The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble has been played on NTS in shows including The Early Bird Show w/ Jack Rollo, featured first on 3 November 2019. Songs played include Prayer, Assyrian Women Mourners and Sayyid Chant And Dance No.10.

The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble was founded in 2008 by the Armenian musician Levon Eskenian with the aim of creating ethnographically authentic arrangements of the G.I. Gurdjieff/Thomas de Hartmann piano music. The ensemble consists of leading Eastern folk instrumentalists in Armenia playing duduk, blul/nay, saz, tar, kiamancha, oud, kanon, santur, dap/daf, tombak and dhol.

www.gurdjieffensemble.com