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Pop Sustainability Invites You To Come Party Like A Fool On April 1st!!! Most Importantly, Expect The Unexpected!!
Pop Sustainability Invites You To Come Party Like A Fool On April 1st!!! Most Importantly, Expect The Unexpected!!
Published 03-23-04
Submitted by Pop Sustainability
Nublu is a hidden oasis in Alphabet City. The ambience is rich and dark and the music is hypnotizing. A garden in the back adds nature into the atmosphere. Ilhan Ersahin’s music has a worldly vibe—a perfect union of organic and synthetic music fills out stony trip-hop foundations.
When: Thursday, April 1, 2004 8PM-11PM
Where: Nublu – 62 Avenue C between 4th and 5th streets
Who: Ilhan Ersahin of Wax Poetic & Pop Sustainability
Why: To support Pop Sustainability
How: RSVP via e-mail at pop@popsustainability.org or at our office number (646) 638-3122. This space holds just over a hundred people; if you're not on the RSVP list, you may not get in. RSVP today!
How Much: $20 at the door
Who is Wax Poetic? .....sounds like RZA had been in the studio with Miles Davis when he recorded Bitches Brew. Ilhan Ersahin creates a perfect union of organic and synthetic music that falls in line with the output of numerous stony trip-hop troupes.
For the uninitiated, Wax Poetic’s driving force, Ilhan Ersahin, was raised by a Swedish mother and Turkish father and moved to New York from Sweden in 1990 to pursue an education and music. An accomplished jazz session player and studio auteur, Ilhan started Wax Poetic in 1997. While Wax Poetic is now a full-fledged band--drummer Jochen Rueckert, guitarist Thor Madsen, bassist Jesse Murphy and singer Marla Turner—Ilhan says it was initially more of a project.
Behind the unmarked door on Manhattan’s Lower East Side is Ilhan’s club Nublu. Inside, Brazilian parties and jamming freestyle jazz players meet sharply dressed bohemians and hipsters, and the clinking cocktail glasses are the color of candlelit gemstone.
Norah Jones became involved in 1997, not long after landing in New York from Texas. When Wax Poetic heard her, they knew they’d found the voice they wanted. Jones performed with them for over a year before leaving to embark her now highly lauded solo career. However, even with her new found success and popularly she was more than happy to come back and record her two signature songs "Tell Me" and "Angels; both tracks are songs she sang with the band regularly in the early years.
Finding their own way to Nublu’s unmarked white door, N'Dea Davenport drops by and likes what she sees, what she feels? Sure, she'll do a track. Ilhan meets spoken word artist Saul Williams one night, and Williams spends hours rhyming on the spot in Ilhan's living room. U-Roy, the legendary Jamaican dancehall emcee, was a childhood hero of Ilhan's; today, if you go to Ilhan's home, you'll find sleeve after sleeve of cherished vinyl U-Roy records. The illuminating presence of U-Roy and Williams on the album makes sense because of their presence in Ilhan's life.
Pop Sustainability, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, was launched in 1998 by a group of young urban professionals with careers in the creative industries and the public sector seeking to inspire young adults to positive action.
Pop Sustainability is based out of its New York City loft. This center supports and links all activities both internal and external to the organization. Its five primary functional groups include: Marketing and Program Development, Campaign Management, Internet Communications, Administrative Services and Fundraising Development. We have affiliate programs in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and in Barcelona, Spain.
