| Ross Daly, born 29/9/1952 in England, is a composer and multi-instrumentalist of Irish descent living in Greece. He was brought up in the UK, North America and Japan but has spent all his adult life travelling extensively throughout India, Central Asia, the Middle and the Near East, Greece and Crete, studying the rich and varied classical and folk traditions with master musicians from that part of the world, e.g.: Classical Guitar with Brent Knowland and Patrick Benham Sitar with Jachindranath Saha Rabab with Mohammad Omar Cretan Lyra with Kostas Moundakis Kemence with Ihsan Ozgen Ross Daly is now a respected master in his own right and an acclaimed virtuoso on a range of instruments, including - amongst the above mentioned - the Greek Laouto, the Turkish Saz, the Arab Oud, the Persian Tar and the Indian Sarangi. From his base in Greece he is teaching, playing concerts all over Europe, Near East and North America, recording and producing and bringing together musicians like in the "Labyrinth"-project, which he started in Crete. Ross Daly plays the modal, non-harmonic music of Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, the Middle East, North Africa and North India. Despite the difference in terminology, there are distinctive similarities in the way virtually all these cultures approach improvisation and rhythm and in the way they perceive the relationship between tradition and originality. Within that context Ross Daly has to be seen as a composer of what he calls "Contemporary Modal Music". Appreciated as a creator of his own musical universe, he leads his audience both in his concerts and on his CDs to magic musical voyages beyond multicultural fashions. |
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