Sabir Mateen's Omni-Sound on WEDNESDAY Night!

[New Thing Productions]

We here at New Thing Productions and Metropolis Underground would like
to apologize again for the cancelled gig on Saturday. There was an
illness in the band and they all ended up heading home after their
Ithaca gig the night before, and didn't make it to our gig. They
promised that they would return to Syracuse to make up the gig.

So here is a late entry to make up for the cancelled gig:

We’ve just added a show with:


Sabir Mateen & The Omni-Sound


Wednesday, June 24th @ 8pm.


The Omni-Sound is made up of Mateen, Matt Lavelle, Michael Wimberly,
and Jane Wang.

Sabir Mateen, born in Philadelphia, has been a musician most of his
life. Starting in the Philadelphia area as a percussionist, he started
playing flute as a teenager.Gradually evovling from alto to tenor
saxophone, he has been through a number of musical transformations. He
started out playing rhythm and blues in the early ’70s which led him
to the tenor saxophone chair of the Horace Tapscott Pan Afrikan
Peoples Arkestra. From there he has or is performing with Cecil
Taylor, Sunny Murray, William Parker, Alan Silva, Butch &Wilber
Morris, Raphe Malik, Steve Swell, Mark Whitecage, Roy Campbell,
Matthew Shipp, Marc Edwards, Jemeel Moondoc, William Hooker, Henry
Grimes, Rashid Bakr, Kali Fasteau and numerous others. He also is a
member of the cooperative band TEST. Sabir also performs with, Little
Huey Creative Music Orchestra, William Parker’s Inside The Music Of
Curtis Mayfield, Earth People, the Downtown Horns and The East 3rd
Street Ensemble. He is the leader of “The Sabir Mateen Quintet”,
Shapes Textures & Sound Ensemble, The Omni-Sound, and other bands*.


$5-$10 Donation

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