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http://www.accordions.com/news.aspx?d=20-Mar-2015&lang=ru&s=10114
20-Mar-2015
by Harley Jones
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  Excerpts from an interview last week: Kiran Ahluwalia (picture right) celebrates the release of latest album Sanata: Stillness (Magenta) at the SFJAZZ Center, Miner Auditorium on Friday, March 20, In 2007 Canadian Kiran Ahluwalia won the Songlines/WOMAD Best Newcomer Award in the UK. In 2011, the album Aam Zameen: Common Ground won a Juno Award for World Music Album of the Year. For Friday’s show, Ahluwalia’s working with Julien Labro (picture left), a French-born conservatory-trained accordion master who’s equally at home playing Piazzolla as collaborating with jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson. In many ways, Ahluwalia turned to the accordion out of necessity, following the 2011 death of her regular harmonium player Ashok Bidaye. In Europe, she still uses the harmonium, but in North America she’s yet to find a player who can comfortably step out of classical contexts. “That’s why I had accordion come into my music,” she says. “Now I develop many of the songs with accordion. In 2011 I was asking the accordion to mimic harmonium, now I’m asking harmonium player to mimic accordion. I look for two things in accordion: to do the ballads and to create beautiful melodies, but also to bring a sense of chaos. I’m looking forward to seeing what Julien can do.” |