Special Broadcast: No-Land Bands

Sunday, September 17, 2017 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Regular Raag Aur Taal programing is preempted for a live performance and interview with art collective No-Land Bands, presenting "Exodus." From the group's webpage, "Exodus is a different kind of a narration of the fate of those whose threads of existence were ripped apart in the Syrian war. It is an attempt to sense the various absences that the war has marked on the souls of Syrians. In this performance, music aligns itself with words in order to reflect a small part of their stories."

Join us for the multi-part performance and reading of Exodus, with conversations amongst the musicians and video artists following. The members of No-Land Bands are as follows:

Narration by Lisa Flanagan
Text Selection by Setareh Shohadaee

Performers:
Nima Farzaneh on Accordion
Kaveh Haghtalab on Drums
Niloufar Nourbakhsh on Piano
Hamidreza Maleki on Santour
Tomchess on Oud and Ney
Abraham Faure Mennen on Saxophone
Tommy Mangfong Wu on Double Bass

Visual Artist: Farideh Sakhaiefar
Creative Director: Nima Farzaneh