~ Mazja ~
The Album
 
This recording is about exploration of the flavors of the world's musics, and of the huge sonic spectrum available with a new approach to an uncommon instrument, the bowed psaltery. Two of the melodies were taken from the traditional repertoires of China and Spain. The rest of the album consists of original compositions using stylistic elements drawn from Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas.

 Grego "...takes this narrow range of sounds ...and does a nice job of expanding on it." review in  Dirty Linen, which was America's foremost folk and world music magazine.


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~ Mazja ~
The Dreambird

Mazja has butterfly-shaped wings feathered with leaves.
She has eight human-like hands, each a different color.
They hold and play a moon-horn harp, cymbals, violin, and panpipes.
She is a totem of the principles of harmonic interaction.

 mazja
beach psaltery

Her body is a "psaltery", (or "zither").
It is plucked, strummed, and played with one or two bows. At times a tabor pipe (flute) is played along with the psaltery, together in real time, while Mazja is being simultaneously manipulated by the music-puppetician.
　

Amazing Grace, not on the album, but here for you


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