Dance Music-two

Composer Jon Keliehor has created music for contemporary dance and ballet since 1972, first working with London Contemporary Dance Theatre and then with a great many choreographers and dance companies in London, Seattle and Caracas. His unusual range of music is both spacious and dynamic, using percussion instruments and their tone colours in both experimental and traditional ways.

His music for Robert Cohan’s CLASS, Darshan Bhuller’s BEYOND THE LAW, and Robert North’s TROY GAME are models of traditional world percussion instruments in contemporary settings, exploring many combinations of instrumentation. His work on the CD’s EAST MEETS WEST and CELESTIAL NILE for DanzaHoy in Venezuela, revealed new territories of sound shaping and complex textures within percussion.

His compositions are revealing and diverse, an open ended music that travels in many directions. They are a collection of surprises, and somehow a bridge between forgotten and contemporary domains.