• OKBARI (or their larger iteration, OKBARI MIDDLE EASTERN ENSEMBLE) are committed to making sure you don't make your Maine way without getting a flavor for the rest of the world. On Friday, they'll present Sufi devotional songs from the "mystical asik tradition of Turkey and Central Asia," at the West End Yoga and Dance Studio on Brackett Street. The songs taken from the 12th to 17th centuries "are meditative and transporting both for listeners and performers." And there will be dancing with JAMILEH, too.
• Since his days with STILLVIEW, JOHN PAUL has been a songwriter and performer to watch. Now done with the Boston-based BLACK TIE AFFAIR, he's in California and pimping a solo record that he'll be bringing back home to Maine with a gig at Slainte on April 19. Recorded with TOM ACOUSTI down in Nashville with some great session players, Belmont Boulevard is getting some college radio attention and John Paul's touring solo to support it, picking up band members in each city.
• Rock band with an oboe HOBOE have entered the studio for the first time, working on songs with SEAN SLAUGHTER at his V69 STUDIOS. "I'm Your Man" is in the can and as soon as song two is polished, Hoboe promise a single release.
• Speaking of SLAUGHTER, whom you should know from his time fronting SUPERSOUL CHALLENGER among other projects, he's teamed recently with ELDEMUR KRIMM's STEFEN SAMUELS and they're calling themselves CLUBBER LANG. We can hear them already.
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I owe just about all my Turkish music knowledge to Okbari.
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Congrats to the PETE KILPATRICK BAND . Their "Coming Home" won a national fan-voting-based contest from insurance provider USAA this past week.
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Former Portlander, now New Yorker, RACHEL GRIFFIN is one of 25 artists on a new CD of BRUCE HORNSBY covers, available for free download at salivatecd.com .
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The HOUSE OF FIRE may have gone up in smoke, but JACOB AUGUSTINE has emerged unscathed.
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By some stretch of foul luck we missed last year's FREE RANGE MUSIC FESTIVAL , but we'd be consarned to let it happen again.
- Oud, la la
Okbari’s Amos Libby and Eric LaPerna have followed their debut release with a self-titled sophomore effort, to be released this weekend with a night of Middle Eastern music at SPACE.
- Wiggin' out
Suffice it to say, the remaining dates of the CLASH OF THE TITANS season have been moved to the Empire.
- Hoboe are a multi-trick pony
If you've heard of Hoboe, it's probably because of the gimmick.
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There are a few reasons not to get overly excited about the debut release from Nuclear Boots.
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BRZOWSKI , just back from a Euro tour with MOSHE , has some news to share upon his return.
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If there's one thing for certain, it's that no one will feel cheated by By Blood Alone.
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