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The 13th Tribe
12+ albums
tribaltribal ambientexperimentalpsychedelicminimalism
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There are multiple artist with this name: 2) The 13th Tribe is a world fusion ensemble founded in 1990 by German artist Werner Durand. He studied Indian and Iranian classical music and has performed his own music and that of numerous new music composers. He has been working with instruments which he has built out of PVC/acryl and which are blown with mouthpieces of trombones, clarinets or "neys" and are conjuncted with digital delay. On "Ping-Pong Anthropology", Werner Durand is accompanied by the well-known Norwegian saxophonist Erik Balke, who has performed extensively in jazz improvisation contexts, created music for theater and who has studied African and Balinese music; the Brazilian guitar player Silvia Ocougne, who has performed in countless musical settings including contemporary, jazz, early music, third stream, classical and Brazilian styles; and, as a guest musician, the Belgian percussionist Pierre Berthet who has performed within contemporary and improvised music and who has created homemade percussion instruments and sound installations. Werner Durand and Erik Balke perform on invented instruments, mostly wind instruments without finger holes, which are actually assemblages of PVC tubes of various lengths. The third musician, Brazilian Silvia Ocougne, provides cyclic rhythmical structures on prepared guitar. Percussionist Pierre Berthet appears as a guest on three tracks. Durand and Balke play games of "call and response" (reproduced in stereo, they do sound l
