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Unique Female Voices From Around The World On Showcase

BABEL MED MUSIC
SHOWCASE SELECTION


* SEVDA
SEVDA

www.sonicbids.com/SEVDA

March 27, 9pm, Dock Des Sunds
www.dock-des-suds.org/babelmedmusic2010
WOMEX
NORDIC CLUB


* UNNI LØVLID
UNNI LØVLID

www.myspace.com/unnilovlid

Oct 31, 22:30h, Koncerthuset, Studio 4
SXSW Austin, Texas (USA)
SHOWCASE SELECTION


* UNNI LØVLID
UNNI LØVLID

www.myspace.com/unnilovlid

19.03 from 9.00pm in Copa, 217 Congress Ave
add 18.03 11.00am
WOMEX
offWOMEX


* KIRAN
KIRAN AHLUWALIA

www.myspace.com/musickiran

Oct 30, 21:15h, Koncerthuset, Studio 2
WOMEX
SHOWCASE SELECTION


* EVA QUARTET
EVA QUARTET

www.myspace.com/evaquartet

Oct 31, 00:30h, Koncerthuset, Studio 1
WOMEX



WORLD MUSIC


BALKAN


IVO PAPASOV & HIS WEDDING BAND
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IVO PAPASOV & HIS WEDDING BAND (Bulgaria)

With a huge gut and unwieldy frame, Ivo Papasov seems an unlikely source for some of the most nimble and virtuoso music you'll encounter anywhere in the world. After seeing him in concert, though, you'll be left in little doubt that he's one of the most interesting clarinettists around. He and his band race through numbers based on the complex rhythms of Bulgarienn folk dances...
Simon Broughton / World Music - The Rough Guide


EVA QUARTET
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EVA QUARTET (Bulgaria)
Link: www.myspace.com/evaquartet

The Eva Quartet consists of some of the best Bulgarian female voices – the four young solo singers (after a strong selection from thousand applicants) 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 just one voice.


BULGARA
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BULGARA (Bulgaria)
Link: www.myspace.com/bulgaragroup

Kostadin Kostadinov - kaval (wooden flute)
Petyo Petrov - gayda (bagpipe)
Violeta Petkova - gadulka (rebec)
Dimitar Hristov - tambourine
Chavdar Asenov - el. bass
Stoyan Pavlov - percussion
Kilril Dobrev - drums

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.
The groove of the group transformed the audience into a flippped-out mass which was moving into all directions.
 


UBRE DEBRE GYPSY BAND & COOH
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UBRE DEBRE GYPSY BAND feat. DenYo (Bulgaria)

Kostadin Kostadinov - kaval (wooden flute)
Angel Metodiev - trumpet
Radoslav Slavchev - bass
Kiril Dobrev - drums, sampling
Red One - beatbox

This is a Gypsy formation representing an extraordinary project with acoustic Gypsy music and electronic sounds. Vibrations guaranteed when the seven musicians take off - with their traditional and modern gypsy rhythms, bittersweet music full of joy and tragedy. The groove of the Balkan goes under your skin - and very much into your legs: "Rock your bones".
 


EUROPE


CRACOW KLEZMER BAND
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UNNI LØVLIDs new project RITE (Norway)

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.
 


KALMAN BALOGH & PETER RALCHEV BALKAN PROJECT
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KALMAN BALOGH & PETER RALCHEV BALKAN PROJECT (Hungary / Bulgaria)

Kalman Balogh - cimbalom (Hungary)
Peter Ralchev - accordion (Bulgaria)
Ateshghan Yuseinov - guitar, tambura (Bulgaria)
Matyas Szandai - double bass (Hungary)

Two great masters of Balkan music in this new project. Kalman Balogh is a master of the unique and rare Hungarian folk instrument "cimbalom" and Peter Ralchev the best Balkan accordeon player and – together with Ivo Papasov – a co-founder of the first wedding band Trakya in Bulgaria more than 20 years ago. The music is full of wonderful stries which are told in an atmospheric easiness by the two highly virtuous musicians. Enjoyment of the senses.
 


BANDA ADRIATICA
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BANDA ADRIATICA (Italy)

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.
 


ORIENT


HAIG YAZDJIAN & GROUP
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HAIG YAZDJIAN & GROUP
(Armenia / Greece / Syria / Turkey)

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.
 


AFRICA


RENE LACAILLE & BAND
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RENE LACAILLE & BAND (Reunion)
*** NEW ALBUM on label CONNECTING CULTURES ***

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
 


ASIA


SEVDA
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SEVDA (Azerbajan)

Sevda was born in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, in a house with a view of the Caspian Sea. From her early childhood she listenend to her father singing Mugham songs and in his voice she heard the sounds of the sea.

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 sings with the intonation of a loving soul.

In the whole Caucasian region Sevda is a bright star on the firmament of the arts, high above the Caspian Sea.
 


KIRAN AHLUWALIA
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KIRAN AHLUWALIA (India)

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
 


ENSEMBLE AYARKHAAN REPUBLIC
AYARKHAAN (Republic Saha / Yakutia)

Ayarkhaan is a long-established female vocal group from Sakha established in 2002 by khomus music player Albina Degtyareva. The level of musicianship of the trio is extremely high. For years, Ayarkhaan have been leaders in the revival and preservation of the traditional music of Yakutia. The music draws on the powers of Nature and the ancient traditions and wisdom of the Yakut people to create an atmosphere of timeless encounter between Man and the Universe. Ayarkhaan's performances on the khomus an instrument that was said to have been made by gods and possess a magical voice - are inspired by a tradition that has been handed down for centuries but also reflects modern musical thinking.
 


A MOVING SOUND
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A MOVING SOUND (Taiwan)

Mia Hsieh - vocal and dance
Tang Hsuan Lo - erhu
Hwa Jou Hsieh - zhong ruan, western guitar
Scott Prairie - zhong ruan, bass
Cheng Chun Wu - percussion, flute, erhu

Traditional Taiwanese, Chinese and neighboring Asian music forms are fused in new original song compositions. Instruments such as the Chinese erhu (a vertically held, bowed instrument), the zhong ruan (Chinese guitar), an assortment of western instruments, and the transcendent vocals and dance of lead singer Mia Hsieh, transport listeners on a journey that Global Rhythm magazine describes as “...delicately balanced between many worlds…an entryway to Eastern music and artful expression of the human condition".

“One of the most original outfits working in the world music arena today”
Tom Pryor / Global Rhythm Magazine
 


JAZZ


NEW MUSICIANS


Josefine Cronholm
JOSEFINE CRONHOLM (Sweden / Denmark)

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
 


RALPH ALESSI
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RALPH ALESSI

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.
Sean Patrick Fitzell
 


ISABELLE OLIVIER
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ISABELLE OLIVIER

Isabelle Olivier - harp
David Venitucci - accordion
Michel Bénita - drums

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.
 


WACLAW ZIMPELs PROJECT PASJA
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WACLAW ZIMPELs UNDIVIDED

Waclaw Zimpel - clarinet, bass clarinet, taragota (Poland)
Mark Tokar - double bass (Ukraine)
Bobby Few - piano (USA)
Klaus Kugel - drums (Germany)

UNDIVIDED: music about different levels of human being¹s consciousness. The way of organizing sounds and time in Zimpel¹s composition, deals with free jazz tradition, folk music of different cultures and classical music heritage.
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 concept the four musicians create an abundance of interaction patterns, textures and moods far beyond folklore and jazz
 


REZ ABBASI'S BAZAAR feat. KIRAN
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REZ ABBASI'S BAZAAR feat. KIRAN (Pakistan / India / USA)
Link: www.myspace.com/rezabbasi

Rez Abassi - guitar (Pakistan)
Kiran Ahluwalia - voice (India)
Gary Versage - hammond organ (USA)
Danny Weiss - drums, tabla, percussions (USA)

"Stimulating new music. Is this soul-jazz, fusion, Indian music, post-bop or world fusion? The answer has to be: All of them and none of them. Well worth several listens."
* * * 4 Stars - Scott Yanow (AllMusicGuide)
 


SPECIAL PROJECTS


NEW EAST QUARTET
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NEW EAST QUARTET

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.
 


BLACK SEA TRIO
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BLACK SEA TRIO

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
 


EUROPE


CHRISTIAN WALLUMROD ENSEMBLE
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CHRISTIAN WALLUMROD QUARTET (Norway)

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.
The Label ECM RECORDS www.ecmrecords.com
 




CHRISTIAN WALLUMROD ENSEMBLE (Norway / Switzerland)

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
 


ZOLTAN LANTOSs MIRRORWORLD QUARTET
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LANTOS - RIESSLER SPECIAL PROJECT (Hungary)

Michael Riessler - soprano, clarinet (Germany)
Zoltan Lantos - violin (Hungary)
Kalman Balogh - cimbalom (Hungary)
Klaus Kugel - drums, percussion (Germany)

"Zoltan Lantos is a violin virtuous with a classical education who after the study of the Indian way of playing (nearly 10 years in India) has transformed an overlapping of different influences into modern improvized music. ... a music which is always in the setting out between sensitive, free linear chamber music, dance-like, ad hoc produced electronic, loop-ostinati heated movement and shrill turbulences while the altruism of the different players is never lost ... a surprisingly vital and independent world music production."
Ulrich Olshausen / Frankfurter Allgemeine
 


Mihaly Dresch
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MIHALY DRESCH (Hungary)

Mihály Dresch - reeds
Miklós Lukács - cimbalom
Mátyás Szandai - double bass
István Baló - 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.
 


VOLKOV TRIO feat SERGEY STAROSTIN
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VOLKOV TRIO feat SERGEY STAROSTIN (Russia)

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 dizzy following the hands of the musicians but don’t be afraid of getting lost in the wonderful music.
 


BALKAN


ANTONI DONCHEVs THEATRE JAZZ BAND
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ANTONI DONCHEVs THEATRE JAZZ BAND (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 versality of jazz stylistics with floklore and classical music in all their aspects.
 


DONCHEV INTERNATIONAL QUARTET DONCHEV INTERNATIONAL QUARTET

Eric Vloeimans - trumpet (Holland)
Antoni Donchev - piano (Bulgaria)
Achim Tang - double bass (Germany)
Klaus Kugel - drums, percussion (Germany)
 


HECTOR ZAZOU
HECTOR ZAZOU
1948 - Sept 8. 2008


A photo is no piece of reality – it is only a support to remember a person. When I look into your face you are suddenly standing in front of me, my friend - a man full of passion, a wild unquiet soul, continuously looking for the endless beauty. With you there is always music and nobody can resist. It is filling us from the inside and also the space and we are in your wonderful world of sounds.
Music as sound – man as sound - the human being as music.
They say that when somebody is dying he is alive as long as the others remember him. Your music will always stay in this world and so will you stay with us.
Thank you my friend.
 


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