Saw 'em in a collaborative project with Laurie Anderson recently
― curmudgeon, Monday, 11 March 2013 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
How was it? I'm seeing it in May.
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 02:23 (eleven years ago) link
I was kinda disappointed tbh. Laurie's verbiage did not really impress me, and Kronos' playing was ok but not wow-worthy.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 March 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
Just saw Kronos with Malian group Trio de Kali, and it was a great show (their first public show together). I liked Kronos better live than I did a year ago. They did 2 compositions themselves first-- a short impressive kinda noisy one and then a longer one that was dedicated to their friends in Ukraine. After the intermission they were joined by Trio de Kali- a great southern Mali female vocalist; a Malian balafon player, and a Malian bass ngoni player. They adapted Malian tradionals plus a Mahalia Jackson song. All very nice.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 23 February 2014 21:09 (ten years ago) link
I like the song just released that will be on their new album Placeless that features vocals from Iranian singer Mahsa Vahdat and her sister Marjan
https://youtu.be/TK2sHz8Rs5k
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 06:16 (five years ago) link
They've also been doing "Music from Banned Countries" shows with compositions from some of the original countries on trump's banned list--Yemen, Syria, Iran
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 06:19 (five years ago) link