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The Hot Holy Mess!
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Conceived in a dream that Skye
Steele had the night after a near-fatal encounter with a mountain lion
in Montana's Bitterroot Valley last January, the Hot Holy Mess will
draw an astral circle around the room within which performers and
participants co-mingle in song singing, musical reflection, poetic
interjection, glossolalic incantation, and dancing. We celebrate Love,
lust, mortality, and the world about us in a format built upon the
belief that music is at its best when made together among people rather
than being passively consumed by an audience observing a performer.
"Brooklyn's own dirty church band"
--Brooklynpaper.com |
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The
Skye Steele Quintet
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Skye
Steele's pursuit of a global improvisational language on the violin has
taken him from the backstreets of Istanbul to the mangroves of Brazil
and back to Brooklyn. From 2006-2009, this group was Skye's primary
vehicle as an improviser and instrumental composer, performing
regularly in NYC and touring the west coast three times.
Taking world-jazz fusion as its starting point, the music of this band
grew increasingly ambitious rhythmically and compositionally, thanks in
large part to Skye's regular attendance at Steve Coleman's monday night
workouts at the Jazz Gallery. The band was usually populated
by close friends and regular collaborators of those years, including:
Harel Shachal, Ben Cassorla, John Hadfield, Josh Hadfield, Mike Savino,
Nir Felder, Andrew D'Angelo, and many special guests.
E-mail: info@skyesteele.com |
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Harel
Shachal and Anistar
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Anistar
plays an innovative blend of Jazz, Mediterranean and Traditional
Middle-Eastern music. By mixing traditional instruments, forms and
harmonies together with a modern Jazz conception, Anistar melds the
sounds of the desert with the contemporary urban landscape of New York
City. Anistar was active in NYC from 2002-2009, and now
performs primarily in Israel where band-leader Harel Shachal has
repeatriated. |
| Visit
Anistar's Website |
Listen:
Esh (mp3 - partial track)
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Jay
Vilnai's Vampire Suit
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Vampire
Suit draws on Jay's unique musical heritage as a
Russian-Romanian-Polish descendant raised in Jerusalem around a mix of
contemporary and traditional Jewish and Arab music. The result is a
musical texture infused with ideas and harmonies from jazz, 20-century
music, blues and rock'n'roll, that takes you on a journey around the
world from the tribal dances of North Africa to the marshes of the
Balkans. |
| Visit Vampire Suit's
Website |
Listen:
Lullabye
(mp3 - partial track)
Buy
the CD |
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EthnoEccentric
String Trio
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Drawing
on scrapbooks from their various travels in the New York music scene
and around the world, the members of EE3 bring a globe-spanning variety
of music into focus through the prism of the improvisational string
trio. Expect Bulgarian dances, Greek Rembetika, original compositions
and Bartok. |
| E-mail: EE3@skyesteele.com |
Listen:
Monkey
See (mp3 - partial track) |
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The
Manhattan Ragtime Orchestra
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The
Manhattan Ragtime Orchestra was formed by Orange Kellin to play classic
rags and other related forgotten American popular music from the
ragtime era, approximately 1900-1920. The band's slogan, "Radical Pop
Music From the Ragtime Era," sums things up neatly. The ragtime era was
a freewheeling, tremendously exciting time in American music, full of
wild invention and surprise. Ragtime, ragtime-flavored pop songs,
blues, Latin American dance rhythms, jazz, and various faux exotica are
just a few of the ingredients. |
| E-mail:
Orange Kellin |
Listen:
The
Cannon Ball (mp3 - partial track)
Buy
the CD |
