Piotr Orlov

6 days ago | dadastrain.substack.com | Piotr Orlov

A special offer for Dada Strain readers, particularly those living in the northern parts of the city — or, gulp, Westchester and the upstate ‘burbs — who are into post-punk legends. A few days before playing an already-sold out Sony Hall on Thursday, April 24th, Gang of Four opens their “The Long Goodbye” tour with a special one-off gig to benefit the Westport (CT) Library on Friday, April 18th.

2 weeks ago | dadastrain.substack.com | Piotr Orlov

Arts for Art’s Free Dimension Wednesday weekly continues with a night curated by the New York-born and -raised saxophonist Alfredo Colón. For me, the attractions are a pair of duos: Alcove, Colon’s project with Hank Mason on electronics, and the Tomin Duo, wherein the great Bklyn reeds/horns/woodwinds player locks in with Chicago keyboardist (and his “right arm”) Teiana Davis. Also: keyboardist Jonathan Paik’s Trio with guitarist Kai Burns and drummer Max Nguyen.

3 weeks ago | dadastrain.substack.com | Piotr Orlov

Had a great radio show last Friday on The Lot Radio with Samantha Kochis, who came with the all-flute heat, both playing incredible flute records (shout-out James Newton and Nicole Mitchell), and playing live. Check it:Small listings mea culpa: You know you’re overwhelmed and distracted with work and deadlines when one of your favorite DJs is in town from Detroit to play one of your favorite DIY nights, and you forget to add it. Very much my bad Deon and Musicland.

4 weeks ago | dadastrain.substack.com | Piotr Orlov

Friday morning, March 28th, at 10a EST, Dada Strain Radio will be back on The Lot Radio, with special guest Samantha Kochis, an immensely talented flutist you have hopefully already seen around. Samantha will DJ some records and play some live music. Join us if you can. The proggy groove trio Beak> is best known as the post-Portishead project of that classic trip-hop band’s producer, Geoff Barrow.

1 month ago | dadastrain.substack.com | Piotr Orlov

Late last night I got a text from the mighty KG, who runs one of Dada Strain’s favorite DIY NYC music spaces, Light & Sound Design Studios (aka LSD Loft), somewhere in North Bklyn. The text said:Heya Piotr! Having a jam with Reggie Watts at the studio on Monday. Gonna be a special night I think. Only announced on the newsletter as an experiment…wanted t…Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Dada Strain to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.