Music By The Sea

MARCH: EAST OF WEST �AND BEIER � GRIFFIN � POLLAK TRIO �

This concert offers double the joy for lovers of Mediterranean, Balkan, and Macedonian inspired music when East of West, and Beier � Griffin � Pollak Trio perform on Saturday, 6 March. �

With the addition of some jazz, and sounds from original hand-made instruments, added to the warp and weft of the fabric, both trios will take you on a journey across the fertile borderland between genres.

Like a weaver's thread, Philip Griffin is the link between both camps. I'm the common element in both as a person, and also that my main instrument in both groups is the oud ' the fretless lute,� Phillip said.

On either side of me in East of West is composer Goran Gajic with a double bass, and Malindi Morris on hand percussion.

Either side of me in the other trio is Lindsey Pollak on his vast array of wind instruments, and Tunji Beier with an array of largely South Indian hand percussion. So, there's a certain level of excitement, a higher level of excitement with these instruments.

Broadly speaking, both groups perform in a style you might call contemporary modal music. That means we're interested in melody and rhythm, and not so much harmonically.

We're quite concerned with the emotional architecture of how pieces are constructed, and what journey the audience is invited to go on through those different moods.

When prepared to enter into this sound world, some people say they feel like they're in a market in a faraway place. It reminds them; takes them back.�

East of West & Beier � Griffin � Pollak Trio
Saturday, 6 March, 7.30pm
Sandgate Town Hall
Book online - www.musicbythesea.com.au


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