Friday September 26th, 8pm
HuDost in Concert
$15 ($12 Advance/Students)

HuDost is living proof that the whole really is greater than the sum of its parts, pulling together musical styles as diverse as the jellies in Marco Polo's kitchen cupboard, they weave a seamless tapestry that renders tears and laughter in listeners and cultivates that nameless longing that abides somewhere in all our hearts.

Local bellydance troupe Bodhicitta will be doing a short opening set and then join HuDost.

HuDost is a Music ensemble with core musicians Moksha Sommer and Jemal Wade Hines from Montreal and New York.

What commenced as an acoustic duo project has developed into a fully produced ensemble with Dan Walters on bass, John de Kadt on percussion, George Tortorelli on fl utes, and other occasional guests. The ensemble functions as a collective, bringing in musicians of varying sensibilities and backgrounds.

HuDost's material is best described as experimental world rock. Their original work ranges in style from 'Alternative World Music' to their own 'Country and Eastern' fusion, and an atmospheric, experimental sound. This is mixed with the rich, eclectic blending of traditional Sufi music, Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian and Balkan folk music, Farsi, Turkish, Arabic, Folk, Pop and Rock.

HuDost performances range from the duo of Moksha and Jemal Wade to the full ensemble mode, which includes performance art, video installation and dance. Their debut CD, titled ‘In an Eastern Rose Garden’, was released in 2005 and received rave reviews. CDBaby says about HuDost’s debut album: 'These beautiful atmospheric, warm and resonant songs weave the evocative… With stylistic colors of folk and pop presented with the colorful harmonic vocabulary of the East, this gentle album delicately pairs the two art forms with great success.'

In a recent review of 'Seedling' CHRONOGRAM Magazine said 'HuDost, from New Lebanon, New York, has a folk quality yet is quite post-modern; the band offers new takes on ancient words and melodies, cross-cultural hybrid transcendental chill-out music with an edge. (The album will even be agreeable to those whose spiritual music is punk.)… This is not fluffy newage music—it’s serious, complex fare with no aversion to addressing agony. Sommer's vocal execution is precisely orchestrated, her voice-opening, hollow-toned vortexes piercing through the tough spots. This album is a journey of music and spirit.'

HuDost has toured Europe and performed extensively in the US including shows at Alex Grey's CoSM in NYC, the Salvador Dali Museum, the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, Omega Institute, Rumi Festival at the Carrboro Arts Center, Folk Alliance and the Shakori Grassroots festival. They have also opened for the California Guitar Trio and worked with Neko Case and Mercan Dede. HuDost recently performed for a Deepak Chopra conference at Kripalu Center in the Berkshires. They have just returned from touring Turkey, where they performed with Istanbul based dancers and musicians, Germany and several cities in Europe.

HuDost's album 'Seedling', published by Open Sesame Music, was released September 2006 and their most recent album 'Unfinished' was released August 2007 and is a collection of bsides, live takes, remixes and new songs. HuDost is working on their new album with Malcolm Burn, who won a Grammy for producing Emmylou Harris' 'Red Dirt Girl' and who has worked with Peter Gabriel, Sarah McLachlan, Bob Dylan and many other renowned artists. HuDost has been touring constantly since April 2006.

More details about HuDost are available on their web site.

http://www.hudost.com

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