No Man's Land (NZ)
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Image Credit: Mathew Knight, Kenyon Shankie, and Jeff Avery NO MAN’S LAND Composer: John Psathas, Director: Jasmine Millet Cinematographer: Mathew Knight FREE PROGRAMME With support from: Creative NZ and WWI00 Produced by Victoria University of Wellington, With support from: the Lottery Grants Board, Adrian Durham, the British High Commission, the Polish Embassy, the French Embassy, the New Zealand-France Friendship Fund, Radio New Zealand Concert, Park Road Post Production, Te Koki New Zealand School of Music, New Zealand India Research Institute, New Zealand Defense Force. NO MAN’S LAND GREAT HALL, AUCKLAND TOWN HALL FRIDAY 4 MARCH, 8:00 PM COMPOSER’S INTRODUCTION – JOHN PSATHAS Why musicians travelling in the footsteps of soldiers 100 years ago? If we could go back in time and say to those on the battlefields “guess what happens here in 100 years” – would they believe us? If we said the same thing to those fighting now, would they believe us? Would we believe ourselves? We now wage war on our own species. But even at our worst, humanity and empathy continue to survive. Our story culminates in acts of kindness: soldiers from opposing sides, ‘enemies’, offering each other water, a cigarette, a shoulder to lean on. Even – incredibly – in what is surely one of the most bizarre and dangerous inventions of the human mind: a place called no man’s land. iiii ORIGINAL ARMENIAN LYRICS, FROM POSTLUDE (LAMENTOS) - SERJ TANKIAN English Translation of the lyrics Gyanke mechernis voronoum e' Life is searching within us for a concert of Daak aryuni hantes boiling blood Mahe mezi modetsnum e' Death is getting us closer to the entrance of Eyoutian semi vaay Asdvadz Being Dear God Trakht yev djokhk Heaven and Hell, Ays gyankn e' It's this life Martgutyioune haaverj goradz Humanity eternally lost Manougi demkin unpidz sere The pure love on the face of a child Haghtanagne' me'r jumpaan Is the victory, our road iiii PROGRAMME NO MAN’S LAND Part 1 Journey Part 2 Oh Beloved Music Music David Downes & John Psathas John Psathas ¡¡¡¡ Featuring Renkei Hashimoto -------------------------------Shakuhachi Ariana Tikao --------------------------------------- Voice Oum El Ghait Benessahraoui --------------------------------------- Voice Meeta Pandit --------------------------------------- Voice Women of the Polish Radio Choir --------------------------------------- Voice Marta Sebestyen --------------------------------------- Voice ¡¡¡¡ Part 4 Soul of Mine Soundscape David Downes Recitations Monsieur Claude -------------------------------------Catholic The Grand Mufti of the Grand Mosque ---------------------------------------- Islam Himanshu Dixit --------------------------------------- Hindu Michael Mandel ------------------------------------ Hebrew Monseigneur Job ---------------------- Russian Orthodox Transitions David Downes Music John Psathas Polyphonic- Singing Gareth Lubbe Featuring Simone Rebello ---------------------------- Wind Chimes Kostas Theodorakos ---------------------------------- Marimba Petros Kourtis -------------------------------- Percussion Andreas Pappas -------------------------------- Percussion Part 3 Shellshock ¡¡¡¡ Music John Psathas Featuring The Nudge ---------------------------------------- Voice Svet Stoyanov ---------------------------------------- Davul Alexej Gerassimez ---------------------------------- Bass Drum Benjamin Schafer ---------------------------------- Bass Drum Bijan Chemirani ----------------------------------------Bendir Paolo Cimmino -------------------------------------Tamorra Shahbaz Hussain -----------------------------------------Tabla Yanal Staiti ------------------------------------ Dumbek David Ross --------------------------------Snare Drum David Henderson --------------------------------Snare Drum Fara Diouf ------------------------------------- Djembe Refugees of Rap ---------------------------------------- Voice ¡¡¡¡ Part 5 Anthem Music Part 6 Postlude (Lamentos) John Psathas Melody Derya Turkan Featuring Zofia Kolbe-Wojdyr Lyrics Serj Tankian ----------------------- Gaida, Bagpipes Ambient- Netherlands Blazers Ensemble Texture Russel Walder -------------------------- Wind and Bass Arrangement John Psathas Orchestre Philharmonique - Featuring Derya Turkan de Strasbourg, Tecwyn Evans ---------------------------------Kemence --------------------------------Conductor Hayden Chisholm Danny Cudd ------------------------------ Saxophone & Markus Johansson Nawras Alhajibrahim ------------------------------- Hang Drum ----------------------------------------- Bass Joshua Hyde The No Man’s Land Choir ------------------------------- Saxophone -------------------------------------- Voice Svet Stoyanov Muhammet Sadrettin Ozcimi --------------------------------------- Davul ----------------------------------------- Ney Alexej Gerassimez Richard Nunns --------------------------------- Bass Drum -------------------------- Taonga Puoro Benjamin Schafer Children Isaac Pujji & Vivienne Pujji --------------------------------- Bass Drum ¡¡¡¡ Bijan Chemirani ---------------------------------------Bendir Paolo Cimmino ------------------------------------Tamorra Shahbaz Hussain ----------------------------------------Tabla Yanal Staiti ----------------------------------- Dumbek David Ross -------------------------------Snare Drum David Henderson -------------------------------Snare Drum Fara Diouf ------------------------------------ Djembe Jack Hooker ---------------------------------------Guitar Mateusz Szemraj ---------------------------------------Guitar Polish Radio Choir --------------------------------------- Voice Pierre Mea -------------------------------------- Organ Muhammet Sadrettin Ozcimi ------------------------------------------ Ney ¡¡¡¡ CREDITS CREATIVE TEAM LIVE BAND John Psathas (Composer/Producer) Joe Callwood (Guitar) Jasmine Millet (Director/Producer) James Illingsworth (Keyboards) Mathew Knight (Director of Photography) Vagelis Karipis (Percussion) George Kariotis (Sound Engineer) Jolanta Kossakowska (Violin & Voice) Roger Grant (Editor) Sofia Labropoulou (Kanun) Stratis Psaradelis (Lyra) Caleb Robinson (Bass) LYRIC CREDITS Original Lyrics Concept (Part 2) Jenny Bornholdt Translation Marco Sonzogni Hungarian Lyrics (Part 2) Marta Sebestyen & Lackfi Jάnos Hindi Lyrics (Part 2) Meeta Pandit Arabic Lyrics (Part 2) Oum El Ghait Benessahraoui Te Reo Maori Lyrics (Part 2) Ariana Tikao Armenian Lyrics (Part 6) Serj Tankian Arabic Lyrics (Part 3) Refugees of Rap RODUCTION TEAM AND CREW Line Producer Pamela Cain Project Supervisor – Victoria University of Wellington Euan Murdoch Post Production Supervisor Roger Grant Second Camera Jeff Avery Visual Effects/Projection & Concept Design Creature Post & Lakshman Anandanayagam Set Design The Show Business & Pak Peacocke Production Coordinator Eric Millet Production Assistant – Victoria University of Wellington Debbie Levy Emily Argyle Production Assistant Angela Cudd Daniela Conforte Camera Assistant Vasconcellos Creative Sound Design/Additional Percussion Arrangements Dave Downes Recording Engineer John Neill Graham Kennedy Lee Prebble Toby Lloyd Recording Engineer & Production Assistant Jack Hooker Production Assistant & Music Production Kenyon Shankie Steffan Paton Vocal Consultant Briar Prastiti EARLY DEVELOPMENT TEAM RESEARCH Marie Jones Jasmine Millet, Eric Millet Mike Wallis Heather McKay, Charlotte Clech, Inge Rademeyer Lemuel Lye FIXERS Poland - Krzysztof Szczuchniak, Tomasz Idzikowski, Andrzej Trzeciak Belgium – Freddie Declerck France - Andrei Brauns India - Mahesh Pillai, Amit Vachharajan PRODUCTION FACILITIES Story Shop, Conbrio Media, Creature Post, Sierra Recordings, The Surgery Studio, Radio New Zealand, Park Road Post Production, Te Koki New Zealand School of Music ARCHIVES Archives New Zealand, Hocken Collections, Uare Taoka o Hākena – University of Otago, National Army Museum NZ, AP, Library of Congress, Imperial War Museums, British Library, ECPAD, National Library of New Zealand, National Library of Scotland, Sir George Grey Special Collections Auckland Libraries, AFP, San Diego Air & Space Museum, DPA, German Federal Archives, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Roger Viollet, Mary Evans Picture Library, Library & Archives Canada, Canadian War Museum, Australian War Memorial, New South Wales State Library, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra - Shapoor Bhedwar – Not titled [group portrait of a family], c.1910. ALL MUSICIANS AND NATIONALITIES Armenia/USA Serj Tankian (Voice/Lyrics) Australia Joshua Hyde (Saxophone) Bulgaria Svet Stoyanov (Percussion) France Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg Pierre Mea (Organ); Monsieur Claude (Gregorian Chant recitation) Germany Alexej Gerassimez (Percussion); Benjamin Schafer (Percussion) Greece Stratis Psaradelis (Lyra); Vagelis Karipis (Percussion); Sofia Labropoulou (Kanun) Hungary Marta Sebestyen (Voice) India Meeta Pandit (Voice); Himanshu Dixit (Hindu Religious Recitation) Iran/France Bijan Chemirani (Percussion) Italy Paolo Cimmino (Percussion) Japan Renkei Hashimoto (Shakuhachi) Morocco Oum El Ghait Benessahraoui (Voice) Netherlands/Belgium Netherlands Blazers Ensemble (Wind and Brass) New Zealand Tecwyn Evans (Conductor); Hayden Chisholm (Saxophone, Bagpipes); Caleb Robinson (Bass); Ariana Tikao (Voice/Lyrics); The Nudge; Iraia Whakamoe (Drums); Ryan Prebble (Guitar); James Coyle (Keyboards); Joe Callwood (Guitar); Jack Hooker (Guitar) Pakistan/UK Shahbaz Hussain (Tabla) Palestine Nawras Alhajibrahim (Bass); Yanal Staiti (Percussion) Poland Polish Radio Choir; Zofia Kolbe-Wojdyr