January 2012
TriBeCaStan's New Album :: NEW DELI
NEW DELI iTunes Pre-Release
Though the worldwide release isn't until February 7, you can pre-order the new TriBeCaStan album NEW DELI now for only $8.99!
Pre-Order NEW DELI on iTunes
NEW DELI CD Release Party :: Friday, January 27 @ 7pm
Join TriBeCaStan at Joe's Pub in NYC for the official album release! They’ll have the full band together, too, complete with power horns, rocking bass lines, catchy vocal riffs, wicked solos, and an arsenal of exotic instruments from all over the world.
Tickets $20 - Including a FREE Album Download of NEW DELI!
Buy Tickets from Joe's Pub Online
June/July 2011
TriBeCaStan Tours Russia
June 23
TriBeCaStan duo plays by invitation at the opening of the 7th Congress of the International Jew's Harp Society in Yakutsk, the Capital of Sakha Republic, Siberia, Russia.
June 24
TriBeCaStan duo participates in the new Guinness World Record for largest number
of Jew's harp players ever assembled playing a common song—1,344 if memory serves. TriBeCaStan trio (including Dierdre Morgan) performs at the Yakutsk
Diamond Circus, and later that evening at the Yakutsk State Opera House.
June 25
TriBeCaStan participates in the opening ceremony for the Ysyakh Festival (approximately 10,000 people attending), and later plays as a trio with Johnny Cope
of England on one
of the performance stages at the festival.
June 30
TriBeCaStan plays out of St. Petersburg as part of the Alternative White Nights
Festival, and later plays a private house concert in the Byrdinskya Art Space.
June 31
Jeff Greene discovers that he and TriBeCaStan are both part of the permanent
exhibits at the Khomus Jew's Harp Museum in Yakutsk. Who knew?
July 1
TriBeCaStan plays the Club Perla in Riga, Latvia along with Matiss Akuraters on
tablas and Raimonds Gusarevs on guitar.
July 2
TriBeCaStan plays along with the same line-up the Riga Riverfront Festival.
Saturday, March 12, 2010
The Auspicious Return of...
TriBeCaStan & The TriBeCaStani FolklOrkestra
Live @ Joe's Pub NYC
Saturday, March 12 @ 7:30pm
TriBeCaStan & The TriBeCaStani FolklOrkestra
Live at Joe's Pub NYC
425 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10003
Doors @ 7pm
Tickets $15 advance / $18 at the door
http://www.joespub.com
Featuring the sparkling sounds of John Kruth (mandolin, mandocello, banjo, flutes, harmonica) and Jeff Greene (yayli tambor, Afghani rebab, marimba, Jew's harp, charango, kanun, overtone flutes), as well as:
Claire Daly (Diva Big Band, James Brown): baritone sax
Matt Darriau (The Klezmatics, Ballin' The Jack): clarinet, alto sax, kaval
Dave Dreiwitz (Ween): bass
Peter Grant (Diva Big Band): drums
Scott Metzger (Particle, Rana): guitar
Chris Morrow (Kokolo Afrobeat Orchestra): trombone
John Turner (Baraka Orchestra, Ivy): trumpet
Advance tickets ($15) are on sale here:
http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40/id,5125
Or call (212) 967-7555.
For those of you aren't familiar with Joe's Pub, they accept and recommend reservations for all shows. Call (212) 539-8778 to request a reservation. For more information, visit http://www.joespub.com/content/view/14/28/.
January 11 , 2011
Jeff Greene Article in DooBeDooBeDoo
Jeff Greene captures the essence of the Azerbaijan psyche: the Azeri Mugham!
Text and photos by Jeff Greene
The city of Baku, the capitol of Azerbaijan, located below the Caucasus Mountains on the edge of the Caspian Sea, is a fascinating blend of east and west, old and new. In the late 1800s, numerous “oil barons’ mansions” were built alongside the existing ancient Islamic walled city in a strange mixture of architectural styles that mixed European classical, Art Nouveau with Persian eclecticism. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union 20 years ago, Baku has experienced another oil-fueled building boom of modern skyscrapers. But nothing seems to capture the essence of the Azerbaijan psyche the way that traditional Mugham music does.
Click here to read the rest of the article.
JANUARY 7, 2011
TriBeCaStan Live
APAP Reception
Friday, January 7 @ 5:30-8:00pm
TriBeCaStan Live at the TriBeCaStan Embassy
45 Crosby Street
New York, NY
Rock Paper Scissors and the SoHo embassy of the provisional government of TriBeCaStan will host a reception for APAP presenters and booking agents (and friends). The TriBeCaStani Minister of Palaver (sic) has secured a loft and promises
a lavish spread of complementary food and drink. This is going to be one of those
once . . . uh . . . twice in a lifetime events where the locale, vibe, and company are just right. Displaying the indigenous cultural . . . the splendor of TriBeCastan will be the Non-Wounded TriBeCaStani FolkLorKestra. You don’t want to miss it. In keeping with TriBeCaStani custom, please—NO leather pants.
INVITATION ONLY. SPACE LIMITED to early RSVPers. RSVP Here.
DECEMBER 4 , 2010
Jeff Greene Article in DooBeDooBeDoo
The Uighur Dolan Maqam called the Chinese Desert Jazz!
Text and photos by Jeff Greene
Late last year, there was an article on the front page of The NY Times about the planned demolition of large sections of the ancient silk road city, Kashgar, in western China. I decided I should go before it was gone. An Uzbek friend had invited me to his arranged wedding in Samarkand, and I figured that was all the excuse I needed to go
to Central Asia.
Click here to read the rest of the article.
SEPTEMBER 18, 2010
TriBeCaStan Live In Hungary
The 6th International Jew's Harp Festival
Kecskemét, Hungary
Saturday, September 18 @ 8:30pm
Live at Kecskemét Youth Centre
H-6000, Kecskemét, Kossuth tér 4.
HUNGARY
Tickets 1500 HUF for one-day tickets / 3000 HUF for three-day tickets
http://www.doromb.com
AUGUST 14, 2010
TriBeCaStan Interview in DooBeDooBeDoo Magazine
TriBeCaStan talks with Jim Hoey about their latest record, 5 Star Cave, and asks the
age-old question: ". . . Are the Sex Pistols not folk music?"
Read the full interview HERE.
JUNE 19, 2010
Port O'Monkeys :: Live at Starving Artist Cafe & Gallery
Saturday, June 19 @ 8pm
Port O'Monkeys
Live at the Starving Artist Cafe
249 City Island Avenue
City Island (the Bronx), NY
http://www.starvingartistonline.com
Free show! Email for reservations.
MAY 11, 2010
Quraishi Hits the Charts on eMusic and Amazon
Quraishi's album Pure and True Rubab hit #1 on eMusic's International/Middle East charts today, as well as #84 on Amazon's World Music/Middle East album charts. Together with iTunes, Amazon and eMusic are the two largest online music retailers in the world.
APRIL 19, 2010
5 Star Cave CD Pre-Release Sale Begins TODAY!
Pick up your advance copy of TriBeCaStan’s new album 5 Star Cave—one full week before its worldwide release on April 27!
The 18 tracks on their latest album orchestrate a delicate balance between chaos and peace as they continue their relentless quest to re-imagine the folk music of the world. This time around, TriBeCaStan welcomes another outstanding cast of tune smugglers and artistic immigrants to the nation, including veteran jazzman Steve Turre (The SNL Band), Al Kooper (Blood Sweat and Tears), Ibrahim González, Todd Isler, Badal Roy (Miles Davis), Samantha Parton (The Be Good Tanyas), Kenny Margolis (Cracker), Mike DuClos, Charlie Burnham (James “Blood” Ulmer’s Odyssey), Dean Bowman (John Scofield’s Ray Charles Review), Hara Garacci, and Gordana Evacic.Visit TriBeCaStan's Discography today to pick up your signed and numbered copy for the special pre-release price of just $12.99 (including S&H).
APRIL 13 , 2010
TriBeCaStan & The TriBeCaStani FolklOrkestra
5 Star Cave CD Release Show
May 8 @ Joe's Pub NYC
Saturday, May 8 @ 8:30pm
TriBeCaStan & The TriBeCaStani FolklOrkestra
Live at Joe's Pub NYC
425 Lafayette Street
New York, NY 10003
Doors @ 8pm
Tickets $15 advance / $18 at the door
http://www.joespub.com
A stellar cast joins John Kruth and Jeff Greene on stage for this special 5 Star Cave CD release show, including:
Claire Daly (Diva Big Band, James Brown): baritone sax
Dave Dreiwitz (Ween): bass
Todd Isler (Mike Gordon Band): drums, percussion
Kenny Margolis (Cracker): accordion, keyboards
Scott Metzger (Particle, Rana): guitar
Ibrahim González (Nuyorican Jazz Experience): congas, bongos, percussion
John Turner (Baraka Orchestra, Ivy): trumpet
Advance tickets ($15) are on sale here:
http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40/id,5125
Or call (212) 967-7555.
For those of you aren't familiar with Joe's Pub, they accept and recommend reservations for all shows. Call (212) 539-8778 to request a reservation. For more information, visit http://www.joespub.com/content/view/14/28/.
MARCH 22, 2010
Jeff Greene Performs at the Toronto Storytelling Festival
Friday, March 26 @ 7pm-9:30pm
As part of the Toronto Festival of Storytelling this Friday night, Jeff Greene will be performing on multiple percussions instruments as Diane Wolkstein tells the epic story, "The Monkey King."
Tickets are $15 and $20. Click here for more info.
"'Monkey King' is an epic, full of drama and magic, but it is also a hugely entertaining story. Diane Wolkstein does not just tell the story: she channels the main figures, becomes the Monkey King and the priest to a startling degree: one could describe them as if one had actually seen them. Drama is blended with comic episodes as this sumptuous story fill the stage. Without digital images, or projector, or any of the usual trappings, the audience is offered the most vivid reality, and time passes with amazing speed. The result is a rich and satisfying evening..."
—Olivier Bernier, Lecturer, Metropolitan Museum of Art
JANUARY 22, 2010
Quraishi featured on Mondomix Music
Quraishi's Pure and True Rubab is featured as this week's Discovery from Asia on Mondomix Music.com, a National Geographic-affiliated world music site based in Paris. Read the full article here.
JANUARY 15, 2010
TriBeCaStan featured on Mondomix Music
TriBeCaStan's Strange Cousin is featured as this week's Discovery from the
Americas on Mondomix Music.com, a National Geographic-affiliated world music
site based in Paris. Read the full article here.
JANUARY 11, 2010
TriBeCaStan to release new album 5 Star Cave in April 2010
TriBeCaStan's latest effort, 5 Star Cave, is set to release on April 13, 2010. Like the previous album Strange Cousin, this collection of songs sees Greene and Kruth continuing their relentless quest to re-imagine the folk music of the world, with an
all-star cast of musicians including veteran jazz trombonist Steve Turre, Blood
Sweat and Tears founder Al Kooper, jazz tabla player Badal Roy, Samantha
Parton of the Be Good Tanyas, Kenny Margolis of Cracker, bass player Mike
DuClos, violinist Charlie Burnham, Sufi percussionist Ibrahim Gonzalez, drummer/percussionist Todd Isler, vocalist Dean Bowman, gypsy guitarist Hara
Garacci, and champion cimbalom player Gordana Evacic.
Read the press release for 5 Star Cave at Rock Paper Scissors.
Stay tuned for more information about this exciting release.
JANUARY 1, 2010
TriBeCaStan :: Live on WBAI 99.5 FM NYC
In case you were sleeping through it all, which I hope you had enough good sense to, here is our "shamanic alarm clock" wake-up call for the New Year, in all it's ragged glory. We talked, played a couple “strange” instruments, and previewed songs from our soon-to-be released second album, 5 Star Cave.
New Year’s Day WBAI 99.5 FM at 7am
Jeff Greene—Jew's harp nyckleharpa, and Chinese flute
John Kruth—mandolin, penny whistle, and Andalusian shepherd flutes
Ibrahim Gonzalez—halo
AUGUST 27, 2009
Strange Cousin Reviewed in Huffington Post
Ian Merkel of Modiba, a social-activist international music company based in New York City, wrote a wonderful article, "TriBeCaStan In Manhattan Unleashes Uzbek Lutes, Pakistani Taxi Horns, And Six Foot Shepherd's Pipes," for the Huffington Post.
"Welcome to TriBeCaStan, a country without borders tucked away in a corner of downtown Manhattan.
"Trying to describe TriBeCaStan's music or relegating it to a genre would be incredibly difficult, and, as the artists would contend, futile. Greene commonly describes it as intergalactic, but not so much in the Sun Ra extraterrestrial kind of way. This music is really about the cross-fertilization of musical idioms that Kruth and Greene have been exposed to in their travels, and the ways in which these idioms allow them to express the diversity that surrounds them in their very own New York. Some have asked why they play 'peasant music in an affluent zip code,' and their music has responded with the idea that homogeny is neither representative for our present nor characteristic of a progressive future."
Read the full article HERE.
JUNE 30, 2009
TriBeCaStan's Strange Cousin Featured on WNYC
"Raphaella," "Sunda Sunday," and "The Bottle Man" were played on today's edition of WNYC's New Sounds show, hosted by Jon Schaeffer.
You can read more about the show and stream the entire program HERE.
JANUARY 2009
Port O' Monkeys Releases The Crossing
EverGreene Music is proud to announce the release of Port O' Monkeys' first album,
The Crossing.
THE CROSSING (2009)
Album available online at:
Visit Port O' Monkeys's artist page for more album information.
NOVEMBER 2008
TriBeCaStan to Release Strange Cousin
EverGreene Music is proud to announce the upcoming release of TriBeCaStan's first album, Strange Cousin. In addition to regulars Jeff Greene and John Kruth playing dozens of instruments between them, the album features a stellar cast of performers, including Ween bassist Dave Dreiwitz, Matt Darriau of the Klezmatics, Moroccan percussionist Brahim Fribgane, alt-country star Jolie Holland, and jazz trombonist Steve Turre.Album available online January 24, 2009 at:
Visit TriBecStan's artist page for more album information.
OCTOBER 2008
EverGreene Music Selected for WOMEX 2008
EverGreene Music is excited and proud to be attending the 2008 World Music Expo (WOMEX) in Sevilla, Andalusia, Spain later this month. Drop us a line if you are going to be there! For more information, visit the WOMEX website at www.womex.com.
DECEMBER 2007
Music of Quraishi Featured in The Kite Runner
Quraishi's beautiful music from Pure & True Rubab was featured in the DreamWorks/Paramount Vantage movie adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's novel The Kite Runner. The film has been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards (Best Foreign Language Film, Best Original Score) and an Academy Award (Best Original Score).
Visit Quraishi's artist page for more album information.
Jeff Greene grew up listening to music, from the blues in his boyhood Chicago to the eastern modal music he encountered hitchhiking across the Sahara Desert as a teenager. When a project in Nashville led him to rediscover American roots music, he dug a little deeper and traced it back to its Celtic traditions, which in turn led to a whole world of folk music from all over Europe—back through the Balkans and Klezmer music, back to the Ottoman Empire and beyond, to Persia and the Indian subcontinent . . . and
back again to jazz, that uniquely American musical invention.
As this curiosity grew into an insatiable pursuit, Jeff started EverGreene Music as a
way for each of us to explore our heritage and celebrate each of these diverse
musical influences. One lifetime is simply too short to explore them all. An open mind
is all that’s required.
EverGreene Music
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jeff@evergreenemusic.com
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