Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario - Andrew Bergeron

This piece was written for Carmen Maret's Guinean flute, the tambin. The instrument carries its own tuning

system, with A♭ and D♭ sitting outside equal temperament. Rather than adjusting or avoiding

them, I let those pitch tendencies shape the harmonic language, and my melodic sense grew directly

from the instrument itself.

Like my piece Lake Huron, it draws on the Saharan blues of Tinariwen and on polyrhythms built from

interacting cycles of two and three. The result is groove-driven and subtly pop-inflected, grounded in

the instrument’s earthy timbre.

It extends the album’s conversation about place and cross-cultural influence, in dialogue with the

history of the tambin across West and Central Africa.

From the Album

Folias Duo|Great Lakes

Release Date: August 14, 2026

Label: Folias Music

Produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Charles Mueller

Recorded December 20-21, 2025, at Oktaven Audio, Mount Vernon, NY

Album Artwork by Reb Roberts