every music, for good or ill, i've ever heard. the short list...oscar pelta, max pelta, david tiller, jamie stillway, turtle island string quartet, l. shankar, ravi shankar, oumou sangare, stephane grapelli, the beatles, bjork, debussy, mahler, bach, tchaikovsky, bartok, shostakovitch, simon shaheen, taraf de haidouks, joe venuti, eddie south, darol anger, mark oconnor, regina carter, radiohead, tracy chapman, mr bungle, ween, bulgarian women's radio chorus, ...it goes on and on...
..Enion Pelta-Tiller began classical violin studies at age
3, but her education was always supplemented by improvisation lessons
from her jazz guitarist father. By 16 she had taught herself to compose
impromptu melodies in styles from classical sonatas to East Indian ragas
and jazz standards. She attended Peabody Institute in Baltimore, MD, working
towards a viola performance degree, while also studying to be a writer
at Johns Hopkins University. After realizing that neither profession would
make her rich, she chose the one she loved most, landing in NYC, where
she performed cutting edge music straddling punk, free jazz, and classical
with various local musicians, and landed a gig with the crown prince of
Hungary's New Wave music scene, Menyhart Jeno, as the violinist in Mr
Con and the Bioneers. She traveled to Hungary in the summer of 2001 to
play the main stage at the Pepsi Sziget, Europe's largest music festival,
playing immediately before Run DMC and Morcheeba. Upon her return she
focused more on composing and performing the music she and David had been
working on together, and the two decided to make a life of it. Enion's
playing has been compared to Stephane Grapelly (who she was born listening
to ), Jean-Luc Ponty, and Darol Anger (who calls her a violinist "able
to converse with amazing grace and fluency"), though her style is
very personal.
Enion co-founded the group Taarka with David Tiller
in 2002, after moving to Portland, OR from New York City. She composes
and plays violin for Taarka, and the progressive folk group ThaMuseMeant.
Taarka and ThaMuseMeant have been touring from the Northwest to the Rockies
for a total 11 years, playing to club audiences of up to 200 people, and
festival crowds of up to 1500. Enion has shared stages with
Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, Bob Weir and Vince Welnick of the Grateful Dead,
Darol Anger of fiddle fame, and many others. Taarka has released 2 albums
and is working on a 3rd, which includes special guest Darol Anger and others.
Enion just returned from teaching at Mark O'Connor Strings Conference
in San Diego, and is working on a solo debut to be released in 2007.
I am bad friend:( I will call you soonishly for real in actuality to find out info on your life and that of the new bebeh. It's like you had some kind of alien or divine birth because I had no idea you were even growing one of those. And Aesop was a big one, too! I bet he's good and rascally. Soonishly a phone call will find you with my voice attached. Mwahk!
I find you in my thoughts , these days of late, and I wonder how you 3 are doing? It is my hope all is well within your world. as always... with real love and many blessings
hey lovely lady, just thinking of you, wondering how you all are... wishing you health, hope, happiness and all kinds of other good things =) mucho love, ~morgan
Nice Tunes!!! Have you ever been to the Creative Strings summer workshop in C-Bus, Ohio? There's tons of great string players that show up for the event including Chris Howes and Billy Contreras ...every genre included! Keep on playing!
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace -
2 of 230, walkaboutsverse.741.com: WALKABOUT WITH MY PEN
Once drove an old sedan, up north, From a place in Sydney to Cairns; Then to Kuranda I went forth, By train, to look without set plans.
I browsed through the trendy market, With fresh fruits of tropical kind; Walked to the creek through lush thicket - Nature’s hand giving peace of mind.
I dined in a scenic cafe; Then, outside, as I wrote for yen, Some passing Kooris called-out: “Hey, You go walkabout with your pen.”
Request or question, I don’t know - Assured voices, elderly men. That’s now several years ago, And I’ve seen the world - with my pen.
thanks. I use mostly D A D A E on my "d'amore". the tune called alvleken I use a norwegian tuning D A D Fsharp E. One other nice tuning is i A: A a e a e. bye mats
merry merry post-holidaze greetings to you and dave and wee-one-to-be! hope the tmm gig last night was a blast (i'm sure it was), cheers for the new year and mucho love to you! miss you guys...
we all agree that you are our favorite fiddle player/violin player in the whole wide world. you are truly amazing and so is dave! love you sista rub tha belly
I saw Taarka first opening for ALO way back in 2005 i think? And I've been hooked ever since! Gone every year in Ashland and Eugene. Your passion to play encourages me to play my clarinet with as much charisma as you do!
