Zai Circle to perform with Toatal Experience Gospel Choir for the Haiti Relief Benefit Concert. Friday May 14, 2010 Town Hall Seattle, WA. 7pm.

I am very honored to be a part of this great event. We will perform 2 new compositions from the upcoming CD Water Tiger 10. KeLan: Electric Bass, Terry Wergeland: Piano, Steven Banks: Drums, Jean Mann: Voice, Alicia Jones: Voice.

Water Tiger 10 (Three trios: Three paths) is coming!
I am finishing up the new Zai Circle CD featuring 3 separate trios in a conversation on 3 poems. The trios include: KeLan Basses, guitars, loops and percussion. Trio #1: Jean Mann: Voice, Alicia Jones: Voice. Trio #2: KeLan, Greg Sinibaldi: Tenor Sax and EWI, Steven Banks: Drums. Trio #3: KeLan, Terry Wergeland: Accordion, Fluglehorn, Piano, Abel Rocha: Harp and Voice. With all new original compositions by KeLan. We will be doing a CD release concert with all trios at the Good Shepard Chapel in Seattle, Thursday June 24th at 7-pm. Tickets will be available on May 3rd. Please join us for this exciting concert.
see you there!
KeLan

“Dialogues of Here and Now”

Musical Conversations for Peace exploring the cultural, generational, physical and metaphorical divide in multi-dimensional improvisations.

Each conversation in the Fall Concert Series, will be a combination of music, visual, and oratory mediums to convey the message of each given topic/ discussion. The format of each conversation will be a combination of improvised and written
music structures. The main focus of Zai Circle is to be driven by the improvisational process just as in any spoken conversation. The dialogue between the performers and the audience needs to be open to changing directions and experience outcomes that were not planned.

Dialogue # 1:
"Flowadic Lines of 3"
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Dialogue # 2:
"Language of the Spirit" Convergence of 3 Centuries.
Thursday, October 8, 2009

Dialogue # 3:
PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME IS 8:00pm
“The Sound of Home”: Floating Flutes over Intangible Walls
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Dialogue # 4:
PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME IS 8:00pm
Ribbons of Individuality: Voices of Clarity/Voices of Obscurity
Thursday, December 3, 2009

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

Show times: 8:00 pm

Tickets are available through Brown Paper Tickets

Dialogue #3: 11/10/09 https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/80608
Dialogue #4: 12/03/09 https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/80611

“Dialogues of Here and Now”
Musical Conversations for Peace exploring the cultural, generational, physical and metaphorical divide in multi-dimensional improvisations.

Dialogue # 3: The Sound of Home: Floating Flutes Over Intangible Walls
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
PLAESE NOTE new start time is 8:00pm doors open at 7:30

Featuring: KeLan: Electric Basses & guitars. Greg Sinibaldi: Tenor sax & bass clarinet. Madeline Sossin: Violin, voice, percussion, Sono Hashisaki: Electric violn, with Very Special guests: Middle Eastern woodwind virtuoso Norik Manukyan (from Armenia), and dance virtuoso, Maya Karasso from Israel!

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 Middle Eastern 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.

Dialogue # 4: Ribbons of Individuality: Voices of Clarity/Voices of Obscurity

Thursday, December 3, 2009
PLAESE NOTE new start time is 8:00pm doors open at 7:30

Featuring: KeLan: Electric Basses, 12 string guitar. Abel Rocha, Acoustic guitar and Harp. Alicia Jones: Voice, Jean Mann, Voice.

Peace. Culture. Religion. Tradition. As individuals we all have diverse views, opinions, and insights to each of these topics. These differences can be subtle or vast. They can be the thing that binds two people together or that separates nations by war and conflict. Is one voice louder-more correct-more important-than another? How does one person’s views effect and shape the others view. If we do not talk about our differences can we really understand our similarities? Does our own voice obscure what could be a profound understanding of what is around us-of what we are, as individuals? Dialogue 4 explores the question of clarity and obscurity with two drastically different “spoken and sung” voices, in contrast and in dialogue with a duo of rhythmic complexity including basses, and cultural stringed instruments, all driven by the response to the words and thoughts from the audience.

Dialogue # 1: "Flowadic Lines of 3"
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Zai Circle Trio
Featuring: KeLan: 5 and 6 string fretted and fretless electric basses, 12 string acoustic guitar, electric guitar, loops, and percussion. Sono Hashisaki: acoustic and electric violins. Terry Wergeland: accordion, trumpet, flugelhorn, piano and theremin."

ZCT has emerged out of the various conversations that have taken place in Zai Circle and engages the desire to explore a deeper and more involved "ongoing" conversation with a set group of players. Not a “typical” trio both in sound and space, ZCT lives in a blurred plane of improvised and written conversations-a blend of chamber music, jazz, and sound textures. ZCT explores color, texture and sound in the triadic form. Underscored by the equal lateral triangle of symmetry, balance, fluidity, space, precision, sharp angles, and balanced transitions, this deeply connected conversation seeks to promote peace through the resolutions, (or non resolutions), of the geometric forces created in the universal power of 3.

Dialogue # 2: "Language of the Spirit" Convergence of 3 Centuries.

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.