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News: Festival

Lineage and Vision Festival 16: June 5-11

May 31, 2011

So much of our experience is increasingly place-less as franchise smiles crafted by human resources consultants greet us daily no matter what the biome or weight of memory. The fast food smile and store floor uniform must ever be the same. Crowd counts displace quality practices with childlike aspirations toward some eternal Superbowl as the only ...

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Article: Album Review

Taylor Ho Bynum & Spidermonkey Strings: Madeleine Dreams

Read "Madeleine Dreams" reviewed by Ivana Ng

by Ivana Ng
October 8, 2009

Madeleine Dreams is about as odd as the novel upon which it is based. Taylor Ho Bynum and SpiderMonkey Strings weave deftly through the magical realism of Madeleine is Sleeping, a novel written by Bynum's sister Sarah Shun-lien Bynum. Vocalist Kyoko Kitamura flows through the divide between dream and reality with grace. She ...

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Article: Interview

Harris Eisenstadt: From Mbalax to Canada Day

by Clifford Allen
October 5, 2009

Over the past decade, drummer, bandleader and composer Harris Eisenstadt has been a force in improvised music, active in both Los Angeles and New York (where he now resides). It's a testament to his creativity and energy that his ensembles have run the gamut from free-bop in the vein of post-Blue Note small groups, to orchestral ...

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News: Performance / Tour

OK|OK CD Release Concert (Free Event) @ Roulette (NYC)

September 12, 2008

Reflecting the current economic climate, but determined to have some fun, ok|ok is doing a FREE show assisted by none other than Benton-C on live visual performance, to celebrate ok|ok's first ever CD “EATING MANTIS" from RKM Music. This coming Thursday, September 18th, 2008 @ 8pm (1 set only) No Cover, No Minimum, FREE Roulette @ ...

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News: Recording

OK|OK's "Eating Mantis" Released Today

September 2, 2008

ok|ok's first CD Eating Mantis was released today from Ravi Coltrane's label RKM Music. ok|ok is Kyoko Kitamura (voice, laptop), Mike McGinnis (reeds), Khabu Doug Young (guitar), Tony Moreno (drums). Their animated music video “Hunt" was recently broadcast on THIRTEEN/WNET after winning the Reel 13 short film competition. ok|ok - Eating Mantis by Alex Henderson, All ...

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News: Award / Grant

OK|OK Wins Reel 13 Short Film Competition on Thirteen/WNET

August 23, 2008

ok|ok, the New York-based avant/experimental/pop group consisting of Kyoko Kitamura on voice, Michael McGinnis on clarinet/bass clarinet, Khabu Doug Young on guitar, and Tony Moreno on drums, along with collaborator and the Japanese animator duo PECKS, has just won the Reel 13 Short competition for this week for their animated music video “Hunt" hosted by THIRTEEN/WNET. ...