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Naast de Ham Sessions, three days of handmade music, zijn er ook de AchterHam Sessions, een reeks intieme huiskamerconcerten voor een luisterpubliek (+/- 50p) Plaats : de studio / het achterhuis van Ham 12 te Gent (of in de tuin als het weer het toelaat). |
AchterHam Session #4
Zondag 8 oktober 15u
coproductie met de Centrale
"BLACK SEA SONGS"
Sanem Kalfa (voc)
Joachim Badenhorst (rieten)
George Dumitriu (altviool/gitaar)
Zondag 8 oktober 15u
coproductie met de Centrale
"BLACK SEA SONGS"
Sanem Kalfa (voc)
Joachim Badenhorst (rieten)
George Dumitriu (altviool/gitaar)
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A Turkish female vocalist/cellist from coastal Trabzon, a guitarist/violist from Bacău in the Romanianinland and, as a wild card, a Flemish clarinetist/saxophonist from Antwerp, three true characters with a longer conjoint musical practice, met in the urban delta of The Lowlands to work on a variety of songs originating from the Black Sea. Jointly Sanem Kalfa, George Dumitriu and Joachim Badenhorst scraped out their own essences form the oscillations of various sonic edges and folded interiors, thereby joyously inscribing richly morphing forms into the ether.
Clearing up the air to give breath to ten of these old songs they feel close to, these three musicians let emerge a selection of Turkish, Georgian, Lazi, Pontus Greek and Tatarian origin to receive illumination and shine. Far from delivering newly polished up versions, they draw us into the process of their momentary discovery of these long-lived songs. They catch them on the edge of emergence, in their transient volatility, at their merging and fading sides as well as in their full brightness and at their most playfully prancing and bouncing character. Kalfa, Dumitriu and Badenhorst form a complementary trinity of a special kind. Kalfa, the dedicated ‘she, who sings’, is the extravert, outgoing part. By snake-like introduction of her enlivening impulses, she initiates and imbues wild, soft and whispering wanderings. Dumitriu, with his atmospheric sensitivity, his vigilant awareness of form and shape, sets prudent accents as well as slightly puckish vectors at surprising moments. Badenhorst, then, is the wild card: attentively present, he is all ears and serves as a grounding force enshrouding the rising florescence and merge of the frequencies. May it open and enjoy listeners’ ears, connect to their inner melody and enrich it beyond the known and beaten track. Henning Bolte |
