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Ecstacy and trance – but this is no nightclub
PREVIEW: TRANSCENDER WEEKEND
Barbican/St Lukes
TRANCE and ecstacy music will feature in a mini festival held this weekend at the Barbican Centre, starting on Friday evening, with an add-on concert next Wednesday at St Luke’s, Old Street.
“Our Transcender Weekend is all about the power of music to fire the imagination and free the soul,” says Bryn Ormrod, contemporary music programmer at the Barbican.
“The focus will be on music designed to transport the listener, to conjure trances or summon states of ecstasy.
“We’ll have a rare appearance by the Bauls, the amazing group of mystic Bengali minstrels who belong to no single religion but create spiritual states of mind with their music.”
West Africa’s Orchestra Poly Rythmo will be fusing the music of Lagos with traditional voodoo rhythms at their Sunday evening concert.
At St Luke’s next Wednesday evening, Sudanese/Egyptian master musicians and voodoo practitioners Rango will perform mystic music played at healing ceremonies.
Among their instruments will be lyres retrofitted with electric pickups, gourd spirit resonators and dancing belts with goat horns. |
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