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Artvoice Weekly Edition » Issue v5n42 (10/19/2006) » Section: Calendar Spotlight


Sabir Mateen

The trio Time and Motion have been playing together on and off since 1999. Sabir Mateen, composer of most of the music, is a multi-instrumentalist who has been performing since the mid 1970’s. Although he had been playing for well over a decade, he wasn’t recognized until the early 1990s, when he moved to NYC and joined the band Test with fellow bassist Matthew Heyner. Since then, the two have recorded numerous times with various drummers, including, drummer/percussionist Ben Karetnick who eventually became the third member of Time and Motion. They last played in Hallwalls’ Black ‘n’ Blue Theatre at Tri-Main Center in 2003. This Friday (Oct. 20) marks the group’s first visit to Hallwalls’ new space at The Church. Show starts at 8pm.



Jason Forrest

An idiosyncratic Berlin-based label dedicated to art-damaged beats, danceable plunderphonics and spastic new-wave melodies, Cock Rock Disco knows how to have fun while getting down to the serious business of shifting musical paradigms. Representing the collective at Soundlab this Friday (Oct. 20) is label founder and impish sonic troublemaker Jason Forrest (who has reworked his insane sonic collages for full band presentation), and cracked new-wave outfit About, whose melodic playfulness belies its jagged rhythms and fuzzed out electronic noise. Joining them is Buffalo electro-punk Mark Webb, whose high-energy beat-anthems never fail to entertain. Show starts at 9pm.



This Is Not an Art Show

“This is Not an Art Show” premieres at Club Diablo this Friday (Oct. 20), beginning at 8pm. An exhibition of photography by local artists Luke Copping (whose work is pictured left) and Ron Douglas, “This is Not an Art Show” actually is an art show, but with a multi-media aspect that includes appearances by some of the models who posed for the pictures and music by DJ Arka Tek and DJ Old Skool. This event is designed to showcase the art community in Buffalo at its unpretentious best, with no cover charge, a real party atmosphere and prizes including the chance to win portrait sessions with the artists. “This is Not an Art Show” is expected to go all night.



Absolutely Sinatra

For those who are prone to nostalgia for the “good old days” or who simply never got a chance to hear Frank Sinatra sing, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of John Edward Liddle, teams up with Rick Sonata to play musical homage to Old Blue Eyes with a performance entitled "Absolutely Sinatra." Sonata, who has opened for Tony Bennett and Wayne Newton and was even characterized by Nancy Sinatra as “a dead ringer for dad,” is convincing both in physical resemblance and vocal likeness, so this event is sure to send the audience back to the days of the Rat Pack. The show starts at 8 pm on Friday (Oct. 20) at Kleinhan’s Music Hall.



Tennessee's Glossary

Tennessee's Glossary is finally making a Buffalo debut and it's about time. After its first pair of albums, the band altered its lineup and shifted from a raucous, warts and all indie outfit to something sounding like Phil Spector and Neil Young making records with Whiskeytown. The resultin How We Handle Our Midnights (Undertow) is a slept on masterpiece waiting to be discovered with Joey Kneiser’s beautifully weary voice and tales of small town hijinx, hookups and emotional dead ends. It's a tough record to live up to but Glossary somehow managed to do so with this year’s For What I Don’t Become for the same kind of stories and beautifully crafted rock and roll noise. WNY music aficionados are likely familiar with the Ohio band Two Cow Garage by now. Two Cow, for the unindoctrinated, is a blistering trio that puts together Haggard, Skynyrd, The Ramones and Dinosaur Jr for a punk-imbibed, country kissed brand of rock and roll that is unmatched. Catch it at Mohawk Place Saturday (Oct. 21), 9pm



Yarah Bravo

In the rareified world of feminine Hip-Hop, Brazilian/Chilean MC Yarah Bravo is the exception that could change the rules. Neither a sex kitten wannabe nor a puppet pawn for a behind the scenes producer, Yarah displays defiant intelligence, acute political awareness and a world-traveler’s sense of cosmic consciousness while exuding the streetwise cool of the neighborhood girl we all secretly love. As a member of London's underground supergroup One Self, Yarah slides effortlessly between soulful, jazz-inflected lines and determined rhymes while long-time partner and world-renowned beatsmith DJ Vadim lays down funky, hard-edged grooves and MC Blue Rum 13 fills out the sound with laidback raps. Ninja Tune’s One Self drops at Soundlab, along with Soul Rebel and Mr Invisible, for a multi-cultural Hip-Hop party Thursday (Oct. 26) at 9pm.





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