On Wednesday 10/04/2024 at 21:00 at the Thyrathen Museum.
Ross Daly and Kelly Thomas are a completely unique duo. A central place in their musical world is the lyre, an instrument found in many musical traditions of the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean, and of course in Crete where they have lived for many years. The music played by Ross Daly and Kelly Thomas, however, does not belong to any particular local or national tradition.
It includes a rich range of influences from many different timeless tropical traditions that blend harmoniously into a new genre and sound that Ross Daly himself calls Contemporary Tropical Music. This genre, however, bears little resemblance to what we usually imagine when we say contemporary music.
The sound of this music is somewhere outside of fixed time where it oscillates between primal sounds of the distant past and sounds from the future. Ross Daly and Kelly Thomas, inspired by a deep belief and understanding of the transcendent and
transpersonal dimension of the ancient and archetypal tropical traditions of the East, have studied near some of the most important representatives of this music.
All the knowledge they have gathered from these sources is then incorporated into their own compositions that reflect their understanding of the sacred nature of music itself. Zoi Papadantonaki joins them on percussion.