Galeet Dardashti Monajat
Sat, Sep 09
|Littlefield
Join The Neighborhood for a concert celebrating the release of Galeet Dardashti’s latest album, Monajat. Doors at 7pm, concert starts at 8pm. Galeet Dardashti’s multi-sensory project and album, Monajat, is inspired by old and haunting recordings of Jewish prayers chanted by her late grandfather, Y
Time & Location
Sep 09, 2023, 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Littlefield, 635 Sackett St, Brooklyn, NY 11217, USA
About the event
Join The Neighborhood for a concert celebrating the release of Galeet Dardashti’s latest album, Monajat.
Doors at 7pm, concert starts at 8pm.
Galeet Dardashti’s multi-sensory project and album, Monajat, is inspired by old and haunting recordings of Jewish prayers chanted by her late grandfather, Younes Dardashti, a famous master singer of Persian classical music in 1950s/60s Iran. Galeet reinvents the ancient ritual of Selihot—poetry sung nightly preceding the Jewish New Year as spiritual preparation—by singing with remixed samples of her grandfather’s legacy recordings. Riffing off these old tapes, Galeet composes a soundscape of original music performed by an acclaimed ensemble of Middle Eastern and jazz musicians. As she dialogues with her grandfather in song, the live performance immerses audiences in Persian melodies, heavy grooves, sacred Hebrew and Persian poetry, and dynamic video art. Performing with Galeet will be Shanir Blumenkranz, Philip Mayer, Max Zbiral-Teller, and Dafer Tawil.
As vocalist, composer…