Niyaz
Saturday, November 4, 2006 at 8:00 PM
Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center
Niyaz was founded by Iranian vocalist and composer Azam Ali, multi-instrumentalist and composer Loga Ramin Torkian and twice Grammy-nominated American producer/remixer Carmen Rizzo (Seal, Alanis Morisette, Paul Oakenfold). Together the members of Niyaz have established a new common ground, where the ageless mystical poetry of Urdu and Persian Sufi poets is adventurously placed in the context of sweeping electronic beats and Iranian/Indian acoustic instrumentation. For their Erie appearance, oud player Dmitris Mahlis and tabla player Satnam Ramgotra round out the group. Don’t miss this new world music for the 21st century harkening from the campus of Mercyhurst College!
