Kronos Quartet with Homayun Sakhi Trio
Chan Centre,
Vancouver, BC Canada
November 5, 2011

Lineage:AUD (Front row centre 10 ft from musicians)>On board mics>R-09HR(44.1/16bit WAV)>Cakewalk (tracking, fades)>TLH>FLAC(level 8)

My first time seeing Kronos, much to my shame. The first piece blew my mind and then there was the rest of the show. Kronos put on a stunning and varied set with too many high points to mention and I was sitting close enough to get rosin on me. Wow. And then the Homayun Sakhi Trio
came on and proceeded to destroy the audience (crowd was about half white classicalish fans/half East Indian - Middle Eastern - which was a perfect mix) They played two long pieces with a stunning drum solo from Kosimov. He was playing 3 doyras at once while tossing them in the air and catching them!! And Sakhi played like lightning. Jeez. And then there was more, the Sakhi piece he wrote for Kronos. You have to listen to it, it is awesome with spontaneous applause in the middle. Then they played an encore. Just a Dylan tune arranged for Kronos by Philip Glass.

Sound A

David Harrington - violin, harmonium on track 4
John Sherba - violin, tampura track 4, turntable track 12
Hank Dutt - viola, drum on track 10 if I remember, live electronics on track 12
Jeffrey Zeigler - cello, live electronics on track 12

Homayun Sakhi Trio
Homayun Sakhi - rubâb
Salar Nader - tabla
Abbos Kosimov - doyra (Bodhran like hand drum played with both hands)

Program
Kronos Quartet
1 applause
2 Ahyem (Homeward)- Bryce Dessner *
3 applause/David Speaks
4 Raga Mishra Bhairavi: Alap - Ram Narayan
arr. Kronos, transc Ljova #
5 applause/David Speaks
6 Tashweesh - Ramallah Underground
arr. Jacob Garchik *
7 applause/David Speaks
8 Smyrneiko Minore - Trad
arr. Jacob Garchik #
9 applause/David Speaks
10 La Sidounak Sayyada (I'll Prevent the Hunters from Hunting You)
- Omar Souleyman arr. Jacob Garchik
11 applause/David Speaks
12 Death to Kosmische - Nicole Lizée*
13 applause

Intermission

Homayun Sakhi Trio
1 applause tuning
2 Unknown
3 applause tuning
4 Unknown
5 applause/Kronos returns

Kronos Quartet with Homayun Sakhi Trio
6 Rangin Kaman (The Rainbow) - Homayun Sakhi
arr. Stephen Prutsman*
7 standing ovation #1
8 Don't Think Twice, It's All Right -Robert Zimmerman
arr. Philip Glass!#
9. standing ovation #2

* written for Kronos
# arranged for Kronos

recorded and upped by robinbanks
The usual stuff applies - support the artists !!!!!

www.akdn.org/Music
www.akdn.org/aktc_music_centralasia.asp
http://www.folkways.si.edu/

There is a cd by Homayun Sakhi in the Smithsonian Folkways/Aga Khan Music Initiative series and one by Kronos and Sakhi in the 10 cd series of music of Central Asia. Looks like an impressive set... I bought the Kronos one.