- artist:SANS
- featured artist:SANS (Andrew Cronshaw, Sanna Kurki-Suonio, Tigran Aleksanyan, Ian Blake)
- region:Northern Europe
- release year:2014
- style(s):Scandinavian, Armenian
- country:Finland
- formats:Audio File / Digital, CD (Compact Disc)
- record posted by:Cloud Valley Music
- label:Cloud Valley Music
- publisher:Cloud Valley Music
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SANS Live
Cloud Valley CV2014
Release date 14 April 2014
UK distributor: Proper.
Also available direct from cloudvalley.com
SANS is the quartet of multi-instrumentalist Andrew Cronshaw, the great Finnish singer Sanna Kurki-Suonio (of Hedningarna), multi-instrumental reeds player Ian Blake, and Tigran Aleksanyan, Armenian master of his country’s heart-rendingly voice-like reed pipe, the duduk.
Formed by the musicians who made Cronshaw’s most recent CD, The Unbroken Surface of Snow (which spent 3 months in the top 10 of the European world music airplay chart), SANS is an instrumental and vocal combination not found in any other band in the world, in which the four members draw deeply on their different but remarkably compatible traditions including the ancient Karelian songs that became Finland’s Kalevala, the sweeping melodies of Armenia and English folk-song. They combine to make a genuinely new music of extraordinary beauty, intensity and fluidity in which each performance is a new creation. Therefore the band’s debut CD SANS LIVE was recorded live, on its Flanders tour in December 2013.
Andrew Cronshaw: Electric zither, fujara, marovantele, kantele
Sanna Kurki-Suonio: voice
Tigran Aleksanyan: duduk
Ian Blake: bass clarinet, soprano sax
“A subtle, at times gently unsettling album in which ancient laments from around the Baltic are fused with themes from England, Scotland and Armenia. Exquisite.” – Robin Denselow, The Guardian, April 17th 2014
“Beautiful, spacious, haunting, visceral” – Rachel Nelken, Arts Council England
More information at www.cloudvalley.com/SANS.htm and www.facebook.com/SANSmusik
Contact: Cloud Valley Music, +44 20 8521 4649, cloudval@aol.com, www.cloudvalley.com