Articles by Nilan Perera

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  Balkan Clarinet Summit

  Many Languages One Soul

  PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2015

  Balkan music nudged its way into the public consciousness many years back with the appearance of ensembles like the harmonically gorgeous B...

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  Drift Machine

  Eis Heuton

  PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2015

  There is an odd "ghost in the machine" thing about computers and electronics talking to each other and making decisions on their own. While...

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  Antibalas / Zap Mama

  Koerner Hall, Toronto ON, February 7

  PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2015

  A startling collision of aesthetics greeted the audience at Koerner Hall. Walking into the formal setting anticipating an Afro-beat dance p...

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  Zs

  Xe

  PUBLISHED Jan 27, 2015

  We live in interesting times, musically. Never has there been such instant and complete access to the multiplicity of genres and histories...

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  Christian Wallumrød

  Pianokammer

  PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2015

  Christian Wallumrød's previous ensemble work has featured admirable attention to the story as a whole as he integrates each piece into a co...

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  Huun Huur Tu

  Small World Music Centre, Toronto ON, November 20

  PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2014

  Throat singers Huun Huur Tu are from Tuva, which lies between Mongolia and Russia, just east of Kazakhstan. Their music is at once rooted a...

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  Arrington de Dionysio with Gal Lazer Shiloach

  Lovers and Dragons

  PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2014

  This album paints a twisted parade of new Hindu medievalism fraught with anarchic banquets, of primordial electric ooze. Starting with the...

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  Rob Mazurek & Black Cube

  Return the Tides: Ascension Suite and Holy Ghost

  PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2014

  The music here marks a son's rite of passage, a man's loss of his mother and a musician's function in a ritual celebration and passage clea...