World Music Cross-Over
Asavari - Painters of Sound
Multicultural Cross-over World Music Ensemble
The epitome of synergy, a sensational world music fusion! Four continents and cultures meet. Four individualistic, internationally experienced virtuoso artists, all on the move as soloists, composers, and routine ensemble musicians, four fascinating personalities und biographies from Nowhere and Everywhere join in a multi-cultural cross-over world music ensemble to create a unique, moving sound spectacle: vibration, fiery potential, new horizons!
The synthesis of modal improvisational structures of the ancient Persian music tradition with folkloristic sounds from the Mongolian prairies, poured over and spiced with harmonies from the musical languages of the Western world.
Gernot Blume, Multi-instrumentalist and world music expert from Germany, he represents through his virtuoso sound magic on piano, harp, mandolin, accordion, keyed fiddle, flutes, Indian sitar and other instruments in connection with his multi-stylistic know-how in folk, world music, jazz, and new music, the global spectrum, the basis for the cooperation of the ensemble Asavari.
Enkhjargal Dandarvaanchig, voice miracle from Mongolia, musically travels between cultures. He plays the traditional Mongolian horse-head-fiddle 'Morin Khoor' and champions in highest perfection the characteristic under- and overtone singing 'Harhiraa and Höömii.' Enthusiastically he melts his traditional roots with modern, Western influenced music and improvisation.
Jamal Samavati, born in Iran, is the disciple and successor of Mohammed Reza Lotfi, who is named as a grand master of Persian music and a treasure of the music world. Samavati himself is a virtuoso of this oriental art music tradition and counts as one of the best Tar- and Setar soloists of the present. Besides imitating vocal qualities, he makes human emotion audible and tangible with the long necked lute Tar.
Julie Spencer, American exceptional artist and marimba virtuoso, she enchants with her unusual percussion instruments and her profoundly personal vocal style. Her expertise in the areas of jazz, classical and contemporary Western music as well as world music from India, Africa, and Indonesia, unmistakably join together in the music.
translated interview from "Jazzpodium"
Music from All Corners of the World
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Short melodic fragments emerge from the harp, the tar contributes graceful, finely wrought lines, the horse-head fiddle fills in the sound painting with melancholic harmony chords, and hovering above the instrumental textures soars a high humming voice with slight vibrato […] Jazzpodium, February 2008
