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April 2008 gig reviews by Chris Parker
The Zig Quartet
Monday 28 April
'Colour,
wild rhythms, fiery melodies and passionate performance' were promised by
the Zig Quartet London Gypsy Orchestra leader Gundula Gruen (violin),
Serbian accordionist Zivorad Nikolic, bassist Oliver Baldwin and darbuka
/ percussionist Rastko Rasic and their music delivers all of this in spades.
Although such music is firmly and specifically rooted both geographically (in Eastern Europe) and socioculturally (springing from events such as weddings etc.), it 'travels' magnificently, on this occasion clearly delighting a full house with its exuberant fleetness, effortless virtuosity and above all its emotional intensity.
Gruen is the heart and soul and sparky spokesperson of the band, spearheading all the plangent melodies with her deliciously multi-textured violin, but Nikolic also plays a vital part, filling out the group sound with his judicious comping and occasionally producing musicianly solos gracefully but powerfully propelled by Baldwin and Rasic. Whether hurtling through up-tempo dances or extracting all the pathos from slower laments, the Zig Quartet is simply irresistible.
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