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On
17 January 2014 (21:00 – 22:00) Acoustic Roots welcomes
the first
guests of the new year to our living-room studio in the Conclusion
building: the gypsy ensemble Parne Gadje.
 Parne Gadje has five members and makes innovative and
driving music, full of surprising improvisations. The
group makes use of exciting instruments such as the magical
Armenian duduk and self-made string instruments including a
bicycle tyre bass.
Breathtaking travels
Recently Parne Gadje brought
out a new CD: ‘Po Drom’ ('On
the road'). On this CD they take us on a
breathtaking journey around the Black Sea. The group's music originates
from Afghanistan, Macedonia, Greece, Hungary and Anatolia and has
tight rhythms, transcendental grooves en eastern scales. It
sometimes sounds a bit like the Bosphorus blues.
As
you
listen to the groove and drive of the bicycle tyre bass, the
incantations
of the Turkish pipes and the velofoon and the raw
heartfelt singing of Marc Constandse you can forget winter in
the Netherlands for a while.
Parne Gadje consists of:
- Marc Constandse – bandoneon, vocal and percussion
- Gerwil Kusters – clarinets, saxofones
- Michiel Hollanders – resonator guitar, velofoon and various stringed instruments
- Dan Tuffy – bicycle tyre bass, electric and acoustic guitars
- Michiel Bakkes de Vries – tapan and percussion
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