MEGUMI & Friends premieres Grenades on the Dance Floor,

a new suite of compositions by violinist and composer MEGUMI,

commissioned by the American Composers Forum, and hosted by Brooklyn Maqam.

Each piece is a vessel for the stories of women from Egypt, Syria, Palestine, and Japan --

voices once silenced, forgotten, or buried beneath wars and distorted experience,　

yet leaving footsteps in our bones.

Forged in silence and remembrance, these compositions trace what history could not hold --what sank beneath the noise, but never disappeared.

Infused with elements of jazz, Arabic maqam, and Japanese lyricism, the compositions are shaped by asymmetrical rhythmsthat mirror the tension between erasure and endurance.

Featuring

MEGUMI, violin & compositions

Brian Prunka, oud

Adam Birnbaum, piano

Moto Fukuashima, bass

Keita Ogawa, drums