Music without Border

Samworth, Tung, Dhillon

This collaborative trio of Ron Samworth, Lan Tung, and Neelamjit Dhillon was formed in 2007 to explore the fusion of composition and improvisation. Three very distinct voices and cultural backgrounds of Anglo/Ireland, Taiwan, and India come together as a creative whole. The unique instrumentation - erhu/voice, guitars/effects, and tabla/alto saxophone, provides a wealth of textural possibilities to these three versatile composers/performers. The traditional musics of these cultures are infinitely rich unto themselves - but the transformation and synthesis of these traditions into a contemporary expression of life in post-millennial Vancouver is what compels these artists.

Ron Samworth is known on the Canadian improvised/contemporary music scene as an inventive textural improviser and a strong fluid melodicist informed and inspired by a variety of music traditions including jazz, rock, new music and folk music of many cultures. Lan Tung creates new vocabularies on the erhu, drawing inspiration from Chinese music, World Music, and contemporary music in a unique approach to Creative Improvisation. Neelamjit Dhillon is equally versed in both Eastern and Western traditions, active on the stages of Indian classical music and jazz.