MUSIC

Shoko Nagai: TOKALA

THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 2023
8:00 PM

Barbès
376 9th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn

$20
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Seeing ancient Persian instruments and artwork displayed from Imperial storage in the Palace Museum in Nara, Japan, accordionist/composer Shoko Nagai wondered what it must have been like to hear Persian and Middle Eastern music, transported via the Silk Road, in Japan a thousand and more years ago. The band TOKALA is an attempt to imagine an answer — in a very broad, suggestive, contemporary sense. For this show, avant-Klezmer trumpeter (really he can play anything) Frank London sits in.

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