Mustafa Karami

“We’ve had some Persian and Kurdish tunes in the repertoire for a while – including Persian reggae” says Kim “but this gig will give us a chance to learn a few new grooves. Mustafa and I played together in Davood Tabrizi’s Far Seas last year, and hopefully that will be an ongoing project too. Llew Kiek has also played some Iranian music over the years, and Peter Kennard is a great frame-drum player, so there should be a lot of things happening”.

There will also be music with a Balkan Gypsy brass band feel, driven along by Sam Golding’s sousaphone.

Kim Sanders: ney, kaval, gaida, saxofon
Llew Kiek: bouzouki, baglama, oud
Sam Golding: sousaphone
Peter Kennard: percussion
and special guest Mustafa Karami bringing a taste of Persian nights on oud, vocals and percussion

Friday 10th February 2012
Camelot Lounge
19 Marrickville Rd (cnr Railway Pde, 2 mins walk from Sydenham station)
Marrickville, NSW
Entry: $25/$20

Doors open 7.30 for 9 pm start

Bookings: http://www.trybooking.com/BDAJ

Fully licenced. Pizzas, mezzes, snacks and sorbets available.

For more info http://www.camelotlounge.com/

World Music pioneer Kim Sanders has become the first Australian to have a composition of Turk Klasik Muzigi (Turkish Classical Music) published in Turkey.

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“Saba Saz Semai” has been published on www.neyzen.com, a website dedicated to the ney, the flute used by the Mevlevi Order of Dervishes, known as the Whirling Dervishes. It contains an extensive archive of Turkish Classical and Sufi music.
Sanders first visited Turkey in 1984, and has returned many times since to study and perform. Originally interested in Gypsy and folk music, he began his studies in ney and Turkish Classical Music in 1993.
“A makam is the equivalent of a raga in Indian Classical Music,” he says. “I have been studying Saba Makam for nearly twenty years now, and I felt I knew it well enough to attempt a formal composition. It is a great honour to be published by Neyzen.com.”
Kim will be performing on ney and a variety of other instruments with Kim Sanders & Friends at the Sound Lounge in the Seymour Centre on Friday December 9th.

For more info, HiRes photos, to arrange interviews etc contact Kim at kimzgaida@hotmail.com or +61 2 9569 4203

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“The thing about Steve is, wherever the music takes us – and in this band we go to some places that might seem pretty strange to some people – Steve always plays so musically” says Kim. “Tonally, melodically, rhythmically. He’s a great improviser, and has been playing various kinds of ‘world music’ – how I hate marketing terms! – for long enough to be able to play without thinking about the sources he has internalised. And I have been playing with Steve, Sandy and the others for so long now that we can all forget that stuff, and just play! That’s when the magic happens!

A lot of my tunes consist of a circular bass-line, a melody-line and a rhythm. The bass-line holds it all together. When you have a bass-player like Steve, when you are improvising, you always know exactly where you are, even though the tune might be in 13/8 or 17/8, because the feel is there. It’s like a Cuban son tune – Cachao Lopez never plays the bass-line the same way twice but the feel is there, all right! The African infinite-minute-variation approach.

We’ll be sorry to see him go, but we’ll all be fired up at the gig!”

In a career spanning more than twenty-five years Kim Sanders has performed with Gypsy wedding bands in Macedonia, studied with Sufi ney-masters in Turkey, played in mosquito-infested night-clubs in Gambia, tavernas in Greece, concert-halls indonesia and China and on national radio in Bulgaria.

The occasion is also an opportunity for the band to perform with two drummers, Toby Hall, a regular at the Sound Lounge and Peter Kennard, a superb colourist and a master of the frame drum. Together with Steve, it’s a dynamite rhythm section! They will be joined by saxophonist Sandy Evans, herself an explorer in many World Music idioms including the Classical Carnatic tradition of Southern India.

* Kim Sanders: Ganesha (hybrid Bulgarian/Turkish/Balinese/Australian bagpipe), ney (Turkish Sufi flute), kaval (Bulgarian wooden flute, mey (Turkish double reed), tenor sax
* Sandy Evans: tenor and soprano saxes
* Steve Elphick: double bass
* Toby Hall: drums
* Peter Kennard: dhaf (Middle-Eastern frame drum), darabukka (Balkan/Middle-Eastern goblet drum), percussion

8.30 – 11pm
Friday Dec 9
The Sound Lounge
The Seymour Centre
Cnr City Rd & Cleveland St
Chippendale
$20(non-member) – $15 (member) – $10 (student)
Details and on-line bookings at www.sima.org.au

For HiRes photos, to arrange interviews etc contact Kim at kimzgaida@hotmail.com

This is the second in the Elphick’s Last Stand series put on by Sydney Improvised Music Association. The first will feature Steve with “The World According to James” at the Sound Lounge on Saturday November 26. Details, bookings at www.sima.org.au

Kim will be joined by Peter Kennard to perform and talk about Turkish and Middle-Eastern music for the Oriental Society of Australia at the Efendy Turkish restaurant in Balmain on December 9.

There will be plenty of seriously bent Balkan Gypsy-style brass-band music amongst the band’s unique mix of Sufi meditations, Afro-grooves and dance tunes of Middle-Eastern appearance.

Kim with Gypsy wedding band, Berovo, Macedonia, 1985

Following their rapturously-received duo gig in Enmore in September, Kim Sanders and Bobby Singh will be doing something a little different with Kim Sanders & Friends at the Empire. This will be Bobby’s last gig in Sydney for a while, as he is returning to India to perform and study with his guru Aneesh Pradhan. They will be joined by Kim Sanders & Friends stalwart Llew Kiek, and tuba/sousophone-player Sam Golding, making his debut with the band.

There will be plenty of seriously bent Balkan Gypsy-style brass-band music amongst the band’s unique mix of Turkish Sufi meditations, Afro-grooves and dance tunes of Middle-Eastern apearance.

Since first travelling to the area in 1984, Kim has spent a lot of time in Turkey and the Balkans playing Romani (Gypsy) music. “Sometimes stereotypes are true – and it’s a good thing! Those guys can really play!” he says. “The best music comes after the gig, of course, when they let their hair down. They’ll party all night!”

World Music pioneer Kim Sanders has performed with Gypsy wedding bands in Macedonia, in mosquito-ridden nightclubs in Gambia, smoky tavernas in Greece, on National Radio in Bulgaria and at concert-halls and recording studios in Turkey, China and Indonesia. He has played with Zimbabwean mbira-player Stella Chiweshe, The Bisserov Sisters (Bulgaria), Zülfü Livaneli, Fatih Kisaparmak, Okay Temiz, Birol Topaloglu, the Istanbul State Modern Folk Music Ensemble (all Turkish), Oppie Andaresta and Setiawan Djodi (Indonesia) and many others. In Australia he has performed with musicians from every continent except Antarctica.

Bobby Singh’s talent was recognised at an early age by Pandit Nikhil Ghosh, and is now a “must see” performer on the world music circuit as well as the Indian Classical scene. He has performed with Ashok Roy, Slava Grigoriyan, Joseph Tawadross and many cross-cultural ensembles including Flamenco Dreaming, the Far Seas and The Bird. He currently works with Circle of Rhythm and Dha, amongst others.

Multi-instrumentalist Sam Golding (trumpet, tenor horn, trombone, sousaphone, flutes, ukelele) performs in many musical settings from Senegalese Mbalax through traditional music from the Balkans, jazz small groups, reggae and cabaret. He is currently working hard with the bands Darth Vegas, The Glorious Sousaphonics, The Fantastic Terrific Munkle, Tango Saloon and The Mango Balloon.

Another Australian World Music pioneer, Llew Kiek (bouzouki, bağlama, guitar, tambura, keyboards) has recorded 10 albums and performed in 20 countries with ARIA-winning folk-jazz group Mara! In Australia he has worked with The Bisserov Sisters, Tenzing Tsewang, Silvia Entcheva, Martenitsa, Nakisa, the Renaissance Players, Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre and singers Jeannie Lewis and Margret RoadKnight.

Destan Destanovski

Dedicated to the memory of Rom musician Destan Destanovski of Berovo, Macedonia

THE EMPIRE HOTEL

103a  PARRAMATTA RD, ANNANDALE

7pm

SUNDAY OCTOBER 30th

$20/15 conc (Children welcome if accompanied by an adult)

Bistro food available

KOOCH (Persian meaning journey or migration):
An extrordinary music event celebrating the migration of Gypsy people around the globe.
Davood Tabrizi is an accomplished composer and performer from Iran. Trained in Western Classical and Persian Classical music, he has written, recorded and performed music extensively in Australia, Iran, Canada and the USA.

Tonight Davood brings together the most amazing world musicians in Australia -

Bobby Singh – tabla master; Aria award winner; disciple of Aneesh Pradhan; most sought after world musician
Kim Sanders – saxophone/wind instruments; studied Turkish Classical, Sufi, Gypsy and folk music
Metin Yilmaz – composer from Turkey; Kurdish master of kaval (trad flute)+ zorna; toured Middle East, Europe
Sukhi Singh – studied under Indian masters (Pandit Ashok Roy); recorded numerous classical/fusion albums
Boyd – clarinet/brass; composer/performer in theatre/film/radio; Sydney Con. graduate of Jazz Studies course
Mustafa Karami – Persian born daf and oud player & vocalist; best daf player award (Iran 2005,’06,’07)
Damian Wright – flamenco guitarist; studied extensively in Spain; founded Sydney-based ‘Bandaluzia’
Zoe Velez – flamenco singer and dancer; performed with several Australian flamenco ensembles
Jrisi Jusakos – Middle Eastern belly dancer; studied oriental belly dancing, flamenco and classical Indian dance

What the audience thought of ‘Kooch’:
“The music was truly magical” Anna
“…a combination of the best musicians – I’ve never seen anything like it!” Leo
“This is the best Cafe Carnivale concert ever” Lisa

NOTES
75 Enmore Road
Newtown, 2042

Info & Bookings:    http://noteslive.net.au (02) 9557 5111

Sat Oct 8th. Doors open and dinner 7, music starts 8.45.

World Music masters Kim Sanders and Bobby Singh will be exploring music from Turkey to India in an unplugged concert at St Luke’s Church Hall in Enmore on Sunday September 4.

The “jugalbandi” (literally “entwined twins”, if you are in India) or “muhabbet” (a relaxed chat, if in Turkey) is a musical conversation between two solo musicians. The programme will be a developed and extended version of a programme first presented in the Festival of Asian Music & Dance at Sydney Opera House in 2002.

This concert will feature Hindustani Classical rhythms, Turkish Classical makams, aetherial Sufi meditations and strange originals. Some pieces will be very traditional, and some will extend the boundaries somewhat. As well as traditional Turkish Classical (and Sufi) ney flute, Kim will be playing Turkish mey (similar to the Armenian duduk) and kaval, a wooden flute found in Turkey and the Balkans, and a hybrid Bulgarian- Turkish- Balinese- Australian bagpipe he calls the Ganesha.

Kim and Bobby have been performing together for more than ten years in Kim Sanders & Friends and other contexts, and have developed the kind of rapport that leads to all kinds of unexpected delights in the improvised parts of the music.

Be prepared to enter deep space!

Kim and Bobby have been playing together for many years and have recorded together on Kim Sanders & Friends CDs “You Can’t Get There From Here” and “Bent Grooves” (see Kim’s CDs page)

7 pm (Doors open 6.30)

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 4
ST. LUKE’S HALL
11 STANMORE RD
ENMORE
$20/15 concession

Light refreshments will be available

This concert was made possible the support of the Kinetic Energy Theatre Company See also Kinetic Jazz Festival

Kim’s CD’s   “Trance’n'Dancin” (with Peter Kennard) and Kim Sanders & Friends’ CDs “You Can’t get There From Here” and  “Bent Grooves” are now available online from iHear Music. You can download single tracks or whole albums. Brassov’s classic CD “Chronic Rhythmosis” (sold out in disc form) is now also available on iHear Music.   iHear Music supports Australian musicians – support them if you can!

The track “Saba Nefes II” (from “Trance’n'Dancin”) is included on the compilation “Groove Medicine – Groove Music” from Music Mosaic (another all-Australian outfit).  Individual tracks or full album downloadable online – http://www.music-mosaic.com/ecom/groove-music-medicine.php

Kim will be performing solo as a “Wandering Minstrel” from 2 – 5pm at the Festival of the Winds at Bondi Beach on Sunday Sept 11. Music, dancers, stilt-walkers and food from round the world. And kites, naturally. Bring the Kids.
Presented by the Bondi Pavilion in association with The Australian Kite flyers Society.
Info (02) 8362 3400

On Friday August 5th Kim will be participating in Kooch, a programme celebrating the migration of Gypsy peoples around the globe.

Musicians are
Davood Tabrizi: kemanche and percussion
Bobby Singh: tabla
Suki Singh: harmonium
Kim Sanders: gayda, tenor sax
Boyd: baritone sax
Metin Yilmaz: kaval, zurna
Mustafa Karami: daf, darabuka, doholl
Rafael Alceola: vocals
Greg Alfonzetti: flamenco guitar

8.15 pm

Eastside Arts in Paddington

Details and bookings: http://www.musicaviva.com.au/whatson/cafe-carnivale/kooch