2011 JAZZ & IMPROVISATION WORLD & VOCAL BALKAN & GROOVE FEBRUARY   *** SMAMANIC PROJECT FROM SIBERIA *** STEPANIDA BORISOVA ENSEMBLE (Jakutia) Link: www.elen-music.com/art032en.php Shaman vocals from Asia with drums and electronic. The vocalist Stepanida Borisova belongs to the Turkish people of Sakha who are living in Jakutia and who are rooted in the religion of shamanism. She is in command of different styles of Jakutian singing. 03.02 Antwerpen Zuiderpershuis (Option) / B 04.02 Amsterdam Tropentheater (Option) / NL 05.02 Utrecht Rasa (Option) / NL 06.02 Veere Church (Option) / NL EVA QUARTET (Bulgaria) Link: www.myspace.com/evaquartet Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=77njz6krKj8 Eva Quartet consists of some of the best Bulgarian female voices - the four solo singers of the world-famous female folk choir "Le mystere des voix bulgares". Here the different voices are meeting in such a virtuosity that you are getting the feeling of listening to one. The singing of EVA is pure solo work and every tone can be felt very sensitively. 06.02 Lerida / ES 08.02 Palma Mallorca / ES 11.02 Castellon (Option) / ES + 27.02 Barcelona / ES 01.03 Madrid / ES   MARCH ISABELLE OLIVIER Isabelle Olivier - harp David Venitucci - accordion Louis Moutin - drums " ... We're under the spell : Isabelle's harp blends harmoniously with her magnificent quintet, offering an original, ground-breaking, repertoire. The music is beautiful, as unfettered and wild as the ocean, open on all ends. Each musician writes for the group and breathes his own poetry into the project ..." Jazzman / LE 23.03 Vienna Sargfabrik Akkordeon Festival / A CHRISTIAN WALLUMROD Ensemble (Norway) Link: www.christianwallumrod.com Christian Wallumrød - piano, harmonium, toy piano Eivind Lønning - trumpet Gjermund Larsen - violin, hardanger fiddle, viola Tanja Orning - cello Giovanna Pessi - baroque harp Per Oddvar Johansen - drums, percussion, glockenspiel " ... The Ensemble is expanded to a sextet, yet sounds like one organic corpus. Fiddle, harp, cello and trumpet melt together in beautiful melodies... Jazz, baroque, minimalism, contemporary music are words that only begin to convey a small spectrum of Wallumrod's musical universe. He has an authentic sense of sound and structure, and again we are spellbound by the unique syntheses and the balanced contrasts ... " Verdens Gaang 09.03 Utrecht Jazz Festival / NL 11.03 Tilburg tba / NL 13.03 Oslo tba / NL *** NEW ALBUM ON ACT RECORDS *** JOSEFINE CRONHOLM (Sweden / Denmark) Link: www.myspace.com/josefinecronholminperson Josefine Cronholm - vocal Gustaf Ljunggren - guitar Jonas Berg - piano, keys Gunnar Halle - trumpet + Thommy Andersson - bass Bent Clausen - drums, vibraphone Cronholm's music is like poetry. A breathtaking, intuitive and absolutely original voice has found its own expression. 16.03 Bern Bee Flat (Option) / CH 18.03 St.Ingbert Jazz Festival / D 19.03 Heidelberg Karlstorbahnhof / D *** MILES DAVIS ON THE BALKAN CLARINET *** IVO PAPASOV & HIS WEDDING BAND (Bulgaria) Link: www.elen-music.com/art014en.php " ... Ivo's wedding music, played first thing in the morning, provides thorough and long-lasting attitude adjustment for the busy executive ... " FRANK ZAPPA " ... Once again, Papasov has his band as well as the listener holding onto the tail of a tiger in this incendiary romp through traditional dance styles given a contemporary facelift ... " DOWNBEAT " ... With a huge gut and unwieldy frame, Ivo Papasov seems an unlikely source for some of the most nimble and virtuosic music you'll be left in little doubt that he's one of most interesting clarinettists around. He and his band race through numbers based on the complex rhythms of Bulgarian folk dances, grafting on jazzy improvisations... " SIMON BRAUGHTON editor of THE ROUGH GUIDE TO WORLD MUSIC 24.-26.03 (just one date) Babel Med (Option) / FR 27.-29.03 (just one date) Düsseldorf tba (Option) / D APRIL CHRISTIAN WALLUMROD Ensemble (Norway) Link: www.christianwallumrod.com Christian Wallumrød - piano, harmonium, toy piano Eivind Lønning - trumpet Gjermund Larsen - violin, hardanger fiddle, viola Tanja Orning - cello Giovanna Pessi - baroque harp Per Oddvar Johansen - drums, percussion, glockenspiel " ... The Ensemble is expanded to a sextet, yet sounds like one organic corpus. Fiddle, harp, cello and trumpet melt together in beautiful melodies... Jazz, baroque, minimalism, contemporary music are words that only begin to convey a small spectrum of Wallumrod's musical universe. He has an authentic sense of sound and structure, and again we are spellbound by the unique syntheses and the balanced contrasts ... " Verdens Gaang Tour 1-10 April 02.04 Bielefeld Bunker (Option) / D 08.04 Paris tba / FR UNNI LØVLIDs Project RITE (Norway) Link: www.myspace.com/unnilovlid Unni Løvlid - vocal, electronics Håkon Kornstad - saxophone, electronics Thomas Strønen - percussion, electronics Ingar Hunskaar - sound Unni Løvlid is one of the most exciting folk music performers around day, who dares to take traditional music to entirely new places, and has the creative imagination to do so. She is a versatile musician and artist and has experience from a great variety of projects and genres in the region Norwegian folk, contemporary music and electronica. It has taken four years to complete RITE, for which Løvlid has written all the words and music herself. The music on RITE lies somewhere between electronica, contemporary and world. *** WONDERFUL CHAMBER PROJECT *** KALMAN BALOGH & PETER RALCHEV BALKAN PROJECT (Hungary / Bulgaria) Link: www.elen-music.com/art045en.php Kálmán Balogh - cimbalom (Hungary) Peter Ralchev - accordion (Bulgaria) Ateshhan Juseinov - guitar, tambura (Bulgaria) Csaba Novák - double bass (Hungary) New Project of two great Balkan Musicians Peter Ralchev - the great Bulgarian accordion virtuoso with Kálmán Balogh - the great Hungarian cimbalom player! 15. or 16.04 Brussels Balkan Festival / B MAY   EVA QUARTET (Bulgaria) Link: www.myspace.com/evaquartet Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=77njz6krKj8 Eva Quartet consists of some of the best Bulgarian female voices - the four solo singers of the world-famous female folk choir "Le mystere des voix bulgares". Here the different voices are meeting in such a virtuosity that you are getting the feeling of listening to one. The singing of EVA is pure solo work and every tone can be felt very sensitively. 13.05 A-cappella Woche Hannover / D 14.05 Dreieich (Option) / D 15.05 A-cappella Woche Hannover / D + 23.05 Spain tba (Option) / ES 24.05 Spain tba (Option) / ES 25.05 Spain tba (Option) / ES 27.05 Bergen Festival / NOR *** CREATIVE BALKAN MUSIC *** DIVA REKA (Bulgaria) Link: www.myspace.com/divareka Kostadin Genchev - kaval Dimitar Hristov - tamboura Stella Bakalova - double bass Stoyan Pavlov - percussion feat. female vocal "Diva Reka" is a project for acoustic-ethno music on the basis of the Bulgarian folklore. The musicians bring this project together in order to show a different view on the Bulgarian folklore music and a different aesthetics of musicianship. The tasteful compositions are conceived with precision, while the improvised sections spurt with virtuosity, energy and charm. Their first record album will come out this year and features guest appearances of Gergana Dimitrova and Evelina Spasova – soloists of Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares, as well as Julia Gatderova from the Pirin ensemble. BULGARA (Bulgaria) Link: www.myspace.com/bulgaragroup Their music is a homogenous very groove mixture of extracts of Balkan and Bulgarian folklore with modern beats like drum & bass, funk etc. Modern sound, adding to the beauty of the traditional Balkan Music. JUNE CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO Link: www.myspace.com/californiaguitartrio Paul Richards of Salt Lake City, Utah (USA) Bert Lams of Affligem (Belgium) Hideyo Moriya of Tokyo (Japan) With a whirlwind of instrumental styles fusing classical, rock, blues, jazz, world music, progressive, as well as the quintessential California musical genre surf music, the California Guitar Trio's stunning virtuosity and sly sense of humor have earned them an enthusiastic following and wide notoriety, with significant crossover in the progressive, acoustic and classical music scenes. EVA QUARTET (Bulgaria) Link: www.myspace.com/evaquartet Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=77njz6krKj8 Eva Quartet consists of some of the best Bulgarian female voices - the four solo singers of the world-famous female folk choir "Le mystere des voix bulgares". Here the different voices are meeting in such a virtuosity that you are getting the feeling of listening to one. The singing of EVA is pure solo work and every tone can be felt very sensitively. 19.06 Haarlem Houtfestival (Option) / NL + 25. & 26.06 Haarlem Internationale koorbiënnale / NL BANDA ADRIATICA (Italy) Link: www.elen-music.com/art094en.php Link: www.myspace.com/adriatik The band is made of by musicians from different cultures and origins under the star of the Adriatic Sea. The music represents a long path of searching and experimenting relationships between the music from the South of Italy, Albania, Greece and the north-east Adriatic side. Original lyrics and music search for a new kind of language able to match traditions and peculiarities of Adriatic cultures. A hypothetical voyage through the ports of the Adriatic Sea. A long trip made of chance encounters and spasmodic research. From the shores of Italy's Salento to Albania, from Venice to Dubrovnik and as far afield as Crete, dreaming of a safe haven. JULY CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO Link: www.myspace.com/californiaguitartrio Paul Richards of Salt Lake City, Utah (USA) Bert Lams of Affligem (Belgium) Hideyo Moriya of Tokyo (Japan) With a whirlwind of instrumental styles fusing classical, rock, blues, jazz, world music, progressive, as well as the quintessential California musical genre surf music, the California Guitar Trio's stunning virtuosity and sly sense of humor have earned them an enthusiastic following and wide notoriety, with significant crossover in the progressive, acoustic and classical music scenes. RENE LACAILLE & BAND (Reunion) Link: www.elen-music.com/art095en.php René Lacaille - accordion, ukulele, guitars, voice Julian Babou - guitars Yanis Lacaille - percussions, charango, backing vocals Marc Lacaille - percussions, backing vocals Oriane Lacaille - backing vocals, percussions, keyboard Lacaille is the master of the spicy séga rhythms of l'Île de la Réunion, a volcanic island paradise located deep in the southwestern Indian Ocean. The embodiment of la Réunion's vitality, René is a man steeped in his culture's celebration of life and good times. " ... The gravel-voiced troubadour in rumbustuous form, swinging between rum-soaked chansons and thumping singalongs ... " The Observer UK 01.-03.07 Rudolstadt Festival (Option) / D AYARKHAAN (Yakutiya) Link: www.elen-music.com/art096en.php Albina Degtyareva - voice, khomus Varvara Stepanova - voice, khomus Natalia Fedorova - voice, khomus Ensemble "Ayarkhaan" Republic Saha (Yakutiya) The soloists of the ensemble appear by the conquerors and by the laureats urban, republic and regional competitions on playing khomus, singing and solo "Osukhaya". They sing in the style "d'ieretii", characteristic head-voiced overtones, which comprise unique decorating "counterpoint" tothe sounding by the main thing melodious line. Musicians can depict with theaid of the voice and khomus jumps horses, noise wind, cries seagulls and many others natural sounds. *** NEW POWER" FROM HUNGARY *** FOKATELEP (Hungary) Link: www.myspace.com/fokatelep Annamari Olah - voice, dance Peter Szalay - guitar, bass Ferenc Somogyi - bass Viktor Csanyi - drums, percussion Janos Jocsik - percussion Emil Biljarski - keyboards The folk music of Hungary and Middle-East and everything what touches our senses. A new project from Hungary with a mix of World Music, Electronic and Rock - Rock your bones! *** MILES DAVIS ON THE BALKAN CLARINET *** IVO PAPASOV & HIS WEDDING BAND (Bulgaria) Link: www.elen-music.com/art014en.php [ go Back ] [ go Home ] [ go Top] [ login media ]