2008 JAZZ & IMPROVISATION WORLD & VOCAL BALKAN & GROOVE OCTOBER BESTER QUARTET / CRACOW KLEZMER BAND (Poland) Link: www.besterquartet.com Jaroslaw Bester - accordion Jaroslaw Tyrala - violin Oleg Dyyak - accordion, clarinet, percussion Wojciech Front - double bass The CKB are one of the most creative and innovative music groups in Poland - keep on searching for new forms of expression for their musical fascinations. The CKB are the only Polish group recording for John Zorn's Tzadik label that has released their three CDs. 18.10 Münster Festival / D EVA QUARTET (Bulgaria) Link: www.myspace.com/evaquartet 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. 14.10 Prague / CZ 15.10 Bielefeld Kammermusiksaal der Oetker-Halle / D TONI KITANOVSKI & CHERKEZI GYPSY ORCHESTRA (Macedonia) NEW ALBUM ON ENJA "BORDERLANDS" Link: jazzrecords.com/enja/9174.htm Link: www.elen-music.com/art056en.htm The gipsy brass orchestra 'Cherkezi' were thrilled to collaborate with jazz artists. What came out is mysterious hounting melodies and rhythms that make one cry and laugh in the same time, a strange force that makes you move your body and your feet, the ability to play for several hours without a second of a brake, unusual professionalism and dedication to the performance. 10.10 Copenhagen Global / DK 12.10 Slupsk Mundus Orientalis / POL 15.10 Magdeburg / D 16.10 Frankfurt Brotfabrik / D 18.10 Stuttgart Laboratorium / D NOVEMBER   SEVDA (Azerbaijan) Link: www.sonicbids.com/SEVDA 25 Years NETWORK www.networkmedien.de Her musical career has been formed by a synthesis between western and eastern music. She is also interested in classical and pop music. Her magical blend of music from East Asia, the Orient and the Occident caught the attention of experts from the East and from abroad. This unique way of adopting and adapting different musical traditions means that Sevda has opened up a whole new chapter in the history of Azeri Music. SEVDA TRIO 31.10 Steyer / A 02.11 Feldkirchen / A + SEVDA SEXTET 05.11 Vienna Festival / A 07.11 Nürnberg Villa Leon / D   DECEMBER     LE MYSTERE DES VOIX BULGARES (Bulgaria) The World Famous Choir and Grammy Winner on Christmas Tour. 18.12 Aalst / B 19.12 Anderlecht / B 20.12 Izegem / B 21.12 Abange / B 22.12 Lokeren / B 2009 JAZZ & IMPROVISATION WORLD & VOCAL BALKAN & GROOVE JANUARY CHRISTIAN WALLUMROD Ensemble (Norway) The Label ECM RECORDS www.ecmrecords.com Link: www.christianwallumrod.com Arve Henriksen - trumpet Nils Okland - violin / hardangerfiddle / viola d'amore Per Oddvar Johansen - drums Christian Wallumrod - grand piano / harmonium / toy piano Music of character and quiet strength from four of Norway's most independently-minded musicians. Three of them have impressive CVs in jazz and improvisation, the fourth is recognised as an innovator in the world of folk music. The music they play together in the Wallumrod Quartet defines its own territory, as the players negotiate the leader's subtle, finely-constructed compositions. 28.01 Brussels Espace Senghor / B 30.01 Endhoven / NL 31.01 Amsterdam Bimhus / NL     FEBRUARY BLACK SEA TRIO Link: www.elen-music.com/art006en.php Enver Izmailov - guitars (Crimea / Uzbekistan) Anatoly Vapirov - soprano saxophone (Bulgaria) Kornel Horvath - percussion / udo, gato etc. (Hungary) The musicians succeeded in charming the audience with a vital mixture of rhythms, melodies, improvisation and repeated sounds of the East-European folklore. Highly complex and at the same time spontaneous music - like a conversation which sticks to the point and never develops into insignificance - without mannerism and always exciting. Birgit Gabler / Concerto 12-14.02 Lugano Festival (Option) / CH ENVER IZMAILOV SOLO (Crimea Tatar / Uzbekistan) LInk: www.elen-music.com/art008en.php By two handed hammering on he is making the guitar a new instrument which is in no way inferior to the polyhone possibilities of the cembalo. Izmailov's tours through baroque quotations, Slavian folklore and sound excesses are technically and artistically pure magic. Uli Olshausen / Frankfurter Allgemeine   MARCH BESTER QUARTET / CRACOW KLEZMER BAND (Poland) Link: www.besterquartet.com Jaroslaw Bester - accordion Jaroslaw Tyrala - violin Oleg Dyyak - accordion, clarinet, percussion Wojciech Front - double bass The CKB are one of the most creative and innovative music groups in Poland - keep on searching for new forms of expression for their musical fascinations. The CKB are the only Polish group recording for John Zorn's Tzadik label that has released their three CDs. 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. IVO PAPASOV & HIS WEDDING BAND (Bulgaria) Link: www.elen-music.com/art014en.php 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 European Tour APRIL VOLKOV TRIO feat SERGEY STAROSTIN (Russia) Link: www.elen-music.com/art039en.php Vladimir Volkov - double bass Slava Kurashov - guitar Denis Sladkevich - drums feat. Sergey Starostin - clarinet, vocal The project Volkov Trio feat. Starostin is a very intensive music which combines jazz, improvisation and Russian folklore roots. Every musician impresses by his expressive style of music and convinces with absolute professionalism. You will feel dizzyfollowing the hands of the musicians but don't be afraid of getting lost in the wonderful music. UNNI LØVLIDs new project RITE Link: www.elen-music.com/art089en.php 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. 21-26.04 Flensburg FolkBaltica (Option) / D SEVDA (Azerbaijan) Link: www.sonicbids.com/SEVDA 25 Years NETWORK www.networkmedien.de Sevda Alekperzadeh - vocal Emil Mamedov - piano Iskender Aleskerov - percussion Ruslan Huseynov - double bass or bass guitar Malik Mansurov - tar (national musical instrument) Natik Shirinov - nagara (national musical instrument) Her musical career has been formed by a synthesis between western and eastern music. She is also interested in classical and pop music. Her magical blend of music from East Asia, the Orient and the Occident caught the attention of experts from the East and from abroad. This unique way of adopting and adapting different musical traditions means that Sevda has opened up a whole new chapter in the history of Azeri Music. 22.04 Bielefeld Kammermusiksaal der Oetker-Halle / D EVA QUARTET feat. DVUGLAS (Bulgaria) Links: www.myspace.com/evaquartet & www.myspace.com/dvuglas 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. 29.04 Vienna Konzerthaus / A IVO PAPASOV & HIS WEDDING BAND (Bulgaria) Link: www.elen-music.com/art014en.php 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 End Of April Mexico City MAY   EVA QUARTET feat. DVUGLAS (Bulgaria) Links: www.myspace.com/evaquartet & www.myspace.com/dvuglas 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. 09. or 15.05 Limburg / B 16.05 Leipzig Gewandhaus Acappella Festival / D BULGARA & UBRE DEBRE GYPSY BAND (Bulgaria) Link: www.myspace.com/bulgaragroup A NEW FUSION / DOUBLE PROJECT BULGARA (Bulgaria) 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. & UBRE DEBRE GYPSY BAND feat. COOH is a Bulgarian gypsy formation representing an extraordinary project with acoustic Gypsy music and Electronic sounds. JUNE CHRISTIAN WALLUMROD Ensemble (Norway) The Label ECM RECORDS www.ecmrecords.com 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 Extraordinarily concentrated music from the new, expanded ensemble led by Norwegian pianist composer Christian Wallumrød, which introduces three new string players - violinist Gjermund Larsen from the Norwegian folk tradition, classical and improvising cellist Tanja Orning, and Swiss baroque harpist Giovanna Pessi. Together, and along with the long-serving Arve Henriksen and Per Oddvar Johansen, they focus their resources on Wallumrød's music. Not a note is wasted in these pieces. This is true ensemble music, uniquely nuanced. 04-06.06 Lugano Recordings / CH HAIG YAZDJIAN & GROUP (Armenia / Greece) Link: www.sonicbids.com/haigyazdjian Haig Yazdjian was born by Armenian parents in Syria, and has been living in Greece for the last 20 years. Yazdjian was hailed for the unique ways he was blending diverse elements of the eastern Mediterranean music traditions vested in the practice of considering tradition as a live creative force. 09.06 Luxemburg / LUX 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 Kalman Balogh - the great Hungarian cimbalom player! JULY MIHALY DRESCH QUARTET (Hungary) Link: www.elen-music.com/art020en.php Dresch Mihály - saxophon Lukács Miklós - cimbalom Szandai Mátyás - double bass Baló István - drums Dresch's unique fusion of jazz with wild Hungarian music comes from the stomach as well as the head. Full of expressivity and passion it carries us away from the very first moment and does not let go after the end. KIRAN AHLUWALIA (India) Link: www.elen-music.com/art088en.php Kiran Ahluwalia - voice Rez Abbasi - guitar Gurpreet Chana - tabla/ dhol Enzo d'Aversa - accordion Kiran Ahluwalia's music is a reflection of her on-going quest to bring the ghazal style into a modern and global context - while maintaining the connections to it's storied and poetic past. Though she may sing about unfulfilled desires, her music reveals a compelling harmony that unites diverse inspirations, into a truly sublime and satisfying whole. Ahluwalia's voice is caressing and seductive and the arrangements are magnificent. Songlines BULGARA & UBRE DEBRE GYPSY BAND (Bulgaria) Link: www.myspace.com/bulgaragroup A NEW FUSION / DOUBLE PROJECT BULGARA (Bulgaria) 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. & UBRE DEBRE GYPSY BAND feat. COOH is a Bulgarian gypsy formation representing an extraordinary project with acoustic Gypsy music and Electronic sounds. AUGUST NEW EAST QUARTET Link: www.elen-music.com/art058en.php Anatoly Vapirov - saxophone (Bulgaria) Antoni Donchev - piano (Bulgaria) Vladimir Volkov - double bass (Russia) Vladimir Tarasov - drums, percussion (Lithuania) Organized and presented by Barbican in London this project combines some of the most creative musicians in East-European jazz. A kind of Superformation which caused a very big sensation.   IVO PAPASOV & HIS WEDDING BAND (Bulgaria) Link: www.elen-music.com/art014en.php 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 SEPTEMBER CHRISTIAN WALLUMROD QUARTET (Norway) Link: www.christianwallumrod.com Arve Henriksen - trumpet Nils Okland - violin / hardangerfiddle / viola d'amore Per Oddvar Johansen - drums Christian Wallumrød - grand piano / harmonium / toy piano Music of character and quiet strength from four of Norway's most independently-minded musicians. Three of them have impressive CVs in jazz and improvisation, the fourth is recognised as an innovator in the world of folk music. The music they play together in the Wallumrod Quartet defines its own territory, as the players negotiate the leader's subtle, finely-constructed compositions. ACTORES ALIDOS (Sardinia) Link: www.elen-music.com/art068en.php Songs of the Sardinian women From the Sardinia of the Tenores di Bitti (Bitti Tenors) an original project dedicated to the female polyphony. Songs of love and sacred songs, lullabies and popular dances, funeral laments and serenades. IVO PAPASOV & HIS WEDDING BAND (Bulgaria) Link: www.elen-music.com/art014en.php 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 OCTOBER CYRO BAPTISTAs Banquet Of The Spirit Project (Brasil / USA) Link: www.elen-music.com/art090en.php Cyro Baptista - percussion, vocals Brian Marsella - piano, keyboards, balafon Tim Keiper - drums, percussion Shanir Blumenkranz - acoustic/electric bass, oud, gimbre Recording for John Zorn's Tzadik label, features the tight new quartet led by maestro Cyro Baptista. Cyro's endless sonic curiosity and intense rhythmic drive has never been stronger in these imaginative original songs. The quartet embodies the philosophy of Anthropofagia, a Brazilian cultural movement from the 1920s. The band, is a musical manifestation of the process of eating, swallowing, and digesting all the tendencies that are part of the sonic landscapeand our environment. The music is the product of all sounds that they have collectively consumed over the years; some of them they've digested and others they have rejected. After that, it has been difficult to identify what belongs to what country, culture, or religion. EVA QUARTET (Bulgaria) Link: www.myspace.com/evaquartet 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. 26.10 Budapest Palace of Arts / HUN BULGARA & UBRE DEBRE GYPSY BAND (Bulgaria) Link: www.myspace.com/bulgaragroup A NEW FUSION / DOUBLE PROJECT BULGARA (Bulgaria) 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. & UBRE DEBRE GYPSY BAND feat. COOH is a Bulgarian gypsy formation representing an extraordinary project with acoustic Gypsy music and Electronic sounds. NOVEMBER CYRO BAPTISTAs Banquet Of The Spirit Project (Brasil / USA) Link: www.elen-music.com/art090en.php Cyro Baptista - percussion, vocals Brian Marsella - piano, keyboards, balafon Tim Keiper - drums, percussion Shanir Blumenkranz - acoustic/electric bass, oud, gimbre Recording for John Zorn's Tzadik label, features the tight new quartet led by maestro Cyro Baptista. Cyro's endless sonic curiosity and intense rhythmic drive has never been stronger in these imaginative original songs. The quartet embodies the philosophy of Anthropofagia, a Brazilian cultural movement from the 1920s. The band, is a musical manifestation of the process of eating, swallowing, and digesting all the tendencies that are part of the sonic landscapeand our environment. The music is the product of all sounds that they have collectively consumed over the years; some of them they've digested and others they have rejected. After that, it has been difficult to identify what belongs to what country, culture, or religion. KIRAN AHLUWALIA (India) Link: www.elen-music.com/art088en.php Kiran Ahluwalia - voice Rez Abbasi - guitar Gurpreet Chana - tabla/ dhol Enzo d'Aversa - accordion Kiran Ahluwalia's music is a reflection of her on-going quest to bring the ghazal style into a modern and global context - while maintaining the connections to it's storied and poetic past. Though she may sing about unfulfilled desires, her music reveals a compelling harmony that unites diverse inspirations, into a truly sublime and satisfying whole. Ahluwalia's voice is caressing and seductive and the arrangements are magnificent. Songlines IVO PAPASOV & HIS WEDDING BAND (Bulgaria) Link: www.elen-music.com/art014en.php 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 [ go Back ] [ go Home ] [ go Top] [ login media ]