BLUESTOCKINGS in Kloof presents an enchanting journey titled, Strings and Skins, with musos, Greg Georgiades and Ashish Joshi, this Friday at 7.30pm.
Listen to the beautiful sounds of Ashish’s tabla drum, infused with any one of Greg’s custom built guitars, including the Egyptian Oud.
Greg Hadjiyorki Georgiades plays the North African lute or ‘oud’,Bouzouki, oudtar, nylon string flamenco guitar and Ashish Joshi plays the tabla, darbuka, bongos and zarb.
The inspired music that they play resonates from all over Africa with its rich and diverse traditions and styles. This they do on their custom made traditional acoustic instruments which have seemingly magic tones and notes of amazing expression.
They have played their music far and wide and played with many respected traditional musicians both in and outside SA, including McCoy Mrubata and the Vivid Afrika group together with Mlungisi Gegana and Siya Makuzeni, Wynand van der Walt, as well as with Madala Kunene, Ernest Mothle and Bernard Ndaweni in the Acoustic Africa Project and Errol Dyers, Kesivan Naidoo, Steve Newman, Saudiq Khan, Tony Cox and Syd Kitchen in the World in a Guitar CD and DVD.
Master percussionist, Ashish Joshi has an amazing ability to make listeners believe that he is using a ‘backtrack’ as he is able to sound like two percussionists and a bass player using his amazing technique on the classical Indian drums called ‘tabla’ as well as on the Arabic darbuka, bongos, Iranian zarb and more.
He has played with Greg for 13 years in various line ups and can also be heard on both Strings and Skins albums- Strings & Skins and Passages in Time.
This show will most certainly offer the listener a refreshing experience away from electronics but heavy with mood, melody and rhythm and this is what has made them so popular at festivals across SA such as Oppikoppi, Grahamstown and Potchefstroom festivals, and in Zanzibar, Reunion, Namibia, Lesotho, Algeria and Seychelles.
Entry is R100 each. A Moroccan cuisine will cost R70 each. To book, contact 083 659 3628.
