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.
December 5 and 6 the Aga Khan Museum gift suggestions its multimedia that are first, the planet premiere of “Siavash: Stories through the Shah-Nameh.” Written and directed by composer and award-winning noise designer Shahrokh Yadegari, this “page-to-stage” work explores the studies of Prince Siavash as depicted when you look at the Persian epic Shah-Nameh (Book of Kings) through storytelling, music and projected pictures. Numerous manuscripts with this poem that is popular because of the Persian poet Ferdowsi between 977 and 1010, and illustrated over hundreds of years, take permanent rotational display during the museum. The cast of Siavash features Gordafarid given that naqal (narrator), Siamak Shajarian (vocalist) and Keyavash Nourai (violin, cello, kamancheh). This globe premiere music theater work nicely is designed to bring manuscripts that are centuries-old on phase.
Andrew Timar is really a Toronto music and musician journalist. He is able to be contacted at worldmusic@thewholenote.com.
Music during the Aga Khan Museum
Also ahead of the construction dirt had settled with its galleries, the shiny new granite-clad Aga Khan Museum had, in fast order, been touted in lots of news reports and also by our Prime Minister as a vital addition to Toronto’s multi/inter/trans-cultural topography. Yes, it offers elegant Fumihiko Maki-designed architecture and a collection that is world-class towards the arts of Muslim civilizations, but inaddition it guarantees become an important music programmer and location for residents and tourists alike.
The museum has only been open since September 18 but music that is live currently animated the impressive areas within its walls. The AKM’s development focusses on Islamic diversity, encompassing and celebrating a range that is vast of geographies energizing the GTA. The museum’s programming also shows itself to be admirably ecumenical, auguring well link for the myriad ways cultures interact musically here in its opening flourish of concerts.
October 3 at Koerner Hall the AKM marks one of its first co-presentations with all the Royal Conservatory of Music – additionally area of the Small World Music Festival – a night featuring singer that is indian-Canadian Ahluwalia (her address story ended up being showcased when you look at the September 2014 problem of The WholeNote) and Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali. The latter is a ten-member Pakistani team, a leading agent of this art of qawwali, Sufi devotional tracks followed by tabla and harmonium. As the two teams are playing two split sets in the concert, they’ll collaborate using one track. This line will certainly revisit the AKM museum’s programs as time goes by.
the tiny World musical Festival: final problem we concentrated tightly on a single belated September concert inside the Small World musical Festival, which runs until October 5. The show sets away, in its terms, to “capture the whole world in a ten-day event.” Listed below are an others that are few like to emphasize.
1 the spotlight falls on the music of North and South India; usually presented individually, they are here combined on the Flato Markham Theatre stage october. Zakir Hussain, among the world’s preeminent tabla virtuosi, represents the north tradition. He joins veena maestra Jyanthi Kumaresh and violin maestro Kumaresh Rajagopalan, both representing the Southern, or Carnatic, music lineage. Rajagopalan is among India’s leading Carnatic violinists (a standard-issue fiddle but played in a position that is inverted sitting on the ground), while Kumaresh executes from the veena, a plucked string instrument with ancient Indian origins. The 2 traditions have numerous points of divergence in music concept, in addition to performance. In order that it’s constantly exciting to witness top musicians from each camp issuing musical challenges, since the two events must inevitably negotiate typical ground in terms of pitch, drone tones, tempi and musical repertoire. They have to additionally agree with expressions ending on sum (sam), the downbeat and point of resolution both in rhythm and melody.
October 5 “Cover Me Globally” occupies the Small World Music that is intimate Centre. The performers on this specific night are Drew Gonsalves, the singer-songwriter of Kobo Town; Aviva Chernick, the lead singer of Jaffa path; Donne Roberts, an associate associated with the African Guitar Summit; and Lisa Patterson, singer-songwriter with ROAM. Each one of these Canadian performers embodies musical influences which increase in four different directions that are global. “Cover Me Globally” sets off to explore what the results are whenever tracks cross genre, culture and language. We’ll uncover what occurs whenever the “Canadian cultural diaspora … connects through its songwriters.”
NEXUS within the World:
October 27 the percussion that is venerable NEXUS takes the Walter Hall, University of Toronto phase in a course which also features the Persian vocalist Sepideh Raissadat. NEXUS has from the beginnings included aspects of international musics in its diverse concerts and this show is not any exclusion. Founding group user Russell Hartenberger’s percussion ensemble structure, The Proverb that is invisible), as an example, displays substantial African recommendations. Persian composer and setar player Reza Ghassemi’s Persian Songs, arranged by Hartenberger, is sung by Music Faculty candidate that is doctoral, the very first feminine soloist to do publically in Iran because the 1979 revolution. It really is another exemplory case of the dialogue that is cultural throughout the group’s profession. in cases like this it’s between Persian and North United states cultures that are musical. Twentieth-century modernist and postmodernist classics have a place that is central the core NEXUS repertoire. In this concert they even re-visit Steve Reich’s 1973 luminous minimalist opus Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices & Organ, it self profoundly affected by the composer’s research of West African music that is ensemble.
Fado within the City: November 5, presented because of the Royal Conservatory in colaboration with Small World musical, singer Ana Moura headlines at Koerner Hall. At the wave that is breaking of fado music renaissance, re-interpreting this heart music of Portugal for a brand new generation of worldwide audiences, Moura typically sings her heartbreaking tracks followed by a trio of the Portuguese electric electric guitar plus two traditional guitars. “Even one of the brand new variety of fado vocalists, which includes dared to deviate from the rigid tradition, Ms. Moura is just a distinctly worldly star,” penned This new York instances. I really couldn’t have stated it better.
Polaris Music Prize Trailer: As seasoned concertgoers well understand, very few music that is formal last a lot longer compared to typical 90 mins. That odd hybrid, the music prize show, made much more tiresome for basic music buffs because of long pauses between shows for set modifications, television, along with other media breaks, is an exclusion. Ever the reporter that is eager The WholeNote, however, we was able to convince our stern publisher that i will get news certification when it comes to Polaris musical Prize gala. It had been the time that is first august magazine had been represented during the Polaris.
My tale? I became following through to my writeup on the avant-garde Inuk vocalist Tanya Tagaq’s June 10, 2014 concert at Luminato published in The WholeNote web log. She’s done, toured and recorded with Bjцrk, the Kronos Quartet therefore the Winnipeg Symphony, nonetheless it ended up being her CD that is astounding animism have been short-listed when it comes to Polaris most readily useful Canadian record album of the season, a surprise for some when you look at the conventional music industry. Suited up and media pass at hand, I happened to be set to go on it all in during the Carlu in the of September 22 night. Minimal did I’m sure just just how sleep-deprived I was likely to be the day that is next.
