Cordis is an American progressive chamber music group featuring "an original combination of custom-made and traditional ethnic instruments." The band's primary lineup consists of Richard Grimes on
cimbalom
The cimbalom, cimbal (; ) or concert cimbalom is a type of chordophone composed of a large, trapezoidal box on legs with metal strings stretched across its top and a damping pedal underneath. It was designed and created by József Schunda, V. ...
, Jeremy Harman on cello, Jeremiah Cossa on keyboard, Hayes Cummings on guitar, and Andrew Beall on percussion.
The band also makes use of ethnic instruments such as the electric
mbira
Mbira ( ; ) are a family of musical instruments, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe. They consist of a wooden board (often fitted with a resonator) with attached staggered metal Tine (structural), tines, played by holding the instrument ...
or
African thumb piano, as well as household objects repurposed as musical instruments — for example, Beall utilized a
Tibetan prayer bowl and "a big metal vase which looks like a space ship" as percussion instruments on the album "Seams."
Cordis has been variously described as sounding like "if Igor Stravinsky and Sigur Ros started a band together,"
[ being "hard to pin a genre label on,"][ and having "a very very interesting, eclectic mix of sounds."]
Members
* Richard Grimes – electric cimbalom, acoustic cimbalom, (since 2008)
* Andrew Beall – percussion (since 2008)
* Jeremy Harman – cello (since 2008)
* Jeremiah Cossa – keyboards
* Hayes Cummings - guitars
Discography
* ''Here on Out'' (2008)
* ''Seams'' (2016)
* ''Suite is the Sound'' (2023)
Critical reception
References
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External links
Official website
American instrumental musical groups