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(David): This piece is what was recorded in the very first moments Benjy, Nancy and I played together as a trio. Take #1, no less! We were set up in Benjy’s Portland studio, together in one room—no baffles separating our sound—and were about to find out if we could basically, well, pull an album’s worth of material out of thin air. For no particular reason, I started flipping the tuning levers on my harp into some spicy tuning which I had in fact never before employed and arrived at a tuning that is basically half major and half Gypsy Minor. “Ah, that’s Nat Bhairav.” says Benjy (who is well versed in the classical music of North India.) “Says I, “Well Benjy, if it’s not Bhairav, then what is it? “No David, it’s NAT BHAIRAV!” So we began improvising in that scale and what emerged was truly serendipitous. The Celtic harp, tablas and oboe created beautiful sonorities on the first try—thanks also to the decades of practice all three of us have with deep listening during free-form improvisations. The only thing that we could imagine adding was bansuri (bamboo) flute by the incomparable Steve Gorn, who of course is very experienced playing in the Nat Bhairav scale. So we invited him to set the mood with a solo intro and weave a tapestry through any open spaces he could hear in the body of the piece.

The name comes from the Hindu goddess of music, Saraswati with her many arms for playing multiple instruments at the same time. Nancy was staring at a lovely statue of her while we improvised this music—so it’s almost as if she had a hand in it.

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from Confluence, released May 21, 2019
(Rumbel/Michael/Wertheimer/Gorn)

Steve Gorn: Bansuri flute
David Michael: Celtic harp, zither
Nancy Rumbel: Oboe
Benjy Wertheimer: Tablas, tamboura

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Rumbel, Michael, & Wertheimer Port Townsend, Washington

Grammy-Award winner and woodwindist, Nancy Rumbel, has teamed up with Celtic harpist, David Michael, and tabla/multi- instrumentalist Benjy Wertheimer to create a whole new sound. An abundance of riches are added by a talented cast of their friends: Michael Mandrell (guitar), Richard Russell (sarode), Sean Frenette (bass), Mark Eubanks ( bassoon), and Steve Gorn (bansuri flutist.) ... more

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