Tradition and Improvised Music #3
Experimental
Tradition and Improvised Music #3
Our series launched under the title "Tradition and Free Music" featured the first two events, both sold-out and with a great atmosphere, showcasing unique concerts featuring rarely heard Asian musical traditions at home, with performances by musicians from there and locally. Following the concerts "Epic Poetries of the Altay and Nogay from Central Asia" and "Epic Poems of Alpamis and Manas from Central Asia," the free event at the Open-Air Theatre will present "The Epic of Gurguli, a Tajik Heroic Poem, and the Collective Sufi Trance of Kurbazm from the Foothills of the Pamir." The meeting of improvised free music and Inner Asian traditional music gives rise to unique productions on a global scale.
Mr Mirzo comes from Tajikistan, from a traditional rural environment, where he mostly plays the Gurguli epic on a dutar stringed instrument, which is similar to the southern Uzbek dombra, at weddings and other celebrations. He is a characteristic figure in the rural area, who also enjoys participating in horse racing competitions (bus-kasi) with his team. His village (Csolto) is home to many excellent musicians, including Bek Nazar, with whom he plays Tajik music, which is greatly influenced by Pamiri (Badakhshani) and Afghan musical culture, as their ancestors also came to Tajikistan from this region. One such piece of music is called Kurbazen, which is essentially a collective trance, referring to a musical form in which several musicians playing traditional instruments, singers and dancers join in and help the audience forget their everyday worries and troubles.
We will get a glimpse of this during the concert with the participation of new and old members of the Turán Road Music ensemble (Ádám Mészáros, Róbert Kerényi, András Halmos, Ernő Hock, Ernő Zoltán Rubik).
PERFORMERS
Mr Mirzo - throat singing, dutar
Bek Nazar - keyboards, vocals
Ádám Mészáros - guitar
Róbert Kerényi - Turkish flute
András Halmos - percussion
Ernő Hock - bass guitar
Ernő Zoltán Rubik - keyboards
Rock Troubadours (US, 70s): CSNY, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, Roy Harper
Covered Open-air Stage concerts
The program will be held even in rainy weather, as the Open-air Stage is largely covered.
