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SUN
JUL
FUNCTION: A Festival Devoted to
31 South Asian Music in the US and
UK
Film Screening of Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music,
Filmmaker/Professor (MIT) Vivek Bald in Conversation
with Himanshu Suri, Kevin Lyttle Roti (Heems + Rafiq
Bhatia + Kassa Overall), Riz MC, The Kominas, DJ Rekha,
Anik Khan, Humeysha, Arooj Aftab, Awaaz Do, DJ
Grumby

Baby's All Right (/venue/10533-babys-all-right/) (http://maps.google.com/maps?

daddr=146%20Broadway%2011211)
146 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY, 11211

(-73.963534) (40.710000)
2:00 PM (event ends at 10:00 PM)
This event is 18 and over
The Kominas

Sponsored by SUNDAYS/cool, an intimate concert series featuring musicians from Muslim-ish

backgrounds (only semi-seriously known as "Mipsterz"). Watch the debut episode with the
Kominas singing "Eid Mubarak" from their latest album Stereotype.
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"Sound: Vintage-style punk mixed in with surf, psychedelia and classic South-Asian and
Middle-Eastern rock.

Why You Should Care: The Kominas exist in part to challenge peoples underlying assumptions
about what punk, indie or any of these descriptors mean. Some consider them leaders of
so-called Tacqwacore punk movement, but labels like that dont get at the variety in their
music.These four South Asian-American, mostly Muslim men specialize in punchy, riff-heavy
rock and their lyrics address the experiences of people of color and Muslims in America. (They
say at least one group member is on a government watch list.) They also grapple with racist
rock fans, a tokenizing music press and an underground that seems uninterested in politically
aware groups of color.

The quartets latest album, Stereotype, is a raucous collection of 10 songs about

Islamophobia, racism, American paranoia, non-representation, andlike all great rock bands
fun times with friends. It's a mix of staticky guitars, subtly intricate bass lines and
bombastic drums that reinvent garage rock as something ripe for experimentation and
reclamation by artists of color."

DJ Rekha

DJ Rekha is a producer, curator and educator based in New York City. She is the founder of the
Basement Bhangra, Bollywood Disco and co-founder of Mutiny Club nights. She was named
"Ambassador of Bhangra" by the New York Times. Rekha and her frequent cocollaborator,
Dave Sharma, performed their compositions at Chicago Symphony Hall for the Sinfonetta this
year. Rekha was the sound designer for the TONY award-winning Broadway Show, "Bridge and
Tunnel", received a Drama Desk Award nomination for her work on the play "Rafta Rafta"and
the associate producer for the NPR Radio Documentary, "A Feet in Two Worlds." Her debut
album, DJ Rekha presents Basement Bhangra was released in 2007. In 2009, DJ Rekha was
inducted into the New York City's Peoples Hall of Fame. Her record label Beat Bazaar Music
issued its debut single release, Pyar Baile worldwide in Nov. 2011. She has curated events for
Celebrate Brooklyn, Central Park Summerstage and has performed internationally. DJ Rekha
was a Grand Marshall of the 9th Annual NYC Dance Parade in 2015. You can see her perform
live the first Thursdays at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City and hear her weekly podcast
Bhangra and Beyond on www.breakthruradio.com.

Anik Khan

Born in Dhaka, Anik Khan immigrated to the United States with his family at an early age and
settled in Queens, NY where he describes his low-income building as a true melting pot of
different ethnicities sharing the same daily struggles. Despite his neighborhood's rough
exterior, he found beauty and inspiration in the spirited hustle in his neighbors. Today, his
music reflects the cultures that surrounded him throughout his upbringing.

He raps from a first generation perspective but speaks to a worldwide audiencea true
representation of hip-hop's universal appeal. Khan's sound innovates hip-hop fundamentals
with worldly influences. This unique blend of hip-hop has gained Khan fans across the
eastern seaboardfrom his native New York City to Florida. Now with his latest release, Anik
Khan is ready to bring a new experience to hip-hop listeners everywhere.

Anik Khan truly believes that culture is the most divine form of education and, through his
music, he plans on schooling a new generation.

Humeysha

Written and conceived in India, Humeysha channels diverse influences, echoing sounds from
New York to New Delhi. The multilingual self-titled debut evokes a wayfarer's meditative
travels through heritage and homeland. Recorded and produced in NYC by Zain Alam and
Dylan Bostick, the project comes to life with the addition of Adrien DeFontaine and John
Snyder.

"Humeysha melts modal guitars and puja bells with a reverbed vocal that scans as post-
Panda Bear, but with less Brian Wilson and more fodder for mantra." - Revolt

"Smooth, psychedelic sailing." - i-D

Arooj Aftab

Arooj Aftab innovates off classical Pakistani, Sufi & pre-partition

South Asian music, creating original compositions honoring ancestral roots,for a sound that is
fresh, graceful, and musically complex.Arooj is inspired to continuously develop her art and
deepen her understanding of the possibilities of music. Layering subtle, intricate, dynamic
vocals over acoustic instrumentation, Arooj skillfully re-imagines indigenous soul with
signature 'cool.'

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American filmmaker Vivek Bald's absorbing examination of the Asian Underground movement in English rock
in the 90s combines interview and performance footage of all the key players-Talvin Singh, Fun-Da-Mental,
Cornershop, Joi, and Asian Dub Foundation. Nearly every musician interviewed talks about experiencing anti-
Asian racism while growing up. Bald shows how defensive identification with England's black population led
them to embrace reggae and hip-hop in addition to Indian sounds like Bollywood sound track music,
bhangra, and Indian classical music. A passing moment of attention from the mainstream media and major
record labels has embittered some of the performers but left others more focused and still hopeful.

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