*Transience - Racheal Cogan and Tony Lewis OM602 (2006)*

*Racheal Cogan* - Ganassi recorders in G and C, low whistle in D, treble recorder.
*Tony Lewis* - frame drums, udu, tabla, riq, zils, tombak, Chinese and Korean gongs, Nepalese temple bowl, Indonesian cow bells, and llama.

*1. For Fardin (Racheal Cogan) (4'24)*
Racheal Cogan - Ganassi recorders in G and C
Tony Lewis - tabla

*2. Kalamatianos (Racheal Cogan) (5'27)*
Racheal Cogan - Ganassi recorder in C
Tony Lewis - small frame drum, large frame drum, riq, zils

*3. Sufi Ilâhi (traditional Turkish, in the makam of Huseyni (5'45)*
Racheal Cogan - Ganassi recorder in G
Tony Lewis - udu

*4. Two Azeri (Ross Daly) (6'02)*
Racheal Cogan - Ganassi recorder in G
Tony Lewis - udu and llama

*5. Skopianos (traditional Macedonian) (4'06)*
Racheal Cogan - low whistle in D
Tony Lewis - tombak

*6. Panjaneh (Racheal Cogan)*
Houdetsanes Kontilies (Ross Daly) (9'42)
Racheal Cogan - Ganassi recorder in G
Tony Lewis - tabla

*7. Nanourisma (Racheal Cogan) (6'26)*
Racheal Cogan -treble recorder
Tony Lewis - Chinese and Korean gongs, Nepalese temple bowl, and Indonesian cow bells

*8-10. Absence (Racheal Cogan)*
Part 1 (6'24)
Part 2 (3'05)
Part 3 (3'10)
Racheal Cogan - Ganassi recorder in G
Tony Lewis - udu and llama

Total duration (54'38)

Racheal Cogan (recorders) and Tony Lewis (percussion) perform captivating melodies and rhythms informed and inspired by the music of many cultures. Their unique repertoire includes traditional music from Greece, Turkey and Iran, as well as compositions by Racheal Cogan and Ross Daly. Racheal and Tony's work is drawn from an impressive amount of first hand experience in the study and performance of musical forms from across the world, spanning Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, the Pacific, and the indigenous music of Australia.

Racheal Cogan has worked extensively in modal music forms around the world. In Melbourne in 1993 she co-founded the Greek music group the haBiBis, whose CD Intoxication won an ARIA award in 1999. In 2000 she travelled to Athens to study, perform and record with Ross Daly and his ensemble Labyrinth throughout Greece, Turkey, and Macedonia. Since then she has studied Persian classical music with Hossein Omoumi in France, Karnatic Music with Karaikudi R. Mani in India, and performed with Kurdish musician Fardin Karamkhani in the USA.

Tony Lewis has performed, studied, and conducted cultural exchange project in various parts of Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and in indigenous communities around Australia. He has worked with many of Australia's leading music groups, including Waratah (with Sandy Evans & Satsuki Odamura), The Renaissance Players, Riley Lee, Matthew Doyle, and many others. Tony has composed Major works for the Perth Festival, the Festival of the Dreaming, the Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre, and Sadari Theatre Company (Seoul).

Racheal and Tony are performing in January 2007 in the Goddess: Divine Energy exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. You can find more information about Racheal Cogan and Tony Lewis at: www.rachealcogan.com

*Background*

The repertoire on this recording is a combination of pieces from related origins. Some are pieces that Racheal learnt whilst based in Greece from 2000 to 2002 studying, performing, recording and touring the region with celebrated musicians Ross Daly and Kelly Thoma. Others are pieces that she wrote after her stay there, and that developed from those journeys in Greece, Macedonia, and Turkey. In Greece, Racheal also met and befriended the musician and instrument maker Fardin Karamkhani, who played a significant role in encouraging Racheal to write her own music. He said that to learn other people's music is one thing, but to make your own is, in the end, the only real thing to do. All of the pieces on this recording have since been re-shaped and re-worked by the musical partnership that Tony and Racheal have formed together.

*Some Previous Recordings*
Racheal Cogan
· Ross Daly, Kelly Thoma, and Aggeliki Xekalaki, Sojourn (recorded in Greece), Orpheus Music (OM601) Australia, (2006)
· Ross,Daly, Mitsos Stavrakakis, Vassilis Stavrakakis, Giorgis Xylouris, Spiridoula Toutoudaki, Aggeliki Xekalaki, Sti Dini tou Anemo (recorded in Crete - Greece), produced by Ross Daly, Music Box International, (2001)
· La Compania , Music of the Spanish Renaissance, Move Records, (2000)
· the haBiBis , intoxication, Festival/Mushroom Records, (1998)
· the haBiBis , Four Warriors, Sandstock Records , (1995)

Tony Lewis
· Satsuki Odamura, Koto Dreaming, Orpheus Music OM701 (2006)
· Waratah (Satsuki Odamura, Tony Lewis, & Sandy Evans), Time Never Sleeps, Newmarket Music NEW3124.2 (2003)
· Sangam, Anamika, Vox Australis, VAST025-2 (1999)
· Matthew Doyle and Tony Lewis, Storm Bird, One World Music OWD 111, (1998)
· Satsuki Odamura, Burning House, Vox Australis VAST022-2 (1997)
· Satsuki Odamura, Like A Bird. Tall Poppies TP044 (1993)
· Tony Lewis, Passage. Music by Tony Lewis for the Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre. Move Records MD3103 (1991); Vox Australis VAST009-2 (1993)
· Nakisa, Camels in the City. Sandstock SSM043CD (1991)