July 23 2007 - SambaSunda @ Millenium Park

July 23: SambaSunda: Nothing on the "Music Without Borders" season will sound more exotic to Chicago ears than SambaSunda, a stunning, genre-defying Indonesian orchestra that draws upon an enormous battery of instruments, influences and cultural sources. African percussion and European violins, bamboo flutes and Balinese gongs, Sundanese barrel drums and Latin American timbales produce an alluring, other-worldly sound. The unusual tunings, vocal declamations and gloriously strange harmonies prove riveting on SambaSunda's CD "Rahwana's Cry" -- one hardly can imagine how they'll sound live.