Aditya Prakash: ISOLASHUN Live
Joe's Pub425 Lafayette Street, New York 10003
Aditya Prakash brings ISOLASHUN Live to Joe’s Pub with his Ensemble, a project that creates a dialogue between Karnatik music and jazz.
Los Angeles-based Karnatik vocalist and composer Prakash is known for a “powerful and emotive” voice and for testing the boundaries of Karnatik tradition. He has worked with Ravi Shankar, Anoushka Shankar, Tigran Hamasyan, Karsh Kale and Akram Khan; Khan has called his music “personal and universal.” The Hindu wrote that ISOLASHUN pushes the boundaries of Prakash’s earlier Karnatik-and-jazz work.
The stage is set in a converted library space with a striped bar and photos of legends like Leonard Cohen and Amy Winehouse lining the walls. You'll find yourself seated on velvet couches or at candle-lit tables, close enough to hear every note from the back. The sound, engineered by technicians who've worked with John Legend and The Notorious B.I.G., is consistently ranked among the best in New York. Three shows a day, dinner and drinks served throughout, and a menu ranging from Italian small plates to craft cocktails; it's a place where music and conversation flow together, and where both rising stars and legends have made their U.S. debuts.