20 albums in 20 days - Pieces of Africa Kronos Quartet

I've been nominated by Stephen Winfield to post 20 albums in 20 days to facebook. No explanations or commentaries are expected. However i thought my blog might be a suitable place to post a comment or two. Here's album cover number 3. 

Stephen Winfield bought me my first Knonos Quartet album. It was Steve Riech's album Different Trains. That was a long time ago. We went to see Kronos live once at The Royal Festival Hall. The first half of the evening they played material from a variety of their albums. Including a track from Pieces of Africa. They played Escalay by Hamza El Din. After they played it. Hamza El Din stood up from the audience and received fantastic applause from the rest of the audience. The second half of the set that evening included a colaboration with the Rumanian Gypsey  group, Taraf de Haidoulks. But that's another story. 

Click here for a link to a youtube video of Escalay.