Sarina Suno Quartet @ Thailand Cafe

　今週も我々の大好きなレストランのタイランド・カフェでのギグです。暖かくなってきたので、壁のように巨大な蛇腹状の窓を開け放ち、開放度もオシャレ度も３００％アップです。店の外で立ち止まって聴いてくれている人がいたかと思えば、店の前の道路を通り越した４車線向こう側から聴いている人もいました。今日は満席のフルハウスで店も大忙しのようでした。
This week's edition of the gig at our favorite restaurant, Thailand Cafe. As New York is getting warmer, many of the restaurants, including Thailand Cafe, open the windows all the way up. The restaurant looks so different and so open which makes me feel so liberated! The funny thing is that I could see lots of people outside stopped walking and were listening to us, and amazingly I saw a few people on the other side of the street were listening to us from four lanes away. The restaurant was of course packed with people today.

　今日のギグで私にとってなにより嬉しかったのは、ドラマーが私の音大時代からの旧友でもあるローイン・ケマーニだったことです。ローインはどんなスタイルでも叩けるオールラウンドなミュージシャンで、なにしろ勘のいいドラマーです。インド系カナダ人の彼はインドの音楽も深く学んでいる分、その影響が彼のドラム・スタイルにも現れてます。彼の演奏はネットでも聴けるので、是非一度、聴いてみて下さい。
The best part of today's show for me was that we had my old friend from the music college I attend, Rohin Khemani on drums. Rohin is the all-round player who is really quick to pick up on things. He is an Indian-Canadian who has studied Indian music deeply, so his drumming style has Indian influence and that makes his style really unique. You can check out his playing on the net.

Rohin Khemani (Drums & Tabla)
Link to His MySpace page

Thailand Cafe
95 2nd Ave. (b/w 5th & 6th St.)
East Village, NYC
(212) 477-1872