TANDAVA
CD Review- Vancouver Province
Stuart Derdeyn

A music/cultural mix about as Vancouver as you can get. This quartet uses folk and classical traditions of Bangladesh and India as a starting point for 10 compositions that incorporate styles from a diverse sonic pallete. Chinese erhu master Lan Tung's bowed lines join Prashant John's’sgorgeous bamboo flute while Jonathan Bernard's marimba juggles the beat with Stefan Cihelka's tabla in dreamy, trance-inducing pieces totally lacking any smack of convenient sonic appropriation. This is rendered with all due respect to the great traditions being blended.