Interesting(?) concert in Atlanta

Someone who writes to me at the Meadows sent this. There is more background
and bio info, but if anyone wants that I'll send it off-list. Anyone heard
of this group??

Euphonic Productions
present
DJALMA Movement & Music Ensemble (from NYC)
featuring
NEEL MURGAI - sitar, daf
JEFF GBUREK - rebab, javanese gamelon (slenthem, benong, gongs)
JULIE GREENHILL - Butoh dance, am radio/electronics
CHRIS FORSYTH - guitar
RICH GROSS - clarinet, recorder
9pm, Friday, September 8th
$7 at the door
EARTHSHAKING MUSIC
543 Stokeswood Avenue
404-622-3355 or euprod@aol.com

Djalma
Movement and Music Ensemble
(the story so far)

Djalma began to take shape in January 1999 as a collaboration between Jeff
Gburek and Julie Greenhill. Inspired by the integrity of Javanese and
African dance and musical traditions, they decided to create what American
composer Harry Partch called "Corporeal music", an art form that kept dance
and theater as the ritual parameters for music. Carrying instruments from
the Javanese Gamelan orchestra back to New York City, Gburek built frames
for the iron and bronze keys of the xylophonesque instruments and, along
with the two-stringed fiddle called rebab (now electrified), bonang,
electro-acoustic mbira, and new percussion instruments built from scrap
metal, he began performing with Greenhill at local venues. By March of 1999
Djalma already had its first new member, Neel Murgai, playing sitar and
Persian daf. Bridging and blinding the gaps between the Indian and Javanese
tonal systems, the ensemble now had a core offset from the by now
traditional free jazz/improv/noise/new music and world music sounds,
achieved by re-tuning of the instruments and rethinking the ways of playing
them. In the summer of 1999 rehearsal began with two new members, Rich
Gross on clarinet and Chris Forsyth on electric guitar, both sonic
chameleons without parallel who had been working together in the guitar trio
All Time Present. One of the first performances took place at the
adventurous C.O.M.A. series at ABC No Rio on the Lower East Side and was
attended by the flautist Muriel Vergnaud who soon thereafter joined the
group.

Since then Djalma has performed with full arsenal at The Cooler, Knitting
Factory and other venues familiar to the improv scene, including a stint on
New Yearís 1999 on Free Radio 103.5 in Williamsburg with Daniel Carter,
Blaise Siwula and Eyedoor, in a full eveningís tribute to the spirit of
American sonic creativity. But the group has also performed out of doors,
following Julie Greenhillís vision of site-specific dance, performing in
the parks and street meridians where the dream-effect of the dance clashes
with the realities of daily-lifeís dream. The most recent performances have
been duets for Greenhill and Gburek in Berlin at the Post Furhampt Festival
2000 and in Grosseto and Roccataderighi, both in Tuscany. Djalmaís CD, 'the
rags of larium palië' has been issued by Orphan Sounds.

Cheers,
Jon
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Real Life: Orchestral Percussionist
Web Life: "Corporeal Meadows" - about Harry Partch
http://www.corporeal.com/