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Sun04Jun2023
Akie Bermiss • Kazemde George • Yotam Ben-Or June 4
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 suggested donation
akie bermiss is affable, near-sighted, hirsute, and a nerd of the highest water. nevertheless, he has also somehow managed to cultivate and live a double-life as cool and *very* hip musician. his favorite thing to do is write (and, subsequently, sing) songs about aliens and spaceships and falling in love.
Kazemde George is an African American jazz saxophonist, composer, and beat-maker based in Brooklyn who exhibits a gift for streamlined, emotionally direct melodies, articulated with a warm tone and a certain guiding restraint. Inspired in equal parts by the jazz canon and hip hop producers such as J Dilla, Madlib, Kaz has expanded his focus to a full spectrum of musical styles which blossomed from the African Diaspora, including Afro-Cuban, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Brazilian, and African-American traditions. As he sees it, the study of these musical styles serves as a way to regain cultural histories that were lost through the processes of African-American Slavery. Today, his focus is aligned towards music, but Kazemde is also a biologist at heart, and his quest to understand this wide breadth of styles is driven by an analytical mind with a scientific approach.
Israeli-Belgian harmonica player Yotam Ben-Or and Brazilian guitarist Leandro Pelegrino come together to create a unique set of original music as well as their personal takes on some of their favorite Brazilian and Jazz tunes. Ben-Or and Pelegrino have been steadily developing their reputation as some of the finest musicians on their instruments and as composers. They both moved to the US upon receiving full scholarships to study at Berklee and The New School. They performed at venues and festivals such as: Jazz at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Blue Note NYC, Montreux Jazz Festival, Festival da Jazz St. Moritz, and shared the stage with musicians such as: Dave Liebman, Danilo Perez, John Pattittuci, Terri Lyne Carrington, Eric Harland, Edmar Castañeda, and more.