Friday,
September 14 -
Monterey Institute of International Studies,
Irvine Auditorium,
499 Pierce Street, Monterey
7:00 Opening Reception
8:00 "Storm Over Asia"
A silent film by V.I. Pudovkin (1928),
with accompanying music
by YAT-KHA (Tuva)
The classic 1928 silent Russian film by Vsevolod Pudovkin, "Storm Over Asia - Heir of Genghis Khan", has been called a "Formalist masterpiece." Presented here, original and uncensored, it is accompanied by celebrated Tuvian fusion throat-singing sensation, Yat-Kha....
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Monterey Institute of International Studies,
Irvine Auditorium,
499 Pierce Street, Monterey
7:00 Opening Reception
8:00 "Storm Over Asia"
A silent film by V.I. Pudovkin (1928),
with accompanying music
by YAT-KHA (Tuva)
The classic 1928 silent Russian film by Vsevolod Pudovkin, "Storm Over Asia - Heir of Genghis Khan", has been called a "Formalist masterpiece." Presented here, original and uncensored, it is accompanied by celebrated Tuvian fusion throat-singing sensation, Yat-Kha....
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Saturday , Sept. 15
HONORING ASIA
Noon-6pm
Custom House Plaza
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Famous
for their musical skills and innovations in Vietnam, the Khac-Chi
Ensemble has gained a new audience throughout North America and
Europe, with their first album reaching the Top Ten of World Music
charts....
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Urna
Chahar-Tugchi was born into a family of livestock farmers in the
grasslands of the Ordos district in the s0uthwest of Inner Mongolia.
She learned hundreds of traditional Mongolian songs from her grandmother
and parents....
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Yat-Kha
first emerged in 1991 at the "Voice of Asia Festival".
Brian Eno was so impressed he invented a "Special Prize"
for Albert Kuvezin's ultra-bass "kanzat" throat-singing....
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The
San Francisco Taiko Dojo is not strictly a performance organization,
but rather a school. The Dojo teaches not only the skillful playing
of percussion instruments, but also the discipline of mind and
body in the spirit of complete respect and unity among the drummers....
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Saturday, September 15 -
Royal Chapel, San Carlos Cathedral, Church Street
8:00pm
"The Celtic Shore - Medieval Music from Galway to Galicia"
ALTRAMAR, medieval music ensemble
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In
this program, Altramar medieval music ensemble sets sail on a
voyage of discovery across the ocean of geography, time, and memory,
to rediscover the ancient Celtic cultures of the Atlantic whose
influences are still felt in the poetry, music, and history of
Iberia, Galia, Brittania, and Hibernia.
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Sunday , Sept. 16
ZIG-ZAG JOURNEYS
Noon-6pm
Custom House Plaza
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Highly
skilled musicians Abel Rocha and Madeleine Sosin combine silken
harmonies and an unusual array of instruments with a rich mastery
of traditional rhythmic patterns and song. Hailed for their musical
and vocal virtuosity and their original interpretations of folkloric
music, Correo Aereo takes audiences on an unforgettable journey
into the sonic riches of Latin America. ...
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Yuri
Yunakov, born of Turkish Rom (Gypsy) ancestry and Bulgaria's most
famous saxophone player, is one of the founders and most popular
performers of "wedding music". Fast speeds, plummeting
key changes, impossible rhythms; village folk tunes melded with
jazz, rock, Turkish and Indian music; all combine to create one
of the most thrilling musical sounds today....
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Nass
Marrakech's sound is full of energy, so it must be sensed with
one's whole body, allowing yourself to be taken utterly by the
swooping planes of percussion, the circular rhythms of the karkabas
(metallic castenets), and the melodies of lute and mandolin.
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Tarika's
name means simply "the group" or "led by"
- or in their case, "the group". They have evolved a
unique, modern blend from the roots music of the different regions
of their Indian Ocean island home, strongly featuring local instruments
in a way that has been described as "virtuoso traditional
music with the energy of punk rock!"....
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