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 ,

With support from: the Lottery Grants Board, Adrian Durham, the British High Commission, the Polish Embassy, the French Embassy, the - 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.

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ORIGINAL ARMENIAN LYRICS, FROM POSTLUDE (LAMENTOS) -

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

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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

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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 ------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

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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) Translation Marco Sonzogni Hungarian Lyrics (Part 2) Marta Sebestyen & Lackfi Jάnos Hindi Lyrics (Part 2) Meeta Pandit 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) 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) 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 (Gaida, Bagpipes); Jolanta Kossakowska (Voice, Violin); Mateusz Szemraj (Guitar) Russia Monseigneur Job (Russian Orthodox recitation) Saudi Arabia The Grand Mufti of the Grand Mosque, Paris (Islamic Recitation) Scotland David Ross (Percussion), David Henderson (Percussion) Senegal Fara Diouf (Djembe) South Africa Gareth Lubbe (Polyphonic Singing) Markus Johansson (Hang Drum) /Palestine Refugees of Rap - Yaser Jamous, Mohammed Jamous (Rap) Turkey Derya Turkan (Kemence/Composer); Muhammet Sadrettin Ozcimi (Ney) UK Danny Cudd (Hang Drum); Simone Rebello (Percussion) USA Russel Walder (Composer) ; Michael Mandel (Hebrew Religious Recitation)

OFF-SCREEN PERFORMERS

Greece Kostas Theodorakos (Percussion); Petros Kourtis (Percussion); Andreas Pappas (Percussion) Aotearoa Richard Nunns (Taonga Puoro) Additional Musician Tom Callwood

SUPPORT Lottery Grants Board - New Zealand Lottery World War One Commemorations & Environment and Heritage Committee, Victoria University of Wellington, Park Road Post Production, Adrian Durham, British High Commission, New Zealand France Friendship Fund, New Zealand Defence Force, New Zealand Festival, Auckland Arts Festival, Radio New Zealand, Womad 2016, Tourmakers, New Zealand India Research Institute – Victoria University, Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Wellington, Embassy of France in Wellington, The Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington, The Victoria University Foundation, To Koki New Zealand School of Music.

THANKS Grant Guilford, Frazer Allan, Neil Quigley, Helen Clark, Chris Finlayson, Celia-Wade Brown, Dilys Grant, Catherine Galuszka, Vicki Jackways, Dean Watkins, Nigel Scott, Rob Rabel, Sotiris Beckas, Nik Zahariadis, Simon Bowden, Lesley and Michael Shanahan, Jamie Selkirk, Rosalind Plimmer, Zbigniew Gniatkowski, Raynald Belay, Anne-Christine Roussel, Joel Watson, Embassy of Poland in Wellington, The Embassy of France in Wellington, British High Commission, High Commission of India in Wellington, Embassy of Greece in Wellington, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand High Commission London, New Zealand Embassy Warsaw, New Zealand Embassy Brussels, New Zealand Embassy Paris, Goethe Institute, WW100 Project Office, ACAP Pole d’Images, Film Lorraine, The team at the Wellington Quarry, Arras, Mayor of Arras, Urszula Wojnar, Lidia Morawska, Office of Tourism Verdun, Screen Auckland, Carla Psathas, Anita McKegg, Tricia Walbridge, Cheryl , Shelagh Murray, Kirsten McDonald BIOGRAPHIES

JOLANTA KOSSAKOWSKA – recently Joe has worked with singer/composer/ VIOLIN/VOICE multi-instrumentalist Warren Maxwell in Little Jolanta plays medieval fiddles, Bushman, touring extensively through Australasia gęśle and baroque violin. She and recording three studio albums. Joe first met is a songwriter and composer John Psathas when John was enlisted to write the for theatre and film and has orchestral arrangements for Little Bushman’s Live in participated in several Concert with the New Zealand Symphony projects combining different Orchestra. musical genres, for instance, Other recent projects include writing, performing Warszawa, Tribute to Joy Division (2007) and and recording with instrumental quartet The Etnofonie Kurpiowskie (2011). Jolanta has held Woods, working with composer Tom McLeod concerts with various early music and recording guitar for the Art of Recovery contemporary ensembles (Dekameron, Ars Nova, documentary, more film score recording on Ars Antiqua, Sine Nomine Kwadrofonik) . She is also another Psathas project Good For Nothing, and a a guest performer of international music projects five year stint teaching guitar at the New Zealand and festivals, such as Baltic Masters (DK), Euro-Med School of Music. Festival (HU/PL/SRB), Korean-Polish Jazz Mosaics, and No Man's Land (NZ). Jolanta is the STRATIS PSARADELLIS – LYRA frontwoman of MOSAIK, fusing the traditional Stratis is a musician who musics of Poland, the Mediterranean and the focuses on Greek and Middle Middle East. She composes and performs feminist Eastern Folk Music. Born in music with Pochwalone. She also took part in the Athens, he studied at the ethno-punk R.U.T.A. project, and was awarded Music High School of Pallini, with Polityka's Passport (category pop music), an specialising on the saz as a annual prestigious Polish award presented by the student of Periklis weekly magazine Polityka. Jolanta is a recipient of Papapetropoulos. He has also the Golden Fiddle Special Award part of the New studied with saz masters Talip Ozkan and Mehmet Tradition Festival. Erenler at Labyrinth Musical Workshop in Crete. Self -taught in politiki lyra (lyre of Istanbul or classical JOE CALLWOOD – GUITARS Joe kemence), he enriched his performance skills graduated from the Wellington studying with Sokratis Sinopoulos and Derya Turkan. Conservatorium of Music in Stratis has performed and recorded extensively in 1995 after which he worked as Europe, the US, Canada and the Middle East, as a a freelance performer and sought after diverse instrumentalist, playing the lyra, teacher and met lavta and saz. He has collaborated with many saxophonist/composer/ artists including Ross Daly, Marta Sebestyen, improvisor Jeff Henderson. Joe Loreena McKennitt, Zohar Fresco, Murat Aydemir, joined Henderson’s Syzygy Creative Music Sarband Ensemble, OnEira 6tet, Giasemi and Nikos Ensemble, touring NZ and recording on their debut Saragoudas, Chronis Aidonidis, Christos Tsiamoulis, album Tongue Grooves. Nikos Grapsas, Antonis Apergis, Martha Mavroidi, He performed with other of Henderson’s Katerina Papadopoulou, and Maria Simoglou. ensembles and became involved with the Stratis completed a Bachelor Degree in Wellington improvised music scene. This led to Musicology at the National and Kapodistrian performances with Dutch improviser Kris Wanders, University of Athens. Since 1999, has taught The William Parker Big Band, Rosie Langabeer’s traditional Greek instruments at the Music High “Zirkus,” and in 2002 an album of largely School of Pallini. improvised chamber style music with Arc Trio. More

CALEB ROBINSON – BASS moved to Istanbul to study the kanun with leading Caleb performs original music in exponents of the instrument such as Ahmet Meter collaboration with many and Hakan Gungor to learn technique and Omer recognised NZ artists. Performing Erdogdular and Necati Celik (Eastern theory- internationally has strengthened maqams). his resolve to experience and As a soloist she has collaborated with some of the understand other most prominent traditional and alternative cultures. However, his heart musicians, actors, directors and ensembles in remains in Aotearoa which has its own style of Greece and abroad such as: D. Samiou, Chronis musical expression, reflecting the diverse cultures of Aidonidis, A. Apergis, Glikeria, Oresti Karamanli, his South Pacific homeland and own Māori/ Interstellar Overdrive, Kostas Dimouleas, John European heritage. Caleb attained a high level Psathas, Karolos Voutsinas, Giorgos Trandalidis, of achievement at both the New Zealand School of Thanasis Moraitis, Kostas Kastanas, Elsa Stavridou, Music and Victoria University. He specialises in Evi Dimitropoulou, Claire Bloom, Marta Sebestyen, upright bass, as well as the electric and synth bass, Kalman Balog, Dominique Vellard, Noureddine exploring jazz improvisation, pacific Tahiri, Victoria Herenzar, Haig Yazdjian, Ross Daly, grooves, psychedelic rock and many other genre. Ballake Sissoko, Mamak Khadem, Efrin Lopez, Niyazi

Sayin, Omer Erdogdular,Derya Turkan, Ahmet JAMES ILLINGWORTH – Erdogdular, Necati Celik, Ulas Ozdemir, Mehmet KEYBOARDS Gureli, Lamia Bedioui, Naziha Azzouz, Babuba Big James is known for his emotive Bang Orchestra, God Save the Rest trio, "THRIA" improvisational jazz Orchestra, the Orchestra of Athen's municipality, performances. He studied and others. Between 2005 and 2011, she taught at piano from an early age and it Odeio Athinon, the Music School of Athens. Since was apparent he would follow a 2012 she has been teaching at "Nakas" career in music. James Conservatory.

graduated with a BMus from the Wellington Conservatorium and has gone on to VANGELIS KARIPIS – PERCUSSION work with many artists and musicians at home and Born in Athens, Vangelis is one abroad. Recently, he has collaborated and toured of Greece’s most electrifying with Australian hip hop group Bliss N Eso; composed and progressive percussionists. and produced eclectic Māori music on the Widely considered to be one of album Āiotanga alongside his wife and the leading exponents, singer Kirsten Te Rito; played and performed teachers, and pioneers of on Mantis: The Music of Drew Menzies - a fusion of percussion performance from jazz and string quartets and guested on the Greece and Asia Minor, he has latest Trinity Roots album, Citizen. James resides in performed as a soloist and with Wellington, New Zealand. his percussion trio Krotala throughout Europe, the US,

Asia, Australia and NZ. Vangelis has collaborated SOFIA LABROPOULOU – KANUN with superstars of folk music such as Eleftheria Sofia has been playing Kkanun Arvanitaki, George Dalaras, Natacha Atlas, Ara since 1997. She graduated from Dinkjian, Haig Yazdjian, Doman Samiou, Loreena Pallini music school and was McKennitt and Eleni Karaindrou. awarded a diploma in Byzantine music under the tutelage of S. Pavlakis. She studied piano with Nelly Semitekolo and Eleni Zacharaki, classical percussion with K. Vorisis and K. Thodorakos and traditional percussion with V. Karipis in Greece. In 2003 she INTERNATIONAL LOCATIONS

Part 1: Part 5: Massif fortifie de Souville, Verdun, France Fort I, Przemysl Poland: Butte De Vaquios, Argonne, France [Zofia Kolbe-Wojdyr (Gaida, Bagpipes)] Fort Douaumont, Verdun, France Frise Sur Somme, France: Przemysl, Poland [Netherlands Blazers Ensemble] Muriwai Beach, Auckland, New Zealand Fort III, Przemysl, Poland: Wellington, New Zealand [Jack Hooker (Guitar), Mateusz Szemraj (Guitar)] Flanders, Belgium Ouvrage de Froideterre, Verdun, France: Lille, France [Svet Stoyanov, Yanal Staiti & Paolo Cimmino] Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium Ruins of Montfaucon d’Argonne, France: Verdun, France [Danny Cudd & Markus Johansson (Hang Drum)] Paris, France Ruins of Montfaucon d’Argonne, France: Krakow, Poland [Joshua Hyde (Saxophone)] Frise Sur Somme, France Polygon Wood, Ypres, Belgium: Passendale, Belgium [David Ross (snare Drum), David Henderson (Snare Drum) & Alexej Gerassimez (Bass Drum), Benjamin Part 2: Schafer (Bass Drum)] Passendale, Belgium Polygon Wood, Ypres, Belgium: Whitirea Park, Porirua, Wellington: [Ariana Tikao (Voice)] [Bijan Chemirani (Bendir), Shahbaz Hussain Paris, France: [Oum El Ghait Benessahraoui (Voice)] (Tabla), Fara Diouf (Djembe)] Gwalior Fort, Madhya Pradesh, India: Reims Cathedral, France: [Meeta Pandit (Voice)] [Pierre Mea (Organ)] Fort III, Przemysl, Poland: [Marta Sebestyen (Voice)] Strasbourg Orchestra, Strasbourg, France Massif fortifie de Souville, Verdun, France Part 3: Butte De Vaquios, Argonne, France Hill 62, Ypres Salient, Belgium Fort Douaumont, Verdun, France: Part 6: [The Nudge; Ryan Prebble, Iraia Whakamoe, James Waikanea Beach, Kapiti Coast, NZ Coyle] Muriwai Beach, Auckland: Polygon Wood, Ypres, Belgium: [Serj Tankian (Voice)] [David Ross (snare Drum), David Henderson (Snare Drum) & Alexej Gerassimez (Bass Drum), Benjamin Schafer (Bass Drum)] Polygon Wood, Ypres, Belgium: [Bijan Chemirani (Bendir), Shahbaz Hussain (Tabla), Fara Diouf (Djembe)] Ouvrage de Froideterre, Verdun, France: [Svet Stoyanov, Yanal Staiti & Paolo Cimmino)] Butte De Vaquios, Argonne, France Galleries Guinot, Verdun, France: [Refugees of Rap]

Part 4: Hill 62, Ypres Salient, Belgium Passendale, Belgium Reims Cathedral, Reims, France: [Catholic Recitation - Monsieur Claude] Grand Mosque of Paris, France: [Islamic Recitation - The Grand Mufti] Hindu Temple, Gwalior Fort, Madhya Pradesh, India: [Hindu recitation - Himanshu Dixit] Tempel Synagogue, Krakow, Poland: [Hebrew Recitation - Mike Mandel] Cathedrale Saint-Alexandre-Nevsk, Paris, France: [Russian Orthodox - Monseigneur Job] Carriere Wellington, Arras, France: [Gareth Lubbe - Polyphonic Voice] Douamont Ossuary, Verdun, France Hooglede German Cemetery, Belgium Noyelles-Sur-Mer Chinese cemetary, Somme, France Tyne Cot cemetery, Ypres Salient, Belgium Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Argonne, France Ruins of Montfaucon d’Argonne, France To find out more about the project, please visit: Somme river, France http://www.nomanslandproject.org/