Experience ’Ten Steps’ with "Hendrix of hammered dulcimer” Max ZT and BBC-Radio-6-rated singer-songwriter Dan Whitehouse November 24-30 2021

An Evening with Max ZT and Dan Whitehouse
Max ZT - “The Jimi Hendrix of hammered dulcimer” NPR
Dan Whitehouse - “lyrics that avert your gaze to the sky” (BBC Radio 6)

Dan Whitehouse and Max ZT step out from behind the screen to bring their innovative, cross-international-borders collaboration ‘Ten Steps’ to life at some of the UK’s finest acoustic environments this November.

Introduced via the international Global Music Match project in May 2021, for which they were chosen to represent the music of their country from thousands of applicants, the pair struck up a fruitful remote relationship. With Max in Brooklyn and Dan finding himself in lockdown in Japan, they fed off each other’s unique creativity to create a compelling and innovative sound, interweaving poetry and song with music that fused their multi-cultural roots and traditions.

"Force of nature”, Brooklyn’s Max ZT, is a groundbreaking musician whose unorthodox playing and bold experimental style have led him to be described as the “Jimi Hendrix of hammered dulcimer” (NPR) and recognised as a true innovator of his instrument, and his band House of Waters have been called “One of the most original bands on the planet,” by NY Music Daily.

Signed with Reveal Records, award-winning Black Country singer-songwriter Dan Whitehouse has, across five solo albums, gained a reputation as “a fine songwriter, a unique vocal talent and a talented multi-instrumentalist/ performer” (Maverick) whose wondrous lyrics invite you to “avert your gaze to the sky” (BBC Radio 6).

Across six dates, Max’s first international solo tour, these two stand-out musicians will be performing music from both their most recent solo projects - Dan from latest release Dreamland Tomorrow (Reveal Records) and Max ZT from his forthcoming debut solo album Daybreak (Six Degrees Records) - and the compositions from their joint EP ‘Ten Steps’, interweaving poetry and song with music which fuses multi-cultural roots and traditions. Ten Steps will be available exclusively from these live shows.

Wednesday 24th – International Anthony Burgess Foundation Manchester
Thursday 25th - Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
Friday 26th - The Sound Lounge, Sutton
Sunday 28th Ashburton Arts Centre South Devon
Monday 29th Glass Studio St George’s Bristol
Tuesday 30th The Plough Arts Centre @ St Anne's Barnstaple North Devon

Further information/all ticket links:
https://www.dan-whitehouse.com

MAX ZT

Taking his roots from Irish and American folk music, Max has transplanted his compositional techniques to both Senegal, where he studied the Mandinko technique with the Cissoko griot family, and to India, where he received the prestigious AIIS grant to study under the great santoor master Pandit Shivkumar Sharma. His fresh perspective and bold experimentalism have been the backbone to beautiful, complex, and genuine compositions, while his unorthodox playing style has been a pioneering force in revolutionizing dulcimer techniques. Max has enlivened the conceptual framework of traditional folk music by fusing multi-cultural roots and traditions to create a truly compelling sound.

Max ZT and his band House of Waters have been called “One of the most original bands on the planet,” by NY Music Daily, and have shared the stage with some of the most influential international musical leaders of the century including Pt. Ravi Shankar, Tinariwen, Jon Bon Jovi, Jimmy Cliff, Bela Fleck, Karsh Kale, Snarky Puppy, and more.

DAN WHITEHOUSE

Dan Whitehouse is an acclaimed and award-winning English songwriter and composer signed with Reveal Records. Across five solo albums he has gained a reputation as “a fine songwriter, a unique vocal talent and a talented multi-instrumentalist/ performer” (MAVERICK) and has collaborated or toured with acts such as Joan as Policewoman, Kris Drever, Willy Mason, Gretchen Peters, Eddi Reader, and blues legend Peter Green. Dan’s double album Dreamland/Tomorrow was released on Reveal Records in 2020.

The son of a Wolverhampton community radio pioneer, the coming together of community through music has always been important to Dan, and is something he draws upon both in his own work, and as a songwriting tutor, one-to-one mentor and workshop leader