2013

MARCH


**NEW ALBUM on ELEN MUSIC / 2012 **
EVA QUARTET & HECTOR ZAZOU “THE ARCH”
produced by Dimiter Panev and Hector Zazou

feat. special guests
Laurie Anderson; Bollywood String Orchestra; Cecilia Chailly; Diva Reka Group; Antoni Donchev; Robert Fripp; Bill Frisell; Djiavan Gasparian; Mehdi Haddab; Kaushiki; Zoltan Lantos; Nils Petter Molvær; Carlos Nunez; Bill Rieflin (REM); Ryuichi Sakamoto etc. 

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.

08.03 Bergen Festival / NO

Eva Quartet perform the music of Sandra Kolstad

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15.03 Leverkusen Bielertkirche Opladen / D

16.03 Dresden Dreikönigskirche / D


AYARKHAAN (Yakutiya)
Link: www.elen-music.com/art096en.php
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWEzVIgEBq4

Incredible vocal & jew’s harp woman trio from Yakutia / Siberia.

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.

08.03 Adelaide WOMADelaide / AUS

10.03 Adelaide WOMADelaide / AUS

16.03 New Plymouth WOMAD / NZ

17.03 New Plymouth WOMAD / NZ


TASHI LHUNPO MONASTERY GROUP (Tibet)
Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XPrA_6EyZo

Original rituals from Tibet Monastery.

20.03 Heidelberg Karlstorbahnhof / D
23.03 Wroclaw Synagoga pod Bialym Bocianem / POL
24.03 Dresden Dreikönigskirche / D


MAY


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.

29.04 – 05.05 Shanghai World Music Festival / CHN


* MILES DAVIS ON THE BALKAN CLARINET *
* 60 YEARS ANNIVERSARY / 45 YEARS ON STAGE *
IVO PAPASOV & HIS WEDDING BAND (Bulgaria)
Link: www.elen-music.com/art014en.php
David Sanborn TV show Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLQcknhApjM&feature=related

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

11.05 Copenhagen Global / DK
13.05 Heidelberg Gypsy Festival / D


ROMANENO (Bulgaria)
Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=daU9hO6Tejk

A New Gypsy project from Bulgaria feat. the blind singer Neno Iliev
and the Jazz Formation of Micho Yosifov, a very special new fusion!

17.05 Heidelberg Gypsy Festival / D


JUNE


KARANDILA JUNIOR (Bulgaria)

Link: www.myspace.com/karandilajr
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0q5TGrZ-no

Incredible children gypsy brass orchestra

12.06 Rozansystok Bezgranic Festival / PL


LE MYSTERE DES VOIX BULGARES (Bulgaria)

* World Famous Bulgarian Woman Choir *

29.06 Martigny 5 Continent Festival Festival / CH


JULY


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.

12.07 Köln Romanischer Sommer Festival / D

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27.07 Nürnberg Bardentreffen Festival / D


* MILES DAVIS ON THE BALKAN CLARINET *
* 60 YEARS ANNIVERSARY / 45 YEARS ON STAGE *
IVO PAPASOV & HIS WEDDING BAND (Bulgaria)
Link: www.elen-music.com/art014en.php
David Sanborn TV show Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLQcknhApjM&feature=related

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

25.07 Monte Sant’angelo FestAmbiente Sud / IT


AUGUST


BALKAN KHANS (Bulgaria)

Link: balkankhans.wordpress.com/balkan-khans/

10.08 Sziget Festival / HUN


BLACK SEA PROJECT
Link: www.elen-music.com/art006en.php

Anatoly Vapirov – soprano saxophone (Bulgaria)
Enver Izmailov – guitars (Crimea/Ucraine)
Stoyan Yankoulov – percussion (Bulgaria)

” … 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

30.08 Groningen Zomer Jazz Festival / NL


ENVER IZMAILOV SOLO (Crimea/Ucraine)

“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 

30.08 Groningen Zomer Jazz Festival / NL


OCTOBER


AYARKHAAN (Yakutiya)
Link: www.elen-music.com/art096en.php
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWEzVIgEBq4

Incredible vocal & jew’s harp woman trio from Yakutia / Siberia.

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.

06.10 Tokyo Sound Live Festival / JP


NOVEMBER


TASHI LHUNPO MONASTERY GROUP (Tibet)
Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XPrA_6EyZo

Original rituals from Tibet Monastery.

01.11 Upsala Festival for Sacred Music / NO


MOR KARBASI (Israel, Iran, Morroco)
Link: www.morkarbasi.com

New sephardic jewish music. An incredible voice – a very special mix of cultures and music – Jewish, old Persian, North African, Spanish.

14.11 Vienna Sargfabrik / A