David Flower
Agent + Director
david@sasamusic.uk

View On A Map

X Close

Sasa Music

Live Music Agency

ArtistsAbout UsNewsUp To The AtticContact
+ Gallery

SANS

Tour Dates

+ Dates

Enquire & Book
 
 

+ Biography

Sans are a unique, dramatic new quartet comprising zither-playing multi-instrumentalist Andrew Cronshaw, Armenian duduk master Tigran Aleksanyan, multi-instrumental reeds-player Ian Blake and the great Finnish singer Sanna Kurki-Suonio, all of whom appear on Andrew's new album "The Unbroken Surface of Snow".

Andrew Cronshaw (UK) - zither, marovantele, fujara, ba-wu etc.
Sanna Kurki-Suonio (Finland) - vocals
Tigran Aleksanyan (Armenia) - duduk
Ian Blake (UK/Australia) - bass clarinet, soprano sax etc.

www.andrewcronshaw.com
www.ianblake.net
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanna_Kurki-Suonio

+ Read Less

+ Read More

All Dates

There are no current dates announced for SANS.
Please keep checking back for more details.

+ Latest VideoPlay VideoSANS Video

+ Follow

Facebook

YouTube

Website

+ In The Press

  • "Absolutely exquisite"
    Mary Ann Kennedy, BBC Radio Scotland / BBC Radio 3
  • "Stunningly beautiful"
    Fiona Talkington, BBC Radio 3
  • "Unfolds, seduces and ultimately mesmerises"
    Tony Hillier, The Australian
  • "The music is sparse, glacial and utterly beautiful, with a wide, panoramic sense of infinite space; you will happily lose yourself again and again in the title track, a far northern wilderness transformed into sound"
    Tim Cumming, Songlines
  • After its release in October 2011 the album The Unbroken Surface of Snow featuring all SANS musicians spent three months in the top 10 of the World Music Chart Europe.
    See WMCE
  • "Delicate, haunting... glacial"
    Robin Denselow, The Guardian
  • "Deep, unfolding music... and like snow itself, it falls silently and accumulates additional weight and resonance with repeated listening"
    Lee Blackstone, Rootsworld, USA
  • "Ochre was already a masterpiece, but The Unbroken Surface of Snow is a musical paradise on earth"
    Marius Roeting, New Folk Sounds, Netherlands

+ Music

Releases

+ Releases

SANS LIVE
Cloud Valley
Released: 2015

SANS LIVE Image
+ Releases

The Unbroken Surface Of Snow
Cloud Valley
Released: 2011

The Unbroken Surface Of Snow Image