KIM SANDERS & FRIENDS first Sydney appearance with drummer Toby Hall
Following the band’s rapturously received performance at Peats Ridge Festival in December, Kim Sanders & Friends will perform for the first time in Sydney with drummer Toby Hall at Paddington Uniting Church on May 5.
The gig will include ethereal Sufi meditations, Bulgarian Gypsy grooves, bent Congolese pulsations, strange hypnotic originals and tunes of Middle-Eastern appearance.
“It was great playing with Toby at Peats”, says Kim. “ I love rhythms and drumming, and we have three drummers who rotate in the group now. Bobby Singh brings the subtlety and complexity of Indian Classical music, Peter Kennard is a superb colourist and a master of the frame drum, and now Toby takes the music to different places again with drum kit. He is a great improviser”
World Music veteran Kim Sanders has studied with Sufi ney-masters in Turkey, played with Gypsy wedding-bands in Macedonia, in mosquito-infested nightclubs in Gambia, seedy tavernas in Greece, concert-halls and recording studios in Turkey, China and Indonesia, not to mention Rooty Hill RSL. Saxophonist Sandy Evans, bassist Steve Elphick and drummer Toby Hall have built on their jazz roots to become three of Australia’s leading World Music exponents. Their strong improvisations have made their names familiar worldwide.
Kim Sanders: Ney (Sufi flute), kaval (Bulgarian wooden flute), Bulgarian and Turkish gaidas (bagpipes), aardvark, tenor sax
Sandy Evans: soprano, tenor sax
Steve Elphick: bass
Toby Hall: drums
8 pm, Saturday 5 May
Paddington Uniting Church
395 Oxford St, Paddington (Paddington Markets site)
Tickets on the door: $18/15 conc
For photos, interviews and other info: kimzgaida@hotmail.com
http://www.netspace.com.au/~kimsanders
