NEW YORK (Nublu Records) - From Monday, June 20th to Sunday, June 26th, Nublu and all of the groups from the Nublu family will share what has become known as the Nublu Sound. It is a sound that is as diverse as New York City itself, a sound that comes from the combination of each individual musician's experience within the international capital and outside in all the corners of the world. The party will be a celebration with all the groups and DJs that were actually born and developed in this small space on Ave C.
When explaining the sound, as is required sometimes unfortunately, the bandleader and owner/founder of Nublu, Ilhan Ersahin, puts it very simply: 'We play music.' If we need to explore it further, it is a unique blend of sounds that could only have been created in this corner of the world. The musicians, most who come from a very strong background of jazz, are among the best in the city, playing over the years with pretty much anybody you can imagine-Sun Ra,
David Byrne, McCoy Tyner, Ornette Coleman,
Saul Williams, Tom Waits, John Zorn, Beck. The music is a blend of ambient electronics, jazz, DJed dance beats, Turkish classical music, rock and new wave. It all comes through as pure love in the form of music, not as a musical style or a juxtaposition of genres but as its own unique sound.
Up to now, Nublu has never paid for promotion, letting the word of the music and the sound growing here spread naturally. Somehow, the word has gotten out. Within its short history, Nublu and its artists have been featured in the New York Times, Flaunt, Trace, Vogue, The New Yorker, Time Out New York, The Village Voice, NY Press, XLR8R, Folha de Sao Paulo, Hurriyet, URB, Liberation, LA Times, Flaunt, and Rolling Stone. The list keeps going…
So sit back enjoy the week in the little room at 62 Ave C this week, and lookout for all the releases coming from Nublu Records in the fall.
NUBLU third Anniversary Party Line-up – STARTS TONIGHT !!
Monday, June 20 Internationally renowned composer and conductionist Lawrence 'Butch' Morris will apply his unique method of improvisational conduction to three configurations of the Nublu Orchestra that will include Sylvia
Gordon and Deantoni Parks of Kudu; Didi Gutman,
Aaron Johnston, and
Jesse Murphy of Brazilian Girls; Kenny Wollesen of Love Trio by way of the bands of John Zorn and Tom Waits; avant-garde trumpeter Graham Haynes; and Ilhan Ersahin, leader of Wax Poetic, I Led Three Lives, Our Theory, and Love Trio. Techno minimalist DJ Hardedge will spin.
Tuesday, June 21 Brazilian Girls, the neo-lounge quartet with singer Sabina Sciubba, and dark broken-beat electro trio Kudu perform.
Sasha Crnobmja aka In Flagranti spins.
Wednesday, June 22 Wax Poetic led by Ilhan Ersahin and featuring singer Marla Turner performs.
Elodie O will present her Parisian electronic pop. MKL, producer of his own Lion1
Music label spins.
Thursday, June 23 Forro in the Dark, arguably the US's best representation of Forro, the traditional music of northeastern Brazil, with Mauro Refosco (also of
David Byrne fame), and Sir Bato's Gypsy Boogie, an authentic gypsy band, perform. Babyfresh and Flashblack will spin Brazilian sounds.
Friday, June 24 Love Trio in Dub featuring U-Roy, the Jamaican dub originator, this master is really something to see and their collaboration is out on nublu records sept.
Saturday, June 25 Our Theory, featuring French trumpeter Erik Truffaz one of Europe's leading nu -jazz artists, and I Led Three Lives, which has the legendary great bassist Juini Booth in it , Globesonic spins.
Sunday, June 26 2pm matinee with Our
Theory featuring Erik Truffaz.
Later that evening, live hip-hop act Real Live Show performs with iDub, featuring Zeb and Sasha. Cocoa Cracker Brown spins.
With the exception of the matinee on June 26, for which doors open at 2p, doors will open at 8p. The first of three sets will commence at 9.30p on weekdays and Sunday and 10.30p on Friday and Saturday.
Nublu is located at 62 Avenue C between 4th and 5th St
Admission will be $15 on all weekday nights and Sunday night
and $20 for Friday and Saturday nights as well as the Sunday matinee.
