Sweet performance the other night with Roshni Samlal and Kane Mathis at Brooklyn Raga Massive as a guest artist along with Utsav Lal. Roshni Samlal, in her duo project Orakel with Kane Mathis, brings together multiple, tangential musical circles, in an expansive project incorporating traditional and experimental works. The set will include both original and emblematic song forms of the West African jeli repertoire, classical Turkish oud (Kane Mathis), recontextualized tabla s

I don't play a ton of western classical gigs these days, but every now and then I get to do a special one. Playing with Juno Chamber Orchestra is one of those. Founded by my first ever cello teacher, Zon Eastes, this professional chamber orchestra out of Brattleboro, VT (my hometown!) always features contemporary music and a Haydn symphony on its programs. What could be better? This time around we played an orchestral version of a Phillip Glass string quartet and I had a