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| Ethno-jazz
group TRIGON | MOLDOVA | |
Anatol
Stefanet - viola Vali Boghean - saxophone, kaval, trumpet, vocals Dorel
Burlacu - keyboards, piano, harmonica Gari Tverdohleb - drums, percussion,
xylophone |
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| FENG
SHUI TRIO | RUSSIA | |
Oleg Kireev - saxophone,
vocal, percussion Valeri Panfilov - guitar Viktor Matiuhin - bass guitar
Oleg
Kireev, the leader of the project, is one of the most remarkable personalities
of the Russian jazz, qualified as a “sax player with a reputation for hard swing
and high excitement”. Oleg Kireev’s ethno-jazz project absorbs folklore from all
over the world and is bringing us the ancient and everlasting message of eternal
harmony. In his „ jazz theatre” the traditional swing, Bashkir guttural singing,
African rhythms and French poetry are interlacing. In the world of jazz, open
to all influences, it is hard to astonish anyone, but Oleg was the one to realize
such a performance, the western press appreciating him as the “Revolutionary Russian
musician Oleg Kireev, a surprise hit of the recent Birmingham Jazz Festival. He
shows irreproachable professionalism and improvisation technique; he enriches
jazz with his personal, emotional and very sincere perception.” (The Evening Mail,
UK). Kireev studied piano at the music school and the saxophone at the Arts College.
Being by origin a Tatar from Bashkiria and well acquainted with the techniques
of guttural singing uzlau, Oleg is masterly combining jazz standards with folklore.
He started his career in 1985, in Ufa, by founding the group Orlan, promoting
ethno approach to jazz. Bashkir Legends, the first album of the group, recorded
by Melodia, brought an instant success to the group, followed by extensive tours
in the country and abroad. Oleg continued his career in Poland, playing at international
festivals with the stars of world jazz. Bud Shank, the famous American saxophonist,
after hearing Oleg’s solo album Romantic (1984), offered him a scholarship in
the US, at his Bud Shank School. Soon Oleg became the soloist of All Stars Students
band, formed by the best students of Shank’s school. With this group Oleg had
some solo concerts in the state of Washington, playing alongside Hal Galper and
Steve Ellington. He had extensive tours in England, took part in jazz festivals
in London Earling Jazz Festival and in Birmingham; he received the diploma for
outstanding performance at the jazz festival in Montreux in 1996, the diploma
of Jazz Jamboree festival in Warsaw. In 2000, 70 000 copies of his CD Love Letters
have been sold in no time. This album brought him the title of „Russian Kenny
G.” The appreciation of “independent experts” was even more enthusiastic: the
American portal Jazzreview.com rated his album Song For Sonny with five stars
from five. Compositions from this album are included in various collections of
jazz music, alongside works of Fausto Papetti and Grover Washington.
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| BELTAINE | POLAND | |
Lukasz Kulesza - guitar Bartek Dudek -
guitar bass Jan Galczewski - harmonica, mandolin, guitar, cimpoi gaita, bodhran,
darabukka Adam Romanski - violin, bodhran, darabukka Grzegorz Chudy -
flute, low whistle, accordeon Beltaine,
the quintet of Celtic music, is inspired by the music of Ireland and Bretagne.
Their compositions are a combination of traditional melodies with modern trends,
of professionalism with the force of youth. For them the traditional Celtic music
is the departing point towards a different musical world, sometimes full with
jazz harmonies, sometimes with blues improvisations, and sometimes even with punk
expression. The band quickly gained the hearts of the audiences all over the country:
in less than two years Beltaine gave almost 200 concerts and took part at the
festivals in Katowice, Gdynia, Wroclaw, Przemysl, Lodz. The group also performed
at festivals like Nowa Tradycja in Warsaw, Magiczne Wyspy Zielone in Krakow, Folkovy
Kvitek in Praga, Beltaine in Slovakia, Shants Festival and Zeza in Hungary, at
the festival of Celtic music Zamek 2004 in Bedzin. The group is the organizer
of two festivals - the festival of Celtic music Irlandzka Majowka in Katowice
and the festival Zamek in Bedzin. Their music does not leave one indifferent,
the musicians succeeding to create an atmosphere of mystery, sinking the audience
in dreams and charming it with an original interpretation of old folk melodies.
Their own compositions, inspired by traditional Irish melodies, impress by a modern
sound and an original arrangement.
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| ANJEI
KOVALEOV | RUSSIA | |
Anjei Kovaleov- vocals Soloist,
composer, arranger and jazz-eccentric Anjei Kovalev made his studies at the music
college S. Balakirev in Nijnii-Novgorod and at the University of Culture and Arts
in Petersburg. He worked at the Jazz Orchestra of Estonia (Tallinn), at the Narva
Dixieland, at the Lenconcert, and sung in the legendary group Jazz-comfort in
Petersburg. He performed at international jazz festivals, sung in music clubs
in Germany, France, Estonia, and Russia, and had work contracts with the German
company Hapag Lloiyd and the Swiss company International cruise management. Presently
he is soloist at the orchestra of composer Vladimir Poliakov, councilor of the
Administration of the President of Russia. In his solo program Anjei creates musical
compositions, imitating with his voice various musical instruments. Anjei uses
the vargan, the Indian flute and the methods of skat singing, performing concomitantly
multiple musical partitions – of solo and accompanying instruments. A man-orchestra
and musical “provocateur”, Anjei is able to create a fairy atmosphere, full of
surprises.
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| VIT
SVEC TRIO | CZECH
REPUBLIC | |
Vit
Svec - double bass Matej Benko - piano Jan Linhart - drums Studies
in classical jazz and the classic format of the group clearly influenced the repertoire
of the trio. In compositions signed by Vit Svec and Matej Benko one can easily
sense the influence of classical music, as well as Czech and Latin folk motives.
The trio has been created in 2000 and its first album Trio 02 released by the
ARTA publishing house, was appreciated by Harmonie magazine as „The best Czech
jazz CD of the year 2002”. The next album Keporkak was released in 2004. The trio
performs regularly in Prague’s jazz clubs, as well as throughout the Czech Republic
(Karlovy Vary, Liberec, Pisek, Jesenik, Brno) and at jazz festivals abroad (Poland,
Germany, Hungary, Slovakia). Vit Svec, graduate of the State Conservatory in Prague,
after graduation participated at the jazz workshop in Hungary (under Aladar Pege
and Balazs Berkes). He was the founder member of jazz orchestra Transjazz (CD
Jazzmagma) and Jazz Unity (CD Soul Eyes and My Foolish Heart). He was a member
of the National Theatre Big Band and for many years has worked with trumpeter
Michal Gera (CD Fata Morgana and Magomania), also with vibes player Radek Krampl
in Vibe Fantasy and with singer Jana Koubkova. Vit is also active in the sphere
of classical music, performing with the Orchestra of the National Theatre and
with the Film Symphony Orchestra. Matej Benko, graduate of the Prague Conservatory
(composition), has been involved in many other jazz projects. As member of Slovakian
Quartet, he has taken part in many national and international festivals (Bratislava,
Belfort, Innsbruck, Paris). Jan Linhart graduated the Prague Conservatory
– drums and piano. From 2000 he is teaching on this conservatory. He has worked
with The Swings (CD Java Jive) and Petr Korinek Jazz Orchestra (CD Prague Jazz
Sextet - Cronica Domus Saransis).
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| Trio
SOMMER / KASSAP / LEVALLET | FRANCE,
GERMANY | |
Sylvain Kassap - clarinet Didier Levallet - double bass Gunter
Sommer - percussion 
It
is difficult to imagine any other musician who would be able to master free improvisation
with such a sense of humour, audaciousness and great virtuosity as Gunter Sommer.
He was born in Dresden, studied the piano, percussions and drums and started his
career in 1970, becoming an essential actor of the European improvised music in
the former East Germany. International Jazz Forum and DownBeat Magazine are depicting
him unanimously as “an artist who imposed himself in improvised music and created
his own style in the European jazz”. Partner or leader of projects or albums recorded
with Louis Sclavis, Sylvain Kassap, Franñois Mechali, Cecil Taylor, Didier Levallet,
Crams Percussion Staff and Zentralquartett, with Leo Smith and Peter Kowald, Sommer
had extensive tours throughout Europe and Japan. Surrounded by the most surprising
percussion accessories and by the most accomplished musicians, Gunter Sommer is
always full of invention, adding humour and fantasies to his compositions, transforming
every concert in a show. Composer, arranger and musicologist, Sylvain Kassap
is one of the most important saxophonists-clarinetists of the French jazz, alongside
Michel Portal and Louis Sclavis. But, unlike the latter two, Sylvain Kassap moved
on to explore untrodden territories of modern music, in search of very demanding
creative solutions. In our dynamic century the musician is, at the same time,
a brilliant researcher and a lyrical artist, combining emotional sensuality and
rich imagination, highest professionalism and a volcanic temperament. His personal
universe is a treasury, the wealth of which Kassap himself perhaps hardly suspects,
caught in the exploration of the infinite range of nuances offered by the clarinet.
„The beauty of the sound and the elasticity of phrasing that is the instrument's
hallmark, his talent and professionalism, his temperament, spirit of adventure,
audacity and artistic independence made Sylvain Kassap a new reference point in
music today.» Michel Contat – Telerame. He becomes professional musician in 1976
and works with Michel Portal (Atelier de creation radiophonique de France Musique,
Nuit du Jazz de Ris Orangis). Initiator of a big number of projects, around
10 years ago he was founding the Collectif ZHIVARO , a sort of French All-Stars,
getting together with a number of other "friends in jazz" — not least,
recognised leaders such as Henri Texier and Claude Barthelemy. He might have become
something of an institution in the microcosm of French jazz, one of those musicians
that always seem to be at the centre of things. Instead of striking a pose for
eternity, Kassap has tacked off to chart his own course, spreading out into myriad
directions, taking him further and further away from the stereotyped image. Animated
by an unquenchable spirit of freedom, he explores music that is rich in colour
and finesse, from free improvisation to contemporary, taking in ethnic influences
and composition, constantly fuelling passionate feeling, composing music for his
orchestras of most unthinkable formats (clarinets, trumpet, bass, drums). This
is his universe the MUSIC modern, eternal, paradoxical and unpredictable, recognising
no style and having no goal but one – self-expression pushed to the limits of
emotion and sincerity. All his compositions, full of a great sense of drama, narrate,
roar out and murmur stories of love and death. Didier Levallet is one of
the most important musicians in French jazz, starting his career in 1969. An experienced
and refined virtuoso, he knows how to transform his acoustic bass in a soloist
instrument, using its whole sonority. In his compositions, Levallet is weaving
an exquisite lace of endless configurations, combining dramatic accents with delicate
sensuality, creating conflicts or harmonious accords. Every musical moment of
his compositions is taking both musicians and audience farther and higher in a
free fly. Levallet plays in Trio Levallet-Marais-Pifarely, Didier Levallet Tentet,
Didier Levallet Quintet, Trio Beckett-Levallet-Marsh, Duo Gerard Marais-Didier
Levallet, Dominique Pifarely Trio; with Didier Lockwood in a number of projects;
with Swing Strings System and with a number of most inventive improvisers of the
French jazz. |
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TEVET SELA QUARTET | ISRAEL | |
Tevet Sela – saxophones Adam Gorlizki – piano,
keyboards Shay Khamani – bass Michael Avgil - drums
In
the quartet repertoire, including Tevet Sela’s compositions, elements of African
and Middle Eastern music are interwoven with soulful jazz-funk. " a
mix of jazz with ethno, a combination of classical harmonies with a kleizmer influence
and north-African rhythms, and it all blends into a sweet honey-like mixture with
a bass-guitar touch. This musical mix is punctuated by Tevet's poignant saxophone.
The improvising abilities of the four members of the quartet transform their repertoire
in a wonderful musical event. The overwhelming feeling at their concert is love
– love for music.” Lilach Gur Arie Tevet Sela, composer and saxophonist, one
of Israel's most prominent musicians, started studying the classical piano and
the saxophone at the age of 7. When he was 12 he began playing jazz and when 16
he started to compose his own music. Ggraduate of the prestigious Thelma Yelin
School of Arts, winner of several scholarships of the American cultural fund,
Tevet Sela plays as a soloist or partner in numerous orchestras, appears in TV
shows, writes music for films and theatre performances and has toured in France
and the Netherlands as a featured soloist. Tevet represented Israel in an international
UNICEF benefit concert, broadcasted in 35 countries throughout the world, alongside
such international artists as David Bowie, Youssou N'doure, Al Jarreau, Julio
Iglesias and more. In the year 2000 Tevet established his own band, touring at
international jazz festivals and venues, both in Israel and Europe. Tevet's style
of music came from being exposed to the rich blend of cultures found in Israeli
society, ranging from Jewish to North African and from Middle Eastern to Western
music.
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| VISTAR | INDIA,
SURINAM, GERMANY, NL | |
crossover of North Indian Classical
Music and Jazz Raj Mohan – vocal
Suresh Sardjoe – tabla Mark Alban Lotz – bansuri, flute Meinrad Kneer
- double bass 
Two
different worlds inspire Raj Mohan to compose his special music for Vistar quartet:
Indian and Arabic music from the East is mixed with the western jazz. Raj Mohan
is a Hindustani singer, musician, composer and poet, born in Surinam and living
in the Netherlands since 1974. Raj learned the ins and outs of classical Hindustani
music (Khayal style) from his guru Ustad Jamaluddin Bhartiya, an adept of the
illustrious Pundit Ravi Shankar; he studied classical North Indian vocal styles
like Ghazals, Geets and Nazms in which he is performing since 1985; studied different
forms of Urdu poetry and Bhajans (devotional songs) or Bollywood songs. Although
Raj has been educated in the tradition of classical Indian music, he also likes
to experiment with more contemporary genres, such as jazz, Hindi pop, hard rock,
Asian underground and New Age. However, in all these experiments his firm roots
in Indian music remain clearly discernible. Some of the world renowned artists
with whom he performed are the jazz star Denise Jannah, the well-known British
Asian Underground group Najma Akhtar and the Dutch heavy metal/punk-rock group
Van Katoen. Founder and leader of groups like Raj Mohan, Vistar and Shai’raina,
Raj worked as an associate music director in the heart of the Bombay film industry,
wrote music for theatre performances, lyrics and poems in Sarnaami/Bhojpuri, Hindi,
Sranan tongo and Dutch languages. Raj sings compositions of Rabindranath Tagore
in the original Bengali language. Raj also writes lyrics in Sarnaami and sets
them to beautiful and original compositions. During 2003-2004, every week one
of his poems in the Sarnaami/Bhojpuri language was broadcasted by the Dutch national
radio. Non-Indian poetry is translated to and sung by Raj Mohan in Hindi. These
songs are all based on poems of great poets like Alexandr Pushkin, Edgar Cairo,
Nazim Hikmet, Rutger Kopland. The accomplished musician
Suresh Sardjoe takes part in practically all Raj Mohan’ musical projects. Mark
Alban Lotz – composer, teacher, music critic and brilliant instrumentalist, playing
piccolo, alto flute, bass flute, Indian bamboo flutes, grew up in Thailand, Uganda
and Germany. He started playing the flute in Bonn and followed his studies at
the Berlin University of Ethnology and Musicology. He studied classical, contemporary
music and jazz at the Hilversum Conservatory, at the "Amsterdam School of
Arts", in New York and California. His career started in 1984; he is finalist
of the 1989 Karlovy Vary Jazz Competition and prize winner of the 1990/1992 Middelsee
Jazz Festival Competition. Jazz is the main trend in Mark Lotz creation. After
years of experiments he created his own style: African rhythms, dance music, ethno
and classic music, everything is reflected in the artist’s compositions, combined
with free improvisation. Mark is the leader of Mark Lotz Mainstream Jazz Quartet,
Flute Jazz Trio, of Shango's Dance - Cuban Roots, of quintet Lotz Of Music, Soapera
- musical theatre, Global Village Orchestra, quartet Three basses and a flute,
Afro Lounge – New Yoruba Beat, of the MWWm (Mark's Weird World Music) orchestra.
He is also playing with Seafood group, with the big-band Zuiderzee Orchestra,
in the ensemble of Cuban music Estrella’s Guajira, in Shai'raina, Beat Sharks,
Page One (jazzy dance act) and Vistar. He is critic for the magazine 'Muziek en
Onderwijs', since 1984 he is teaching flute, improvisation and theory, jazz and
jazz history at the Academy of Music Alphen a/d Rijn, at Academy of Music Amstelveen
and the Culturele Circel Amstelveen foundation. Composed music for string quartets,
for piano trio and big-bands, for films and theatre performances. The German
musician Meinrad Kneer is playing with classical orchestras, practices improvised
jazz with Albert van Veenendaal, Ann la Berge, Felicity Provan, Maartje ten Hoorn,
Augusto Forti si Fred Frith, performing at various international jazz festivals.
He takes part in experimental theatrical projects with Jack Gallagher, Suzan Tunca
and Reinier Schimmel in Amsterdam. Composer and leader of Dalgoo quartet, he toured
Europe and Russia with the author program New Anatomy, in which poems, prose and
diaries by the absurdist author Daniil Harms, in the musical form imagined by
Meinard, took the shape of a musical epic performance – a protest against arbitrary
violence. This performance is a mix of free improvisation, Harms’ black humor,
his vision of the absurd of everyday life and of the unpredictable destiny, of
voice, music, English, Dutch, German and Russian languages. This musical performance
tells us about the charm and talent of the Russian avant-gardism, about the tragic
destiny of Daniil Harms, destroyed by the Stalinist terror. |
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th FRAME | MOLDOVA | |
Dorel Burlacu - keyboards, piano Alexander
Murzac - bass Igor Carpenco - drums The
group was formed in April, 2004. The jazz musicians Dorel Burlacu and Alexandru
Murzac decided to compose and to play their own music ndd invited the drummer
Igor Carpenco to join them. The result was an interesting modern music with elements
of jazz, funk, avant-garde and ethno music. The successful debut of group took
place at the Ethno-jazz festival 2004. Their debut album will be released in 2005.
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| LIFE
MODEL | MOLDOVA | |
Alexander Zavalii - drums Dmitri Sergeev
- tenor and soprano saxophones Vadim Ostroukhov - flute Vladimir Kolesnikov
- guitar Valentin Shchirka - keyboards Julian Munteanu - bass The
leader of the group, Alexander Zavalii, teacher at the Academy of Arts, founded
the group in 2004, gathering together musicians with different professional experience
(students and teachers of the Academy). LIFE MODEL is currently playing only its
own music. Their style can be defined as modern jazz with electronic synthesized
sound and drum grooves. The music of the group is also strongly influenced by
the interest of Alexandr Zavalii for ethno music from Western Africa and the Orient
and the interest of the group for world music. Emotional and expressive compositions
of the group are proof of musicians’ professionalism and serious attitude towards
music. Compositions excel by variety – they are sometimes exciting and full of
vigorous Caribbean rhythms, sometimes you find yourself in the arid deserts of
the Orient, or, trying to break the limits of composition, the group charm the
audience with a piece of music of unusual measure – 7/4, or impress you by a lyrical
and expressive ballad. In 2005 the group intends to release its first album –
Dream Makers. Compositions from this album are included in the program of the
festival. |
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| UniVox | MOLDOVA | |
Viola
Julea - soprano Ina Terteilova - soprano Ilona Stepan - alto Georgeta
Burlacu - alto Nicu Pavlinciuc - tenor Valeriu Vantu - bariton Nicolai
Andus - bass Laureate
of the contest DODJ 2004 (Donetsk), UniVox jazz vocal group has been created in
1999 by a group of students and teachers of the „Gavriil Muzicescu” Conservatory.
The repertoire of the group includes compositions of most various styles and genres,
performed a cappella. But the preferred style of UniVox group is the jazz. Alongside
well-known compositions of jazz mainstream, the group is performing music of Moldovan
composers – Igor Iachimciuc, Marian Starcea, Dmitri Belinschi. These compositions
in the interpretation of young singers is the most attractive part of their programs
at the national and international festivals: Martisor, Jazz in week-end and Etno-jazz
festivals in Chisinau, Intact festival in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, FIMU in Belfort,
France, New Impro Music Festival in Regensburg, Germany. The vocalists of the
group took part in the workshops of such jazz celebrities as Anca Pargel, Mihail
Alperin, Ivan Paduard. |
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