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2) The 13th Tribe is a world fusion ensemble founded in 1990 by German artist Werner Durand. He studied Indian and Iranian classical music and has performed his own music and that of numerous new music composers. He has been working with instruments which he has built out of PVC/acryl and which are blown with mouthpieces of trombones, clarinets or "neys" and are conjuncted with digital delay. On "Ping-Pong Anthropology", Werner Durand is accompanied by the well-known Norwegian saxophonist Erik Balke, who has performed extensively in jazz improvisation contexts, created music for theater and who has studied African and Balinese music; the Brazilian guitar player Silvia Ocougne, who has performed in countless musical settings including contemporary, jazz, early music, third stream, classical and Brazilian styles; and, as a guest musician, the Belgian percussionist Pierre Berthet who has performed within contemporary and improvised music and who has created homemade percussion instruments and sound installations.
Werner Durand and Erik Balke perform on invented instruments, mostly wind instruments without finger holes, which are actually assemblages of PVC tubes of various lengths. The third musician, Brazilian Silvia Ocougne, provides cyclic rhythmical structures on prepared guitar. Percussionist Pierre Berthet appears as a guest on three tracks. Durand and Balke play games of "call and response" (reproduced in stereo, they do sound like a ping-pong game) over Ocougne's cycles, each one moving at his/her own pace, periodically losing the others and catching up on them. This process creates soft, unreal, slow-evolving textures belonging to both meditative and avant-garde music. Because of its ritualistic patterns and similarities between the Tribe's devices and such autochthonous instruments as the didgeridoo, the Alp horn, or even the pan flute, this music has a distinctive exotic quality. Somewhere between the Andes and Australia probably lies an island where The 13th Tribe's music may be used for the religious ceremonies of a postmodern civilization.
2) The 13th Tribe is a collective of musicians, DJs, producers, MCs and singers spanning 5 continents and over 15 different countries. They have been releasing tracks independently since 1999 and are originally from Glasgow, Scotland, UK but are presently based in Latin America. The 13th Tribe got their name from Battlestar Gallactica.
3) The 13th Tribe is a ska punk band from Hagerstown, Maryland, United States, formed in 1997. This 7-piece group combines 3rd wave ska with elements of punk and hardcore. Their album "License and Registration, Please" was released in 2001 on Broken Records.
2) The 13th Tribe is a wor… Read Full Bio ↴There are multiple artist with this name:
2) The 13th Tribe is a world fusion ensemble founded in 1990 by German artist Werner Durand. He studied Indian and Iranian classical music and has performed his own music and that of numerous new music composers. He has been working with instruments which he has built out of PVC/acryl and which are blown with mouthpieces of trombones, clarinets or "neys" and are conjuncted with digital delay. On "Ping-Pong Anthropology", Werner Durand is accompanied by the well-known Norwegian saxophonist Erik Balke, who has performed extensively in jazz improvisation contexts, created music for theater and who has studied African and Balinese music; the Brazilian guitar player Silvia Ocougne, who has performed in countless musical settings including contemporary, jazz, early music, third stream, classical and Brazilian styles; and, as a guest musician, the Belgian percussionist Pierre Berthet who has performed within contemporary and improvised music and who has created homemade percussion instruments and sound installations.
Werner Durand and Erik Balke perform on invented instruments, mostly wind instruments without finger holes, which are actually assemblages of PVC tubes of various lengths. The third musician, Brazilian Silvia Ocougne, provides cyclic rhythmical structures on prepared guitar. Percussionist Pierre Berthet appears as a guest on three tracks. Durand and Balke play games of "call and response" (reproduced in stereo, they do sound like a ping-pong game) over Ocougne's cycles, each one moving at his/her own pace, periodically losing the others and catching up on them. This process creates soft, unreal, slow-evolving textures belonging to both meditative and avant-garde music. Because of its ritualistic patterns and similarities between the Tribe's devices and such autochthonous instruments as the didgeridoo, the Alp horn, or even the pan flute, this music has a distinctive exotic quality. Somewhere between the Andes and Australia probably lies an island where The 13th Tribe's music may be used for the religious ceremonies of a postmodern civilization.
2) The 13th Tribe is a collective of musicians, DJs, producers, MCs and singers spanning 5 continents and over 15 different countries. They have been releasing tracks independently since 1999 and are originally from Glasgow, Scotland, UK but are presently based in Latin America. The 13th Tribe got their name from Battlestar Gallactica.
3) The 13th Tribe is a ska punk band from Hagerstown, Maryland, United States, formed in 1997. This 7-piece group combines 3rd wave ska with elements of punk and hardcore. Their album "License and Registration, Please" was released in 2001 on Broken Records.
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