SOUND SAMPLES
Urfa
This Morning
(requires windows media audio)

Free MP3 downloads coming shortly

COLLABORATORS
Loit Sôls
Khoi Khollektif
Alex van Heerden
Jethro Louw

LINKS
download track on SAMP3.com
ALBUMS






Gramadoelas
with Alex van Heerden

LESLIE JAVAN
guitarist, songwriter

Performance format: solo guitar classical (original compositions), solo guitar and voice, as duo with Jethro Louw, as part of the Khoi Khollektif or with Gramadoelas.

For bookings click here

Les Javan must rate as one of Cape Town's greatest guitar players. It's not just a technical proficiency - Javan's composing skills are grand, in the tradition of the guitar and singing greats of Brazil, like Joao Gilberto and Baden Powell. His music speaks of a great distance and depth, sketching the history of culture from his compositional pen. 

Javan, like Mac, is a maverick with a million stories, and as many songs. One of Leslie's favorite stories is that of tracing the heritage of his family, the Javanites. He can trace them back to Javan, the grandson of the prophet Noah. They lived at a time of a great empire building. Some members of the family became part of the ruling parties and others left in fear of persecution and being oppressed. The area the Javanites settled in was called "Javan", or the "kingdom of Javan". Wars over the years saw them losing their land and in time it became known as Greece. The families who lived in "Urfa" near the border between Turkey and Iraq left this place at the time of the first Christian crusade and moved to Egypt and the East. Family members can today be found in Iran, Egypt and in some other small patches.  

Les is a member of the Khoi Khollektif as part music director, songwriter and composer-arranger, apart from playing guitar and sometimes percussion.