Description
Ritual Ashing with Tom Chandler
Ash Ingalls, cello, zhongruan & Ellen Schloff, violin
Tom Chandler, oud & guitar
Dinçer/Burgenbauch Duo
Elif Dinçer, harp & Zac Burgenbauch, lap steel
$20 – $40 Suggested Donation
Artist Bios:
Tom Chandler is a Bay Area based guitarist, oud player, composer and improviser. After graduating from the Berklee College of Music, Tom Chandler studied with the great Nubian oud master Hamza El Din. He has performed and recorded mystical Turkish Sufi music with the Latif Bolat Ensemble, written music for, recorded and performed with the medieval music group Heliotrope, and been a member of the West African-inspired folk group the Palm Wine Boys from 1993-2006. He has led his own jazz-Arabic fusion groups, composes extended drone music, and explores the mystical side of extreme distortion guitar music, in a continuing search for musical transcendence, or “tarab”.
Each Ritual Ashing performance is an intuitive process of becoming and unbecoming, realized through waves of textural exploration, resonant drones, and modal improvisation. Using an earthy palette of acoustic instrumentation through looper pedals and electronic effects, this vibrational practice conjures spiritual energies from within, while simultaneously seeking a deeper harmony with the dynamic ecology of the Mojave desert where the music is created.
Elif Dinçer and Zac Burgenbauch are an improvising duo from Los Angeles. Together they explore the outer reaches of the harp and lap steel guitar, utilizing preparations, extended techniques, alternative tunings, and electronics to produce whispering textures, spontaneous chirps, shimmering drones, and lovely folk melodies.
