A rocky passage to a forgotten language temple

Drums resounds from the ancient watchtower.

(Lisa Gerrard is an Australian musician, singer and composer who rose to prominence as part of the music group Dead Can Dance with music partner Brendan Perry. In addition to singing, she is an instrumentalist for much of her work, most prolifically using the yangqin (a Chinese hammered dulcimer).

 

David Kuckhermann was born in Muenster, Germany in 1979. He played different instruments in various formations before he discovered the world of hand- and fingerdrumming. Soon he became a regular teacher in the percussion school "rhythmuswelt" in Muenster. Later he decided to move to the netherlands to intensify his studies and to become a student in the worldmusic department of the rotterdam conservatory

In 2001 David got into live looping, started to work with impro-dance classes in the rotterdam danceacademy and to compose music for dance performances. He became a member of the "Al Farabi" Ensemble, which was founded by ethnomusicologist Wouter Swets in 1969. In 2002 he founded the Duo "ZwischenRaum" with sax- and keys-player Holger Raddatz. Since 2003, David lives in Berlin and teaches and performs with the ensemble "EST" for old music.

Some of his teachers where Ustad Fayaz khan and Ted de Jong (indian tabla), Glen Velez (frame drums), Siavach Yazdanifar (tonbak, daf), Ramesh Shotham (south indian percussion), Nils Fischer (latin percussion), Martin Drewer (brasilian percussion) and Wouter Swets (balkan rhythms)).

 

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