Cafe Aman with Angelo Martinos

This performance will feature three founding members of Toumbeki! from Montreal: Angelo Martinos (vocal and baglama), Nicolas Royer-Artuso (ud and violin), and Dan Kunda Thagard (santuri).

The trio will be playing Rembetika music, the music of the refugees from the Ottoman Empire who ended up in modern Greece after the exchange of populations. It is a music rooted in the Ottoman music system, the makam, but sang in Greek.

The group plays Rembetiko in the style of the ancient recordings, bringing back the traditional instruments (violin, oud, santouri; instead of the modern buzuki) and re-connecting the tradition with Ottoman makam music, including its complex makam system involving microtones, heterophony, and complex improvisations.

This will be a truly not-to-miss performance:

•Friday, November 13

•Tranzac Living Room (292 Brunswick)

•7:30pm-9pm

•Pay What You Can

Poster art by Sasan Salaseli

Made possible by Dept. of Canadian Heritage