Clockwise from upper left: an image from Guarionex Rodriguez, Jr.’s “Planets In Transit” / Bex Burch / Grateful Dead / Luke Stewart Two things at the onset: First off, there is a beloved long-running event this evening (Thurs, July 30th) that Dada Strain is DJing.