FEBRUARY
STEPANIDA BORISOVA ENSEMBLE (Yakutia)
Link: www.elen-music.com/art032en.php
Shaman vocals from Asia with drums and electronic.
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.
03.02 Antwerpen Zuiderpershuis / B
04.02 Amsterdam Tropentheater / NL
05.02 Utrecht Rasa / NL
FEBRUARY / MARCH
EVA QUARTET (Bulgaria)
Link: www.myspace.com/evaquartet
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=77njz6krKj8
Eva Quartet consists of some of the best Bulgarian female voices – the four solo singers 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 one. The singing of EVA is pure solo work and every tone can be felt very sensitively.
06.02 Lerida Caixa Forum / ES
08.02 Palma Mallorca Caixa Forum / ES
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27.02 Barcelona Caixa Forum / ES
01.03 Madrid Caixa Forum / ES
MARCH
*** NEW ALBUM ON ACT RECORDS ***
JOSEFINE CRONHOLM (Sweden / Denmark)
Link: www.myspace.com/josefinecronholminperson
Josefine Cronholm – vocal
Gustaf Ljunggren – guitar
Jonas Berg – piano, keys
Gunnar Halle – trumpet
Thommy Andersson – Bass
Bent Clausen – drums, vibraphone
Cronholm’s music is like poetry. A breathtaking, intuitive and absolutely original voice has found its own expression.
18.03 St.Ingbert Jazz Festival / D
19.03 Heidelberg Karlstorbahnhof / D
ISABELLE OLIVIER (France)
Isabelle Olivier – harp
David Venitucci – accordion
Louis Moutin – 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
23.03 Vienna Sargfabrik Akkordeon Festival / A
APRIL
*** WONDERFUL CHAMBER PROJECT ***
KALMAN BALOGH & PETER RALCHEV BALKAN PROJECT (Hungary / Bulgaria)
Link: www.elen-music.com/art045en.php
Kálmán Balogh – cimbalom (Hungary)
Peter Ralchev – accordion (Bulgaria)
Ateshhan Juseinov – guitar, tambura (Bulgaria)
Csaba Novák – double bass (Hungary)
* New Project of two great Balkan Musicians *
Peter Ralchev – the great Bulgarian accordion virtuoso with
Kalman Balogh – the great Hungarian cimbalom player!
15.04 Brussels Balkan Trafik Festival / B
MAY / JUNE
EVA QUARTET (Bulgaria)
Link: www.myspace.com/evaquartet
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=77njz6krKj8
Eva Quartet consists of some of the best Bulgarian female voices – the four solo singers 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 one. The singing of EVA is pure solo work and every tone can be felt very sensitively.
13.05 A-cappella Woche Hannover / D
15.05 A-cappella Woche Hannover / D
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24.05 Murcia Festival / ES
26.05 Bergen Festspillene / NOR
27.05 Kristiansand Spilles i Agder Teater / NOR
28.05 Oslo Vigeland Mausoleum / NOR
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04.06 Augsburg Maximilianmuseum / D
JULY
*** GRAVEL-VOICED TROUBADOUR ***
RENE LACAILLE & BAND (Reunion)
Link: www.elen-music.com/art095en.php
Link: www.myspace.com/renelacaille
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
02. & 03.07 Rudolstadt Festival / D
*** WOMAN FROM SIBERIA ***
AYARKHAAN (Yakutiya)
Link: www.elen-music.com/art096en.php
Link: www.myspace.com/ayarkhaan
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.
29.07 Sines Festival / P
30.07 Sfinks Festival / B
31.07 Womad Festival / UK
JULY / AUGUST
EVA QUARTET (Bulgaria)
Link: www.myspace.com/evaquartet
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=77njz6krKj8
Eva Quartet consists of some of the best Bulgarian female voices – the four solo singers 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 one. The singing of EVA is pure solo work and every tone can be felt very sensitively.
01.07 Haarlem Internationale Koorbiënnale / NL
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26.08 Singapure National Musuem Festival / SG
27.08 Singapure National Musuem Festival / SG
*** MILES DAVIS OF THE BALKAN CLARINET ***
IVO PAPASOV & HIS WEDDING BAND (Bulgaria)
Link: www.elen-music.com/art014en.php
” … With a huge gut and unwieldy frame, Ivo Papasov seems an unlikely source for some of the most nimble and virtuosic music you’ll be left in little doubt that he’s one of most interesting clarinettists around. He and his band race through numbers based on the complex rhythms of Bulgarian folk dances, grafting on jazzy improvisations … “
SIMON BRAUGHTON editor of THE ROUGH GUIDE TO WORLD MUSIC
02.07 Roskilde Festival / DK
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10.08 Mantova / IT
12.08 Roccella Jazz Festival / IT
13.08 Cisternino Jazz Festival / IT
SEPTEMBER
*** CREATIVE BALKAN MUSIC ***
DIVA REKA (Bulgaria)
Link: www.myspace.com/divareka
Kostadin Genchev – kaval
Dimitar Hristov – tamboura
Stella Bakalova – double bass
Stoyan Pavlov – percussion
feat. female vocal
“Diva Reka” is a project for acoustic-ethno music on the basis of the Bulgarian folklore. The musicians bring this project together in order to show a different view on the Bulgarian folklore music and a different aesthetics of musicianship. The tasteful compositions are conceived with precision, while the improvised sections spurt with virtuosity, energy and charm.
10.09 Lich Festival / D
*** MILES DAVIS OF THE BALKAN CLARINET ***
IVO PAPASOV & HIS WEDDING BAND (Bulgaria)
Link: www.elen-music.com/art014en.php
” … With a huge gut and unwieldy frame, Ivo Papasov seems an unlikely source for some of the most nimble and virtuosic music you’ll be left in little doubt that he’s one of most interesting clarinetists around. He and his band race through numbers based on the complex rhythms of Bulgarian folk dances, grafting on jazzy improvisations … ”
SIMON BRAUGHTON editor of THE ROUGH GUIDE TO WORLD MUSIC
21.09 Feldkirchen Kultur Forum / A
22.09 Bonn Beethoven Festival / D
23.09 Esch-Sur-Alzette Kulturfabrik / LUX
24.09 Gent Decentrale / B
27.09 Kiev Opera House feat Symphonic Orchestra / UKR
OCTOBER
BULGARA (Bulgaria)
Link: www.myspace.com/bulgaragroup
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.
03.10 Bonn Oper Platz Festival / D
EVA QUARTET (Bulgaria)
Link: www.myspace.com/evaquartet
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=77njz6krKj8
Eva Quartet consists of some of the best Bulgarian female voices – the four solo singers 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 one. The singing of EVA is pure solo work and every tone can be felt very sensitively.
16.10 Salzburg Jazz & The City Festival / A
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20.11 Warsaw Ethnographic Museum / POL
NOVEMBER
ENVER IZMAILOV SOLO (Crimea Tatar / Uzbekistan)
Link: www.elen-music.com/art008en.php
“By two handed hammering on he is making the guitar a new instrument which is in no way inferior to the polyhone possibilities of the cembalo. Izmailov’s tours through baroque quotations, Slavian folklore and sound excesses are technically and artistically pure magic.”
Uli Olshausen / Frankfurter Allgemeine
09.11 Leipzig Telegraph / D
11.11 Stuttgart Laboratorium / D
13.11 Münster tba / D
*** MILES DAVIS OF THE BALKAN CLARINET ***
IVO PAPASOV & HIS WEDDING BAND (Bulgaria)
Link: www.elen-music.com/art014en.php
” … With a huge gut and unwieldy frame, Ivo Papasov seems an unlikely source for some of the most nimble and virtuosic music you’ll be left in little doubt that he’s one of most interesting clarinetists around. He and his band race through numbers based on the complex rhythms of Bulgarian folk dances, grafting on jazzy improvisations … ”
SIMON BRAUGHTON editor of THE ROUGH GUIDE TO WORLD MUSIC
25.11 Antwerpen Arenberg / B
26.11 Brasschaat CC Brasschaat / B
NOVEMBER / DECEMBER
SOFIA VOCAL FEST
SOFIA / BULGARIA
27.11 NDK Lumiere Hall
KIRAN AHLUWALIA (India)
Link: www.myspace.com/musickiran
30.11 National Gallery for Foreign Art
EVA QUARTET (Bulgaria)
Link: www.myspace.com/evaquartet
01.12 Union Bulgarian Composers Hall
DVUGLAS (Bulgaria)
Link: www.myspace.com/dvuglas
02.12 Studio 5
HAIG YAZDJIAN SPECIAL PROJECT (Armenia/Greece)
Link: www.myspace.com/haigyazdjian
03.12 Studio 5
UNNI LØVLIDs Project RITE (Norway)
Link: www.myspace.com/unnilovlid
DECEMBER
SEVDA AZERI PROJECT (Azerbaijan)
Link: www.sonicbids.com/SEVDA
Sevda Alekperzadeh – vocal
Malik Mansurov – tar, ud
Salim Mammadov – bass guitar
Elchin Shirinov – piano
Natik Shirinov – perc / nagara, davul
Vagif Aliyev – drums, percussion
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.
14.12 Istanbul World Music Festival / TUR