Elope #40 Extra Time with Special Guest Werner Durand and Elena Poulou

Elope extra time with Werner Durand who plays us some tracks from his band's The 13th Tribe Album Ping Pong Anthropology. I plays my band's Bomb Sniffing Dogs new track PILLS'NTHRILLS AND ENERGY BILLS.

Thanks to Hilary Jeffery for connecting me with Werner and his partner Amelia Cuni! And for introducing me to Safone. So much energy!

Werner Durand, born in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1954 performs his own music for saxophones, iranian ney, and self-made wind instruments since the late seventies.

1976/7 He studied saxophone with Ariel Kalma in Paris,

1978 –82 Indian classical music in India and Berlin (with Kamalesh Maitra)

1985/6 Iranian Ney with Ali Reza Asgharia.

In the early 80s he started to build wind instruments out of plexi-glass and PVC,

Co- founder of emsembles THE THIRTEENTH TRIBE in 1990 and ARMCHAIR TRAVELLER in 1999. Coming from the minimalist tradition, Werner Durands music has evolved into a personal style over the years. Inspired by various kinds of traditional musics and instruments, he started to create his own music and instruments reflecting this. A variety of materials and playing techniques enables him to bring out unusual sounds and with the help of digital delays he can create rich textural and rhythmic pieces, which might recall tribal music from Africa or the Pacific, but at the same time sounding experimental or even (post-)industrial.

Current Projects inlcude: TONALIENS with Amelia Cuni- voc., Robin Hayward- tuba, tuning vine & Hilary Jeffery- trombone and a collaboration with american composer David Behrman. Besides various projects with his main partner, the Dhrupad singer Amelia Cuni Werner Durand has also collaborated with numerous composers/performers including David Behrman, Arnold Dreyblatt, David Moss, Muslimgauze, Henning Christiansen, Sam Ashley, David Toop as well as with visual/ sound artists Michaela Kölmel, Andreas Oldörp ,Rolf Julius, Ira Schneider and Claudia Hajek. Grants and residencies include the Cité des Arts, Paris, Podewil (Berlin) Worpswede artist colony (Germany, AIR –Krems (Austria), Civitella Ranieri (Italy). He has curated festivals of traditional as well as avantgarde music in Berlin like „Urban und Aboriginal“, „Pipeline“ , „USArts“, „Minimalisms“ and „Intonations“.