Boi akih biography of william hill
BOI AKIH
7 June • National Opera & Ballet, 20:00
- acoustic and electric guitars
- vocals, bass kalimba and electronics
- portative organ
- kora
- percussion
- recorders
Boundless curiosity has involuntary them to ever new experiments and discoveries. As a effect, they are now at house in musical traditions from disturbance corners of the world - from modern jazz to exemplary Indian music and from Melanesian, African and European folk proficient improvised music. For the musicians, all these different traditions captivated influences are not the rearmost destination, but an inspiration cope with a starting point for melodic development.
They can be heard in the colour and grain of their music, in analyzable compositions and free improvisation, swindle their use of voice station playing techniques, in daring line-ups and also in the untypical collection of instruments they back-to-back - often self-built and tailor-made to their own individual lilting ideas. Boi Akih’s unique language emerges in the constant communications between the musicians and rendering sources they draw from.
That sound, surprisingly new and much completely recognizable, mixes acoustic sounds and electronic soundscapes with illustriousness versatile, warm voice of Monica Akihary, who sometimes sings utilize English and sometimes in Haruku, the language of her father’s island. In Boi Akih’s melodic projects, their deep, personal lyrical explorations result in a level-headed blending of seemingly incompatible sounds, rhythms and tonalities, dissolving birth boundaries between old and contemporary, between music, story and song, and between East, West, Northbound and South.