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19
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Oct
10
7:00 PM19:00
MIGLOKO /Concert
10.10.19
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 7 – 10 PM
THE CONCERT WILL START AT 7.30 PM
Undercurrent is happy to host a special concert with a guest musician from Lithuania, Migloko! Come out to support us and to have a good time!
A voice and a boombox. In 2009, while still a teenager in music school in Vilnius, Lithuania, Migloko attracted the attention of thousands with the eclectic songs she started putting up on the internet. A deep, growling voice echoes over the boombox’s spare arrangements, drawing comparisons to Lana del Rey, but with a eurochic, neo-Goth twist. The haunting breaths break through a curtain of long, black hair.
Migloko has toured widely in Europe and opened for Nouvelle Vague in the French lounge band’s only concert in Vilnius. She has also performed in the US, been nominated for the Lithuanian version of a Grammy, and reached the semi-finals to represent her home country at Eurovision in 2019 with the feral “Rožės (Roses),” where the forceful demands of the refrain break themselves into single syllables grabbing attention between the misleadingly gentle beats of the backing track.
Legendary producer Leon Somov remixed “Rožės,” excavating and exposing anew the original’s anthemic essence. This summer, the collaborations continued, as Migloko played the role of Buttercup, featuring on “Girls, Girls, Girls,” a Powerpuff Girls–infused feminist call to arms by the grande dame of Lithuanian pop, Erica Jennings.
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Music links HERE
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Animation: Drawings by Migloko, animation by Laura Zavecka, music from Migloko performing I Know It at Sofar Vilnius on July 9th, 2017.
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A huge Thank You to Moacir P. de Sá Pereira for all the help!
Jul
20
4:30 PM16:30
Celebrating Annie Ali Khan’s SITA UNDER THE CRESCENT MOON
JULY 20, SATURDAY
4.30-7.30 PM
Copies of Sita under the Crescent Moon will be available for purchase.
Light refreshments will be provided by Shayan Ali Khan.
Undercurrent invites you to participate in celebrating the release of journalist Annie Ali Khan’s book of reportage, Sita under the Crescent Moon, published this summer by Simon & Schuster India.
A graduate of Columbia’s School of Journalism, Ali Khan split her journalism between New York and Pakistan. Her later work focused on women in Pakistan, specifically the dispossessed and displaced women in the mega city of Karachi. Sita under the Crescent Moon represents three years of reporting and is the first ethnographic window into the lives of a seven women who live in Karachi and practice healing arts or travel across the provinces of Sindh and Baluchistan, seeking healing at spiritual sites. The sites visited by the women are themselves shrines created in the name of, and in memory of, women saints. Ali Khan’s work is the first glimpse into a centuries-old network of female sacrality and power.
Historian Manan Ahmed will facilitate this event, which also coincides with the first anniversary of Annie’s unexpected passing in Karachi last July. In her honor, friends will read short excerpts from Sita under the Crescent Moon, and poets Arooj Aftab and Hasan Mujtaba will perform. Artist Maha S. Ahmed will also apply mehndi (henna) to guests’ palms in Annie’s memory, reproducing a particular pattern that Annie herself used.
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Arooj Aftab is a Pakistani-American composer and performer based in Brooklyn. Her album of ambient, experimental electronic music, Siren Islands, was released in 2018.
Hasan Mujtaba is a Sindhi writer, journalist, poet, and human rights activist based in New York. His work has appeared in BBC Urdu, Dawn and Jang Pakistan.
Manan Ahmed is a historian of medieval and early modern Islamic history at Columbia University. His monograph, A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia, was published in 2016.
Maha S. Ahmed is a designer and artist based in Manhattan.
Readers:
Durba Mitra is a scholar of women, gender and sexuality at Harvard University. Her book, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.
Madiha Tahir is a journalist, activist and media scholar based in New York. She is a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University.
Zehra Nawab is an illustrator and journalist based in Toronto, Canada. She designed the book cover for Sita Under the Crescent Moon as well as an interior map.
Shahnaz Rouse is the Joseph Campbell Chair in the Humanities at Sarah Lawrence College.
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*Slide show: Annie Ali Khan’s personal archive
Jul
12
7:00 PM19:00
Dizzy Ventilators
DANIEL JODOCY & YUSUKE YAMAMOTO
DIZZY VENTILATORS
JULY 12, FRIDAY, 7-9 PM
SUGGESTED DONATION $8
In conjunction with Carl Lee’s solo show Myoptic and the gallery's summer closing we are pleased to announce a musical performance by Dizzy Ventilators
Belgian musician and instrument builder, Daniel Jodocy, plays on drums and electronics in Dizzy Ventilators, a duo project born in 2008. There is no real genre of music that can define what they play, because each track is composed of many different textures. This is what happens when sound is built out of New York.
Daniel has performed and recorded with numerous musicians and bands including Jonas Mekas, Bill Frisell, Joey Baron, Robin Schulkowsky, Art Baron, Billy Martin, Jeff Ballard, John Spencer (Blues Explosion), Nublu Orchestra Conducted by Butch Morris, Kenny Wollesen (Himalayas and Wollesonic), Cyro Baptista, Big Lazy, Q Tip, and John Zorn. He also contributed to the Grammy-nominated Brazilian Girls 2008 album New York City and also collaborated with Wollesonic and FilmSpeak.
Daniel conducts his own international Orchestra Ambigua, engaging community members of all levels of experience through improvisational conduction and is actively touring.
Known for his authentic sound, Yusuke Yamamoto plays keyboards and electronics.
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Video credits: Laura Zavecka + Daniela Garcia Granados
DIZZY VENTILATORS performing at Undercurrent, 2019. Video credits: Laura Zavecka