星期四, 20. February 2014
Villa Sträuli, Winterthur
www.villastraeuli.ch
Teké Ensemble (Bouzouki, Baglama, 曼陀林, 小提琴, 单簧管, 低音单簧管, 电子)
Spanish silent film El sexto sentido by Basque director Nemesio M. Sobrevila may well only be known to a small community of film enthusiasts. Among these, however, it has cult status – not least because of the film’s underlying idea of cinema as a medium equipped with a sixth sense not normally accessible to human beings. This meta-cinematographic starting point is summed up in one of the film’s intertitles: “Despite numerous philosophical systems we do not know the truth. In order to know it we must complement our incomplete senses with the precision of mechanics.“
The Teké Ensemble surrounding the Greek-Italian Bouzouki player Nico Canzoniere specialises in the Rembetiko. Deriving from Greek folk music, this music style is sometimes called 'Greek blues' as its texts tend to describe the sorrows and experiences of ordinary people. It is against this very backdrop that El Sexto Sentido is set.