chandan narayan, toronto, on.
autoharp
Upcoming/recent performances
06/11/09: Beak Full of Rubies (Chandan/Scott DeRoche/Chuck Sipperley/Allison) with Greg Kowalsky and Ben Bracken at 518 N. State St. Ann Arbor, MI. 8pm, free. Ben and Greg are on tour. First BFOR show in many years and record release for "spiked creepers" CD (live on WCBN recorded in 2006).
04/12/09: Chris Cogburn/Jesse Kudler/Joda Clement/Chandan Narayan at Jamie's Place , in Kensington Market, Toronto. 9pm, $5. Chris and Jesse are on tour.
11/11/08:Chandan Narayan/Jesse Kudler duo (Jesse's on tour with Christian Weber), Joda Clement/Steve McFarland, Christian Weber (Double Bass, Switzerland) at a loft off of Queen St. West in Toronto, ON. Here's a review.
04/19/08: Chandan Narayan/Paul Neidhardt duo (Paul's a percussionist from Baltimore) warming up for Will Guthrie/Howie Stelzer/Newton Armstrong trio at the Gershman Young Men's Hebrew Association (Borowsky Gallery), Broad and Pine, Phila., PA 8pm, $10.
04/19/08: un(e): Chandan Narayan Solo w/ Bhob Rainey, David Gross, Ashley Deekus at Pageant:Soloveev, 607 Bainbridge St, Phila., PA 8pm, $5-$10 sliding scale. SOLOS!
03/29/08: GLASS PLATES w/ Ken Roux at Solder & Sons on Main St., Vancouver, BC 8pm, $Donation. Back in VAN!
03/28/08: Chandan Narayan and Stefan Udell at Access Artist Run Centre in Vancouver, BC 8pm, $Donation. Back in VAN!
02/21/08: Benito Cereno, warming up for Andrea Neumann/Stephane Rives/Jack Wright The Gershman Y, Borowsky Gallery 8pm, $10 This will be a rad show.
01/14/08: Benito Cereno, Jonathan Zorn & Katie Young at the Knitting Factory, NYC (part of the Sigogglin series of experimental music) 8pm, FREE!!.
12/08/07: Narayan/Kudler duo, ONDA, and Bhob Rainey's BSC at Opensound in Somerville, MA. 8pm, Suggested $7.
10/01/07: Baily/Hurt/Narayan at UCAL (West Philly). See Bowerbird's performances page.
09/28/07: Benito Cereno(Jesse Kudler, TIm Albro, Ian Fraser, Dustin Hurt, Narayan) 7pm, Eckhaus, in Kutztown PA.
07/26/07: Glass Plates (Jeff Allport, Chandan Narayan, Robert Pedersen) annual Vancouver summer performance w/Attn: Diamond Shoppers 8pm, Access Artist Run Centre, 206 Carrall St., Vancouver BC. Brought to you by Father Zosima. By donation. Jack Daniels served.
06/30/07: Benito Cereno (Narayan, Kudler, Albro, Fraser, Hurt) cd release show w/Nate Wooley and Aaron Siegel at UCAL, West Philly see Bowerbird
06/15/07: Solo w/ Liz Tonne in Somerfield, MA
05/16/07: w/ SIGNAL quintet (Tomas Korber, Norbert Möslang, Günter Müller, Jason Kahn, and Christian Weber) [Bowerbird], Circle of Hope,
I'm playing in a quintet with Günter Müller, Tomas Korber, Alban Bailly, and Toshi Makahara
Two other killer sets
04/09/07: w/ Benito Cereno, Circle of Hope, Broad and Washington Branch, 1125 South Broad Street 2nd Floor, Phila PA
Warming up for: CHARLES CURTIS cello performing ELIANE RADIGUE: Naldjorlak (2005), $5-$10 sliding scale
02/24/07: Slought Foundation [ website ], 4017 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA [ directions ], concert 8:00pm, $10
With the Lebanon5 (incl. Mazen Kerbaj, Christine Sehnaoui, et al.), and a bunch of Phila locals.
02/03/07: UCAL (phila pa), 8pm
solo [w/ nate wooley's ensemble]
12/1/06: Powel House (244 S.3rd st., phila pa), 8pm $5
duo with jesse kudler (table top guitar, electronics) [w/ geodesic gnome, hernandez/lipson duo]
Collaborations
w/ glass plates (vancouver, bc, with jeffrey allport (snare) and robert pedersen (valve trombone))
glass plates 1 (cd-r): edition of 10.
glass plates 2 (3" cd-r): edition of 25
glass plates 3 (in press 10" 33rpm) on simple geometry
w/ benito cereno (phila, pa, with jesse kudler, tim albro, dustin hurt, & ian m fraser)
w/ beak full of rubies (ann arbor, mi, with charles sipperley and scott deroche)
tuesdays cd-r (on ypsilanti recs)
"reading the leaves" (on zum vol3 comp)
one-sided 12" (on ypsilanti recs): edition of 100
w/ angharad davies (london) and Jeffrey Allport (vancouver)
"hawker's delight" (5" CDR) on simple geometry , limited to 80 copies. Hand screened covers!
w/ lee hutzulak (vancouver)
various contributions to recordings
Solo
"eight vignettes for solo autoharp" (cd-r): edition of 100 on simple geometry
reviews: VITAL list, Touching Extremes, Bagatellen
tba (in press 7") on simple geometry
contact: chandann@gmail.com