CONCERTS DATES MUSICIANS SPECIAL LINKS MEDIA CONTACT media login : SPECIAL PROJECTS listen ENVER IZMAILOV AND HAIG YAZJIAN SPECIAL PROJECT (Crimea / Armenia / Uzbekistan / Greece) Haig Yazdjian - Ud Enver Izmailov - Guitar Lenye - Vocal Themis Nikoloudis - Violin Petros Varthakouris - Double Bass Rusten Bari - Percussion Nikos Sidirokastritis - Drums Enver was born as Crimean Tartar in Uzbekistan, Haig is Armenian born in Syria. Enver is back on the Crimean island, Haig has been living in Greece for the past 20 years. In the music of these outstanding musicians the manifold cultures - between Orient and Occident, between Balkan and the Far East are reflected wonderfully. Enver is in command of the unique ten-finger tapping technique and Haig has built himself a unique instrument - the electrical oud. After meeting in the Guitar Project of the TFF Rudolstadt 2005 they noticed how well the music of the guitars and the oud blended. Beside their friendship musical ideas developed which are realized in common projects. With bass, drums, percussion and voice this project is sure to show much power on stage.   listen TOIR KUZIYEV TRIO feat. HECTOR ZAZOU (Uzbekistan / France) "In England they have Peter Gabriel, in America they have David Byrne, in France we have Hector Zazou". Jean-Francois Bizot A few years ago, Hector Zazou traveled to Uzbekistan for the British label Real World to produce the first album of Sevara Nazarkhan. During Sevara’s recording sessions, Hector met Toir Kuziyev, an extraordinary doutar player. Both of them started to develop a number of ideas and found a new way to marry traditional acoustic music and electronic music. They also involved two other musicians - a violin player from India and an ud player from the Middle East to add different flavors. The trio explores unknown territories, enlarging the definition of modes and styles, inventing a new vocabulary. Hector Zazou’s use of electronics becomes a determining element and reinforces the spirituality of the music.   WORLD MUSIC BALKAN listen 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 listen 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. listen CHERKEZI GYPSY BRASS & TONI KITANOVSKI (Macedonia) NEW ALBUM ON ENJA "BORDERLANDS" 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.   listen listen BULGARA (Bulgaria) Link: www.myspace.com/bulgaragroup Kostadin Kostadinov - Kaval (wooden flute) Petyo Petrov - Gayda (bagpipe) Darinka Tsekova - 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.   listen UBRE DEBRE GYPSY BAND & COOH (Bulgaria) 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".   listen ROMENGO GYPSY ORCHESTRA feat. MONIKA LAKATOS (Hungary) 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 listen CRACOW KLEZMER BAND (Poland) Jaroslaw Bester - accordion Jaroslaw Tyrala - violin Oleg Dyyak - accordion, clarinet, percussion Wojciech Front - double bass The CKB are one of the most creative and innovatfive music groups in Poland. The musicians have released several CDs on John Zorn’s label Tzadzik. With this band Klezmer is developing into a world full of energy and musical dynamism and impression. Cliches are avoided and the music is presented with so much passion that you feel like listening to tango music. However, the basis of the music is genuine old Jewish culture.   listen 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.   listen ACTORES ALIDOS (Sardinia) Songs of the Sardinian women. From the Sardinia of the Tenores di Bitti (Bitti Tenors) an original project dedicated to female polyphony. Songs of love and sacred songs, lullabies and popular dances, funeral laments and serenades. The use of the voices produces a lush, rich sound and they cover an astonishing tonal range, with the bass part sometimes descending to astonishing depths. This impressive music will please those already familiar with Sardinian polyphony and is also an accessible starting point for the uninitiated.   ORIENT listen 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.   LATIN listen listen NOVALIMA NOVALIMA is a production collective created in 2001 by four Peruvian musicians based in different places of the world, Ramón Pérez Prieto (Lima), Grimaldo Del Solar a (Barcelona), Rafael Morales (Londres), and Carlos Li Carrillo (Hong Kong). Its music is heavily driven by afro-peruvian and Latin percussions, blended with downtempo, dub, broken and house beats. The new album "AFRO" is a selection of versions and adaptations of traditional afro Peruvian songs, some of which are more than 100 years old, blended with electronic beats, dub, and NOVALIMA's own compositions. "AFRO", recorded mostly in Lima, features participations from afro-peruvian legends such as Nicomedes Santa Cruz, Lucila Campos, and Zambo Cavero.   ASIA listen MUNADJAT YULCHIEVA & Group (Uzbekistan) Munadjat Yulchieva - vocal Shavkat Mukhamedov - rubab Khodjimurad Safarov - doira Dilfuzakhon Khaydarova - dutar Marufjon Khalitov - gidjak Munadjat Yulchieva is a leading performer of classical Uzbek music and its Persian-language cousin Shashmaqam. One of the Great Artist and Voices from Mid Asia!   listen 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.   listen KAUSHIKI CHAKRABARTY (India) BBC Music Award Winner! "Kaushiki is the one young Indian classical vocalist everyone should listen to. Purity of voice,excellent control, maturity and a deep sensitivity demonstrate that her music is a milestone in the development of a great talent within India's rich vocal heritage". “Backed by tanpura drone, tabla and two harmoniums Kaushiki displays unique phrasing, breathtaking control, and a tone of astonishing purity.” Jon Lusk K. Chakrabarty is now being hailed as one of the brightest emerging artists in Indian vocal music. As critic Ken Hunt put it, "we are talking superlatives".   listen STEPANIDA BORISOVA (Yakutia) 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.   listen HANNGAI (China) At Hanggai's musical core are two of the world's oldest instruments – the horse-head fiddle and the two-stringed banjo. Steeped in the rhythms and sounds of horseback-riding, many of their songs use a throat singing technique that has been handed down over the course of more than two millennia and conjures up images of the rolling plains of the grasslands. Refreshing interpretations of the traditional songs of the steppe..   JAZZ SPECIAL PROJECTS listen NEW EAST QUARTET feat. TOMASZ STANKO Anatoly Vapirov - saxophone (Bulgaria) Antoni Donchev - piano (Bulgaria) Vladimir Volkov - double bass (Russia) Vladimir Tarasov - drums, percussion (Lithuania) feat. Tomasz Stanko - trumpet (Poland) 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.   listen 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   GANDRAS Petras Vysniauskas - soprano saxophone (Lithuania) Marilyn Crispell - piano (USA) Mark Helias - double bass (USA) Klaus Kugel - drums, percussion (Germany) BALTIC QUARTET feat. BOBO STENSON Petras Vysniauskas - soprano saxophone (Lithuania) Vladimir Volkov - viola da gamba, double bass (Russia) Klaus Kugel - drums, percussion (Germany) feat. Bobo Stenson - organ, piano (Sweden) A really outstanding project – a wonderful trip into the world of sounds and improvisation. Here many experienced intrumentalists are united whereby every single musician does an expressive sound work in his individual way. With these musicians you might have the feeling of being in the world of sounds. Improvised, expressively profound – simply genius. listen DEJAN TERZICs UNDERGROUND Chris Speed - saxophone, clarinet (USA) Frank Mobus - guitar (Germany) Mark Helias - double bass (USA) Dejan Terzic - drums (Germany/ Yugoslavia) The German Drummer and Cultural Prize Winner Dejan Terzic is presenting his current new project "Underground". The central starting point of the musical interpretation are the folkloristic disclosures of the Balkan Area - music from Ex-Yugoslavia. Dejan Terzic, beeing born in former Yugoslavia, also felt the need, at a certain point of his carreer, to start discovering and analyzing his musical roots, and transform these roots into the realms of modern Interpretation.   EUROPE listen CHRISTIAN WALLUMROD ENSEMBLE (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   listen 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   listen 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.   listen 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.   listen PAVEL FAJT SOLO (Czech Republic) He is using a specially designed drum set, together with the home-made electronic-base on piano strings and metal springs. The sound is very far from the standard music experience, but also very melodic and warm. Colours also make small percussions, and toys. It can be exciting, relaxing and innovative at the same time. It is Drum Trek.   BALKAN listen 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 Eric Vloeimans - trumpet (Holland) Antoni Donchev - piano (Bulgaria) Christian Spering - double bass (Sweden) Klaus Kugel - drums, percussion (Germany)   listen HARRY TAVITIAN & ALEXANDER BALANESCU DUO (Romania / England) Harry Tavitian - piano (Romania) Alexander Balanescu - violin (England) A meeting of two worlds – Tavitian who has been dedicated to improvised music for years and Balanescu who originally comes from classical music. Both are famous for going beyond any borders. And both are coneptionalists. Here in a new duo.   USA / INDIA listen VIJAY IYER (USA / India) Vijay Iyer is the pianist/composer to watch in our century. His harmonic and melodic ideas are fresh and imaginative, and in his writing and improvising he treats the piano and all tonal instruments as if they are extensions of the drum, which may explain why his music always generates so much excitement. A rising creative giant, to say the least.   LATIN listen SONIA POSSETTI Damián Bolotin - violin Fabián Keoroglanian - vibraphone Federico Pereiro - bandoneon Adriana Gonzalez - double bass Sonia Possetti - piano, composition and arrangements Sonia Possetti is one of the young talents in Argentina who make their own creative music. Starting from Tango Nuevo and far away from superficial tendencies she is developing her music which is full of passion and the fire of the Tango and Jazz as well.   AVANTGARDE / NEW MUSIC HECTOR ZAZOU - BERNARD CAILLAUD "Quardi + Chromies" Hector Zazou is an Alchemist of the sound. His great love are Voices and like nobody else he makes us beleeve not to know or understand any thing about but to have an incredible feeling for it. "In England they have Peter Gabriel, in America they have David Byrne, in France we have Hector Zazou". Jean-Francois Bizot   [ go Back ] [ go Home ] [ go Top] [ Login media ] Information, Demorecordings and Live Acts: Contact: Dimiter Panev / PF 1103 / 04112 Leipzig / Germany Tel. + 49 / 341 / 912 68 66/ Mobile: + 49 / 172 / 602 02 99 / Email: panev@gmx.net ©Dimiter Panev