Sita Chay & Satoshi Takeishi's Transmitted:

The duo of violinist Sita Chay of South Korea and percussionist Satoshi Takeishi of Japan, both now based in NYC, frequently perform together as part of Shoko Nagai’s trio Tokala. Their duo Transmitted is musical exploration rooted in Korean shaman traditions and the lineage of East Asian court music, collectively created in the moment.

Sita Chay is a violinist, composer, and a music director who won a 2017 Latin Grammy Award for Best Mariachi Album, as violinist of the Flor de Toloache. She is an awardee of NYFA Women's Fund, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, New Music USA’s Creator Development Fund, LMCC Grant, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and and has had residencies at the Stone, Joe’s Pub, and the Cell Theatre. She is the director and a founder of the Korean Shaman Music Ritual, SaaWee, which was received by international critics as a “delicate powerhouse”. For SaaWee, she has interwoven her theatrical experiences from Broadway shows, folkloric spirituality from Korean shaman rituals, and contemporary music flare from New York jazz scenes. Her leadership as a director of Cosmopolis Collective -Immigrant Story Telling Band was featured in New York Times immigrant panel and other media.

Whether behind a drum set, a hybrid percussion set or computer-based electronics, “connecting the contrasting elements beyond genre in quest of the essence" is what Japanese-born musician/improviser Satoshi Takeishi strives for in his performances. After attending Berklee College of Music, he has lived in Colombia, South America and Miami, Florida before arriving in NYC in 1991. He has performed and recorded in a vast variety of genres, executing in styles of jazz, rock, contemporary classical, avant-garde, experimental electronic, and world music. Takeishi received a Grammy award 2015 with Paul Winter Consort and "Rising Star of 2019" Jazz critical poll as a percussionist and continues to move among a wide range of musical environments and constantly strives for an integration of his diverse musical experience and knowledge.

Fursaxa

After playing in bands like UN with Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards), Tara Burke began her solo project Fursaxa at the turn of the century. Taking a page out of Philadelphia's Ambient Consortium and the Bardo Pond school of acid-folk space exploration, Fursaxa also brings to mind elements of religious music, from church choirs to raga drones. Burke employs guitar, casio, Farfisa organ, accordion, dulcimer, effected vocals, drums, bells, flutes, and the kitchen sink without ever losing her otherworldly focus. (-via Jason Sigal at WFMU's Beware of the Blog)

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Please note, entrance is via the side door on Arizona Street.