Festival of the Winds

Kim will be performing as a Wandering Minstrel at the Festival of the Winds at Bondi on Sunday September 12th.  Music 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

Kim Sanders & Friends will make their long-anticipated return to performing with a gig at Qirkz temporary venue at Club 103 on August 29 (venue is now confirmed).

Getting down with Kim Sanders & Friends at Qirkz

* Kim Sanders: inflato-bags, breath tubes, honk’n'blurtin

* Llew Kiek: strange string things

* Mark Szeto: beefy bottom end

* Bobby Singh: bent beats

QIRKZ is pleased to be able to temporarily move all shows a few doors down the road – to a space that is now one of Sydney’s most intimate live spaces…Music starts 7pm but come early for Greek food  including seafood, meat and vegetable dishes and meze.  Sorry no BYO at our interim space (103 is fully licensed) but Greek coffee and baklava will be available as well as meals/snacks.

Club 103
103 Railway Pde, Marrickville (cnr Marrickville Rd)
(100m from Sydenham train station!)
Plenty of parking if you’re coming by car.

Entry is $25 and $20 Concession (kids under 12 free)

Show starts 7pm sharp!

Due to popular demand, plans to re-form the band for an Indonesian tour and some Australian performances  in 2011 are going ahead. The tour was originally planned for 2010 but logistical constraints (Jabo and Reza are based in Indonesia, Kim and Ron in Australia) made this impossible at that time.

GengGong  has toured Indonesia three times, and released an album, “Not Just Music” to critical acclaim  in 2001. The album quickly sold out, but hopefully will be re-released next year.

Members of GengGong are:

Sawung Jabo: vocals, guitar, bonang and other gongs, masked dance, classy threads

Kim Sanders tenor sax, aardvark, ney (Sufi flute), gaida (Bulgarian bagpipe), mey and duduk (double reed instruments), saluang (Sumatran flute), gravitas

Ron Reeves kendang (Sundanese drums), sarunai (Sumatran shawm), didjeridu, genggong (Balinese jaws harp), buzz flute, vocals, getting down

Reza Achman jungle drum kit, percussion, vocals, rap dancing, attitude

Kim will be lecturing on “World Music in Film” at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in Sydney on Saturday 29^th May.

Kemal Esen, Haydar Tanriverdi, Kim Sanders, Fatih Kisaparmak

Kim was a guest with Fatih Kisaparmak and his band at Auburn in Sydney on March 13.

Due to scheduling problems, the Kim Sanders & Friends with Haydar Tanriverdi (Kim’s Turkish kaval teacher) and Kemal Esen (baglama) did not come off,  but they are likely to tour with Fatih Kisaparmak around this time in 2011.  If so the Kim Sanders & Friends gig will happen then.

High-altitude World Music at the Gearin

Kim Sanders & Friends return to the Gearin Hotel in Katoomba on Sunday December 6 for a performance of high-altitude World music.

The gig will include ska, Persian reggae and South African township jive as well as the band’s usual eclectic mix of  demented Balkan Gypsy dance grooves, Turkish Sufi meditations, Latin jazz and strange bent originals.

World Music veteran Sanders has studied with Sufi ney-masters in Turkey, played with Gypsy wedding-bands in Macedonia, in mosquito-infested nightclubs in Gambia, seedy tavernas in Greece, concert-halls in Turkey, Bulgaria  and Indonesia and tea-houses in China. He’s even played with Normie Rowe at Penrith Leagues Club – now that’s street cred!

Hong-Kong-born bassist Mark Szeto will be chunking out the bottom end.  “Mark will be playing fretless electric on this gig – we’re gonna funkify it a little”, says Kim. “The music will be a bit different with fretless. The band works with a pool of musicians, and each one brings something different so the music is always fresh.  But because we have played together so much in so many different contexts, we can improvise freely and the music can take unexpected turns without anyone falling off!   Mark is new blood, of course – this is his second gig with the band”. Mark has played with Monsieur Camembert, the Sydney Opera House Orchestra and joined Kim and Llew on Wizards of Odd tour in Sth Australia earlier this year.

Multi-instrumentalist Llew Kiek is best known for his work in Australia and Europe with world-jazz band  Mara! Llew and Kim have been playing together for more than twenty-five years in bands including Tansey’s Fancy, Silvia Entcheva Trio and Nakisa. He also plays on Kim Sanders & Friends latest CD “Bent Grooves”.

Percussionist Peter Kennard will be laying down the intricate beats on darabukka, dhaf, strange-looking drums and jingly things. “Peter’s the best in Australia on frame drums” says Kim “and also plays a pretty mean darabukka”.  Peter recently toured Australia with Gypsy guitarist Lulo Reinhardt. He has played with Ashok Roy, Sirocco, the Flying Fruitfly Circus and is a veteran of Kim’s legendary world/Gypsy band Brassov. He also collaborated with Kim on his acclaimed CD ‘Trance’n’Dancin’.

Kim Sanders: ney (Sufi flute), kaval (Bulgarian wooden flute), mey (Turkish double reed), Bulgarian and Turkish gaidas (bagpipes), tenor sax

Llew Kiek: bouzouki, baglama, oud

Mark Szeto: fretless electric bass

Peter Kennard: darabukka, dhaf, percussion

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“New and genuinely exciting” – Chris Williams, fROOTS Magazine (UK)

Kim Sanders and his friends show to be masters in Roots-jazz-fusion music.” – Eelco Schilder, Folkworld

“[His] his musical imagination unfolds with a marvellous fluidity, like a river being fed by many tributaries, with the main flow mingling beautiful, often melancholy melodies with evocative rhythms and exotic textures”

- John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald

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2.30 pm, Sunday December 6

Gearin Hotel
273 Great Western Hwy, Katoomba (near the station)

$20/15 conc
Lunch available 12 – 3 pm

Info and bookings: (02) 4782 4395

On October 24 Kim will be performing at a fundraising concert to help reconstruction after the earthquakes in Sumatra. Other performers will be The Rhythm Hunters (led by Rendra Freestone, himself a Sumatran), the Suara Indonesia Dance Group and special guests. Proceeds will go to Indonesian Red Cross Earthquake Appeal.
Saturday October 24
The Rhythm Hut
145 Erina St
Gosford
For info and enquiries see therhythmhut.com.au

Those who can’t make the gig might like to make a donation either via the Rhythm Hut or Indonesian Red Cross