After the Serbian intermezzo, Incense of Music returned to Berlin, in a temporary domicile, where a single concert was to take place: the Jockel. Perfectly located in Kreuzberg, where three canals meet, the location offered a cozy atmosphere, a glowing fireplace and psychedelic lights. The evening program consisted of a double concerto with a vibraphone solo and a Greek-New Zealand-Italian group with two alto saxophones and a drum. Evi Filippou, already on her fourth appearance on the series, played her mallets on the instrument developed in the United States in 1921 and improvised for almost 20 minutes. The tremolo of the vibraphone, an interplay of beating, rotating metal disks on an electric motor, sound bars and resonance tubes, grazed and revealed Greek melodies, a children’s song, contemporary music, jazz and a little Bach. The video shows the full concert of this young and extremely talented artist. She was accompanied by the warm, sensual and elegant fragrance of sandalwood flour, a coveted and valuable product of the sandalwood tree (Santalum album). This small, evergreen plant grows and thrives in tropical areas, mostly in India, it has been used as medicine and in religious practice for more than 2000 years and is listed as an endangered species as a result of overexploitation. We only used a little bit but it had a huge impact.
A Multisensory concert – 13th October 2017
PEOPLE OF THE WIND
James Wylie: saxophone
Fausto Sierakowski: saxophone
Alexandros Rizopoulos: percussionen
+ Evi Filippou: vibraphone
Fabio Dondero and Dominik Breider (Incense burning): American cedar and Sandalwood.
Biergarten Jockel, Ratiborstrasse 14c, 10999 Berlin
Video: Fabio Dondero Camera: Fabio Dondero, Chiara Somajni