Invisible World

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#		Title	Length
1		Opening Prayer (Yoruba)	0:38	Play
2		Bark Lake, BC	4:58	Play
3		Al-Mah	3:18	Play
4		La Costa Peruana	3:52	Play
5		Invisible World	5:42	Play
6		Throwing Skin II	3:14	Play
7		Bangkok Business	1:54	Play
8		Ashes	3:32	Play
9		Almost Forgot My Bones	4:02	Play
10		I Am At Your Service	6:06	Play
11		Surprise	3:07	Play
12		Al Fatiha	2:01	Play
13		Cooked	5:54	Play
14		Sauve	2:16	Play
15		Ask	2:31	Play
16		Closing Prayer (Arabic)	0:48	Play

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Description

Tanya Evanson is a multilingual, Caribbean-Qubecoise Lover, Writer, Spoken Word Artist, Vocalist and Director of Mother Tongue Media recently relocated from Vancouver, Canada to Istanbul, Turkey.

She was born in Montreal, Qubec in 1972 and received a B.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from Concordia University in 1997. In addition to her art and event production work, she is as a Copywriter, Editor, Graphic Designer, Publisher and English Teacher.

SPOKEN WORD ARTIST . VOCALIST
From a five-year foundation as a DJ and Music Director at her university radio station, Evanson's first spoken word poems were unleashed onto an unsuspecting live Montreal crowd in 1995. Though she left the stage drenched in nervous sweat, this initial performance was so successful that she was quickly flooded with invitations to perform at various events and reading series' in Montreal such as YAWP and Coco Caf. Over the last ten years, requests to do readings and spoken word performances have persisted, and the frequency, level of professionalism, remuneration and international venues all continue to increase.

Evanson has been blessed to have traveled through 17 countries gathering inspiration. As a result, she has performed as a professional Writer, Spoken Word Artist and Vocalist in English, French, Spanish, Yoruba and Arabic in cafs and clubs, at international festivals, performance centers and schools, on national television and radio, and in prisons, bookstores and libraries across Canada and beyond. Some bigger Canadian performances include the 2004 Vancouver Folk Music Festival as opening act for Billy Bragg; live in-studio performance on CBC Television's ZeD TV in 2002; and as part of When Sisters Speak in the Toronto St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts.

The alchemy of combining music with spoken word has allowed Evanson to open for and perform alongside a number of Artists including Spoken Word Artists Ursula Rucker, Michael Franti (of Spearhead), Rha Goddess (of KRS One), D'bi Young, Kia Kadiri, C.R. Avery and Motion; Musicians Pepe Danza, Sal Ferreras and JP Carter (JP Carter Trio); Poets Ted Joans, bill bissett and Wayde Compton; Toronto's Caribbean Dance Theatre and Vancouver's Science Friction dance group among others...

Invisible World (2004) is the best of Evanson's work gathered in an audio CD. This Canada Council-funded spoken word project features collaborations with native Canadian as well as Vancouver-based international Musicians in the spirit of Spoken World Music. It also received rave reviews in Canadian media such as CBC Radio One and Two and in Vancouver's The Province daily newspaper, which gave it 4/5 stars. Evanson's spoken word also appears in various CD anthologies including Coastal Tongue: Women in Spoken Word in Vancouver (2004) and Ribsauce-A CD/Anthology of Words by Women (2001).

Other recent projects include the Canada Council-funded Almost Forgot my Bones (2004), a short film based on Evanson's poem of the same name in which she is the main performer. This short film premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival Market in May 2004 and has since been an official selection at Toronto International Film Festival, and has shown at film festivals in Vancouver, Toronto, Whistler, Seattle, Washington and Sarasota, Florida.

Evanson's words and vocal style honour the Sufi spirit of Rumi, the Griots and Griottes of West Africa, the streaming consciousness of the American Beat Poets, the vocal potency of Gil Scott Heron and the linguistic innovation of Saul Williams gathered inside an attempt to equal the smoothness of Billie Holiday. Anything is possible!



WRITER . PRODUCER
It is around the time of the 1995 Montreal performance that Evanson began to have work published in local independent print and CD anthologies and literary journals such as KOLA-A Black Literary Magazine and La Vache Enrage Anthologie. She took this one step further with desktop publishing...

In 1996, Evanson founded Mother Tongue Media (MTM) to act as a publishing house for her chapbooks as well as a vehicle for producing and marketing literary, spoken word and music events. She has since written and performed from, and, as MTM, designed, published, promoted, and sold four chapbooks of her poetry and short stories: Blood in, Blood out (1996), Word Class Animal (1997), Cut of Buddha/The Vancouver Eloquence (2000), The Golden Section (2001) and the full-length book Throwing Skin-South America Poems (1999). Her most recent prose novella, Book of Wings, is currently being appraised for publication by Vhicule Press in Montreal, QC.

Evanson's written work also appears in the print anthologies All Wound Up-Alternative Writing from British Columbia (2002, Ripple Effect Press) and Bluesprint: An Anthology of Black British Columbian Literature & Orature (2002, Arsenal Pulp Press).

Evanson's first live event as MTM was the production of Clicking Tongues, a monthly spoken word series featuring women of colour, which ran in Montreal from 1996 to 1997. After lengthy travels in South America, she moved to Vancouver where she produced, promoted and hosted a weekly spoken word series called Tales of Ordinary Madness in 2000-01. Enthusiasm for this event attracted professional writers and performers from across Canada and the U.S. In 2001, she co-produced Conscious Development: a bi-monthly event with featured and open mic Spoken Word Artists backed by a live, improvised Jazz and Hip Hop band. During that same year, she co-produced the Canada Council-funded Transmetaphoria-Black Poetics with Vanessa Richards of Mannafest: a successful night of Afro-Canadian Spoken Word, Hip Hop and live music in a club setting.

2002-03 were full of travels and performance work, and after a long hiatus, MTM returned full force as a booking agent for local Vancouver Jazz and World Music groups and as producer of Under the Griot Tree in February 2004. Griot was a series of events featuring master Percussionists and Spoken Word Artists (with an emphasis on local Afro-Canadian Artists), workshops, drum circles, short films, an art exhibit and exciting performances that allowed the audience to become active participants in the West African Griot tradition. The 10-day festival took place during Black History Month celebrations in Vancouver, BC.


ISTANBUL . TURKEY
On July 13th, 2004, Evanson landed in Istanbul, where she has decided to emigrate.

She is currently performing new work at various venues in Istanbul as lead vocalist with Turkish experimental electronic group Mugwump. The band has been featured in several major Turkish newspapers and magazines. This work is in addition to Evanson's collaboration with American Musician-DJ Jerry the Cat. Their nine-track music demo is being developed into a full-length CD of Spoken Word and Jazz vocals with House music. Evanson is also working with Paris-based Musician Laurent Briffaux, member of the well-known Electro-Tango group Gotan Project. This latter project combines Spoken Word and vocals with World and Jazz music, both acoustic and electronic, under the name Brifo. And there is more work to come...