From Detroit to Delos: DJ Jeff Mills performs at famed Temple of Isis Jan. 20
Serving up some serious mid-winter "chill" thisclose to Mykonos
DELOS, SOUTH AEGEAN—Leave it to the Onassis Foundation to dream up stuff like this. Thanks to the initiative of Greece’s preeminent cultural foundation, superstar techno DJ and Detroit’s own electronic music wizard Jeff Mills is about to give an concert “of ritualistic power” on the the archeologically rich site of Delos, next to Mykonos, together with Indo-French tabla player Prabhu Edouard, and French keyboardist Jean-Phi Dary.
This pioneering music ensemble is set to give a world premiere performance – presented on the Onassis Channel on YouTube on January 20, 2022 at 9PM Athens time– in which improvisation will be the order of the day, set against the inimitable backdrop of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, out in the Cycladic light and air. Delos commanded quite the audience in antiquity, being among other thing the mythological birthplace of Apollo, but in keeping with current circumstances the performance will be audience-free.
From the underground Detroit club scene in the early ’80s right through to the audio-visual feast of an experience offered up by his most recent conceptual appearances at cinemas, galleries, and museums (including the Louvre), Jeff Mills has proven himself a contemporary pioneer of dance culture.
Mills has joined forces with the keyboardist Jean-Phi Dary, and the tabla player Prabhu Edouard to form “Tomorrow Comes the Harvest” – a pioneering music ensemble that has entranced the globe with its musically unexpected twists and turns, its improvised composition of sounds that go above and beyond the established limits of a DJ set.
On the invitation of the ONASSIS FOUNDATION, these three musicians are travelling to the mythic isle of Delos to play a concert – without a live audience, but filled with the light and air of the Mediterranean – at the Temple of Isis. This mystical place seems to stir and come back to life under the musical spells cast by Mills. The small Doric temple, surrounded by the waters of the Aegean, is transformed by sounds created in the here and now.
Source: Onassis Cultural Center, Athens