Ananta Roosens & Mostafa Taleb
Mostafa Taleb – Kamancheh
Ananta Roosens – violin
The album ‘Chapelle de Verre’ with beautiful artwork by Jan-Sebastiaan Degeyter is available on vinyl and/or can be downloaded at Bandcamp. To order the vinyl, please send us your address to the e-mail address at the right side of this webpage and we will send you all the information such as the bank account number, and different delivery options. When buying the vinyl, you will get a free download code as well to download the music and artwork at Bandcamp.
The vinyl costs 20€ + shipping costs (Belgium: 7€ – Europe: 13€ – rest of the World: contact us for the exact amount).
Please contact us for more details.
Check also the tour dates for the presentation of our first album. In the agenda you can find more information about each concert.
Both Mostafa Taleb on the Iranian kamanche and Ananta Roosens on the western violin try to ignore their cultural heritage and they put their instruments next to each other: from there they question what is left over, whether both musical entities could go along, or maybe not? Regardless their different geographical and cultural backgrounds they seem to have surprisingly more in common than they have differences. A refreshing exercise for the openness of the mind where mutual trust and appreciation are probably the main factors on this journey.
By frequently exchanging ideas, they connect to each other’s uniqueness and give space to their conscience to continue to develop.
Their music is mainly improvised and based on mutual interactions and the knowledge of each other’s musical languages, rather than working with defined structures and figures;
playing as if the day of tomorrow doesn’t exist…