Marovantele, duduk, bass clarinet, chord zither Andrew Cronshaw, Tigran Aleksanyan, Ian Blake

Marovantele, duduk and bass clarinet, with touches of chord zither and 5string kantele. Andrew says, The marovantele is a doublesided, doublestrung kantele made for me by Kimmo Sarja in Finland (as was the 5string electric kantele heard briefly here). The doublesided idea came from the Madagascan boxzither, marovany; I d spent many happy tours around the world as sound engineer, tour manager with Malagasy band Tarika, whose instrumentation included the range of Malagasy stringed instruments: marovany, valiha, jejyvoatavo, Andrew Cronshaw, Tigran Aleksanyan and Ian Blake are also members, with singer Sanna KurkiSuonio, of the quartet SANS. CDs by Andrew Cronshaw, and by SANS, are available from the Cloud Valley website, and from as well as the usual physical and on