Nick Tsiavos Ensemble @ 45 downstairs flinders lane

In Times less Sacred' Track 3

The new millennium, not yet a decade old, has been marked by enormous natural calamity, wars without end, and fear of instability and change. Yet here we are again, entering into Advent and trying to relax, turning our attention to the rites of the season, and its accompanying pleasures.

The intense and sublime beauty of Ancient Sacred Chant fuses rich and potent text with music that longs to transcend the moment, and the world. These texts, which speak of rapture and adoration, are the palimpsest to a radical sound-world that is both a homage and a critical renewal of them.

Yet, at the same instant, this is a response to the aftermath of the big Indian Ocean tsunami, the earthquake at Bam, Iran,and other cataclysmic events of the new millenium ( natural and man-made ) filtered through a deconstructed, and possible total misunderstanding of the paintings of Hieronymous Bosch, and read through a total lack of care of modern eschatological thought!

Nick Tsiavos continues his ongoing engagement with Ancient Chant with an ensemble of internationally acclaimed musicians that transcend genre; from Early Music to Modern, Complexity to Improvisation, Minimalism to Jazz.

Deborah Kayser - Soprano

Adam Simmons - Saxophones, and other things blown

Eugene Ughetti - Percussion

Peter Neville - Percussion

Nick Tsiavos - Contrabass, Artistic Direction

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Jan Garbareck
• ECM
• Pat Metheny
• Chick Corea
• Wayne Shorter
• Miles Davis
• John Coltrane
• Bill Evans

[monhiver]

very nice and intresting piece of music, as usual Deborah is extraordinary and fantastic. Thanks for the vid.