Dubistan - Brooklyn Show

Saturday December 9th, 10pm

Return to Babylon - A Persian & Middle Eastern DUB Excursion

DUBistan a dub performance by the members of the Som’ma Dub Collective from San Francisco & DJ Haj (Freek Factory) www.sommamusic.com and www.dubistan.com

Brooklyn Lyceum
227 4th Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11213 866-gowanus
Subway: R to Union Street, Corner of President Street

Featuring:
Bassist extraordinaire: Mark Deutsch (www.bazantar.com)
Persian Percussionist & Strings: Shirzad Sharif (www.shirzadsharif.com)
DJ Haj www.myspace.com/freekusmaximus

After a highly successful tour of the west coast & headlining in San Francisco & Los Angeles at the largest Persian music festivals in the United States, members of the Som’ma Dub Collective will be offering a varied and truly multi-sensory evening of dubby Persian & Middle Eastern music when they return to the east coast and the Brooklyn Lyceum.

DUBistan will be performing on Saturday, December 9th at 10 pm
Address: 227 4th Ave, Brooklyn, NY, 11213 Phone: 866-gowanus
Subway: R to Union Street, Corner of President Street
About DUBistan & the Som’ma Dub Collective

Based in San Francisco, Som’ma is a truly unique collective of revolutionary musicians; while each musician of the ensemble has an extremely impressive biography, background & history of past achievements and accomplishments in the field of music, Som’ma as a collective has been performing nationally throughout the United States at venues & numerous prestigious festivals and events in front of thousands of people making them one of the most profound collectives of its sort performing within the national underground & mainstream circuits today.

Using the deep Persian & Middle Eastern classical Music Traditions to generate a musically rich tapestry, Som'ma Dub Collective members continue to explore the realms of electronic music, dub and the Persian dastgah, with an intelligence of spirit where the ancient and modern can converse. Traditional Persian instruments and digital technology meet at the crossroads of Sufism and the modern age.