AT THE GLAD: Sun 30th Nov: Flux/ Storywheel / Victoria Hume Flux apply their sublime musicianship to combine traditional Asian roots with World music, Western jazz, contemporary classical and urban influences, employing instrumentation ranging from piano to bansuri, violin, double bass, guitar and cajon. Formed only two years ago, they have already performed at Glastonbury Festival, London Southbank Centre, The Great Escape and the Indig02. Their virtuosic musicianship and dynamic arrangements fuse to create a truly spectacular live show, theyre a brilliant live act. youtube/watch?v=9BTikQJhuxo Storywheel are an acoustic oud (the Arabian lute) duo formed in 2013 by oud players and singers Patricia de Mayo and Keith Clouston. Drawing on world music influences from the Middle East and North and West Africa, as well as folk music of the British Isles, Storywheel create a unique and coherent fusion. Their original songs explore the personal and political dilemmas of the contemporary world, while at the same time, their new and surprising arrangements of traditional folksongs highlight parallels with the past. storywheelmusic/listen.html To begin our sunday session Victoria Hume (with cello accompaniment) performs a set of beautifully cerebral folk-pop with elements of contemporary art music, finely crafted and delicately observational in its execution. youtube/watch?v=2JaU5LRjDD0
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 20:00:20 +0000
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