This award-winning group that is genre-bending no complete stranger to those pages. We provided the group’s fantastic album that is new Humours of Autorickshaw a resoundingly enthusiastic review on July 8, 2014 into the WholeNote. The lineup this evening comes with vocalist Suba Sankaran, Dylan Bell (bass/keyboards), Ben Riley (drums), John Gzowski (guitar) and Ed Hanley (tabla). This is actually the final opportunity for Toronto audiences to get Autorickshaw before their trio configuration heads off to Asia and Nepal for 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 globe music, DakhaBrakha. They truly are offered the help of Small World Music. Created on solid taproots of Ukrainian town songs (and gown), these Kyiv-based performers add musical instruments and vocabularies of other countries. Furthermore they provide the use to their songs of popular music microphone practices, powerfully sung melodies and a theatrical performance art sensibility. All of it creates a show that is striking the power and mindset of which resonates with also those for who their words really are a secret.
Another performer with an ever growing worldwide reputation may be the Pakistani Sanam Marvi, rising as a highly skilled singer of ghazal, Pakistani folk songs and Sufi music. She provides 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 generally accepted as one of several 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 very first multimedia performance, the whole world premiere of “Siavash: tales through the Shah-Nameh.” Written and directed by composer and sound that is award-winning Shahrokh Yadegari, this “page-to-stage” work explores the studies of Prince Siavash as depicted into the Persian epic Shah-Nameh (Book of Kings) through storytelling, music and projected pictures. Many manuscripts for this popular poem written by 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 while the naqal (narrator), Siamak Shajarian (vocalist) and Keyavash Nourai (violin, cello, kamancheh). This globe premiere music theater work nicely is designed to bring centuries-old manuscripts alive on stage.
Andrew Timar is just a Toronto music and musician journalist. He can be contacted at worldmusic@thewholenote.com.
Music during the Aga Khan Museum
Even ahead of the construction dirt had settled with its galleries, the shiny new granite-clad Aga Khan Museum had, in fast purchase, been touted in several 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 to your arts of Muslim civilizations, but it addittionally guarantees become a substantial music programmer and location for residents and tourists alike.
The museum has just been available since September 18 but real time music has currently animated the impressive areas within its walls. The AKM’s development focusses on Islamic diversity, encompassing and celebrating a massive array of social geographies energizing the GTA. With its opening flourish of concerts the museum’s development additionally shows it self become ingeniously ecumenical, auguring well when it comes to array means cultures communicate musically here.
October 3 at Koerner Hall the AKM marks one of the first co-presentations with all the Royal Conservatory of Music – additionally the main Small World Music Festival – a night featuring Indian-Canadian singer Kiran Ahluwalia (her address tale had been showcased into the September 2014 dilemma of The WholeNote) and Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali. The latter is a ten-member Pakistani team, a leading representative of this art of qawwali, Sufi devotional tracks associated with tabla and harmonium. As the two teams are playing two split sets in the concert, they’re going to collaborate on a single track. This line will certainly revisit the AKM museum’s programs as time goes by.
the little World musical Festival: final problem we concentrated tightly using one belated September concert inside the Small World musical Festival, which operates until October 5. The show sets down, with its terms, to “capture the entire world in a ten-day event.” Listed below are a few other people i’d 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 in the veena, a plucked string instrument with ancient Indian origins. The 2 traditions have actually numerous points of divergence in music concept, along with performance. In order that it’s constantly exciting to witness top performers from each camp issuing musical challenges, considering that the two events must inevitably negotiate typical ground in terms of pitch, drone tones, tempi and musical repertoire. They have to also agree with phrases closing on sum (sam), the downbeat and point of quality both in rhythm and melody.
October 5 “Cover Me Globally” occupies the Small World Music that is intimate Centre. The artists with this evening that is particular Drew Gonsalves, the singer-songwriter of Kobo Town; Aviva Chernick, the lead singer of Jaffa path; Donne Roberts, an associate of this African Guitar Summit; and Lisa Patterson, singer-songwriter with ROAM. Every one of these Canadian performers embodies musical influences which stretch in four various worldwide instructions. “Cover Me Globally” sets off to explore what goes on whenever tracks cross genre, culture and language. We’ll discover what takes place when 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 an application 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 isn’t any exclusion. Founding group user Russell Hartenberger’s percussion ensemble structure, The Invisible Proverb (2002), as an example, displays substantial African sources. Persian composer and setar player Reza Ghassemi’s Persian Songs, arranged by Hartenberger, is sung by Music Faculty doctoral candidate Raissadat, the initial feminine soloist to perform publically in Iran since the 1979 revolution. It really is another illustration of the social dialogue encouraged throughout the group’s career. In cases like this it is between Persian and North United states cultures that are musical. Twentieth-century modernist and postmodernist classics likewise have a place that is central the core NEXUS repertoire. In this concert in addition they re-visit Steve Reich’s 1973 luminous minimalist opus webpage Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices & Organ, it self profoundly affected by the composer’s research of West African ensemble music.
Fado into the City: 5, presented by The Royal Conservatory in association with Small World Music, singer Ana Moura headlines at Koerner Hall november. At the breaking wave of this 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 a Portuguese electric electric guitar plus two traditional guitars. “Even among the list of brand brand new strain of fado vocalists, that has dared to deviate from a tradition that is rigid Ms. Moura is a distinctly worldly star,” had written This new York occasions. I really couldn’t have stated it better.
Polaris Music Prize Trailer: As seasoned concertgoers well understand, few music that is formal last a lot longer as compared to typical 90 moments. That odd hybrid, the music prize show, made much more tiresome for basic music buffs as a result of long pauses between shows for set modifications, television, as well as other news breaks, is an exclusion. Ever the eager reporter for The WholeNote, however, we were able to convince our stern publisher that i ought to get news certification when it comes to Polaris musical Prize gala. It absolutely was the time that is first august magazine had been represented during the Polaris.
My tale? I happened to be after through to my summary of the avant-garde Inuk vocalist Tanya Tagaq’s June 10, 2014 concert at Luminato published regarding The blog that is wholeNote. She’s done, toured and recorded with Bjцrk, the Kronos Quartet together with Winnipeg Symphony, nonetheless it ended up being her astounding CD Animism that was in fact short-listed for the Polaris most readily useful Canadian record album of the year, a surprise with a within the main-stream music industry. Suited up and media pass at hand, I became set to go on it all in during the Carlu in the of September 22 night. Minimal did i understand exactly exactly how sleep-deprived I happened to be likely to be the overnight.