Isfahan

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Malcolm Fielding, Luke Plunb and Anne Harkin are ISFAHAN

Weaving wild eastern melodies and exciting percussion into an exotic blend – evocative of the intricate patterning of a Persian carpet, a waft of incense and orange blossom, the fluid movement of circle dancing …..Isfahan brings you the flavours, colours and pulse of North Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East. Traditional music from the east together with original music inspired by those characteristic rhythmic and melodic forms.

Malcolm Fielding and Luke Plumb on octave mandolas and mandolin, and Anne Harkin on darabouka play the melodies and rhythms that have traditionally accompanied and enriched the daily lives of people from across these regions.

Isfahan is a newcomer on the "world music" scene but has already played to appreciative and lively audiences at:

  • The Aquarius Festival Tasmania
  • Port Fairy Folk Festival 1999
  • The Stage-Bar, Melbourne
  • Tour dates in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania

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    Isfahan CD - this features mandola/mandolin player Luke Plumb. Luke and Malcolm play together as the duo Balkanology, and the two acts combine on this recording to give a full and rich musical texture. Click here to buy the CD from www.indie-cds.com, the specialist site for Australian independent music. You'll fing the CD in their Balkan section

    ANNE HARKIN

    - has developed a strong reputation in Australia as a Middle Eastern-style percussion performer and teacher. She appears in the recent SBS-screened documentaries "Red Light In Full Flight" and "Beating The Drum", and has made her own darabouka teaching video. Anne co-founded the Habibis and Ta ‘esh Fa ’esh. Her current musical projects also include Harkin and Larkin - Arabic percussion duo and The Azura Trio - Arabic dance to jazz-inspired sax and percussion, Beatwise and Wulaba (West African percussion ensembles).Anne and her bands have performed at many festivals including Port Fairy Folk Festival, The National Folk Festival and the Brunswick Music Festival.

    If you linked to this page from outside Anne's website, click here to visit her website home page.

     

    MALCOLM FIELDING has a background in Celtic and other European traditional music Malcolm Fieldingstyles, having been a member of The Occasional Ceilidh Band in the UK for 6 years, and of noted Scots/Shetland band Flatspin in Tasmania. Other musical projects include appearances as an occasional duo with Newfoundland-born singer Sharon Hutchison, and appearances as a musician with the Margaret Lahl Irish Dancers,and Melbourne Irish solo dancer Gordon Budd. Malcolm's festival appearances playing Celtic music in recent years include: Georgetown Folk Festival, Cygnet Folk Festival, Hobart Fleadh Ceol, and Hobart Celtic Winterfest. More recently he has focused on Macedonian and Middle-Eastern music, which sits well on the mandola, a relative of the bouzouki. This musical direction is now being explored in Isfahan and his duo Balkanology with mandolin and mandola player Luke Plumb from Hobart.

    Luke Plumb

    Luke Plumb (left) has achieved note in Tasmania and nationally with three piece Celtic outfit O'Sanassa, and award-winning duo Cooldrinagh (with guitarist Matt Irons). Cooldrinagh received the Declan Affley Memorial Award at the 1998 National Folk Festival for most promising new act. Luke has also played in a number of other musical projects, including appearances with Tim Whelan at the 1999 National Folk Festival & Victor Harbour festival and other Tasmanian based acts . Luke is a highly talented young player, arranger and composer, with a dynamic and inventive style on octave mandola, mandolin and tenor banjo. 

    To contact Isfahan call

    Malcolm - (03) 6295 0735 Fax: (03) 6295 0835 or email

    Luke - (03) 6229 6310

    Anne - (03) 9381 1186

    Last modified: October 16th 2001