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dva : Tunji Beier & Linsey Pollak

Linsey and Tunji first performed together at the "Border Crossings Festival" in Germany in 1996 and have played together ever since. Although they have travelled very diverse paths and studied different musical traditions, they find their playing extremely compatible. They create improvisations and compositions that draw on the traditions of Macedonia and South India, their greatest musical influences.

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Linsey Pollak - wind instruments
Linsey's collection of wind instruments is unique with 30 years experience in making & experimenting with wind instruments. He has come up with new single reed designs, such as the various clarinis (narrow bored clarinets) made from bamboo, wood, aluminium and glass as well as various hybrid bagpipes based on the gaida (Macedonian bagpipe) which he studied in Macedonia and also the conical bore Saxillo.

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Tunji Beier - percussion instruments
Linsey´s wind instruments are combined with Tunji’s Gangan (a small Yoruba talking drum), Tavil (South Indian temple drum), Kanjira (South Indian tambourine with a lizard skin), Jaw Harps and other percussion instruments that Tunji has mastered while living in Nigeria, India and Europe.

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Audiences respond enthusiastically to the intense musical relationship between these two artists, and while their music has its roots in Eastern European, Oriental, Indian and African traditions they have developed it along their own very personal lines.

Their repertoire of original compositions is constantly changing and although based on a solid structure their performances are not rigidly planned and there is a great deal of improvisation that is both technically and emotionally dazzling.

listen to mp3

"Anticipation"
Nandi hill.mp3
Sabah taqasim.mp3
Hijazkar improvisation.mp3

“six four five eight six four seven eight”
ebenezer.mp3
lik lik.mp3
soursop.mp3

Moments of Optimism
moments 1.mp3
moments 2,mp3
moments 3.mp3

dva - live
track 1.mp3
track 2.mp3
track 3.mp3