2012

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JANUARY / FEBRUARY


*** 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.

18.01 Bonn tba / D
22.01 Amsterdam Tropentheater / NL
23.01 Koblenz Cafe Hahn / D
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Norway Tour together with Unni Lovlid
24.02 Operahuset pa Nprdfjordeid / NOR
25.02 Riksscena Oslo / NOR
28.02 Dokkhuset Trondheim / NOR


FEBRUARY


MUSIC FROM MONASTERY
one night festival feat.

EVA QUARTET & DVUGLAS (Bulgaria)
TASHI LHUNPO MONASTERY GROUP (Tibet)

03.02 Berlin Philharmonie / D

TASHI LHUNPO MONASTERY GROUP (Tibet)
Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XPrA_6EyZo
04.02 Leipzig Halle II / D
05.02 Kassel Schlachthof / D

*** NEW ALBUM ON ACT RECORDS *** 
JOSEFINE CRONHOLM (Sweden / Denmark)
Link: www.myspace.com/josefinecronholminperson

Cronholm’s music is like poetry. A breathtaking, intuitive and absolutely original voice has found its own expression.

09.02 Halle Woman in Jazz Festival / D

CHRISTIAN WALLUMROD Ensemble (Norway)
Link: www.christianwallumrod.com

Christian Wallumrød – piano, harmonium, toy piano
Eivind Lønning – trumpet
Espen Reinertsen – tenor sax
Gjermund Larsen – violin, hardanger fiddle, viola
Tove Törngren – cello
Per Oddvar Johansen – drums, percussion, glockenspiel

” … The Ensemble is expanded to a sextet, yet sounds like one organic corpus. Fiddle, harp, cello and trumpet melt together in beautiful melodies… Jazz, baroque, minimalism, contemporary music are words that only begin to convey a small spectrum of Wallumrod’s musical universe. He has an authentic sense of sound and structure, and again we are spellbound by the unique syntheses and the balanced contrasts …  “
Verdens Gaang

15.02 Leipzig Alte Handelsbörse / D


MARCH


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

Zoltan Lantos – violin (Hungary)
Anatoly Vapirov – soprano saxophone (Bulgaria)
Yotis Kiourtsoglou – bass (Greece)
Kornel Horvath – percussion / udo, gato etc. (Hungary)

” … 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

22.03 Neubrandeburg Jazzfestival / D


APRIL


VARDAN GRIGORYAN Duduk Quartet (Armenia)
Link: www.myspace.com/vardangrigoryan
Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQZiseWq648

Vardan’s unique talent for the live performance of Armenian folk music and his own compositions was revealed already in the music school. It proves his various collaborations with several world-known musicians, such as Paul Winter, Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul, etc. Vardan works and collaborates with Arto Tuncboyacjyan & Armenian Navy Band, he has participated in different international festivals (such as “Music Meeting”, “Jazz at Vienne”, “Strictly Mundial”, etc.) representing both, Armenian Culture and his own unique musical compositions.
Vardan’s collaborations with each project brings unique features and flavour.
Vardan has taken part in the creation of many different recordings, playing in various styles (jazz, folk, pop, etc.).

10.04 Leipzig naTo / D

*** VERY SPECIAL PROJECT / 60 YEARS ANNIVERSARY ***
IVO PAPASOV & HIS WEDDING BAND (Bulgaria)
Link: www.elen-music.com/art014en.php

feat many special guests from diferent countries
like OKAY TEMIZFERUS MUSTAFOVPANDELIS STOIKOSKALMAN BALOGHROBERTO DE BRASSOV etc.

” … 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

14.04 Brussel Balkan Trafik Festival / B

KARANDILA JR (Bulgaria)
children gypsy brass orchestra
Link: www.myspace.com/karandilajr

16.04 Heidelberg Karlstorbahnhof / D

YAZDJIAN-KIOURTSOGLOU-KARIPIS SUPERTRIO (Armenia / Greece)
Link: www.myspace.com/haigyazdjian

Haig Yazdjian – ud, voice
Yiotis Kiourtsoglou – el.bass
Vangelis Karipis – percussion

Haig Yazdjian was born by Armenian parents in Syria, and has been living in Greece for the last 20 years. Yazdjian was hailed for the unique ways he was blending diverse elements of the eastern Mediterranean music traditions vested in the practice of considering tradition as a live creative force.

22.04 Freiberg Jazz Festival / D
25.04 Ilmenau Jazz Festival / D
26.04 Wien Sargfabrik / A
27.04 Innsbruck Festival / A


JUNE / JULY


MUNADJAT YULCHIEVA (Uzbekistan)
Link: www.elen-music.com/art055en.php

Munojatkhon Yulchieva – vocal
Shavkat Mukhamedov – rubab
Dilfuza Khaydarova – dutar
Khodjimurad Safarov – doira

“Leading performer of classical Uzbek music and its Persian-language cousin Shashmaqâm. One of the Great Artist and Voices from Mid Asia!”
As a performer she is incredible, like a Queen – She is a part of the World Heritage!

12.06 Rovigo tba / IT
14.06 Ravena Festival / IT

15.06 Torino Museum of Oriental Art / IT

KARANDILA JR (Bulgaria)
children gypsy brass orchestra
Link: www.myspace.com/karandilajr
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0q5TGrZ-no

16.06 Prague Rachot Festival / CZ

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22.07 Namest Nad Oslavou Festival / CZ


JULY / AUGUST


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

02.07 Trento Festival / IT

*** NEW ALBUM ON ACT RECORDS *** 
JOSEFINE CRONHOLM (Sweden / Denmark)
Link: www.myspace.com/josefinecronholminperson

Cronholm’s music is like poetry. A breathtaking, intuitive and absolutely original voice has found its own expression.

07.07 Kongsberg Jazz Festival / NOR

ROMANENO (Bulgaria)
Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogypkk_SdA8&hd=1

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 Iliev and the Jazz Formation of Micho Yosifov, a very special new fusion!

07.07 Worms Jazz & Joy Festival / D

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24.-29.07 Antwerpen Zomer van Antwerpen Festival / B

EVA QUARTET & DVUGLAS (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.

13.07 Fribourg Festival for Sacred Music / CH

LE MYSTERE DES VOIX BULGARES (Bulgaria)
*** World Famous Bulgarian Woman Choir ***

17.07 Lörrach Stimmen Festival / D

18.07 Feldkirchen Amthof / A

*** 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

29.07 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 Sunborn TV show
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCweFfcV7Xo

“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*

13.08 San Marino Etnofestival / SM
15.08 Kilkenny Arts Festival / IRL

17.08 Oslo Festival / NOR
18.08 Zürich Festival (Option) / CH
 
 
JULY / DECEMBER


**** 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.

26.07-01.08 Taipei International Choral Festival / TW
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20.08 Zürich Theaterspektakel Festival / CH
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17.10 Olsztyn Theatre Festival / PL
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16.11 Transvocale Festival / D


DECEMBER


MUNADJAT YULCHIEVA (Uzbekistan)
Link: www.elen-music.com/art055en.php

Munojatkhon Yulchieva – vocal
Shavkat Mukhamedov – rubab
Dilfuza Khaydarova – dutar
Khodjimurad Safarov – doira

“Leading performer of classical Uzbek music and its Persian-language cousin Shashmaqâm. One of the Great Artist and Voices from Mid Asia!”
As a performer she is incredible, like a Queen – She is a part of the World Heritage!

09.12 Lörrach Burghof / D

******** MILES DAVIS ON THE BALKAN CLARINET ********
**** 60 YEARS ANNIVERSARY / 45 YEARS ON STAGE ****
IVO PAPASOV SPECIAL ACOUSTIC 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*

12.12 Vienna Konzerthaus / A