TAMBURI MUNDI: DRUMS'N'VOICES

Heartbeat and breath are the pulse of our lives. Drums and singing are its musical echo. Six international musicians take to the stage at the closing concert and trace this ancient connection.

Turkish singer Tugba Gülyesil is a guest at Tamburi Mundi for the first time. The musician from Istanbul cheerfully refuses to be pigeonholed and presents her songs, which are testimony to the traveling "lovers" known as Âsik, who followed a centuries-old tradition of singing storytellers.

Kasia Kadlubowska from Poland enjoys the exciting balance between contemporary music, tribal pop and traditional folk music from Central and Eastern Europe. With mallets on the vibraphone and a great love of frame drum music, she follows her own musical path. Sara Fotros, an Iranian musician from London, performs powerful percussion on the Persian-Kurdish frame drum Daf. Gesine Bänfer from Freiburg is at home with "wind and strings" in both early music and folk music. Isabel Martín from Spain traces the roots of Mediterranean music cultures with her singing and the Iberian frame drum Pandero Cuadrado. Malika Coskun sets her own percussive accents as a young voice.