Diaspora Arts Connection proudly presents the Elsa, Armin and Nima Trio at Diaspora Arts Connection @Home on Sunday, July 4th at 6:00 pm (PDT). The Elsa, Armin and Nima Trio is an improvise-based project. Their music is a collage of a versatile range of genres from psychedelic rock to gipsy-jazz and fusion, all mixed with Arabic and Iranian melodies and lyrics. All members play for the first time together for this project. Armin Antiqechian (Antique) plays guitar, Nima Farzaneh plays Accordion and Elsa Saade sings and plays Violin and Kazoo on this project.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Armin Antiqechian(Antique) is a musician/songwriter, theater director and art educator. He earned his BFA in Theater Directing in 2010 and since then he has composed music for multiple films and plays. Armin main instrument is electric and acoustic guitars, although he plays several instruments for his solo/one man band project. His love for traveling and living in New York city, both gave him the opportunity to collaborate with several bands and musicians from different countries and cultures and helped him to find his personal sound through exploring different genres.
Nima Farzaneh is a researcher in Architectural Acoustics. Besides his formal education in architecture and sound, he was trained as a classical piano player. Later he started exploring Persian traditional music on Piano and learning improvisation. The accordion became his second instrument and, due to its nature, Nima developed an interest as a Singer-songwriter. New York City granted him the opportunity to collaborate with multiple bands and musicians from different parts of the world and explore various genres.
Elsa Saade is a political artist, singer-songwriter, aspiring historian and mobilizer from Beirut, Lebanon based in New York City. Her day job is in the field of grantmaking with Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights and her life is mainly dedicated to translating radical politics and academic work into music, performance, puppetry, radical governance and action.
ABOUT DAC @Home
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