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Musical Conversations for Peace
Zai Circle is the musical bridge to cultures from around the world...fusing them together with contemporary grooves in a musical conversation.
Geoff Ott Producer/Owner London Bridge Studios, Seattle WA
Fall Concerts 09
Dialogue #4
Ribbons of Individuality: Voices of Clarity/Voices of Obscurity
All Concerts will be held at:
The Good Sheppard Chapel Performance Space
4649 Sunnyside Ave. North (corner of 50th St. in Wallingford)
4th floor,
Seattle, WA 98103
Tickets are available through Brown Paper Tickets
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/80611
Fall Concert Series (all 4 concerts $10 savings): https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/80614
Dialogue # 3
Dialogue # 3:
“The Sound of Home”: Floating Flutes over Intangible Walls
The Good Sheppard Chapel Performance Space
4649 Sunnyside Ave. North (corner of 50th St. in Wallingford)
4th floor,
Seattle, WA 98103
Show times: 7:30 pm
Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/80608
Featuring. KeLan: 5 and 6 string electric basses, acoustic and electric guitars, loops. Madeleine Sosin, violins, voice, percussion. Sono Hashisaki, violins. Greg Sinibaldi, tennor sax. and others TBA.
What does “home” sound like? How does something become “home” no matter where we are geographically-no matter how distant in setting-no matter how uncomfortable in surroundings. For me it is sound that calls up “home”. If music has been a part of our culture perhaps one can hear that sound of our homeland and be instantly transported home again-instantly at peace with our distance. However the sound of our home may not be familiar, pleasing or comfortable to those around us. In dialogue 3 we explore this peace and tension with traditional Chinese flutes, voice, saxophone, violin, bass, guitar, dance, and projected images with the idea that we are “All” visitors and tolerance is the key to understanding-the key to home.
Tickets are available through Brown Paper Tickets
Dialogue # 2
Dialogue # 2: "Language of the Spirit" Convergence of 3 Centuries.
The Good Sheppard Chapel Performance Space
4649 Sunnyside Ave. North (corner of 50th St. in Wallingford)
4th floor,
Seattle, WA 98103
Show times: 7:30 pm
Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/80600
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Featuring. KeLan: 5 and 6 string electric basses, acoustic and electric guitars, loops. Masguda Shamsutdinova: voice. Greg Sinibladi: EWI. (electronic wind instrument). Steve Banks: snare drums and cymbals. DJ Gentle Gee: turntables, loops, and beats.
The "mystical and spiritual space" we occupy-whether conscious of it or not- overlaps many different eras, cultural parallels, and dissimilarities. In this conversation we will explore these worlds through the poetry of Rumi (1207-1273), and Emily Dickenson (1830-1860), interpreted in a modern (2009), dialogue, through spoken word/voice, electric guitars, loops, electric basses, turntables/beats and samples, EWI (electronic wind instrument), and percussion. We will cross these cultural generations of technology and sound and explore this conversation in three distinct languages: Russian, Tatarstan, and English, engaging the Avant Garde in our own unique “modern” voice of now.
Tickets are available through Brown Paper Tickets
