This episode is a tribute to an award-winning downtown New York free-jazz poet and concert aficionado, Steve Dalachinsky. It features Dalachinsky’s studio and concert recordings with Thurston Moore, Tom Surgal, Vito Ricci, Vernon Reid, Matthew Shipp, Aaron Novik, Please the Trees, Pasquale Cangiano, Asiff Tsahar and Marcos Campello, and an interview with one of his publishers, Matvei Yankelevich.

Playlist
1. incomplete directions, Steve Dalachinsky (poetry) and Vito Ricci (electronics), incomplete directions (Knitting Factory Records, 1999).
2. in the book of ice #5 (this is a jazz poem not), Steve Dalachinsky (poetry), Thurston Moore (acoustic guitar), Tom Surgal (drums and percussion), incomplete directions (Knitting Factory Records, 1999).
3. slim slow swimmer, Steve Dalachinsky (poetry) and Vernon Reid (acoustic guitar), incomplete directions (Knitting Factory Records, 1999).
4. slim slow swimmer, Steve Dalachinsky (poetry) and Matthew Shipp (piano), incomplete directions (Knitting Factory Records, 1999).
5. Steve Dalachinsky & Please The Trees, live at Pianos, NYC, March 23, 2014.
6. Steve Dalachinsky (voice) and Pasquale Cangiano (trumpet), live at Islip Arts Museum (New York), September 14, 2019.
7. Fruit Flys, Steve Dalachinsky (poetry) and Asiff Tsahar (tenor saxophone), The Jewish alternative movement: a guide for the perplexed (Knitting Factory Records, 1998).
8. Erase me, poetry by Paulo Leminsky, Steve Dalachinsky (voice), Aaron Novik (clarinet), live at Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop (New York), September 13, 2017.
9. Silence of silence, Steve Dalachinsky (voice), Marcos Campello (guitar), January 11, 2018, Spectrum (New York).
10. Ancestors, Steve Dalachinsky (voice), Marcos Campello (guitar), summer 2017, home recording (New York).
11. Pray for me, Steve Dalachinsky (poetry), Aaron Novik (clarinet), live at Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop (New York), September 13, 2017.

Texts:
Jake Marmer, Two Poems By Steve Dalachinsky, Forward, June 25, 2010
Jake Marmer, Remembering Steve Dalachinsky, ‘Poems are everywhere, you don’t have to look far’, Tablet, September 20, 2019
Andy Battaglia, “He Held the Keys to the Gate’: Jay Sanders, Fred Moten, Charlemagne Palestine, and More Pay Tribute to Poet Steve Dalachinsky,” ARTNEWS, September 18, 2019
Alan Kaufman, “To Write Eternity On A Piece of Paper – Remembering Steve Dalachinsky,” NEWSWHISTLE, September 19, 2019.
Interview with Matvei Yankelevich, Brooklyn, New York, October 5, 2019.
Emails, messages, facebook posts and other communication from Steve Dalachinsky and his friends.

We are grateful to the following individuals and organizations for hosting Steve Dalachinsky readings as part of Ticún Brasil and Extended Techniques events:
Professor Domício Coutinho and the Brazilian Endowment for the Arts (October 20, 2012 and November 23, 2013)
Jared White and Farrah Field and Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop (September 13, 2017)
Glenn Cornett and Spectrum (January 11, 2018)

Steve Dalachinsky, Alotro Lado (program host) and Yuko Otomo
(BEA, 2013)

Steve Dalachinsky, Erlena Dlu (program host) and Yuko Otomo
(BEA, 2012)

Excerpts from Clarice Lispector’s Breath of Life and The Passion According to G.H.
November 23, 2013 at the Brazilian Endowment for the Arts

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