FSN Presents features a diverse curation of artists from Found Sound Nation’s global network. The series is rooted in FSN’s ethos that encourages the diminishing of boundaries in music-making and music-listening — be they ethnic, cultural, or stylistic. Each concert features an FSN-curated artist who, in turn, invites a guest to share the bill. Each performer will offer an intimate 20-30 min salon style set, inviting audiences to experience a unique, intimate offering of sound and story.

Composer, trumpeter, santur player, and vocalist Amir ElSaffar has been described as “uniquely poised to reconcile jazz and Arabic music,” (the Wire) and “one of the most promising figures in jazz today” (Chicago Tribune).
ElSaffar is an expert trumpeter with a classical background, conversant not only in the language of contemporary jazz, but has created techniques to play microtones and ornaments idiomatic to Arabic music that are not typically heard on the trumpet. Additionally, he is a purveyor of the centuries old, now endangered, Iraqi maqam tradition, which he performs actively as a vocalist and santur player. As a composer, ElSaffar has used the subtle microtones found in Iraqi maqam music to create an innovative approach to harmony and melody, and has received commissions to compose for large and small jazz ensembles, traditional Middle Eastern ensembles, chamber orchestras, string quartets, and contemporary music ensembles, as well as dance troupes.

Shahzad Ismaily is a Brooklyn-based Pakistani-American multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer known for his extensive work in creative music. Primarily self-taught as a musician, composer, recording engineer, and producer, Shahzad plays electric bass, drums, percussion, guitar, synthesizers, and all manner of sound-makers procured in life's travels. Shahzad is currently based in Brooklyn and works out of the recording studio collective he founded and created, Figure 8 Studios.

4pm
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FSN presents: AMIR ELSAFFAR and SHAHZAD ISMAILY

FSN presents: AMIR ELSAFFAR and SHAHZAD ISMAILY