Tribecastan are playing two sets on Wednesday May 1st at 8PM and 10PM at Washington D.C.’s legendary club, Twins Jazz. Not only has this iconic venue been named one of the “Top 100 Jazz Clubs in the World,” but its restaurant also serves delicious Ethiopian food all evening long. Please share this event with your friends, get your tickets early, and we hope to see you in DC!

Tickets are $10.

Tickets for the 8PM show are here: http://tinyurl.com/apqg6lv
Tickets for the 10PM show are here: http://tinyurl.com/a5ssut5

RELIX writes: “TriBeCaStan plays a jazzy, global folk hybrid inspired by New York City’s cross-pollinating musical and cultural community. They blend free jazz, Afghani rhythms, boogie-woogie and Balkan wedding music with an effortless grace that’s always musical and often danceable.”

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Not too long ago TriBeCaStan shared the bill with Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth and John Zorn for the “Save the Village” benefit at Poisson Rouge. The New York Times, who called us a “genre-bending jazz and world-music outfit” shot this video of us playing “Blister in the Sun” with former Violent Femmes singer, Gordeon Gano. Good times! Click here to read the full post.

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John Kruth shows off a green zither from Mumbai. Nicknamed “The Green Machine” by the band—and looking a bit like a cross between a guitar, a button accordion, and a piano—this puppy produces some serious sound! CLEARLY, this is what the next Van Halen tour needs.

TriBeCaStan - NEW DELI

This is an exciting day! After much hard work, love, and mischievous world-domination plans, our third album, New Deli, is officially available world-wide!

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It’s TriBeCaStan’s most adventurous and danceable record to date, with The Village Voice calling it a mixture of “New York cool, explorer energy, and outer space vibes” and Time Out Magazine calling it “a crowded caravansary alive with music to feed the hungry soul.” Please take a moment to check out New Deli. All of us here hope you enjoy listening to it, as much as we loved creating it!

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Thanks for being part of this great ride!

With our very best wishes and gratitude,
- Jeff & John

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In this excerpt from a live concert video shot by Anthony Pepitone, TriBeCaStan play “Daddy Barracuda” at Joe’s Pub in New York City on March 12th, 2011.

When? January 27th, 7-9 PM
Where? Joe’s Pub, New York
What else? $20 cover includes a free album download of “New Deli!” Click here to get your tickets online!

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We’ll have the full band together, too, complete with power horns, rocking bass lines, catchy vocal riffs, wicked solos, and our arsenal of exotic instruments from all over the world. Make sure you join us for a great night together… you’re going to be in for a real treat!

All portrait shots by the amazing photographers, Paul Hoelen & Mandarine Montgomery

John Kruth – penny whistle, sitar, mandocello, vocal; Jeff Greene – yayli tambor, sarod, morsing (Jews harp), vocal; Todd Isler -Pakistani gaval, uduboo, lap drum, bells, drum kit; Chris Morrow – trombone, vocal

Produced by John Kruth & Jeff Greene; Recorded at Park West Studio, Brooklyn, November 2011; Engineered by Jim Clouse; Arrangement by John Kruth/Sonic Kruth/BMI 2011; Video by Erik Spink

“Strap on your sense of humor now or go home. A grand bunch of musical jokers, comprising some of the heavy duty jazz and world cats in New York, launch into another journey through a cosmos of their own making, as they serve a kaleidoscopic run through a world of jazz fusion. The kind of stuff many attempt, but where few succeed, this is sophisticated listening that borrows as much from Raymond Scott as it does Hossam Ramzy. It’s a musical literacy that hip tastes hunger for. Fun stuff for the open-eared looking for something they won’t find on ‘X Factor’”. (Midwest Record)

Uzbeki musicians play the song “Tanovar” in their instrument store in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

Uyghur dolan muqam with dancing in the village of Makit, Xinjiang, China.

Saddadin Gulov playing the tambor at the Shashmaqam Music Conservatory in Bukhara, Uzbekistan.

The following is a student recital of Mugham music, performed for us at the Youth Conservatory in Baku, Azerbaijan, July 2010. The female singer, a 17-year old refugee, is singing about her lost homeland in Nagorno, Karabakh.

Mugam also known as Azerbaijani Mugham (Azerbaijani: Muğam) is one of the many styles of folk musics from Azerbaijan. Mugam draws on Iranian-Arabic-Turkish Maqam. It is a highly complex art form that weds classical poetry and musical improvisation in specific local modes.

Spontaneous singing at a barbecue in Sighnaghi, Georgia. Schmagi Pirtskhelani on Panduri with his 3 year old son on Dholi, and his wife and brother, Shergil, singing.

This video was shot by Jeff during one of his musical research adventures to Georgia.

Uzbeki musicians performing a traditional song from Uzbekistan in their home in Bukhara. Jeff filmed this clip on his musical research adventure to Uzbekistan.

In this video Tribecastan’s Jeff Green talks about and plays the Ravanhattha, a folk instrument from Rajasthan, India. For more music and info, please visit us on the web at www.tribecastan.tv

The Rawanhatta consists of half a coconut shell resonator covered with membrane, bound to it with the help of cotton cords, a two feet long bamboo stick fixed to the resonator with two main strings, one of horse tail and other of steel. In addition to these are sympathetic steel strings varying between three to thirteen, passing over a bridge and than directly to the wooden pegs fixed to the sides of the stick. It is played with a curved bow of horse tail hair drawn across the strings with rhythmic jerks, the small brass bells attached to it providing the jingling stress on the beats. It is held by the left hand, the resonator resting on the left side of the chest. The dexterity lies in playing each successive note, which is clear, detached and synchronizing with singing, changing the rhythm and displacing the normal beats and accents, whenever it is required, depending upon the musical situation.

It is used by religious singers called Bhopa to accompany the epic tales of Pabuji, a fourteenth century hero. The instrument itself is made by these tribal people.

In 2010, Jeff travelled to Eastern Turkistan (Xinjiang) in search of the Dolan Muqam and brought home this gorgeous instrument. The word tambur comes from the Arabic ‘tunbur’, and it is widely believed that this comes from the Sumerian word ‘pantur’, a semispherical stringed instrument with a long stem.

The Uyghur are a Turkic ethnic group living in Eastern and Central Asia. Today, Uyghurs live primarily in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People’s Republic of China.

“Kabul Hill” is a traditional Afghan melody, arranged by John Kruth & Jeff Greene. It was released on our album, 5 Star Cave. Film clips were sourced from the silent film, “Grass: A Nation’s Battle For Life” (1925). Editing by Erik Spink (www.erikspink.com).

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Photo by Paul Hoelen & Mandarine Montgomery

In this video Tribecastan’s Jeff Greene introduces the Gongo, a variation on an African mouth bow, built by Jerome Desigaud. To watch Jerome play it in concert visit http://youtu.be/Ogzyam_yT_k