Tarhu Connections, by Ros Bandt

Tarhu Connections

by Ros Bandt

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★★★☆☆ (3/5) Favorite track: Mediterraneo 01.Yerebatan Sarnici II.

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1.	Mediterraneo 01.Yerebatan Sarnici II 08:33	info	buy track
2.	Mediterraneo 02. Tragoudia I 03:28	info	buy track
3.	Mediterraneo 03. Demeter 03:13	info	buy track
4.	Mediterraneo 04. Listening through the Walls 11:49	info	buy track
5.	Mediterraneo 05. From the Venetian Mansion 02:11	info	buy track
6.	Mediterraneo 06. Hania in the Rain 04:15	info	buy track
7.	Mediterraneo 07. Yerebatan Sarnici I 08:23	info	buy track
8.	Mediterraneo 08. From the Shofar 03:22	info	buy track
9.	Mediterraneo 09. Jiring Jiring Lullaby 02:23	info	buy track
10.	Mediterraneo 10. Tell Us 04:54	info	buy track
11.	Mediterraneo 11. Fragment 00:22	info	buy track
12.	Mediterraneo 12. Four Murders in Four Minutes 04:00	info	buy track
13.	Mediterraneo 13. Ggantija 01:35	info	buy track
14.	Mediterraneo 14. Tragoudia II 04:05	info	buy track
15.	Pacifica 01. Silk Bamboo Wind 03:38		buy track
16.	Pacifica 02. Hydra 06:39		buy track
17.	Pacifica 03. Whale 03:40		buy track
18.	Pacifica 04. Sheng & Tarhu in the Bush 03:04		buy track
19.	Pacifica 05. Rimu 05:08		buy track
20.	Pacifica 06. Far Away Lands 04:39		buy track
21.	Pacifica 07. Fields of Gold 03:55		buy track
22.	Pacifica 08. Stranded on Ice 05:22		buy track
23.	Pacifica 09. Lyres & Lyrebirds 02:10		buy track
24.	Pacifica 10. Pandora’s Box 06:00		buy track
25.	Pacifica 11. Rapturous 03:37		buy track
26.	Pacifica 12. Windharps Remix 08:09		buy track

about

The tarhu is my divining tool. I never know if it will celebrate, lament, shudder, roar, sing, pluck, rattle, or in fact come out of its case at all. Over the last 10 years I could not have predicted the journeys we have had together and the connections it has formed. It is my Bull of Minos. It has a special affinity with Hania, Crete, having lived there many times. It has travelled many continents and sounded 5 UNESCO heritage sites and biosphere reserves. It has been flooded in the depths of water cisterns and oceans, climbed to the highest mountains in Crete, lamented whales on Japanese radio, vibrated and laughed in the wind, sent messages via solar power to other musicians in 55 acres of Australian bush and accompanied 9 concert harpists forming a cobweb in the concert hall. It has played to silent movies, and videos, and in trucks, deserts and carparks. It’s bow has been tied up to glass trees which shake on every stroke. For me the tarhu questions the nature of the now, the immediacy of being alive and the connections we make. How and what are we communicating through sound, for whom and why and where? The tarhu has been a vehicle to expand intercultural dialogue through non-verbal communication as it accompanies the unknown sounds of the Persian texts of Rumi, original Maltese poetry and ancient Greek. It retunes for the Sheng Chinese mouthorgan, the Vietnamese plucked Dan Tranh, Turkish modes or the baroque viola da gamba. Mostly it is in (a) d a d g in just intonation with its 8 sympathetic strings tuned to suit. It knows no bounds. With the tarhu , ideas, fictions and dreams become reality in performance, in the studio, on environmental locations, in long sound installations, online. It traverses old and new, high and low, near and far, east and west, real and virtual, ancient and modern, wet and dry, possible and impossible, acoustic and synthetic. It collapses the present, past and future in its moment of sounding. It is rapturous, flying above the stratosphere, a powerful eagle carving the cosmos.

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released October 2, 2016

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Ros Bandt Australia

Dr Ros Bandt is an internationally acclaimed sound artist. Over 4 decades she has pioneered new forms of sonic art, site specific ritual performance in ancient world heritage sites and audience interactive installations. An expert historical wind player and cross-cultural collaborator, she is published by Wergo, New Albion, EMI, Neuma, Efficient Space and Move. ... more

discography

Soft and Fragile

Nov 2021
Medusa Dreaming

Jul 2021
Tarhu Connections

Oct 2016
Birdsong

Feb 2015
Isobue

Jan 2008

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