KUDSI ERGUNER ENSEMBLE 'ISLAM BLUES' AND THE KAMKARS
Date: 27 September 2008
Time: 8pm
Venue: THE BARBICAN CENTRE, The Barbican
Kudsi Erguner is a ney flute player, a master of the Mevlevi-Sufi music of the 'whirling dervishes'. In addition to traditional music Kudsi has performed with Peter Gabriel, Jean Michel Jarre, Maurice Béjart, Peter Brook, George Aperghis, Didier Lockwood, and many others.
For this concert he blends Turkish Sufi music with a jazz approach. HIs band includes two of Turkey's leading muezzin who will perform the Sufi chants as well as Serbian jazz pianist Bojan Z.
Traditional music by Kudsi Erguner on Youtube
Kudsi Erguner, ney
Yunus Balcıoğlu, ezan (prayer chant)
Halil Necipoğlu, ezan (prayer chant)
Hakan Güngör, kanun
Derya Türkan, kemençe
Bruno Caillat, percussion
Mark Nauseef, drums
Chris Jennin, double bass
Bojan Z, piano
The concert is a double bill with the amazing KAMKAR brothers - a family of brothers from Iran who perform lively and colourful traditional Iranian Kurdish songs.
The Kamkars on YouTube (Nobel Peace Prize concert presented by..er..Catherine Zeta Jones?)
++ Freestage after the concert.
Tickets
http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=7831
Box Office 020 7638 8891
Map
http://www.barbican.org.uk/visitor-information