Piotr Orlov

Writer, Editor and Music Curator at Freelance

Writer at Dada Strain

Immigrant rants. Feel free to call me "Peter" Write/edit/produce/teach/#BLM: ex-@Afropunk RBMA @NPR @MTV // now @CliveDavisInst For all music see @dada_strain

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Bklyn Sounds 5/14/2025-5/20/2025

21 hours ago | dadastrain.substack.com | Piotr Orlov

For the second year running, producer/DJ Kieran Hebden, better known as Four Tet, is hosting a May weekender at the Under the K Bridge park in Greenpoint. And this year happens to coincide with my birthday, which inspired me to procure Dada Strain readers a discount code for both dates. If you’re interested, read on. Hebden is, to my mind’s eye, a rare dance-music lifer who simultaneously grew in popularity, and remained committed to creative and community values.
Bklyn Sounds 5/7/2025-5/13/2025

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

A reminder that on Wednesday (5/7) evening, Dada Strain is test-driving a new album-pre-release series, Social Listening, debuting History Dog’sRoot Systems, at Port Sa’id in Manhattan. History Dog is a coming together of four Bklyn-based, improvising smarties, Shara Lunon, Chris Williams, Luke Stewart and Lesley Mok, and the electrifying album they recorded (officially out Friday 5/9 on Otherly Love) is an unyielding musical response to our moment in time.
Bklyn Sounds 5/1/2025-5/6/2025

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

This weekend marks the fourth annual Long Play Festival, which shadows pretty much everything else happening in this week’s Bklyn Sounds. It was begun by the good folks of Bang on a Can as a kind of post-pandemic variant on its long-running marathon.
Dada Strain pres. 'Social Listening' | History Dog's 'Root Systems' @ Port Sa'id, May 7th

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

Dada Strain is beyond excited to launch a new-album, pre-release listening party series, Social Listening, with the public premiere of Root Systems, a debut album by the Bklyn super-group, History Dog. This first Social Listening event will take place at Port Sa’id, 88 King Street (bet. Varick & Hudson), Manhattan, on Wednesday, May 7th, starting at 7p. Dada Strain is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
Bklyn Sounds 4/24/2025-4/29/2025

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

A few quick things to tell you about before we get into this week’s listings. The first being some new, welcome “competition” in the NYC listings game. I learned about Cal.Red (aka Red Calendar) from mighty Jessica of the indispensable NYC Noise. Cal.Red is a site at the intersection of DIY culture and activism that describes itself thusly: “Red Calendar is an arts and action calendar that helps NYC gather without big tech middlemen.
Bklyn Sounds 4/17/2025-4/22/2025

3 weeks 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.
Bklyn Sounds 4/9/2025-4/15/2025

1 month 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.
Bklyn Sounds 4/2/2025-4/8/2025

1 month 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.
Bklyn Sounds 3/27/2025-4/1/2025

1 month 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.
SECRET SHOW: Reggie Watts @ Light & Sound Design Studio, Monday, March 24th

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.

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