The colour of sound with Eyal El Wahab, Ana Kravanja, Kees Berkers, and Bex Burch
Eyal El Wahab, Ana Kravanja, Kees Berkers, and Bex Burch discuss moving sounds through your body, and being in love with a musical instrument.
Eyal El Wahab, Ana Kravanja, Kees Berkers, and Bex Burch discuss being in love with an instrument, not really knowing what you’re doing, moving sounds through your body, and using instruments made out of pumpkins.
Eyal El Wahab is a Yemeni-Israeli musician who leads the four-piece folk jazz group El Khat, based in Tel Aviv and featuring musicians from Iraq, Poland, and Morocco.
Slovenian musician Ana Kravanja plays on traditional, classic, and self-made instruments. She is one third of Slovenian experimental folk band Širom, a band who play 12 instruments between them, and also works with 10-piece band Olfamoštvo.
Dutch percussionist Kees Berkers created the band YĪN YĪN with Yves Lennertz back in 2017. Their music is greatly inspired by south-east Asian psych-pop, funk and disco grooves.
British percussionist Bex Burch spent three years with virtuoso musicians in northern Ghana, where she learnt to play the gyil. She has gone on to form the Jazz trio Vula Viel.
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- Sat 28 May 2022 21:06GMTÂ鶹ԼÅÄ World Service Americas and the Caribbean, UK DAB/Freeview, South Asia, News Internet & Online only
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