Konstantinos Glynos and Oliver Dover (live session)

Through the ethereal and rural, kanun and kaval meet around the table to praise the past memories, smells and tastes of childhood summers. The feeling of barley fields brushing our palms during eternal daydreaming walks. The smell of hand picked lavender steaming and ready to sooth the soul. The sound of clinking glasses reflecting smiling glances. The aftermath of dancing and singing, across and next to each other, while the sacred oaks illuminate and warm up our red euphoric faces under the starry night. Sound will always be in the core of it, the air to breathe and remember. Music will be the spark, the colours, personal and unique, to each one of us, to form it and shape it, into the happiest place to return to! Oliver Dover is a clarinettist, saxophonist and kaval player based in the Monti Iblei region of Sicily. As a performing musician his artistic focus is on developing an individual language on his instruments through a combination of the traditional musics of Greece, Turkey, the Middle East and the Balkans with a deep love of improvisation. He is interested in how this music can affect emotional states of both performers and experiencers, a consideration that he brings into all his performances. His main musical projects include: Mandalakia, Idrisi Ensemble, The Turbans, Mohamed Alnuma's Hawa, Havoon with Fred Thomas and Lucine Musaelian, Ancient Infinity Orchestra, Beats and Pieces Big Band and Shatners Bassoon. His performance career includes shows at festivals including North Sea, Toronto, Manchester, Copenhagen and London Jazz festivals, Womad, Womex and Fusion festivals amongst others, and at venues including The Minack, Sage , Bimhuis , Kings Place, Ronnie Scotts, and touring throughout the UK, Europe, USA and India. Konstantinos Glynos is a London-based kanun player. Drawing from his experiences of performing and studying in the diverse London music scene he performs music spanning from the Balkan and Greek to Turkish, Arabic and Flamenco traditions as well as early and Baroque Western music. He has collaborated with dancers, visual artists and composers, and he has performed in many world music festivals around the UK and Europe, as well as highly acclaimed UK venues such as Ronnie Scott's, KOKO (IT) , Jazz cafe, Durham cathedral, Union Chapel, Minack theatre, The Place and others. He currently mainly collaborates and performs with "Idrisi Ensemble", "Mandalakia" "The Turbans".