Asambura-Ensemble

The name „Asambura“ – an anagram of the tansanian ‚Usambara‘ mountains – stands for looking beyond the limits of one’s own horizon. The Asambura-Ensemble (founded in Hannover in 2013) consists of musicians with different cultural backgrounds and unites different styles. Asambura reinterprets classical music in a dialogue with non-European musical cultures and avantgarde and develops new perspectives on one’s ‘own’ culture. ‘Foreign’ timbres, melodies and rhythms meet European Classical and contemporary sounds. We are always on the lookout for new perspectives on familiar sounds, connections between unthinkable and, not least, areas of friction with the social, societal and political present,which make music current and relevant today. Asambura reinterprets the confusion of tongues experienced by the people in the Old Testament’s parable ‘Tower of Babel’ – important in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Asambura tries to take a fresh look at this story from a perspective of appreciation of cultural and religious diversity.