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Get ready! May 29 is almost here. Tickets on sale now for Bahauddin Dagar in Concert, at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York. With Tejas Tope (pakhawaj) and Ted Murano (tanpura). Don't miss it! Bahauddin Dagar in Concert May 29, 2026 7:30pm (doors 7) 450 W 37th St, NY $40/$50 at the door Plus: Asynchronous Duets: Bahauddin Dagar with Shara Lunon (May 23) Brandon Ross (June 6) Anh Vo (June 13) Aakash Mittal (June 20) 873 Broadway, suite 503 2pm-4:30pm (doors 1:30) $15 Link in the bio for tickets & more Ustad Daagar is shown here at the @g5a.culture Baithak in 2021, accompanied by Shri Sanjay Agle on pakhawaj and Prerna Sridhar and Ipsita Bichkar on tanpura. #dagarvani #dhrupad #ustadbahauddindagar #bahauddindagar #rudraveena #veena

June 10: Melvin Gibbs Ensemble: Nzambici Immanuel Wilkins: saxophone Chris Ryan Williams: trumpet deVon Russell Gray: piano, keyboards Luke Stewart: bass Tcheser Holmes: drums June 10 ShapeShifter, 837 Union St. 8pm/doors 7:30 Tickets at the link in the bio Melvin Gibbs Ensemble: Nzambici is the second extended musical work created by Gibbs in consultation with theoretical cosmologist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander. It uses a harmonic system Gibbs developed inspired by Alexander’s work. Ogodo Quanta, the first work using that system, was performed at the 2019 Vision Festival by an expanded version of Alexander and Gibbs’ group God Particle. Ogodo Quanta was a sonic meditation on the idea of the “Cosmic Fabric,” the interconnected cosmic force. Nzambici is the female counterpart to Nzambi, the name the Bantu Bakongo gave God the Creator. Nzambici is God as “She.” The music created under her name, featuring a group of creative musicians hand-picked by Gibbs and Alexander, will be a sonic meditation on the idea of Creative Force. This event is the final performance in Melvin Gibbs’ multipart series with FourOneOne celebrating his singular life in music thus far and his highly anticipated new book, How Black Music Took Over The World.

Join us Saturday, May 23 for the first of this spring’s Asynchronous Duets, a series of encounters between four New York City-based artists and Ustad Bahauddin Dagar, renowned rudra veena player and one of the world’s foremost practitioners of Dhrupad. On May 23, Dagar will be in musical dialogue with vocalist/electronicist Shara Lunon of improv cooperative History Dog and the incendiary punk band Blasé. Asynchronous Duets: Bahauddin Dagar & Shara Lunon 📆 May 23 ⏱️ 2 PM - 4:30 PM (doors 1:30) 📍873 Broadway, suite 503 New York, NY 10010 🎟️ Tickets $15 at the link in bio Lunon and Ustad Dagar will take turns listening to one another perform and talk about how they approach the fundamental materials of their art, from the perspectives of their personal practices and the historical traditions and communities that inform them. Central to this event is the question: How do you engage with one form using the forms you already know? The content and flow of Saturday’s session—from conversation to music and back—will arise from informal, private meetings between Ustad Dagar and Lunon in the week leading up the public events. Audiences will also have a chance to ask questions and engage with the performers. Asynchronous Duets: May 23 - Shara Lunon June 6 - Brandon Ross June 13 - Anh Vo June 20 - Aakash Mittal

Bklyn Live Music PSA! Dada Strain returns to its favorite NYC arts loft, Light & Sound Design Studios (aka L&SD) in Greenpoint, for a presentation of rhythm-improvisation-community dance music, on Sunday, May 17th at 5p. This late afternoon hang of global rhythms, live machines and expert selections will feature a rare solo electronic excursion by the mighty more eaze, a typically bonkers drum-machine-circle by the collective A.B.E.L.A. (Asociación de Bateristas ElektrónikXs de Latinoamerika), and a special “cosmic jazz dance set” by DJ Monk-One. The evening is produced with the generous help of FourOneOne. Dada Strain @ L&SD is a bi-monthly series of live performances by (primarily) local musicians, improvisers and DJs, that encompasses elements of deep listening and body movement. Flyer by @okaymissalicia Tix/RSVP at the link in the bio. More info on Dada Strain (also at link in the bio). I look forward to seeing you there. Thank you for reading, listening, following and supporting!

See you Sunday! Don't miss the debut performance of the Issa Iyer Gibbs coalition, a new collaboration between three of the deepest practitioners working in the overlapping worlds of hip hop, go-go, jazz, rock and electronic music: emcee Kokayi Issa, keyboardist Vijay Iyer, and bassist/producer Melvin Gibbs. With Fatboi Sharif, May 10 at Market Hotel. The Issa Iyer Gibbs Coalition / Fatboi Sharif Part of Melvin Gibbs: How Black Music Took Over The World 📆 Sun, May 10 🌏 Market Hotel, 1140 Myrtle Ave., BK 📍8pm (doors 7) 🎟️ Tickets at fouroneoneprojects.org - link in bio

🎼 Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber’s 2002 “The Rites,” a collision between Butch Morris’ Conduction and “Uncle Igor,” conceptualized by Greg Tate as a series of adapted motifs from Stravinsky’s Le Sacre Du Printemps, and featuring a remarkable lineup, with Pete Cosey on lead guitar, Melvin Gibbs on electric bass, and Vijay Iyer on acoustic piano. Vijay Iyer and Melvin Gibbs reunite next weekend to debut the Issa Iyer Gibbs Coalition with emcee Kokayi Issa—a new collaboration between three of the deepest practitioners working in the overlapping worlds of hip hop, go-go, jazz, rock and electronic music. Get your tickets now! The Issa Iyer Gibbs Coalition / Fatboi Sharif Part of Melvin Gibbs: How Black Music Took Over The World 📆 Sun, May 10 🌏 Market Hotel, 1140 Myrtle Ave., BK 📍8pm (doors 7) 🎟️ Tickets at fouroneoneprojects.org

In May and June, 2026, renowned rudra veena player and 20th generation practitioner of the Dagarvani tradition of Dhrupad returns to New York for programs that revive and reimagine the dialogue between this profound tradition and Western audiences, performers, scholars and students. This residency fosters new convergences through a major, evening-length concert at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music on May 29 and a series of intimate performance/conversations with four artists from New York City’s rich web of performance histories: guitarist Brandon Ross, vocalist/electronicist Shara Lunon, Vietnamese decolonialist ritual performance artist Anh Voh, and saxophonist and composer Aakash Mittal. Tickets on sale now! May 29 Bahauddin Dagar in Concert 7:30 (doors 7) DiMenna Center 450 W 37th St, NY $40/$50 at the door Asynchronous Duets: Bahauddin Dagar with Shara Lunon (May 23) Brandon Ross (June 6) Anh Vo (June 13) Aakash Mittal (June 20) 873 Broadway, suite 503 2pm-4:30pm (doors 1:30) $15 Link in the bio!

On May 25, 2021, Melvin Gibbs released the EP "4 + 1 equals 5 for May 25," an embodied collaboration with Grammy-nominated Kokayi Issa. The "Uncle of the DMV rap community" (in Melvin's words) delivers a poetic invocation over a synth drone in "Message from the Streets," a song that bears witness to the murder of George Floyd in Melvin's adopted city of Minneapolis, and the spontaneous protests and organizing that resulted in 2021.   Tickets on sale now for the Issa Iyer Gibbs Coalition, a new collaboration between Issa, Gibbs, and keyboardist Vijay Iyer—three of the deepest practitioners working in the overlapping worlds of hip hop, go-go, jazz, rock and electronic music. Don't miss this one! The Issa Iyer Gibbs Coalition / Fatboi Sharif Part of Melvin Gibbs: How Black Music Took Over The World 📆 Sun, May 10 🌏 Market Hotel, 1140 Myrtle Ave., BK 📍8pm (doors 7) 🎟️ Tickets at fouroneoneprojects.org

Last Friday, bassist, composer and writer Melvin Gibbs presented Geechee Reclamation, a musical homage to his Gullah-Geechee ancestors using electronics, archival recordings, and an exceptional group of performers: dancer/choreographer Leslie Parker, multi-instrumentalist Ben LaMar Gay (on trumpet here), keyboardist Paul Wilson Bae, and drummer Warren “Trae” Crudup III, with Gibbs on electric bass and electronics. This evolving work echoes the creative road Gibbs paved on his Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 album, of which he wrote: “The work bridges the gap between alive and unalive in a Voodoo/Hoodoo kind of way that you could look at as recentering the ancestral Afrocentric view of transhumanism in this moment.” The work uses recordings made by Alan Lomax of the Plantation Echoes, a 1930s rendition of Gullah-Geechee music and dance, in which Melvin's great-grandfather, Solomon Gibbs, took part. An earlier performance by Plantation Echoes was a crucial influence on George Gershwin, who visited South Carolina's Gullah-Geechee communities in the years before penning his classic American opera Porgy & Bess. Geechee Reclamation brings together the often overlooked origins of the famous “folk opera” with Gibbs’ own family history, and affirms the Gullah-Geechee people’s indelible contribution to American culture and music. This event was part of Melvin Gibbs: How Black Music Took Over the World, a season of events celebrating Gibb's singular life in music thus far and the publication of his first book, a sweeping, rigorous account of the musical inheritance of Africa. Join us May 10 at Market Hotel for the next event in the series: The Issa Iyer Gibbs Coalition, featuring Melvin Gibbs with emcee Kokayi Issa and keyboardist Vijay Iyer. Rahway, NJ underground rapper and Backwoodz associate Fatboi Sharif will open. Tickets on sale now.

MAY 10: The Issa Iyer Gibbs Coalition/Fatboi Sharif, 8pm at Market Hotel in Brooklyn. 🔥🔥 Tickets on sale now for a new collaboration between three of the deepest practitioners working in the overlapping worlds of hip hop, go-go, jazz, rock and electronic music: emcee Kokayi Issa, keyboardist Vijay Iyer, and bassist/producer Melvin Gibbs. With Rahway, NJ underground rapper and Backwoodz associate Fatboi Sharif, whose vocal delivery and productions toe the line between the trance inducing and unsettlingly surrealistic. The Issa Iyer Gibbs Coalition / Fatboi Sharif 📆 Sun, May 10 🌏 Market Hotel, 1140 Myrtle Ave., BK 📍8pm (doors 7) 🎟️ Tickets at fouroneoneprojects.org This event is part of FourOneOne’s April-July collaboration with Gibbs in celebration of his singular life in music thus far and his highly anticipated new book, How Black Music Took Over The World.

Announcing: ‘𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬’ across Berlin, London, Chicago and New York. @silent.green , @cafeotodalston , @constellationchicago and @_fouroneone_ present Bex Burch’s ‘As yet untitled’, a work in progress in four of the warmest rooms in the world: Berlin @silent.green 15 June London @cafeotodalston 29 June Chicago @constellationchicago 10 July New York @_fouroneone_ 31 July Featuring these incredible artists: (check out the venue announcements to come for individual line-ups) Anton Hatwich @ahatwich Beanie Bhebhe @beaniemusicofficial Carmen Quill @carmenquill Evan Ziporyn @eziporyn Gabe Birnbaum @gbrlbrnbm Johannes Schleiermacher @johnnyschleierhaft Laurel Pardue Lia Kohl @liairenekohl Luca Curcio @lucupright Lukas Akintaya @lukas.akintaya Macie Stewart @maciestewart Mikel Patrick Avery @mikel_patrick_avery Peter Zummo @peterzummo Rob Frye @flux_bikes Sam Scranton @sscran Tamar Osborn @tamarosborn Tara Franks @tara_soundscreative Tom Herbert @electrobeard Whitney Johnson @matchesse The music and the collaborative unearthing of it has been and continues to be for the JOY OF IT, and it’s my huge honour to be able to expand that journey to include audiences across these four nights, cities and scenes. Come join us for one.. or two.. or all four?!? Huge gratitude for everyone involved making this dream come true. 🖼️ by me for the joy of it too… Thank you Che Chen, @reedmicj @searchnresearch @fio__nn @moprobs @q_buckaroo , this is gonna be fun!

Just announced: a new collaboration between three of the deepest practitioners working in the overlapping worlds of hip hop, go-go, jazz, rock and electronic music: emcee Kokayi Issa, keyboardist Vijay Iyer, and bassist/producer Melvin Gibbs. With Fatboi Sharif, May 10 at Market Hotel. Tickets on sale now! The Issa Iyer Gibbs Coalition / Fatboi Sharif Part of Melvin Gibbs: How Black Music Took Over The World 📆 Sun, May 10 🌏 Market Hotel, 1140 Myrtle Ave., BK 📍8pm (doors 7) 🎟️ Tickets at fouroneoneprojects.org - become a member and save :) The debut performance by this trio of singular artists will fuse the charged unpredictability of human improvisation with the relentless precision of machine music, and the sheer volume of sound system culture. Always the sonic architect, Gibbs’ now legendary bass playing did little to prepare listeners for his highly idiosyncratic take on sound design when his Anamibia Sessions: The Wave dropped in 2022 (on legendary electronic music imprint Editions Mego). In The IIGC Gibbs leans hard into the production revelations of both The Wave and its followup, 2025’s Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2, providing rhythmic propulsion and trunk-rattling low end for Kokayi and Iyer’s lyrical and harmonic flow states. Kokayi is a Washington DC-based MC and Go-Go advocate who once shared mic-duties with Black Thought over the shifting street-polyrhythms of Metrics; Renowned pianist and Harvard professor Vijay Iyer has honed his voice with inspirations from Ellington, Monk, and Alice Coltrane, and through collaborations with Wadada Leo Smith, Henry Threadgill and other luminaries of 60s and 70s Black creative music. Rahway, NJ underground rapper and Backwoodz associate, Fatboi Sharif, whose vocal delivery and productions toe the line between the trance inducing and unsettlingly surrealistic, will open the evening. Top: Kokayi; Bottom left: Ebru Yildiz; Bottom right: Silvia Saponaro. This event is part of FourOneOne’s April-July collaboration with Gibbs in celebration of his singular life in music thus far and his highly anticipated new book, How Black Music Took Over The World.