2010 JAZZ & IMPROVISATION WORLD & VOCAL BALKAN & GROOVE JULY   RENE LACAILLE & BAND (Reunion) Link: www.elen-music.com/art095en.php Link: www.myspace.com/renelacaille 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 17.07 Augsburg Festival / D KIRAN AHLUWALIA (India) Link: www.elen-music.com/art088en.php Link: www.myspace.com/musickiran Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QyQAG7mvpM Kiran Ahluwalia - voice Rez Abbasi - guitars Nikku Nayar - bass Ashok Bidaye - harmonium Nitin Mitta - table 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 22. & 23.07 Telemark Festival / NOR 28.07 Thun Mokka Festival (Option) / CH 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. 23.-24.05 Bonn TBA (Option) / D + 01.07 Leipzig naTo / D 03.-04.07 Rudolstadt TFF Festival / D 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. 25.-29.07 Targu Mures Peninsula Festival (Option) / RO AUGUST     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. A week in July/August Antwerpen Summer Festival (Option) / B SEPTEMBER *** NEW ALBUM ON ENJA & YELLOWBIRD  *** ISABELLE OLIVIER Link: www.elen-music.com/art098en.php Isabelle Olivier - harp & special guest " ... 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 17.09 Lich Synagoge Festival / D ANTONI DONCHEVs SPECIAL PROJECT (Bulgaria) Brass Jazz Music between Balkan Wedding, Sun Ra Arkestra and Chamber Jazz. His compositions are like imaginary landscapes - chambermusic atmospheres. He is looking for the space between the spaces - the microcosmos of sounds. Antony Donchev is a musician, who can easily and skillfully handle the brood variety of forms in performing and composing at the end of the 20th century. He has no difficulty whatever combining the versatility of jazz stylistics with folklore and classical music in all their aspects. *** NEW ALBUM on ELEN MUSIC / SUMMER 2010 *** EVA QUARTET & HECTOR ZAZOU feat. Special Guests Laurie Anderson, Bulgara Group, Cecilia Chailly, Antoni Donchev, Robert Fripp, Bill Frisell, Djiavan Gasparian, Mehdi Haddab, Kaushiki, Zoltan Lantos, Nils Petter Molvær, Carlos Nunez, Bill Rieflin (REM), Ryuichi Sakamoto, etc. 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. 08.09 Frankfurt am Main / Ikonenmuseum (Option) / D 09.-12.09 Sardinia Festival (Option) / IT 12.09 Roma Santissimo Nome di Maria / IT 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 15.09 Koblenz Cafe Hahn / D 16.09 Niedersachsische Musiktage Barsinghausen, Zechensaal / D 17.09 Niedersachsische Musiktage Isernhagen, Isernhagenhof / D 18.09 Niedersachsische Musiktage Schloss Haemelschenburg / D 19.09 St.Wendel Jazz Festival (Option) / D 24.09 Luxemburg or Copenhagen (Option) / LUX-DK 25.09 Luxemburg or Copenhagen (Option) / LUX-DK OCTOBER JOSEFINE CRONHOLM (Sweden / Denmark) Link: www.elen-music.com/art101en.php There hasn't been a singer like her -- someone who makes the quietness of her Swedish nature surrounding enchantingly audible -- for a long time. Cronholm's clear, high voice comes from out of nowhere, developing and weaving around sound and melodies with a calmness which is quite unique. *** NEW ALBUM on ACT RECORDS *** Link: www.actmusic.com 28.10 Munich Unterfahrt / D 31.10 Berlin A-Trane / D SEVDA AZERI PROJECT (Azerbaijan) Link: www.sonicbids.com/SEVDA Sevda Alekperzadeh - vocal Malik Mansurov - tar, ud Salim Mammadov - bass guitar Elchin Shirinov - piano Natik Shirinov - perc / nagara, davul Vagif Aliyev - drums, percussion 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. *** NEW ALBUM on ELEN MUSIC / SUMMER 2010 *** EVA QUARTET & HECTOR ZAZOU feat. Special Guests Laurie Anderson, Bulgara Group, Cecilia Chailly, Antoni Donchev, Robert Fripp, Bill Frisell, Djiavan Gasparian, Mehdi Haddab, Kaushiki, Zoltan Lantos, Nils Petter Molvær, Carlos Nunez, Bill Rieflin (REM), Ryuichi Sakamoto, etc. 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.-07.10 Indonesia Festival / RI 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! NOVEMBER *** NEW ALBUM ON ENJA & YELLOWBIRD  *** ISABELLE OLIVIER Link: www.elen-music.com/art098en.php Isabelle Olivier - harp David Venitucci - accordion Michel Bénita - double Bass feat. Special Guests for diferent formations Louis Sclavis - bass clarinet David Linx - voice Peter Erskine - 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 *** NEW ALBUM on ECM RECORDS / 40 Years ECM *** 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 possible dates between Nov 1 - Nov 7 MUNADJAT YULCHIEVA (Uzbekistan) Link: www.elen-music.com/art055en.php Munojatkhon Yulchieva - vocal Shavkat Mukhamedov - rubab Khodjimurad Safarov - doira Dilfuza Khaydarova - dutar " ... Leading performer of classical Uzbek music and its Persian-language cousin Shashmaqâm. One of the Great Artist and Voices from Mid Asia ..." As a performer she is incredible, like a Queen - She is a part of the World Heritage! 03.11 Vienna Sargfabrik (Option) / A 04.11 Antwerpen Zuiderpershuis / B 05.11 Amsterdam Tropentheater / NL 06.11 Utrecht Rasa / NL 07.11 Veere Church / NL *** NEW ALBUM on ELEN MUSIC / SUMMER 2010 *** EVA QUARTET & HECTOR ZAZOU feat. Special Guests Laurie Anderson, Bulgara Group, Cecilia Chailly, Antoni Donchev, Robert Fripp, Bill Frisell, Djiavan Gasparian, Mehdi Haddab, Kaushiki, Zoltan Lantos, Nils Petter Molvær, Carlos Nunez, Bill Rieflin (REM), Ryuichi Sakamoto, etc. 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. 30.11 Glasgow Concert Halls World Music Night (Option) / SCO 01.11 Glasgow City Halls Complex / SCO 02.11 St Andrews, The Byre Theatre / SCO 03.11 Peebles, Eastgate Theatre / SCO 04.11 Kilmarnock, Grand Hall, Palace Theatre / SCO 09.11 Shetland venue tbc / SCO 10.11 Aberdeenshire, Woodend Barn, Banchory / SCO 11.11 Inverness Eden Court Theatre / SCO 12.11 Stornoway, Western Isles An Lanntair / SCO 13.11 Inverness Eden Court Theatre / SCO DECEMBER   *** NEW ALBUM on ELEN MUSIC / SUMMER 2010 *** EVA QUARTET & HECTOR ZAZOU feat. Special Guests Laurie Anderson, Bulgara Group, Cecilia Chailly, Antoni Donchev, Robert Fripp, Bill Frisell, Djiavan Gasparian, Mehdi Haddab, Kaushiki, Zoltan Lantos, Nils Petter Molvær, Carlos Nunez, Bill Rieflin (REM), Ryuichi Sakamoto, etc. 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. ??.12 Zug TBA (Option) / CH 09.12 Nantes / FR 11.12 Bayern TBA (Option) / D 12.12 Lörrach Festival / D   2011 JAZZ & IMPROVISATION WORLD & VOCAL BALKAN & GROOVE JANUARY *** NEW ALBUM ON ENJA & MULTIKULTI *** WACLAW ZIMPELs PROJECT PASJA Link: www.elen-music.com/art099en.php Waclaw Zimpel - clarinet, bass clarinet, taragota (Poland) Mark Tokar - double bass (Ukraine) Bobby Few - piano (USA) Klaus Kugel - drums (Germany) Waclav Zimpel is a young, highly talented clarinet player from Warszaw who has become part of the international jazz scene. His new project evolves into the Polish folklore and jazz tradition as well as into modern music. With a changing atonal-free and tonal upto a sentimental - folkloristic conceptthe four musicians create an abundance of interaction patterns, textures and moods far beyond folklore and jazz. UNNI LØVLIDs Project RITE (Norway) Link: www.elen-music.com/art089en.php 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. 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! FEBRUARY *** NEW ALBUM on ECM RECORDS / 40 Years ECM *** 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 STEPANIDA BORISOVA ENSEMBLE (Jakutia) 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. 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! MARCH *** NEW ALBUM ON ENJA & YELLOWBIRD  *** ISABELLE OLIVIER Link: www.elen-music.com/art098en.php Isabelle Olivier - harp David Venitucci - accordion Michel Bénita - double Bass feat. Special Guests for diferent formations Louis Sclavis - bass clarinet David Linx - voice Peter Erskine - 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 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 APRIL RALPH ALESSI Link: www.elen-music.com/art097en.php Ralph Alessi - trumpet Tony Malaby - saxophone Drew Gress - double bass Andy Milne - piano Mark Ferber - drums " ... Alessi is a modernist who uses expanded forms, complex rhythms and a broad harmonic spectrum to explore the confluence of composition and improvisation. But the music also flows from tradition and has strong melodies..." 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