Pan African Polyphony (2013)
for steel pans and percussion
Instrumentation:
Steel pans: tenor, double tenor, double seconds, cello/guitar, bass (5 or more players)
Percussion: rattle (or maraccas), cabasa, djembe, drum kit (3 or more players)
In memory of Andrew Tracey, steel pan pioneer in Africa
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Study Score BDE 1415
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Duration: 5'30"
Première
First performance
Programme note
The first time I visited Riebeek Kasteel, a beautiful Western Cape town in the Swartland, sometime in 2018 at the invitation of my friends Rudolph and Emma Willemse, I went to listen to a rehearsal of the Riebeek Kasteel Steel Band Project. The project was spearheaded by David Wickham who suggested I should write a piece for them. Rather than following the more traditional steel band approach, I explored polyphony, polyrhythm and interlocking, all African music techniques and came up with the piece Andrew Tracey had proposed I write for his steel band about two decades earlier. I was sorry that he never lived to hear it played.
for steel pans and percussion
Instrumentation:
Steel pans: tenor, double tenor, double seconds, cello/guitar, bass (5 or more players)
Percussion: rattle (or maraccas), cabasa, djembe, drum kit (3 or more players)
In memory of Andrew Tracey, steel pan pioneer in Africa
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Study Score BDE 1415
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Duration: 5'30"
Première
First performance
Programme note
The first time I visited Riebeek Kasteel, a beautiful Western Cape town in the Swartland, sometime in 2018 at the invitation of my friends Rudolph and Emma Willemse, I went to listen to a rehearsal of the Riebeek Kasteel Steel Band Project. The project was spearheaded by David Wickham who suggested I should write a piece for them. Rather than following the more traditional steel band approach, I explored polyphony, polyrhythm and interlocking, all African music techniques and came up with the piece Andrew Tracey had proposed I write for his steel band about two decades earlier. I was sorry that he never lived to hear it played.
