This award-winning genre-bending team is no complete stranger to these pages. We provided the group’s fantastic brand new record album The Humours of Autorickshaw a resoundingly enthusiastic review on July 8, 2014 within the WholeNote. The lineup this evening is made of vocalist Suba Sankaran, Dylan Bell (bass/keyboards), Ben Riley (drums), John Gzowski (guitar) and Ed Hanley (tabla). Here is the chance that is last Toronto audiences to get Autorickshaw before their trio configuration heads off to Asia and Nepal on an unprecedented two-month subcontinent-wide trip of ten towns.
Skipping to November 27 and 28, Toronto audiences get another chance to know certainly one of today’s movie stars of world music, DakhaBrakha. They have been given the help of Small World musical. Started on solid taproots of Ukrainian village songs (and dress), these Kyiv-based performers add musical instruments and vocabularies of other cultures. Moreover they provide their tracks utilizing the use of popular music microphone strategies, powerfully sung melodies and a theatrical performance art sensibility. All of it creates a show that is striking the power and attitude of which resonates with also those for who their words are a definite secret.
Another performer with an evergrowing worldwide reputation could be the Pakistani Sanam Marvi, growing as a superb singer of ghazal, Pakistani people songs and music that is sufi. She offers two concerts on November 29 and 30. Marvi, students of her daddy, Fakir Ghulam Rasool, dedicated years of research to Sufi poetry and after this is known as among the leading vocalists in that tradition to emerge through the Sindh. Whether performing in Urdu, Sindhi or Saraiki, her aim would be to “reach across generations and cultures” along with her tracks. Continue reading “The established local group Autorickshaw mount the AKM auditorium stage on November 15”
