JACQUES SCHWARZ-BART
Sone Ka La 2 Odyssey By the time tenor saxophonist Jacques Schwarz-Bart recorded Soné Ka-La in 2005 (“simply infectious” — JazzTimes), he had amassed credits with D’Angelo’s Voodoo touring band, Roy Hargrove’s Crisol and RH Factor, Erykah Badu, Meshell Ndegeocello and other greats. In the spirit of those searingly original artists, the French-Jewish-Guadeloupean Schwarz-Bart set out with Soné…
Stanley Jordan Quartet
feat CHRISTIAN GALVEZ & THE THUNDER DUO Stanley Jordan – guitars (USA)Christian Galvez – bass (Chile)Kornel Horvath – percussion (Hungary)Gabor Dornyei – drums (Hungary) The capacity to explore unusual music territories are the characteristics of their performance. A journey from Mozart and Miles into Mc Cartney and Mingus, a sound unique, sometimes transparent and ethereal, sometimes…
IVO PAPASOV & HIS WEDDING BAND
THE BALKAN GENIUS, MILES DAVIS ON THE BALKAN CLARINET IVO PAPASOV (IBRYAM) – a legendary virtuoso clarinettist As a creator of contemporary Balkan music, Ivo Papasov became an important part of global culture a long time ago. He started to play live music with his father at the age of 12 years. When he was…
TRIPLET
feat. BEATBOX WORLD CHAMPION TRIPLET Trio (Bulgaria) Ateshghan Yuseinov Guitar Alexander Deyanov – Skiller Beatboxing (twice beatbox world champion) Radoslav Slavchev – Riverman Bass TRIPLET is a band of virtuosic musicians who work creatively and openly with music from the Bulgaria and groove at a very high level. With very long experiences starting from the Bulgarian wedding to…
NOMADE ORQUESTRA
Everything around us, it wants us to dance, fill people with music.Ten restless minds with only one purpose, music! Nomade Orquestra it’s the point where different musical expressions and strands meet and interact in an unique way. With improvisations, timbres, sonorous collages and textures, the group develops a one and only work that transits with expertise between the universes of Funk, Jazz, Dub, Rock, AfroBeat, Hip-Hop, Ethiogrooves and Soul…
ANTONI DONCHEVs 3UP
ANTONI DONCHEVs 3UP (Bulgaria) Antoni Donchev Piano Rossen Zahariev Trumpet Pavel Terziiski Vocals Brass Jazz Music between Balkan Wedding, Sun Ra Arkestra and Chamber Jazz. His compositions are like imaginary landscapes – chamber music atmospheres. Antoni Donchev is looking for the space between the spaces – the microcosmos of sounds. This new project of Anton Donchev is more…
FLYWETOTHEMOON
NEW IMPROVISATION JAZZ & ELECTRONIC GROOVE PROJECT Roko Zahariev – trumpets, percussion George Donchev – double bass Todor Stoyanov – keyboards Alexander Daniel – drums FlyWe2DaMoon are a group of free improvisers, operating in a dimension beyond style or genre, creating “momentary” music that is truly honest and direct. The musicians strive to be free…
EISQ
A Very Special European Jazz / Saxophone Project EISQ (European Improvisation Saxophone Quartet) Gianni Gebbia soprano (Italy) Vytautas Labutis alt (Lithunia) Warnfried Altmann Bass tenor (Germany) Simon Rose bariton (Great Britain)feat. on request Anatoly Vapirov feat. on request (Bulgaria) A great European improvisation ensemble – special project of Magdeburg Jazz Festival 2022 with four great saxophone player…
City maps
City Maps (NL/B) takes you on a musical and visual trip through an imaginary city. The music, video projections and an actual route handout navigate you along its highlights. Steven Kamperman Clarinet Bart Maris Trumpet Jorrit Westerhof Guitar Dion Nijland Double bass Jazz & Mo Magazine (B): “From the busy Grand Boulevard where everyone races at…
HAIG YAZDJIAN
DIVINE ORIENTAL VOICE HAIG YAZDJIAN & Group (Armenia / Greece)One of the driving forces in the Greek world-jazz music scene for the past decade, Haig Yazdjian, delivers yet another surprising solo endeavor. Centered around his unique editorial writing style and his ethereal oud playing, Amalur chronicles five years of travelling around the world with his…
PANTELIS
PANTELIS STOIKOS (Greece) Pantelis Stoikos was born in Florina (North Greece) and began his contact with music in 1990. In 1992 he studied music theory and in 1994 he made his first trumpet lessons, alongside the piano .In 1996 he settled in Thessaloniki to continue his studies at the New Conservatory of Thessaloniki (member of…
SAMUEL YIRGA
NEW ETHIOJAZZ PROJECT SAMUEL YIRGA – incredible young pianoplayer from Ethiopia Samuel Yirga’s musical life so far has been full of obstacles: social restrictions, family regulations, hurdles thrown up by the reality of life. Yet in the face of all of this, the young and gifted pianist who grew up in the capital of Ethiopia…
VOLKOV TRIO
JAZZ, IMPROVISATION AND RUSSIAN FOLKLORE ROOTS VLADIMIR VOLKOV – Double Bass, Viola Da Gamba Vladimir Volkov, one of the leading free-jazz-musicians of Europe, is a music phenomenon passing different genres and styles. The musicians combine avantgarde, improvised music with traditional folklore roots in a very creative way. They played on many international stages and won…
ENVER IZMAILOV
GUITAR MAGIC & HIGH VIRTUOSO MUSIC
ZOLTAN LANTOS
VIRTUOUS VIOLIN PLAYER ZOLTÁN LANTOS – Violin, 5 & 16 Sympathetic String ViolinZoltán Lantos received his degree in classical violin from the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. Being drawn towards experimental and eastern music from early on, he traveled to India. Lantos was 9 years in India on a scholarship to study classical…
David VENITUCCI
David Venitucci – accordion Denis Leloup – trombone Christophe Marguet – drumsIn the 90s David Venitucci studied at the Conservatoire de Grenoble (his place of birth). Looking for new music challenges he then moved to Paris after his studies and performed there with the Alfredo Arias Theatre, circus Annie Fratellini, played with French chansoniers and…
BALOGH & RALCHEV
WONDERFUL CHAMBER ACOUSTIC PROJECT KALMAN BALOGH & PETER RALCHEV BALKAN PROJECT (Hungary / Bulgaria) Kálmán Balogh – cimbalom (Hungary) Peter Ralchev – accordion (Bulgaria) Ateshghan Yuseinov – guitar (Bulgaria) Csaba Novák – double bass (Hungary) PETER RALCHEV laid the beginning of new style in Bulgarian folklore instrumental music and exerted great influence on its development.…
ROMANENO
NEW SPECIAL GYPSY & JAZZ FUSION PROJECT Gypsy Passion & Jazz Improvisations with RomaNeno Project Neno Iliev – vocal Misho Yosifov – trumpet Boris Iliev – sax Willy Stoyanov – trombone Boris Taslev – double bass Vasil Spassov – piano Venzi Radev – drums A New Gypsy project from Bulgaria feat. the blind singer Neno…
Yorkston Thorne Khan
Yorkston Thorne Khan James Yorkston – vocal, guitar Jon Thorne – double bass Suhail Yusuf Khan – sarangi, vocal A very special collaboration includes James Yorkston one of the most “influential singersongwriters on the Scottish folk scene”, Jon Thorne, best known as jazz double bass player with electro outfit Lamb and Suhail Yusuf Khan, award…
Mieko Miyazaki
MIEKO MIYAZAKI (Japan) Born in Tokyo, Mieko Miyazaki started studying the Japanese Koto with Tomizo Huruya and Sachiko Tamura. After being accepted to the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, her training finished with an invitation to perform as a soloist in the presence of the imperial couple in Japan. She graduated in…
EVA QUARTET
BULGARIAN VOICES EVA QUARTET (Bulgaria) Gergana Dimitrova – sopranoSofia Yaneva – mezzo-sopranoEvelina Christova – altoDaniela Stoitchkova – contralto 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“.…
UNNI LØVLID
SENSITIVE & PURE VOCAL ART FROM THE NORTH Unni Løvlid is from Hornindal in the county of Sogn og Fjordane in west Norway. She has been an active folk musician for some time, and has learned her music from many different sources in Hornindal, including Marta Seljeset Frøland. According to the classification system of the…
IRMELIN
IRMELIN (Sweden) Eva Kune, Karin Ericson Back and Maria MisgeldThe vocal group Irmelin has been singing together since 1999. In 2006 they released their debut album “Kärligheten” – love songs and in 2008 they released their second album “Gyldene Freden” – the golden piece. In 2013 they released their third album “North Sea Stories” with selected songs from…
ATESH TAYFA
NEW ALBUM Ateshkhan Yuseinov “Strange Suite“ Riverboat Records/ World Music Network 2019 (TUGCD1122) “On his new CD ‘Strange Suite’ he is merging jazz with influences from the Balkan and the Orient, interwoven with complex, unlinear rhythms. It is igniting like fireworks….“Bert Noglik / MDR (Germany) “Too often hotshot guitarist satisfy themselves with showing off, but…
BALKAN KHANS
MODERN GYPSY GROOVES Nikolai Ivanov OM – keyboards, guitar, voice Skiller – the beatbox Ventzi Takev – violin Ateshghan Yuseinov – guitar Kolio Ivanov – gaida / bagpipe and tupan drum balkan traditions grooved up by beatbox master, indian vibes, tuba bass and of course gypsy virtuosityThe BALKAN KHANS had their first gigs as one…
BULGARA
A VERY POWERFUL BALKAN BAND
BELONOGA
A WONDERFUL VOICE Gergana Dimitrova aka BELONOGA – vocals, electronic instruments Aleks Nushev – electronic instruments, guitar, bass guitar Kostadin Genchev – kaval, duduk, ocarina, dvoyanka Violeta Petkova – gadulka Vangelis Karipis – percussion Gergana Dimitrova, a.k.a. BELONOGA, is best known as one of the magnificent singers from ‘Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares’ and ‘Eva…
MESZECSINKA
MESZECSINKA (Hungary) Annamaria Oláh – voice, guitar, cajon, ukulele, kalimba Emil Biljarski – keyboards, guitar, voice Árpád Vajdovich – bass, double bass, voice Dávid Krolokowski – percussion, drums, ukulele, voice Meszecsinka is a child of a love affair, started under the full moon. It means in Bulgarian „small moon” and comes from Annamari’s favorite Bulgarian…
MARIOLA MEMBRIVES
Mariola Membrives is the voice and face of a new generation of artists that is giving a renewed and necessary impulse of search and personality in the Spanish music scene. After her debut album, “Llorona” (2014), a duet with the Japanese jazz double bass player Masa Kamaguchi, she toured the main festivals of the country…
MUNADJAT
YULCHIEVA
WORLD HERITAGE VOCAL QUEEN
AYARKHAAN
INCREDIBLE VOCAL & JEW’S HARP WOMAN TRIO FROM YAKUTIA / SIBERIA
4 IN NORI
4 IN NORI (Korea) Lee,Youngseop – Daegeum, TaepyungsoYoon,Seogyung – Ajaeng, JangguShin,Hyunseok – Haegeum, JingLee, Jaeha – Geomungo, Percussion 4 Players involved in the group, playing Ajeng, Daegeum, Haegeum, Geomungo. Based on the capabilities of wonderful performances as a group playing notwithstanding the instrumental and genre frame ranging from percussion to sound, based on folk music…
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