Vula Viel at Mystic (1 van 8) by Maarten Kerkhof
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Bex Burch, gyil. Dan Nichols, keys, bass synth. Dave De Rose, Simon Roth. George Crowley, sax.
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A preview of what you can expect at the UNITE concert.
Tickets here: bpt.me/935289
3rd October 2014 at Queen Elizabeth Hall (Front Room), London SE1.
Metal Wood Skin: The Colin Currie Percussion Festival / Friday Tonic (free event).
Country: Britain. Style: Traditional Dagaare.
Lineup: Bex Burch (gyil), George Crowley (tenor sax), Dan Nicholls (keyboards), Stephen Burke.(vibraphone), Dave De Rose (d), Simon Roth (d)
Bex Burch is a Classically trained percussionist who spent some time living amongst the Dagaare people in Upper West Ghana. There she learned to make and play the Gyil. Back in the UK she formed this band to play Dagaare music with Jazz musicians from the Loop Collective and elsewhere (in addition to those at this gig the project involves or has involved Jim Hart, Tom Challenger and Dave Smith). The only member of the band I have photographed before is Simon Roth with Paprika and Alan Bern (to view click on the tag of his name).
More information: bexburch.wordpress.com/vula-viel/, www.facebook.com/BexBurchMusic.
3rd October 2014 at Queen Elizabeth Hall (Front Room), London SE1.
Metal Wood Skin: The Colin Currie Percussion Festival / Friday Tonic (free event).
Country: Britain. Style: Traditional Dagaare.
Lineup: Bex Burch (gyil), George Crowley (tenor sax), Dan Nicholls (keyboards), Stephen Burke.(vibraphone), Dave De Rose (d), Simon Roth (d)
Bex Burch is a Classically trained percussionist who spent some time living amongst the Dagaare people in Upper West Ghana. There she learned to make and play the Gyil. Back in the UK she formed this band to play Dagaare music with Jazz musicians from the Loop Collective and elsewhere (in addition to those at this gig the project involves or has involved Jim Hart, Tom Challenger and Dave Smith). The only member of the band I have photographed before is Simon Roth with Paprika and Alan Bern (to view click on the tag of his name).
More information: bexburch.wordpress.com/vula-viel/, www.facebook.com/BexBurchMusic.
Bernard Woma, Artistic Director of Saakumu Dance Troupe and the founder and director of the Dagara Music and Arts Center in Accra, Ghana.
www.bernardwoma.com/
Bernard Woma, Artistic Director of Saakumu Dance Troupe and the founder and director of the Dagara Music and Arts Center in Accra, Ghana.
www.bernardwoma.com/
Bernard Woma, Artistic Director of Saakumu Dance Troupe and the founder and director of the Dagara Music and Arts Center in Accra, Ghana.
www.bernardwoma.com/
Special Instructor, World Music
World Percussion and World Music Program Coordinator
www.oakland.edu
Bernard Woma, Artistic Director of Saakumu Dance Troupe and the founder and director of the Dagara Music and Arts Center in Accra, Ghana.
www.bernardwoma.com/
The gyil is one of the top ancestors of the xylophones, balafons, marimbas, vibraphones (vibes)...a musical instrument played with mallets, striking graduated keys, suspended over hollowed gourds which act as resonators.
Those white "patches" on the gourds are traditionally spiderwebs pasted over the open holes of the gourd. This material creates a fabulous buzzing sound when the instrument is played and this is highly regarded.
Bernard Woma explained that he discovered a substitute material for repairing dried or damaged spiderwebbing while away from Ghana, his homeland: the packaging envelopes provided free by FedEx!
3rd October 2014 at Queen Elizabeth Hall (Front Room), London SE1 (Vula Viel gig).
The Gyil is a Xylophone of the Gur people found in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Malui and Ivory Coast. It has (usually) 14 wooden keys attached to a wooden frame below which hang calabash gourds. The instrument is played with rubber headed mallets. Traditionally it is featured in an ensemble of two instruments with a drummer.
Gyils are assigned the number 111.212 in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification of musical instruments ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornbostel-Sachs ), indicating:
1 = Idiophones. Sound is primarily produced by the actual body of the instrument vibrating, rather than a string, membrane, or column of air.
11 = Struck Idiophones. These idiophones are set in vibration by being struck.
111 = Directly Struck Idiophones. The player himself executes the movement of striking; whether by mechanical intermediate devices, beaters, keyboards, or by pulling ropes, etc.
111.2 = Percussive idiophones. The instrument is struck either with a non-sonorous object (hand, stick, striker) or against a non-sonorous object (human body, the ground).
111.21 = Percussion sticks.
111.212 = Sets of percussion sticks.
3rd October 2014 at Queen Elizabeth Hall (Front Room), London SE1 (Vula Viel gig).
The Gyil is a Xylophone of the Gur people found in Ghana, Burkina Faso, Malui and Ivory Coast. It has (usually) 14 wooden keys attached to a wooden frame below which hang calabash gourds. The instrument is played with rubber headed mallets. Traditionally it is featured in an ensemble of two instruments with a drummer.
Gyils are assigned the number 111.212 in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification of musical instruments ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornbostel-Sachs ), indicating:
1 = Idiophones. Sound is primarily produced by the actual body of the instrument vibrating, rather than a string, membrane, or column of air.
11 = Struck Idiophones. These idiophones are set in vibration by being struck.
111 = Directly Struck Idiophones. The player himself executes the movement of striking; whether by mechanical intermediate devices, beaters, keyboards, or by pulling ropes, etc.
111.2 = Percussive idiophones. The instrument is struck either with a non-sonorous object (hand, stick, striker) or against a non-sonorous object (human body, the ground).
111.21 = Percussion sticks.
111.212 = Sets of percussion sticks.
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Concert at LIbrary of Congress, 5/8/09
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Concert at Library of Congress, 5/8/09
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Concert at Library of Congress, 5/8/09
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Concert at Library of Congress, 5/8/09
