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Fran & Flora at Anthony Tidd's 'Act4Music' festival curated by River Recitals & Narotam Horn

11/5/2020

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Ah online life... what will become of it? where is it heading? who knows. In the meantime its been nice to make a few things happen in a cerebral telecommunicative airwaves internetty type fashion.

​On that note...

A pleasure it was to have put together a 30 min split-screen live set for you all with my string partner in crime Flora Curzon. We were invited to be invited be part of bass legend Anthony Tidd's online festival series 'Act4Music' curtated by River Recitals / Narotam Horn.Beautiful group of musicians playing in the series and our night features harpist Naomi.greene, pianist Teo Gheorghiu & Kora player Josh Doughty.


Check out our concert
here. It's live for 1 year!


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The News Agents - 'Yja' on Resonance 104.4fm with Jude Cowan Montague

9/5/2020

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A pleasure to natter lockdown style on Zoom with Jude, Ana Silvera and myself last week putting together this feast of chat and music relating to our new Ladino project Yja:



​Sat 9 May - Ana Silvera & Francesca Ter-berg - Yja - LADINO Ana Silvera and Francesca Ter-berg introduce their project Yja – reimagining the Ladino songs of Ana's ancestors. The debut single, La Serena is one of many songs sung from a female perspective in Judeo-Spanish and which continued to be performed in domestic environments the Sephardic diaspora, particularly in eastern Europe. Archives, oral history, folk tales and the classically influenced early music revival are all part of the picture we have of Ladino music and help us speculate about music in the past. Songs about love, first crushes, revenge, snapshots of the time. Silvera and Ter-berg talk about their approach to the music as professional music-makers and composers.



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Check out Judes blog here.
Listen back to the show here.
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Debut release by new Ladino project - Yja - 'La Sirena' - by Ana Silvera & Francesca Ter-Berg

21/4/2020

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Excited to announce that the debut single, La Serena, from my new Ladino song project with singer-songwriter Ana Silvera is born.  Yja (Daughter) brings new light to these old romantic beautiful songs from the Judeo-Spanish tradition. Sung in Ladino, the Medieval Spanish spoken by the diaspora since the 1400s in Spain and Portugal before the were forced to disperse and become disinherited from their homes in the 1600's. These songs have stayed alive until now and we are honoured to be able to look into the archives and explore some of these treasures. 
In the sea, there is a tower
In the tower, there is a window
In the window, there is a girl
Whom all the fisherman adore

Give me your hand, my dove
So I can come up to your nest
Unlucky that you sleep alone
I am coming to sleep with you

If the sea was made of milk,
I'd become a fisherman,
I'd fish for my pain,
With little words of love.

If the sea was made of milk,
In the little cinnamon boats,
I'd drench myself entirely,
To save my flag.
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Beregovski Online forum / / I MADE MY FIRST VIDEO!

20/4/2020

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Hi gang
​I made a Klezmer video! This is a Skotshne, a dance tune I learned from the Moshe Beregovski collection.
(2nd Edition revised by Kurt Bjorling in 2015 from the original 2001 edition by Michael Alpert. Source: notated by A.E. Makonovetski, violinist)

Join the Beregovski Online Forum to learn more about this resource: https://www.facebook.com/groups/68266...

I picked this piece as I don't know many Skotshne's and had certainly not heard this one before. It took me a while to get round the modality and I originally tried it out in a totally different mode. Anyway, here's where i've gotten to with it.


All parts performed, arranged and produced by Francesca Ter-Berg. ​
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'To stand apart' - poem - found this in the archives

24/3/2020

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​Burlington Vermont 10 September 2007

We stood side by side,
He had his arm around me
But to keep the space of breath and
touch,
between us,
was to nurture - observe - unleash -
flow - respect.

He said he had to let go of me,
to stand apart,
so that he may see deeper and understand.
​

To love someone whilst also giving
them the space to be entirely themselves
and to admire them for it,
​That. Is is a truly amazing experience.
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Fran & Flora @ The Old Baths Hackney Wick - last show before the storm...

24/3/2020

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Beautiful images by Iggy Crespo & Frank Balbi

Musicians:
Flora Curzon (violin/electronics/vocals)
Francesca Ter-Berg (cllo/electronics/vocals)
Sam Beste (synths/live processing)
​Ruth Goller (bass)
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MOONFEST w/ The Lunatrakors and special guests @ POW Thanet

11/3/2020

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A beautiful night (and last gig for a while) experiment with sound and moon-spirations alongside an incredible line-up for POW Thanet, curated by the Lunatraktors.

Images by Andrew Hastings & Alan Hirst
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FRAN & FLORA HEADLINE SHOW + support from Ruth Goller's SKYLLA -  Hackney Old Baths, London

8/2/2020

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Join myself, Flora Curzon, special guest Sam Beste (Hejira/The Vernon Spring) + Bass player Ruth Goller's new project SKYLLA with Lauren Kinsella (Snow Poet) & Alice Grant on vocals for this one-off beautiful gathering at the Hackney Old Baths in Hackney Wick London. Tickets and more info here. 

Thanks to Phantom Limb & Earth Cruises for putting this event on with us! 
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Winter Solstice @ Rough Trade East - FREE PERFORMANCE

20/12/2019

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RITUAL // Margate Arts Club // 23.11.19, 7-9PM: immersive sonic experience

18/11/2019

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Poster by Rebekah Bouche
More info: ​https://www.facebook.com/events/805662513220826/
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