SANS

SANS

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Uniting the powerful, ancient Karelian runo-songs that became Finland’s Kalevala with the lingering duduk laments of Armenia and ghosts of British folk-song melody, SANS makes an atmospherically widescreen new music surging between glacial stillness and passionate power.

The band’s very original music draws together its members' long experience in Finnish, Armenian and British traditional musics. The magnificent singing of Finland’s Sanna Kurki-Suonio unites in a rich soundscape with a unique instrumental line-up featuring the heart-pausing sound of Armenian Tigran Aleksanyan’s duduk, the deep woodiness of Ian Blake’s bass clarinet, the dark, glassy chiming of Andrew Cronshaw’s electric zither and Madagascan/Finnish marovantele, and the breathy, shivering harmonics of a pair of man-high Slovak fujaras.

Since formation in 2011, as result of all four working on Andrew Cronshaw’s 9th album ‘The Unbroken Surface Of Snow’, SANS has played very successful shows in Britain, Finland, Norway, Croatia, Belgium and Australia. The CD 'SANS Live', recorded on the 2013 Flanders tour, released in April 2014, reached the World Music Charts Europe top 20.

SANS

SANS are Andrew Cronshaw, Tigran Aleksanyan (Armenia), Ian Blake and Sanna Kurki-Suonio (Finland). The band’s music flows intuitively and…

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Rated Excellent

Colchester Arts Centre

Church Street
Colchester
CO1 1NF

Disabled Booking:
01206 500 900

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Colchester Arts Centre

Church Street
Colchester
CO1 1NF

Disabled Booking:
01206 500 900

See all events at Colchester Arts Centre