MUSIC

Sarah Hennies: The Reinvention of Romance

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2023
7:30 PM

Blank Forms
468 Grand Avenue, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn

$25 advance; $30 day of
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Sarah Hennies’s music is fascinating and compelling: harmonies that shouldn’t work but do, rhythms that come across as simple but are actually complexly stacked and interlaced; the music seems static but it moves. (It was perfect for The Lockdown.) This is a piece for cello and percussion that was very persuasively recorded by Two-Way Street and indeed released toward the beginning of The Lockdown (and a big turntable hit here at Chez List). Tonight it’s played by cellist Judith Hamann and the composer, an able percussionist who started out as a rock-band drummer.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The newly revived, slightly relocated Nigerian spot Buka is now fully reopened. And boy is it good.