The National Black Writers Conference 2012 presents, Noir, a pre-conference celebration of music and words, featuring some of the best writers who “moonlight” as amazing musicians, emcees and vocalists.

http://on.fb.me/noirmarch2nd

March 2nd, 2012 – 8PM

Free Candy
904 Atlantic Avenue (@St. James Place)
Brooklyn, NY

Featuring:

Jessica Care Moore
Apollo Legend. Activist. Poet. MOM. Rock/Soul star
[http://mooreblackpress.com/] click here

HumUni (Ish & Mega) -
Urbanword stars. Youth Mentors. Emcees
[http://humuni.bandcamp.com/] click here

Tuan X
Poet. Apollo Theater Music Cafe. Singer/MC
[http://tuanx.com/] click here

Tuan X – “It’s An Addiction” (LIVE) @ NUYORICAN from Tuan X on Vimeo.

(i am) isis
Awarded writer. Activist. Technophile. Rock/Soul impressario
[http://iamisis.com/] click here

DJ Reborn

http://facebook.com/deejayreborn

Hosted by

Shanelle Gabriel
Def Poetry Jam. Lupus Activist. Singer
http://shanellegabrielle.com/

Gabe
Poet, Urban Word Youth Board

Tai Allen (vicelounge)
Award winning poet. Curator. Creative. Singer
http://vicelounge.com/

and special guests Jasiri Kafele, Sabrina Gilbert & Blue Bellinger

Tuan X – “It’s An Addiction” (LIVE) @ NUYORICAN from Tuan X on Vimeo.

DESCRIPTION

Original Release Date: April 28, 2010
Format – Music: MP3/CD (upon request – info@vicelounge.com)
Compatible with MP3 Players (including with iPod®), iTunes, Windows Media Player

Track Listing

1. When It Comes
2.Agua Negro (Tension)
3. Love Is (Corrugated Cardboard)
4. Tulips
5. Lazy Dude
6. Letting Go (Soul Mix)
7. Me and Myselves)Explicit)
8. Never Fall (Radio Edit)
9. Strong (a Capella)
10.Letting Go (Electrix Remix)

Available everywhere!

View more news videos at: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/video.

The interview is part of the promo for a very important event, Word is Brooklyn. I am one of the two curators for this amazing moment in oral expression. Kay Turner, from the Brooklyn Art Council, brought me in to help facilitate the artists and the production. I am proud to work on this. I get an opportunity to present artists I am fan of. I get a chance to hear artist who believe in Brooklyn as  artistic incubator. Enjoy my nervous interview, Kay’s great narrative on BAC’s commitment to the Black Art… then check the details below. Surely, when you are done take some really great music and poetry!

And of course the music promos for the maxi-single

CLICK TO DOWNLOAD ALL THREE SONGS:

Canned Goods (CLICK TO DOWNLOAD ALL THREE SONGS)

Luv Music (CLICK TO DOWNLOAD ALL THREE SONGS)

St. James Infirmary (live) (CLICK TO DOWNLOAD ALL THREE SONGS)

- thanks

Tai Allen (vicelounge) I like…believe from Jonn Nubian on Vimeo.

Sunday, May 30, 2010

7:00pm – 10:00pm

Santos Party House 96 Lafayette Street, NYC

Freak Nasty is our Quarterly Erotic Poetry show, We hand pick the best of the best erotic poets and performers. Each event the line up is a little different but, Freak Nasty promises to please you right down to the core, every single time…this event is for the grown and sexy…Two floors of total erotic mayhem.

Featuring :

JP Justice
Sankofa Souls (The Freak Nasty House Band)

Ainsley Burrows
Sabrina Gilbert
Taalam Acey
Dasha Kelly
Lamar Hill
Selah
Soulful Jones
Miriam Tabb
Rainmaker
Kym dominique
Patricia Janvier

Tuan X (music )
Tai Allen(music)

Swimwear/Lingerie Fashion Show by Lency of Femi

Delysia (Dance-Burlesque)
Akynos (Dance-Burlesque)

Jaecyne Howell (Erotic Slide Show)
Marisha R. Scott (Live Body Painting)

Plus a VERY VERY VERY Sinful afterparty
that goes until 4am. We promise to make history.

Music By DJ Nett & DJ LMS

SPECIAL GIFT BAGS WILL BE PROVIDED BY KMT Spa & JoiToyz

this is the jam! courtesy of vicelounge and record breakin music. a five song EP: LOVE MUSIC: Summer Preview, a prelude to this winter’s release

>click here or the picture to get the music!<

giorgio (guitar [sabrina & giogio]), omni blaze (keys), timmy (bass) and ray (drums) helped me sing about the middle passage. this is a poem turned into a song. the work was inspired by some of the work i viewed in oklahoma city/tulsa about black wall street & deep …deuce, while on the road. and the works found in brooklyn’s own house of art

Vicelounge is an interactive/music production partnership of

Tai Allen & Jonn Nubian.

SUMMER your cold with the preview…it’s surely new to you and will hold your until the album drops in 2012.

Tai Allen & Jonn Nubian have crafted singing & poetry into a signature approach reminiscent of Gil-Scot Heron — yet uniquely their own.  In 2010, Allen’s album (produced by vicelounge) “Easy Readin’” was awarded Album of The Year by the National Poetry Awards. In 2011 the group was lauded with great reviews from BET/CentricTV and other critics.

Creative is the best adjective/noun to define the group. Utilizing different creative mediums is considered a pathway to a tone to the ViceLounge production team. Writing has always been the cornerstone of their creativity.

Allen states, “Music is my second lover. She, like so many others, seduced me at a tender age. I cannot remember which classic tune changed my life; I think it was an orgy of acts and songs.”  ViceLounge has been influenced by many including Norman Connors, Gil-Scot Heron, Art of Noise, Portishead, Public Enemy, Quincy Jones and Django Rhinehart.

But the creativity also runs in the technology realm: the team has been at the forefront interactive production and strategy. Since the late 90s, vicelounge has helped create platforms for major firms and small shops.

Projects include work with, Grammy Nominated artist, Maiysha; REEBOK; Nigerian soul star, Keziah Jones; Spike Lee; Uptown Magazine; Uniworld Group; UBO; Apollo Theater; Brooklyn Arts Council; DJPremium & DrJays; and, Black Enterprise.

Music: amalgamated noise. truth set to words and tones, spoken or sung, felt inside the melodies torn from yesterday or created for tomorrow.

Welcome family, this is the present!

Vicelounge is a place to find yourself or others nodding their heads and tapping their feet. Get up and do the proper two-step with the fine lass/lad from across the room. Take them and ride the drums or sit on the melody, this interconnection of hip-hop and soul-fried music.

Then there are the days when beautiful ambiance beckons you to sit and love another; gets you to focus on the important things. You think it through while we provide the soundscape. This is where you dance because you cannot stop yourself. Enjoy the company of others for 5 minutes: sweat and lose control; close your eyes and get into what moves you – sometimes organic; sometimes electronic.

Vicelounge refuses the boundaries and constrictions of genres. We make music that befits our moods and feelings. Crafting songs to turn a thought into conversation or welcome a love into new universe. This is why we play and sample and write and think art. and this is what we create… art.

I could tell you it is great art inspired by the masters of galaxies, but who am i to make such announcements. We only know it is heart-felt and honest.

Plus, what is music but a cultural exchange between maker and listener; a presentation of thoughts and philosophies with a person or group? we offer ourselves in song. You offer yourselves as listeners and enjoyers…even the critics have a place in our hearts.

Come. Enjoy the gift of pretty noise.
Take. Share. Enjoy. Repeat…

“The soundtrack for your stylish and dangerous lifestyle.”

vice- [vahys] , –noun

1. an immoral or evil habit or practice.

2. immoral conduct; depraved or degrading behavior: a life of vice.

3. sexual immorality, esp. prostitution.

4. a particular form of depravity.

5. a fault, defect, or shortcoming: a minor vice in his literary style.

6. a physical defect, flaw, or infirmity: a constitutional vice.

7. a bad habit, as in a horse. 8. (initial capital letter) a character in the English morality plays, a personification of general vice or of a particular vice, serving as the buffoon.

lounge- [lounj] verb, lounged, loung·ing, noun –verb (used without object)

1. to pass time idly and indolently.

2. to rest or recline indolently; loll: We lounged in the sun all afternoon.

3. to go or move in a leisurely, indolent manner; saunter (usually fol. by around, along, off, etc.). –verb

(used with object)

4. to pass (time) in lounging (usually fol. by away or out): to lounge away the afternoon. –noun

5. a sofa for reclining, sometimes backless, having a headrest at one end.

6. a place for sitting, waiting, smoking, etc., esp. a large public room, as in a hotel, theater, or air terminal, often with adjoining washrooms.

7. a section on a train, plane, or ship having various club or social facilities.

8. a cocktail lounge.

9. Archaic. the act or a period of lounging.

10. Archaic. a lounging gait.

Winter 2011

12/03 – Richmond- SATURDAY SOUL SOCIAL

12/16 – Yonkers – SOUL BOX

Winter 2012

2/18/2012 - Harlem 7pm to 9pm  Deja Vu in Harlem

3/2/2012 – Brooklyn – Curating – Nat’l Black Writers Conference Concert

http://vicelounge.com/lovemusic

3/27 – 4/1 - Brooklyn – Curating – Nat’l Black Writers Conference Poetry Night

Medgar Evers College (CUNY): http://nationalblackwritersconference.com