Pankisi Ensemble. Kists of Georgia in Berlin

Name: Pankisi Ensemble. Kists of Georgia in Berlin
Start: 2025-06-16T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Galiläakirche

Schedule

Mon Jun 16 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Galiläakirche | Berlin, BE

Concert is postponed till June,
The tickets are valid.
Pankisi Ensemble is coming for the second time to Berlin. Don't miss a rare opportunity to hear this unique group from one of the most remoted areas in Caucasus.
Pankisi Ensemble preserves and develops lesser-known vocal and instrumental genres of Chechen music rarely heard outside of their own community. These include epic legends such as “Illi,” Sufi religious chants, and even love songs.
Bela Mutoshvili - voice, accordion
Lana Gunashashvili - voice, pondar (Chechen lute)
Linda Gunashashvili - voice
Mariami Bagakashvili – voice
Pankisi Ensemble maintain a fine line between an ethnographic ensemble, for which it is important to follow the canon of their native tradition, and a bold musical group whose place is not in the museum of antiquities, but as active performers in diverse musical venues.
The group's sound is also influenced by Georgian music, in which the Pankisi Ensemble is also deeply immersed. This has affected not only their repertoire, which in addition to Chechen songs also includes the folklore of different regions of Georgia, but also their general style, making the ensemble a particularly unique representation of the shared and distinct musical cultures of the Caucasus.
These are young musicians who are constantly and actively evolving. They are not afraid to experiment but they maintain the integrity of their sound, never allowing it to slide into a kind of banal "ethno-fusion."
Video from Le Guess Who festival, live

https://soundcloud.com/leguesswho/sets/pankisi-ensemble-live-at-le-guess-who-2023
https://oredrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/pankisi-ensemble-music-of-kists-chechens-of-georgia