Falsa | Live Sufi Music Performances | NYC World Music Ensemble

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Based in New York City, Falsa is rooted in 14th century Sufi music (Indian classical mysticism similar to Rumi's elevating poetry) with contemporary arrangements transcending genre-specificity and cultural preconceptions, in collaboration with a diverse array of improvisational world musicians.

A Falsa experience can range from Minimalist Meditative to Raga Jazz Fusion to high energy World Improvisation that gets you moving, to a more explosive Ritual-Communitas oriented one featuring dancers and immersive visuals. But ultimately, Falsa is about normalizing the transcendent experience.

It originally emerged as a collaboration between long-term friends and has since evolved into an exploration of what's possible when people are moved collectively by the pursuit of the intangible aspects of a communal gathering. There's a mystical culinary connection here: Falsa gets its name from a tropical berry native to India and Pakistan. And Sufi music is about a state of separation that longs for union. There was a decade in Umer's (vocalist, Falsa) life that he couldn’t return home to Pakistan from the US due to Kafkaesque immigration bureaucracies. When he finally returned and had the fruit again, it "broke through all the intellectualization and numbness I realized I had cultivated to cope, and in the process of giving myself over to the majesty of feeling I realized that home is something you cannot take with you, you have to return to it"

In our music, we want to revere and dignify the most magical aspects of experience that are gifts and not acquisitions, like reclaiming a half-remembered dream. Our music is not about means to ends, but about meaning and transcendence, about healing a wounded alienation we feel in our very highly mechanized, and in the ways that matter, poorly connected society, one performance at a time.

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Falsa at The Space Montclair

  • The Space 356 Bloomfield Ave loft#2 Montclair, NJ United States (map)

THE SPACE FOR MUSIC: FALSA - an evening of mystical SUFI Music
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The Space for Music: FALSA – An Evening of Mystical Sufi Sound

Join us at The Space on Saturday, June 21st for an immersive night of sacred sound and shared presence with FALSA, a transcendent Sufi ensemble channeling centuries-old devotional music through contemporary improvisation.

FALSA’s sound is born of the Qawwali tradition—music rooted in longing, surrender, and the ecstatic path of love. Blending Sufi vocals, Carnatic violin, Hindustani tabla, harmonium, and jazz-inspired rhythms, their performances create more than music—they create a space. A space to listen, to feel, to reconnect with the parts of ourselves we may have forgotten.

This isn’t just a concert. It’s a journey.

In resonance with The Space’s mission—to make room for creative unfolding and deep witnessing—this evening invites you to slow down, breathe deeper, and be fully here. Whether you come to reflect, release, or simply receive, this is an offering for your whole self.

🗓 Saturday, June 21, 2025
🕰 Doors 7:30 PM | Music 8:00 PM
📍 The Space, Montclair, NJ
🎟 $20 – $55 | All ages welcome

Take up space. Let the sound carry you inward.

Earlier Event: June 6
Echoes of Reverence: An Eid Al-Azha Sufi Celebration with Falsa
Later Event: July 12
Resonance: Sufi Music & Social Impact at Busboys and Poets, Washington DC | July 12