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1. bill
   Member

   Following @gembo's and @IWRATS's stage performances I would like to also advertise my performance.

   Tomorrow 16 March (Friday) I will be playing with Baharat Collective at the closing concert of SYN Festival.

   We mostly play Persian, Turkish, Greek and Arabic songs/tunes. All very nice I must say.

   Apart from Baharat Collective there will be two other excellent groups: Duo Hyperborea with eastern Mediterranean music and Davno with Polish, Ukrainian and Russian songs.

   16 March, 19:30 Baharat – Spices of Eastern Music
   Dinning Room, Teviot Row House
   Free entry
   Facebook event page

   Sorry for late posting.
   All very welcome.

   Posted 6 years ago #

2. gembo
   Member

   @bill, i am guessing that will be considerably better than my efforts

   Alas will be involved with the screening of THe Florida Project at the Balerno Village Screen

   Posted 6 years ago #

3. I were right about that saddle
   Member

   @bill

   I am not guessing when I say this will be considerably better than my efforts. Alas I cannot be there as I will be at madame IWRATS' gallery opening.

   I am very jealous of even competent musicians, let alone those who can play in public.

   Posted 6 years ago #

4. unhurt
   Member

   Ooh. I would love to - but I'm off to Glasgow for a night out. (Thus also missing gallery opening.)

   Posted 6 years ago #

5. bill
   Member

   @gembo @IWRATS @unhurt all sounds like excellent Friday night plans!

   Posted 6 years ago #

6. bill
   Member

   Dear All

   About 24h after we all travel coast to coast with @IWRATS my music group Baharat Collective will be hosting the annual “Baharat – Spices of Eastern Music” evening as part of the 6th Syn* Festival.

   Baharat will be joined on stage by Unučad – a female polyphonic collective performing songs from the Balkans and Eastern Europe, and Tsârvuli – specialising in traditional Bulgarian dance music, who will joined by the Bulgarian Dance Group Hop-Trop, from the University of Edinburgh.

   Date: Friday 29 March
   Time: Doors open at 19:30 (I imagine the concert won't start till 8pm)
   Venue: Concert Room & Music Museum, St Cecilia’s Hall, 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh EH1 1LG

   Free Admission

   You are all very, very welcome!

   Here is a recording from a concert we played last year at the same venue: Link

   Links to the event: SYN Festival
   and Facebook

   *Why 'Syn'? you may ask (as we all did). 'Syn' here is just a Greek prefix for 'with', 'together'. The festival was started and still organised mostly by the Greeks.

   Posted 5 years ago #

7. bill
   Member

   Just a quick reminder of the concert in case you find yourself with no plans this Friday evening.

   I have just seen the programme and it looks very exciting: lots of interesting time signatures and instruments from Tsârvuli, lots of lovely songs polyphonic songs from Unučad and a variety of eastern Mediterranean instruments and songs/tunes from Baharat.

   Posted 5 years ago #

8. bill
   Member

   Baharat Collective will be playing another gig. You are mot welcome to come, if you happen to be around!

   Scottish National Portrait Gallery
   Saturday 21 September, 1-1:30pm
   FREE

   Event link and Facebook

   Sample tune

   Posted 5 years ago #

9. CycleCommute.CC
   Member

   Hmmm, should that say 'most' welcome or 'not' welcome...?

   Posted 5 years ago #

10. bill
    Member

    *most...

    Thanks for spotting, CC.CC

    Posted 5 years ago #

11. gembo
    Member

    Any nose flutes @bill?

    Posted 5 years ago #

12. bill
    Member

    @gembo sorry to disappoint but I don't have enough power in my nose to do a snot rocket, not to mention play the flute!

    Posted 5 years ago #

13. gembo
    Member

    @bill, shame, I thought the long intro in the clip was ripe for the Nose?

    Posted 5 years ago #

14. bill
    Member

    @gembo that's the Turkish ney. Very nice instrument but not nasal, I am afraid. I play the Persian ney in that song. Very different ways of producing the sound between the two of them.
    Some more of the Persian ney is here.

    Posted 5 years ago #

15. gembo
    Member

    Ney Lass?

    Posted 5 years ago #

16. bill
    Member

    It's this Saturday in case you want to hide from all the sun that is forecast.

    @sheeptoucher assures me he will be wearing a "Ney bother" t-shirt.

    Posted 5 years ago #

17. gembo
    Member

    I would like to attend but alas I am erngaging in a wine tasting competition, I am aiming for last as have been second last two years in a row

    Posted 5 years ago #

18. bill
    Member

    @gembo good luck! although perhaps water tasting could be more of your thing?

    Posted 5 years ago #

19. gembo
    Member

    @Bill, strangely, if this is the French journalist on the pod cast we were just talking about it a minute ago

    I wonder if I could even tell if a wine was white or red if I had my eyes shut

    Posted 5 years ago #

20. acsimpson
    Member

    I wonder if I could even tell if a wine was white or red if I had my eyes shut

    Are you assuming the white hasn't been chilled? or perhaps worse the red has been chilled.

    Posted 5 years ago #

21. gembo
    Member

    @acsimpson I am assuming the white has been chilled (else i would puke) but i am punting a red like a cheeky wee Beaujolais nouveau that can be served chilled and is often a ringer chilled or otherwise in wine tasting completions. No this one tho, it is way harder than that.

    Did buy the cheeses to taste (gruyere, manchego and jarlsberg) and quince jam and a massive Covenanter loaf. Andante do another one for the same £12.81 that is sourdough and the same size. It weighs six tons and would feed a family of four for a week

    Posted 5 years ago #

22. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Plenty reds are chillable man. Northern ones like Gamay from the Loire for sure.

    Posted 5 years ago #

23. Snowy
    Member

    imho most lighter red wines are nicer semi-chilled. Maybe around 10 to 12 degrees. Not anything oakey or with heavy tannins. Gembo's Beaujolais is ideal. Mind you, in the interests of domestic harmony I tend to be on whites or fizzy things these days. 1st world problems.

    Posted 5 years ago #

24. unhurt
    Member

    Mind you, in the interests of domestic harmony I tend to be on whites or fizzy things these days.

    Is this just so you can share, or for more... digestive reasons?

    Posted 5 years ago #

25. Snowy
    Member

    Purely regarding sharing, but it's probably a fair question.

    Posted 5 years ago #

26. unhurt
    Member

    I think I've been vicariously traumatised by some of your descriptions...

    Posted 5 years ago #

27. gembo
    Member

    Beaujolais is Gamay grape. Difference ranging from fleury, villages and nouveau marked

    Posted 5 years ago #

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