Mustafa Stefan Dill (sarod, fretless guitar, oud) is well known in the area for his guitar, sarod, and oud work, leading a variety of his own ensembles as well as playing in mJane, Out of Context, Zevk Ensemble, and others. He has peformed solo concerts at numerous improvised music, jazz, and guitar festivals, including FMP's Total Music Meeting, Wirral Guitar Festival, Paderborn Guitar Festival, Zuid Nederlands Jazz Festival, and others.
Jefferson Voorhees ( tabla, naal, tar) resides in Albuquerque and is one of the regions most versatile and sought after percussionists. His resume includes such projects as the Tom Guralnick Trio, Bayou Seco, Stove, and Out of Context, among many others. His time spent in India studying music and percussion (as well as his performances with Iraqi oudist Rahim Alhaj) adds some particularly unique qualifcations for the project.
Influences
K. Sridhar, Ali Akbar Khan, Amjad Ali Khan, A.R. Rahman, Zakir Hussain, Dhrupad, Led Zeppelin, Asha Bhosle, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Harry Partch, Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, bhangra, Tagore, Bill Dixon, Peter Broetzmann,
Sounds Like
This is not your typical world-music-samples-with-new-age-synth-pads-and-a-drum-program.
While often serene, it is by no means placid. The degree of dialogue and improvisational interplay, the unpredictable journeys the Duo travels to, draws the listener in, inviting one to fully engage, rather than just passively listen.
SAMA' DUO (Mustafa Stefan Dill, Jefferson Voorhees): TRANSCULTURAL IMPROVISATIONS
Rehearsal: Untitled Yaman Rock/Funk Tune
Rehearsal: Mist, Part 1
Rehearsal: Mist, Part 2
Solo Fretless:
Burn your panpipe samples and scrub the dishes with your ambient synth pads: this is not your auntie's world music band.
Sama' Duo retains an improvisational focus, applying a deep core of both cutting-edge and ancient improvising methods within the musical traditions of India and the Middle East. The Duo reaches into the inner aspects of form and method from the established traditions, adds their previous experience as post-modern improvisors to the process and wraps it all with a rhythmically- driven, wide-ranging rock/funk ethos.
The group takes as its name a nuanced Arabic term that describes the spectrum of relationships between intense listening, spirituality, and music-making itself.
The Duo was recently chosen to provide the music score for the independent film "Birth of a Pillow" by director Sharmy Pandey, from Kolkata, India. The film is a 47 minute feature with no dialogue, requiring a continuous music score that would amplify and emotionally detail the story to a very high degree.
The Duo's current instrumentation is fretless electric guitar and drum set, though they still use the sarod/tabla combination that marked their earlier phase, as well as the underutlilzed oud/gome combination.
Click here for some early demos of this direction.
Good morning. I've enjoyed listening to the music of "Mist" parts 1 & 2 as recorded in the videos here. It's always fascinating to see artists enraptured in their own improvised worlds of music, especially having visited so many of my own in years gone by. Best wishes to you both.
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Thank you for adding me and thank you again for your kind words in your request. I listened to your fretless solo "Alap Jor" by way of introduction to your music even as I read through your biographical materials, fascinating!
I felt myself transported by "Alap Jor" but am unable to articulate a description of that place. I do know, however, that I want to return there.
"...the spectrum of relationships between intense listening, spirituality, and music-making itself." Yes! I commend you.
It is my genuine pleasure to have made your acquaintance.
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aww cool thanks for that. Glad you liked it here. The guitar festivals going strong still which is good :) Like your stuff by the way, very unique and rather stylish Al Heartstring :) www. heartstringtheband. com
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