Events Calendar

Shahzad Ismaily is a Brooklyn-based musician, composer, engineer, and founder of Figure 8 Recording. The New York Times called him “one of music’s most in-demand collaborators, flitting like a mischievous butterfly through genres as diverse as honeyed folk, rambunctious free jazz and spectral meditations sung in Urdu”. Over the last thirty years he’s played electric bass, drums, percussion, guitar, synths and all manner of instruments procured in life’s travels. He’s done work for dance and theatre, and recorded and performed with a diverse crew of artmakers, including Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Laura Veirs, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Marianne Faithfull, Faun Fables, Feist, Bryce Dessner, Keiji Haino, Ceramic Dog, Secret Chiefs 3, Sam Amidon, Arooj Aftab, Vijay Iyer and more.

Moderated by scholar, composer and vocalist Julia Úlehla, known for her stunning synthesis of ethnomusicology and incandescent modern composition in the long-running Dálava. That ensemble, performing June 29 at Revue Stage, explores the nexus of ritual and performance, evoking the liminal intensity of layered temporalities and ancestral presences.

In association with Western Front.