DAVID SUCH
This music bursts in your home, as a puff of warm spring wind. It's very free and spontaneous it is really similar to breathe of a fresh air stream, full of joy of life. It is penetrated by optimism, there's a lot of light and bliss. David Such and friends, the beautiful world class musicians, invite the listeners to join this unexpected celebration and to share it. There is a blessing in their music, a kind of deep religious ecstasy. Various cultural traditions are blended creating a heady drink, and a wide perspective opens in front of you, and you are standing somewhere at a wide champaign, blasted by fresh winds, coming from far, unknown lands... David Such is a musician who has earned respect of specialists and acknowledgement of listeners. He plays masterly the various authentic flutes, such as Mediterranean ney, Chinese ti-tzu or ancient Indian alhoza, and also traditional European concert flute and clarinet. All the mentioned instruments have a very interesting history. Ney, one of the most ancient flutes, appears 3000 years before Christ and is used in the various forms (not only of cane, bamboo, wood, but also of metal, ceramic, even plastic) by the peoples of the Mediterranean. History of alhoza dates back to pre-Vedic civilisation of the people lived at the territory of contemporary Pakistan, district Sind this instrument is also associated with Gypsies, and also it had been intensively used in Sufi tradition. Chinese flute ti-tzu had been used long before the Han dynasty. One can read about every instrument used for the album, its features, origination, modifications etc., at the album booklet. But let's get back to the remarkable company of the musicians, creators of the project " Winds on the Horizon" . Of course I should start with David Such. He has managed not only to make himself a master player of all kinds of the brass, but also to see the world. David Such learned playing ney together with Resk Ali, one of the most famous Egypt musicians. Besides that, he even went to Philippines, where he studied music of ex-head-hunters Currently David Such teaches the world music in Washington (in Spokane Community College). Now let's mention those who helped David Such to record his album. First of all, the brilliant oud player (oud is an ancient Persian lute) John Bilezikjian and the famous keyboarder, known as a participant of the band " Shadowfax" , Armen Chakmakian. Maybe due to those two performers the Armenian motives are so strong in the music of " Winds on the Horizon" ! Besides, here you can hear all kinds of percussion (doumbek, tabla, cabasa, udu) Danny Frankel, Milo Todesco, Swami Aumashanda and Scott Shaw are playing it. And the list wouldn't be complete without mentioning of the well-known Jazz buss player Roberto Miranda and of David Orser, whose marimba adds a special flavour to the music. By the way, the last of mentioned instruments arose independently in many cultures. Such a widespread instrument as xylophone is also a kind of marimba but xylophone consists of the metal bars, struck by a wooden hammer, and the original instrument has wooden bars. There is a jazz sound in the album, but the album cannot be attributed to jazz or to any kind of folk music. I would rather say that the project is a self-expression of free people, citizens of the planet Earth, not just in name, but in spirit. And that looks so natural, as if the old friends from the same yard gathered to play together. And the time somehow disappears, dissolves, and just here you can see ancient India, magnificent China, and mysterious Africa, and Armenia, which lies in the heart of mountains, and XXI century is coming, and you feel breeze of freedom and of breathtaking unknown. Listening music of David Such and friends, you can feel that in every cell of your body, and there's no need to figure out names and words, to say something about unity of our small planet, because this music is stronger than all the words...
Serge Kozlovsky |
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