| A Swallow Hill Debut Performance
Kurt Bauer and Andy Bauer Friday, Feb. 8th at the Tuft Theatre/Swallow Hill will not only be the first time to hear new styles of Tuvan throat singing done by Coloradans in original songs, it will be a rare opportunity to hear a new genre of music being lead by these two ambitious promoters and creative music entrepreneurs, Kurt and Andy Bauer. “Winter: An Evening of Tuvan Throat Singing” is much more than a night of Coloradans merely playing exotic world music. Through the music they are going to take listeners on a journey all the way to the heart of the Siberian winter, Taiga forests, into the livelihoods of the contemporary Tuvans, across the lands of Central Asia and back to Colorado. Together with the audience rejuvenate and cherish together the vicissitudes of life from the point of view of many nations. The duo is integrating instruments and multiple languages (including English) in combinations with Tuvan throat singing never before heard live in the U.S let alone Denver. Kurt’s banjo plucking techniques are on the liking of early Appalachian music. Throughout their original music Andy titles “interethnic” are distinct American folk components reminiscent of John Denver and also subtle elements of psychedelic sounds heard in the Pink Floyd era. Kurt is a prolific artist active in Denver since the 80s and owner of Bangsnap Records which has released dozens of records in the past few years. Andy is songwriter, performer and director the Intarsia Interethnic Arts. He will be coming in to Denver from a series of performances in several East Asian countries this past year including Mongolia, China and Thailand. Previously he was a throat singing student of Body Dorju-Ondar, a master Tuvan throat singer. Concert Message: The journey began studying conventional musical instruments 15 years ago and quickly thereafter, foreign languages and ethnic identities. Whether skills of the hands or states of mind and emotion, I believe all the aforementioned things behold “potential instruments”. We musicians have the responsibility to story tell in an ethnically constitutive manner on stage. I was drawn to tell stories incorporating different Turkic people in far off Central Asian and while trying to accomplish this task, I discovered my cousin, Kurt Bauer, was of a strikingly similar musical temperament, and so we now work together. Recently, I researched that the guitar too has Central Asian roots, so everything seems directly connected and the idea of "World Music" vs. "Local Music" a bit superficial. Yet irrespective of this, the spirit of our interethnic art assumes that we don’t always get to “understand” what we hear and don’t always get to rationalize the reason why we search outside our own culture for more ways of expression. That is, whether musically or verbally in communication with others, whether here on the front range, or abroad, we always have the opportunity at any moment to try to listen and speak from our hearts. Life has its vicissitudes, but everything can come back to winter. It is not the beginning or the end. Yet, it is in the winter we have the best chance to listen to ourselves, to others and to the desolateness of nature. We may have the habit of understanding world music and local music in dichotomy. Yet do we understand exactly the difference between winter and say, spring? I believe the answer is no, rather it seems that we more so get to simply experience it. So what would it be like if we use this intense listening prone space the winter provides as a kind of conduit and take a journey far away from the non- musical world? Welcome to “Winter” An Evening of Tuvan Throat Singing. -- Andy Bauer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Set List: Encounter With The Yak Herders (An Introduction) - Original Throat Singing Styles (TSS) = Khoomei, Kargyraa, Borbangnadyr In the South of the Northern Altai (на юге северного Алтае) - Original Languages: Vietnamese English, Russian / TSS: Kargyraa, Sygyt, Khoomei, Borbangnadyr Starlight Mountain - Original Languages: English, Chinese, Thai language / TSS: Kargyraa, Khoomei Were Gonna Be Planting Flowers - Original Languages: English, Japanese / TSS: Ocean (Dalei) Kargyrazy (original technique) Clean Politics (Гарада Политика) - Original Languages: Chinese, Japanese / TSS: Dalei Kargyrazy Of Mice and Men (Puan Yai) - Original Languages: English, Thai, Japanese Midday at Midnight's Dream - Original Languages: Uyghur / TSS: Sygyt Falling, In Love- Original song by Jami Bauer Languages: none / TSS: none Hold On – Original Languages: English / TSS: Khoomei, sygyt Yenesei - Original (with excerpts from the Tuvan Folk Song: “Ancestors”) Languages: English, Tuvan, TSS: Dag Kargyrazy, Khoomei, Borbangnadyr Rabbit on the Snow - Original Languages: English, Uyghur, Dag Kargyrazy, Khoomei |
