Nadishana "Relict" (Code: 017)

My latest passion is handpan. I’ve been playing handpan already for 12 years but I took it VERY seriously 8 years ago :). At that time I got my set of 3 double-siders (6 scales on 3 pans) which I’m touring with and since then I’ve been practicing almost every day.

I would never have imagined that I would dive deep into this instrument because I didn’t like it when I tried it for the first time around 2005. It was a Panart hang and I remember I thought: “Why did they castrate a steel pan and make it pentatonic??” :)))

Later on I was touring with Steve Shehan and David Kuckhermann and seeing them playing made me realize that handpan is in fact a completely unique phenomenon, the new group of instruments, which I call melodic finger percussion. Handpan solely represents this group because other melodic percussion is played by mallets (i.e. marimba, vibraphone)

This instrument is a new exciting journey and a field of endless creativity. I believe that so far we discovered only 3% of the handpan. I’m really looking forward to us, the community of players, discovering the other 97% of it. And with this album I want to inspire everyone to go on that discovery path!

This is my 14th release but my 1st album fully dedicated to the handpan.
This album sums up my long adventure with this instrument and my effort to create a new vocabulary for the handpan, adopting the techniques from other instruments to it, inventing new techniques, exploring various articulations and textures, experimenting with uncommon chord progressions etc.

One CD contains the music performed on the handpan only, and the 2nd CD is dedicated to the ensemble works where the handpan is presented in combination with other instruments.