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2012 Stories by Richard Gehr

• INDIAN LULLABY

  published May 9, 2012

  The first hours of the Chhandayan group's annual All-Night Concert are for socializing, enjoying an early evening raga or two, and snacking on... More >>

• Terry Riley & Gyan Riley

  published May 9, 2012

  If keyboardist-vocalist Terry Riley is the father of minimalism, guitarist Gyan Riley is its brother. The pair has been improvising together for... More >>

• Man Forever+Nymph

  published May 9, 2012

  Percussionist John Colpitts—a/k/a Kid Millions of noise-transcendentalists Oneida—digs a good drone. Acoustic and electronic drones of... More >>

• Dallas Vietty's Musette Project

  published May 9, 2012

  Brooklyn accordionist Dallas Vietty specializes in musette, the lilting, highly ornamented French waltz music that's making some small comeback... More >>

• Gary Lucas+Frank London's Kali Krewe+Institutional Prostitution

  published May 9, 2012

  A monster guitarist who diverts Delta blues down countless acoustic and electric capillaries, Lucas leads a taut group joined tonight by French... More >>

• Father John Misty

  published May 9, 2012

  After abandoning the drummer's stool in Fleet Foxes and mischievously transforming into his Father John Misty persona, Josh Tillman has succeeded... More >>

• Snarky Puppy

  published May 9, 2012

  This usually augmented instrumental septet—relocated to Brooklyn from Denton, Texas—reclaims the ground where sophisticated jazz meets... More >>

• RISING SON

  published April 25, 2012

  Judging by his revelatory Coke Studio performance of "Alif Allah Chambay Dey Booti/Jugni" (8 million YouTube views and counting) in 2010, jovial... More >>

• Morton Subotnick

  published April 25, 2012

  The pioneering electronic-music composer whose seminal Silver Apples of the Moon was recently added to the National Register of Recorded... More >>

• Manny Oquendo's Libre+Papo Vazquez Pirates and Troubadours+Dave Valentin Band

  published April 25, 2012

  Even as a legacy group led by bassist Andy Gonzalez, the late percussionist Manny Oquendo's Libre still fans the flaming polyrhythmic fury of... More >>

• Mandingo Ambassadors+Raya Brass Band

  published April 25, 2012

  The tiny yet titanic club Barbès celebrates its first decade of Park Slope colonization with a week's worth of short, sharp sets reflecting... More >>

• Wayne Krantz

  published April 11, 2012

  The first of a four-night run preceding the release of this remarkably inventive jazz guitarist's uncharacteristically rockish Howie 61.... More >>

• Mohammad-Reza Lotfi

  published April 11, 2012

  An adept of the tar and setar, long-necked lutes related to the guitar and sitar, Mohammad-Reza Lotfi revitalized the Iranian classical tradition... More >>

• Gavin Bryars's 'The Sinking of the Titanic'

  published April 11, 2012

  Referring to its taped sound effects, sampled tunes, and foggy ambience, composer Gavin Bryars has described "The Sinking of the Titanic" as the... More >>

• Sun Araw+Pole+Inner Tube

  published April 11, 2012

  Stoner rock (insert your own 4/20 joke here) ascends to new heights in the gibbering electronics and hyperheady dub rhythms of Los Angeles... More >>

• Cheikh Lô

  published April 11, 2012

  This impressively dreadlocked Senegal smoothie is, at least vocally, a West African cousin of Aaron Neville and Gregory Isaacs, even though... More >>

• Ethel

  published April 11, 2012

  Works by New York composers—including Don Byron's jazzy "Four Thoughts on Marvin Gaye" and Julia Wolfe's anxious "Early That Summer"—is... More >>

• Pandit Ramesh Misra

  published April 11, 2012

  The sarangi, which means "100 colors" in Hindu, is a squat bowed instrument that appears to have been invented by inspired aliens, with a sound... More >>

• ORIGINAL BOOGALOO

  published April 11, 2012

  Boasting an unforgettable chorus ("LSD has got a hold on me. . . . one, two, three, I feel free"), no single tune captured the strange urban magic... More >>

• Robert Ashley

  published April 11, 2012

  There's a valedictory quality to this ceaselessly renewing 82-year-old's latest work, The Old Man Lives in Concrete, which originated at La... More >>

• Leland Sundries

  published April 11, 2012

  Not only does Brooklyn singer-songwriter Nick Loss-Eaton write richly detailed, sepia-toned tunes that layer America then and now atop one another... More >>

• ONE STEP BEYOND

  published April 4, 2012

  Saxophonist John Zorn relinquishes curatorial duties at his no-frills Avenue C performance bunker to Andrea Centazzo for the first two weeks of... More >>

• Dr. John & Dan Auerbach

  published April 4, 2012

  On this not-so-unlikely pair's new Locked Down, Black Keys guitarist Auerbach seems to have gone for a blend of the monumental New Orleans... More >>

• Bombino

  published April 4, 2012

  Among the many robed and scarved Tuareg guitarists to boogie their way out of the Sahara in recent years, no one plays a badder ax than Omara... More >>

• Simon Shaheen

  published April 4, 2012

  The 'ud and violin virtuoso marks the Arab Spring's first anniversary with music of the second Arab renaissance, when the Middle East's greatest... More >>