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Jul 25 2019

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Here's SANS at the Kaustinen Festival, Finland:

Tigran Aleksanyan: duduk

Sanna Kurki-Suonio: voice, kantele

Andrew Cronshaw: electric zither

Erika Hammarberg: voice, cornet

IB: bass clarinet, soprano sax

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Apr 24 2019

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Luminous, Australia's scariest lullaby album, is now downloadable from Helen Rivero's Bandcamp site:

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Mar 27 2019

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The album's doing well, with a win at Finland's EMMA awards and a number one spot in the Transglobal World Music chart. The Finnish press has excellent reviews in the Helsingen Sanomat…

Sep 19 2018

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There's a new SANS CD: it's called Kulku and we had a grand time recording it in rural Suffolk with producer Jim Sutherland and engineer Les Mommsen - and new, additional singer Erika Hammarberg, whose voice beautifully complements that of…

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Mar 17 2017

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I've been reading Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac in the Glyn Maxwell adaptation: I'll be doing the music for a production by Theatre in the Square which starts off in London in July, then goes to The Minack in Cornwall in…

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Jul 5 2016

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The SANS Sessions, in June, in London, attracted a nice line-up of musical guests including Louai Alhenawi playing ney and daf, fiddler Ric Sanders, and voice from Erika Hammarberg: all adding to that element of surprise that's essential to…

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Oct 19 2015

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On October 30th Thomas Laue will be playing a new piece of mine for carillon and soundtrack, which is based on a recording of an insomniac magpie singing beautifully outside my window in the wee small hours. Hence the title…

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Jul 4 2015

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In June I had my first trip to Iceland: to Akureyri for the VAKA festival. It was a welcome introduction to this country and its culture, and I especially enjoyed getting to grips with some traditional Icelandic vocalising: the language…

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Mar 21 2015

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The experimental music 'summer camp' at ANU was most enjoyable: for me, a chance to get to grips with Arduino and Pure Data programming which surfaced in a piece for feedback-driven piano with loops, plus soprano sax, two oboes and…

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Jan 23 2015

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Some moments from the SANS concert at WOMAD below: and there's more SANS video at this playlist.

Studio stuff: I've been recording guitarist John Couch, playing a sonata by Campbell Ross and two pieces by Sally Greenaway…

Aug 30 2014

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Here's SANS at WOMAD onstage in the Arboretum. A video clip will be along in a while which should capture some of the atmosphere of a great gig. A couple of days later we played at Petworth Festival on a…

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Mar 27 2014

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There's a new SANS CD on the way, recorded live on our Flanders tour back in December. It'll be released in time for the May tour of England. This summer we'll also be playing at Finland's Haapavesi Festival and…

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