Ryan Francesconi & Mirabai Peart

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RYAN FRANCESCONI & MIRABAI PEART

After 2011's Parables album and two successful solo tours, Ryan Francesconi has signed to Bella Union. New album Road To Palios finds him collaborating with Mirabai Peart (whom he met through their work with Joanna Newsom) on a set of spellbinding duets for guitar and violin, evidencing a world of musical inspiration flowing through its minimal instrumental palette, centring on Balkan folk but also spanning Baroque, Americana and jazz improvisation. On stage these ornate and detailed compositions possess a rare transportative power: an atlas of vividly evoked musical places performed with heart and soul by two extraordinary musicians.

Marcus Corbett
Marcus Corbett is a highly individual singer songwriter with a unique style. A musician with a long involvement with North Indian classical vocal and Tabla, he has also had experience of African high life music having spent some years with Zairean (DRC) bands - Malaika and Intelligencia Britanica.

However while these genres have influenced his composition to a greater or lesser degree, he has wrought his own style and made his music his own.

'Marcus Corbett is an artist with a unique blend of intricate acoustic guitar brilliance and a primal vocal delivery influenced by his years in India. A rare exotic jewel.' Sonja Kristina, Curved Air/The Strawbs