NYCMosaico

Wednesda Nov. 29th - Raza @ Cielo

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NYRemezcla Launch Party December 6th @ 205 Club!!

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SI*SE @ SOBs Thursday & Friday Nov. 9th & 10th

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 9
SOB's Latin Alternative Concerts & KCRW.COM
Presents:
SI*SE

Doors: 7:00PM
Show: 9:00PM
Admission:
$18 Advanced / $22 Day of Show
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Formed in 2000 by singer Carol C and programmer/DJ U.F.LOW, Si*Sé bring together the atmospheric vibes of electronica with the crackle of live instruments. The results are electric: "It's about mixing stuff up that's not usually mixed together," says Carol C. "We're a band from New York City and we try and combine all of its musical traditions including hip-hop beats, Latin rhythms and down-tempo electronic music because that's what we hear everyday of our lives. It's a prelude to the future." Their music is a romantic stroll through the global barrio. Singing in both Spanish and English, stunning vocalist Carol C (whose family hails from the Dominican Republic) is at once sexy, smooth, soulful and completely unique. Programmer/producer/keyboardist Cliff Cristofaro aka U.F.LOW is a b-boy minimalist armed with a single MPC drum machine. But theirs is more than a beauty and beats story: Two viola players (Jeannie Oliver and Olivia Martinez), crack percussionist Neil Ochoa, spirited bassist Morgan Phillips, and live drummer Ryan Farley add an eclectic live punch to songs that range from deep drum 'n' bass to futuristic Latin ritmos and beyond.

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Una XoXa BN LOCA!

OJO:
NEXT XOXA MONDAY ROCK ME AMATEUR! WILL BE ON SUNDAY NOV 12th WITH DJ BN LOCO!!!!



XoXa Presents....

Rock Me Amateur! at Baraza

Directamente de México DF: Sonic 360 Recording Artist

BN LOCO spinning electronica-dub-trip hop


and resident DJs Claruxxx and Lechuga spinning latin rock-funk-electro-pop en español


Gratis!

9pm-4am SUNDAY November 12

Baraza 133 Ave C between 8th and 9th Sts

www.nyremezcla.com

www.myspace.com/bnloco

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Kinky @ Bowery Ballroom + AFTERPARTY

KINKY
Live
Sunday, Nov 05, 2006
@
THE BOWERY BALLROOM

Doors Open:
7:00 PM EST
$14
at The Bowery Ballroom
6 Delancey, NY, NY 10002
phone: 212.533.2111

Buy tickets : www.ticketweb.com

www.kinkymusic.com
www.myspace.com/kinky

....and the AFTERPARTY:



www.nacotheque.com
www.myspace.com/nacotheque

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Susana Baca will be at S.O.B's Wed. Nov 1st - Showtime 8pm

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 01
S.O.B.'s Latin Concerts
Presents

AFRO-PERUVIAN MUSIC
SUSANA BACA

With Special Guest
Piers Faccini
Doors: 6:30PM
Show: 8:00PM


Susana Baca will be at S.O.B's Wed. Nov 1st - Showtime 8pm

Her music is a mixture of traditional and contemporary. Her backing band features indigenous Peruvian instruments such as the cajón ("wooden box", whose origins lie in an upturned fruit crate), guapeo (clay pot), and quijada (jawbone of a burro), as well as acoustic guitar and double bass. Although many of her songs are based on traditional forms such as the lando or vals, she also incorporates elements of Cuban and Brazilian music. Her songs are poetic (with lyrics composed by some of Latin America's premier poets, with whom she collaborates), rich with evocative imagery, and her voice is delicate yet soulful. In 2002, Baca won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Folk Album, for her "Lamento Negro" CD. Despite the peacefulness of her music, it is influenced by a history of political activism that is rooted in her personal development as a woman and the awareness of societal oppression in Peru and around the world.

Her latest recording, "Travesias" was recorded with a diverse group of music collaborators like Gilberto Gil, Marc Ribot and produced by Craig Street (of Cassandra Wilson and Norah Jones fame). The CD contains a variety of songs from various parts of the world including France (Maxime Le Forestier's Né Quelque Part), the United Kingdom (Damien Rice's Volcano), Haiti, Brazil, and Peru.

S.O.B's
204 Varick St. @ W. Houston
www.sobs.com
212-243-4940
1 Train to Houston

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Windows to the guts of the soul

Sylvia Bofill's new play, Windows, centers around three women - mother, daughter, and grandaughter- seamlessly jumping around in time (past and present tenses are disjointed), memories (dreams and unfulfilled goals abound), and tone (funny, touching, morbid). The women reminisce about Puerto Rico and even get nostalgic about the island, but never in an overtly exaggerated way: this is not a "Latino" play or a play about Puerto Rican identity. The characters happen to be Puerto Rican, and hints of Puerto Rican history and its nostalgia serves as an analogy between mother-daughter bonds and its burdens. The acting is superb, especially Mercedes Herrero as Camila, a middle-aged widowed journalist who lives with regret and with the (self-created?)torment of her repressive mother Angelina (Carmen de Lavallade) and her detached daughter (Milena Pérez Joglar).

Bofill, a Puerto Rican playwright and director in her early thirties who graduated from Columbia's MFA program, is ingeniously creative when directing: for much of the play, Camila's bed becomes the center piece of the stage, alternating between almost a floating ship where characters and lovers interact or a haven or escape zone where an angst-ridden Camila sleeps and sleeps refusing to wake up. If I have failed to describe the plot of Windows is because its just eso: about relationships, about families, about contemplating life and maybe doing something about it.
Muy recomendable, very enjoyable.

Written and Directed by Sylvia Bofill

October 19th-November 5th, Wednesday-Saturday @ 8 PM, Sunday @ 3PM
Location: The Workshop Theater, 312 W. 36th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues)
Tickets are $20. www.intar.org to purchase tickets or call 212-279-4200.
OJO: LAST WEEK!

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La noche después

Zemmoa, Perla, Tino, La Prohibida.
streets of NYC 5:00am
foto: javier romero.

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