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Dr. Merengue Vodou Band Featuring Paul Austerlitz at Cafe Bohemia
Courtesy of Michael Zieleniewski | Posted on January 24, 2020
When
Fri, January 31, 2020
8:00 pm
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Musicians
Paul Austerlitz
multi-instrumentalistAbout
Dr. Paul Austerlitz informs his bass clarinet and tenor saxophone playing with ethnomusicological work on the spiritual power of music in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Finland (the country of his birth). Here’s what people are saying about his recent album, “Water Prayers of Bass Clarinet“:
“Water Prayers” is evidence of Austerlitz’s dazzling technique on an unforgiving instrument, without ever selling the emotional intensity of the music short. This music is a spectacular product of a creative spirit, awakened by the dormant powers of the soul to further the powers of human consciousness....