Max Height: flutes, Mo-min Ti: mallet kat and effects
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This is a fusion of traditional folk instruments ,and modern electronics. Max improvises over the mallet kat and effects…. playing concert flutes and folk flutes to get a feel of Central Asia and the Middle East. There is also a jazz influence …..Roland Kirk and Ornette Coleman through the concert flutes.
The Zorna …. a wooden double reed wind instrument played in Central Asia, The Middle East, North Africa, and south eastern Europe. Images are visible on Hittite stone reliefs from c2000BC.
The Ney …. a hollow cane end blown flute …. known to be played over 4,500 years ago in Egypt.This is a traditional instrument in Persian, Turkish, Jewish, Arab, and Egyptian music. Though modern instruments are available in plastic and metal.
The Chinese flute…. made from bamboo with six or more fingerholes. It features a dimo.. a hole with a bamboo shoot membrane. This is used in traditional opera, and folk performances.
The Duduk …. a double reed woodwind instrument made from Apricot wood in Armenia. Variations appear through the Caucasus mountains, southeast Europe and the middle east.
The combination of modern electronics and traditional instruments presents an interesting soundscape of the Islamic world.
Geoffrey Totton
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