Live Music Near Me: Samassin 'Is All Not One?' Album Launch with Melbourne Amplified Strings
Sun, 07 May
|Good Shepherd Chapel
As part The Boite's latest live music program, 'Live Music Near Me', The Boite presents Samassin for the launch of their latest album, "Is All Not One?" at the Good Shepherd Chapel in Abbotsford Convent. They will be joined by Melbourne Amplified Strings for this afternoon affair.
Time & Location
07 May 2023, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Good Shepherd Chapel, 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford VIC 3067, Australia
About the Event
Samassin has been performing Kirsty Pittman’s enigmatic compositions since 2014, at venues including Bar 303, The Boite, Kew Court House, Queen Victoria Markets, and Bar Oussou. They toured to Germany and Turkey in 2015, and produced studio albums, Golden Muse in 2016 and Sin Samas in 2018. This lush, cinematic, world fusion music, is a heady mix of jazz and art music with strong folk roots, and traditional rhythmic and modal influences from Indian, African, and the Middle East. 'We had the pleasure in late 2022 of recording our third album. This a suite of six interlocking pieces. Is All Not One? (Six Paramitas). Written between 2019 – 2022. This is almost 60 mins of rich and emotive music that aims to explores the extremes of human emotions using the six perfections of Buddhism, through the lens of a post pandemic world with its tumultuous global tensions and strained relationship with…