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ARTEVAL | ITALY | |||||
| Daniele Pozzovio – piano Alvise Seggi - double bass Marcello Benetti - drums This acoustic trio plays the music in which the sounds of landscapes are outlined interwoven with narrative sense, explanatory naturalness and freshness of expression. The sound, that recalls Blay, Jarett and Pierannunzi trios, is permeated by an evocative halo but stands out with lively and bright hues too and lives also by moments more meditated and crepuscular. Arteval's music sounds sentiment-stained and that can involve with feeling and creative spirit. Pozzovio's inventive flow runs and gushes from his piano with drops of shining intensity, holds out with nimble spontaneity, weighs up and wedge itself with determination and it opens to new bends. Seggi's bass sound creeps into with delicate discretion, with growing communicative sense and with valuable (and effective) colourings of suggestion, pours out with generous stout his mood, now shady, now drip-ping, moving quickly between poetry and strength of expression. The earthy warmth and the rough elasticity and the spotted Bennett's percussions join with the trio now softly austere, now dynamic and malleable, to create rhythmic sediments and complete a musical picture certainly interesting. A live event like this one is possibly the best way to analyse the perfect interplay put on by the trio. Capable of burgeoning out on the trails of jazz at its most free and original compositions developed with a rare freshness and brilliant stylistic skill. Arteval trio played in many Italian European jazz Jazz Festival Gexto (Spain), Nancy Jazz Pulsation (France), Umbria Jazz Winter (Italy), Ronciglione Jazz (Italy). | ||||||
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ROOTS | GERMANY,
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K-SPACE | ENGLAND,
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Tim Hodgkinson and Ken Hyder have been performing together since 1978, they are best known for being in the heart of the avant-garde for the last 30 years. Tim Hodgkinson has got rich professional expertise of the jazz musician, worked with the radical Romanian composer Iancu Dumitrescu, Italian Electro-acoustic group Ossatura and with the Konk Pack trio. Ken has never forgotten the land of his birth Scotland, he is explores his Scottish roots in his numerous ethno-jazz projects and CDs. After years of combining Scottish traditional folk music with jazz on a batch of albums, musicians turned their attention eastwards, in 1990 when teamed up with Gendos on one of their Radical Transcultural Initiatives programs in southern Siberia, presenting experimental art. Gendos is a recognized master of shamanisms musician from Tuva; the top throat-singing innovator in Siberia and an expert in the deep-vocal Kargiraa style of overtone singing. He plays on a variety of traditional Tuvan instruments including the dungur shaman drum. Performers are widely experienced in holding workshops improvisation and fusions of ethnic music and jazz, as they have studied Celtic music in Scotland and in Ireland; shamanic drumming and overtone throat-singing in Tuva: the ritual music of Inuit native in Canada and the music of southern ethnic groups in Siberia. They did recorders with a lot of jazz and ethnic musicians including Tibetan and Japanese Buddhist monks, traditional Japanese and gipsy musicians and Siberian shamans. | ||||||
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THEODOSSII
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Anatol
Stefanet - viola
The
composer Gerald Dorsch founded the „New Roots” quartet in 2002.
"Quite
possible that being in trance people can be carried away even in the past, predict
the future and cure. It is unknown whether it is good or bad, but it is impossible
to reproduce their concert once more. You can be close to the bygone state only
after having listened to this music. K-space concert is more than a concert -
a total ritual gesture of extraordinary intensity." La Vanguaria, Spain.
Rikki
Nakano was born in Amami Island in the south of Japan in 1975. Situated at a crossroads,
half way between the mainland of Japan and Okinawa, the traditional music of Amami,
has received a unique set of influences from it's larger neighbours. Music was
in her blood, from and she started singing shima uta from the age of 4. She appeared
at the Japan minyo (folk) award show in Kagoshima at just 5 years old. The following
year she won the same award, and was a consecutive winner for the following six
years until 1988 she captured the All Japan Minyo award at the unprecedented age
of 15 in 1990. She was the focus of several TV documentaries throughout this and
the following years Her solo albums released in Japan was an enormous success
in 1993 and in 1994, In addition to her native Amami island music, her improvising
music is included Indonesian and Asian influences. Her last album received rave
reviews upon release, and firmly established her rising reputation as a singer
of the finest quality and a star of the Asian music scene. She performed at various
concerts in Japan and France Rikki is considered to be one of Japan's finest young
singers with her root firmly entrenched within a strong tradition, a unique background
in the world of Japanese culture. Her prestigious talent is unquestionable and
she is one of a few young artists with the ability to bring the unique and colourful
culture of her birthplace to a worldwide audience.
John
Salmon`s awards include a fellowship from The Beethoven Foundation, the Premio
Jaen, the Loren Eiseley Memorial Award from the University of Maryland Piano Competition
and the Gina Bachauer Memorial Award from the Juilliard School. Salmon has performed
in solo and orchestral appearances in the United States, Central America and Europe.
He has recorded for Radio Suisse Romande, RAI Italian Radio, Spanish National
Radio and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WFMT Radio in Chicago, C-Span
and PBS television. Steve Haines - the Director of the Miles Davis Program in
Jazz Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the Director
of the annual UNCG Honors High School Jazz Band. He has directed UNT's Three O'clock
Lab Band and was a member of the One O'clock Lab Band, with whom he traveled internationally.
Haines' music for large and small jazz ensembles is published at the University
of Northern Colorado Press and has been broadcast on the Canadian Broadcasting
national radio shows Jazz Beat and All the Best. He has served internationally
as a clinician and as an adjudicator for large and small jazz ensembles at numerous
high schools, colleges and universities. Tom Taylor is one of the most sought
after drummers on the East coast. He is well-known as performer and as the teacher
at North Carolina Central University, the University of North Carolina Chapel
Hill and the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
"The
trio offers a masterful look into a complex fusion of Balkan roots and inspired
jazz” like a jam session between Ian Anderson and Thelonious Monk" - Chicago
Tribune. "The playing of the trio is a delight, with Toskov and Yotsov both
supplying extraordinary sensitivity and chops. Spassov's kaval is blown, sung
through, processed, overblown, and played every which way but upside-down. His
interest in sound as music is apparent from his solos, but also from the tracks
of urban and rural soundscapes which intersperse the CD, from the bustle of a
Sofia train station to evening rain falling on a small village." - Michal
Shapiro, Roots World. The leader of trio Theodosii Spassov has developed his own
style of playing the kaval and realized several recordings and projects in his
unique way of playing fusion. His biography is the biography of national hero-
in 1994-1999 he is the Artistic Director of the world-renown "Philip Koutev"
ensemble of music and dance and a soloist of Radio Sofia Orchestra, In 1998-2001
the member of the company of the Irish music and dance "Riverdance"
In 1994 was honored with The Special Prize of Detroit Flute Festival, In April
1995 "Newsweek" magazine recognized Spassov as one of the most talented
East European musicians in its "best of the East", in 1996 he was awarded
by The International Academy of Arts in Paris Award, at the 1997 award "Music
Artist of the Year" and many National Music Awards. Different projects of
Theodosii has won international acclaim - with the Indian percussionist Trilok
Gurtu's band, as well as with Albert Mangeldorff, with the Radio Hessen jazz Ensemble
and with Sofia Women's Radio Choir, which was awarded with a Grammy award for
"Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares". Theodosii has recorded to 15 CDs, four
of his own, which have been realized worldwide. He composed the music for a 4
films and performed the music for a films of Italian composers Carlo Siliotto
and of Ennio Morricone.
The
Georgian word "shin" means «the way home». The remarkable group ---"The
Shin" (established in Germany for over 10 years) has chosen this spiritual
kind of journey home as their way to international success. “The Shin” follows
an independent way in the European music, enriching it with unique Georgian musical
colours, polyphony and rhythmic structure, which are characteristic for the Iberian-Caucasian
style, originating from an ancient culture, flourishing at the crossroads of Europe
and Asia. The Shin have been the real sensation of the Wiesloch Guitar Festival
with their witty, brilliant, world encompassing and at the same time Georgian-rooted
fusion-jazz. Georgian folk tunes, brilliantly mixed with jazz are masterly, humorously
and playfully performed. This exciting and exquisite music stands for a kind of
rhythmic, polyphonic improvisation, which takes its origins in old Georgian culture.
What makes their music especially attractive is their effortless use of different
musical styles. Drawing as it does from traditions as diverse as India, the U.S.A.,
the East and Europe; their music is truly unique. When musicians are as professionally
versatile and mature as these four, it is doubtless safe to say that their music
is perfect: rooted in tradition, they transcend that tradition. The founders of
the group ZaZa Miminoshvili and Zurab Gagnidze - are both the authors of a great
deal of theatre music for the performances of Robert Sturua at Georgian State
Drama Theatre" Shota Rustaveli " and for more than 30 films at the studio
" Georgia Film”. The Ministry of Culture of Georgia repeatedly awarded them
the title of ' Best Jazz Performers' (in 1981, 1983, 1991; 1992; 1996)