SIYAH GALESH, the “Black Shepherd“
an experimental musical homage to the Green Man of Middle-Eastern spring festivals in his many disguises from Talysh/Iran to the Turkish Black Sea Coast, performed on regional instruments
sponsored by Musikfonds e.V., Goethe Institute & Akademie der Künste Berlin
Merve Tanrıkulu, Pontic chant
Anastassia Zachariadou, kanun & flutes
Giorgos Poulantsaklis, Pontic lyra & kemane
Batuhan Aydın, kaval
Nikolaus Grill, Taleshi tanburah & bass recorder
Laszlo Hudacsek, percussion
Stefan Pohlit, custom-made mandal santur
Ludwigshafen, Landau, Mainz 2022, directed by Stefan Pohlit
Compositions & Arrangements by Anastassia Zachariadou, Nikolaus Grill, Shaahin Mohajeri & (mostly) Stefan Pohlit