TWIS Talks RIAF: Pure Sound, Harmonies of Ensemble Basiani

in Community, Lifestyle, Music, The Arts / by / on October 2, 2012 at 9:42 am /

Ensemble Basiani perform three engagements at the 2012 Ringling International Arts Festival. Performances are Thurs., Oct 11, 5pm; Fri., Oct. 12, 8pm; and Sat., Oct. 12, 2pm in the Historic Asolo Theater.

As a writer, I like to think of the English language as one vast galaxy of words — a respectable percentage of which I pride myself on knowing how to use in a sentence with relative accuracy. However, when I attempt to describe what it is like to become immersed in the music of Ensemble Basiani, that Milky Way of words in my mind seems like an inconsequential swirl of inadequate verbiage.

To put it simply, this group really is like none I’ve heard before. Just thirty minutes of Basiani’s undulating polyphonic chants and howls feels a like a journey through space and time to some far-off, mythical land.

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Jessi Smith


Jessi Smith is a senior staff writer at This Week in Sarasota. She lives and works in downtown Sarasota with Margot, the most magnificent cat to ever set paws on this planet. Jessi is passionate about engaging the community with the arts, traveling, eating really good food, and the Oxford comma. She smells like patchouli and occasionally does yoga.