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Kris Anton
Staten Island, NY, USA
DJ
Kris Anton has deejayed in almost every context,
in a large variety of places over the past 15 years; as resident
sound guy/DJ at Rubulad, the Zipper Factory,Bowery Poetry Club, Cbgb's
Gallery/Lounge, Glasslands Gallery, and now Galapagos Art Space. His
collection ranges from dustbin relics to the cutting edge, french
disco to bollywood classics; although his specialty is in burlesque/cabaret,
circus, and the obscure.
Kris
Anton on MySpace
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Kinan Azmeh
Damascus, Syria
Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone
Kinan
Azmeh is the only Syrian and first Arab to win the first prize at the
Nicolay Rubinstein international youth competition in Moscow, Russia,
1997. He holds two BA degrees, one in Clarinet performance from Damascus
high institute of music and drama where he studied with Anatoly Moratof,
and BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Damascus.
He completed his Masters degree and graduate diploma in music from
the Juilliard School in New York, studying with Charles Neidich.
Born in Damascus, Syria in 1976, Kinan studied at the Arab conservatory
of music in Damascus with Shukry Shawkey and Nicolay Viovanof. He has
appeared as a soloist in performances around the world.
In addition to his interest in Classical Music as a soloist, Chamber Musician
and Orchestra member, he enjoys improvising on his Clarinet and tenor Saxophone.
He has appeared as soloist with Sylvain Kassab, Marcel Khalife, Elliott Sharp,
Kani Karaca and Hot house Jazz band, as well as being member of the New York-based
NEOLEXICA group and the Syrian pop group Kulna Sawa". Kinan co-started
the ensemble “Hewar" with Issam Rafea in the year 2003 and led the
group in two American tours 2004, 2005, including performances at the reputed
Kennedy center.
www.kinanazmeh.com
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Baby Soda Jazz Band
New York, USA
Jazz Band
Baby Soda! Developed by hoboes, perfected through
science... The Baby Soda Jazz Band is on the cutting edge of a new
movement loosely known as street jazz; with an eclectic set of influences
ranging from New Orleans brass bands, jug music, southern gospel and
hot jazz.
Oran Etkin / Clarinet
Sam Hoyt / Trumpet
Jared Engel / Banjo
Peter Ford / One String Box Bass
Matt Musselman / Trombone
www.babysoda.org
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Joel Beaver
New Jersey, USA
Guitar
Joel plays guitar along side Gypsy
guitarist Stephane Wrembel.
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F.S. Blumm
Berlin, Germany
Guitar, Music Boxes, Toy Piano, Ping-Pong Balls, Electronics
Berliner
Frank Schültge aka F.S.Blumm presents a multitude of lovely popsongs
and atmospheric soundscapes. He transforms colorful pictures into music,
telling little stories in many layers. Ingredients of his soundkitchen
are mainly acoustic instruments like piano, kalimba, vibes, guitars
and an accordion. Blumm works with melodious sound, deep buried memories
and inner-mind visions, and at the same time his music is determined
by timeless elegance and an amazing facility, homogenous and well balanced.
F.S. Blumm was born in the city of Bremen, Northern Germany. As a child, one
of his older brother’s AC/DC records impressed him so much, he begged his
parents for his own guitar immediately. But he only got a recorder.
Until the end of the 90s, Blumms musical interest for anything Rock slowly faded
away. Instead, he became more and more active on a lot of different musical fields
that cannot be summed up easily. There are a few aspects that apply to all of
Blumm’s
work, though. The major aspect holding together his body of work is in his own
words clarity, meaning F.S. Blumm always tries to find the essence of a particular
musical idea. Additionally, F.S. Blumm is quite an "acoustic" person.
He’d rather beat on anything that swings and resonates, than to spend hours
in front of computers and sequencers, which he considers as a waste of time.
Not only because, he does not know how to use them properly, but also because
this way of working is too exhausting for him. Although most of his music is
completely handmade, F.S. Blumm often is paradoxically received as an electronica
act, which in the first place is due to the fact that he releases on labels like
Morr Music, Tomlab, Audiodregs and many more. These connections make sense, anyway,
because after all, those labels think of themselves as platforms for new music.
fsblumm.free.fr
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Elena Camerin
Venice, Italy
Vocalist
Born in Venice, Elena Camerin began her musical studies on piano and
later began studying voice at the "Thelonious Monk" jazz
school with Carla Marcotulli. Shortly thereafter, she began studying
opera under soprano Francesca Scaini. In 1992, she attended the clinic
of Bob Stoloff in Umbria Jazz '92 and continued with jazz singing,
participating in master classes and workshops with Jay Clayton, Ines
Reiger, Rachel Gould, Mark Murphy, and Sheila Jordan. In 1994, she
joined the gospel choir "Venice Gospel Ensemble" as soloist,
and with them, recorded CDs "Let's Take Time Out", "Christmas
Time Out", and "Ol'westbound Coach", and participated
in the musical "Fra Cielo e Terra". With this choir she sang
in important theaters and on national television shows. Some years
later, she joined the Afro-Cuban Quartet "Mi Ritmo", with
whom she recorded the CD "Guajira". She works as a jazz singer
with several groups in Italy and with her own group in clubs and theaters;
she also works as a vocalist for other artists on the national scene.
She worked as a "living installation" at the Biennale 2003,
in Venice, for the young artist Tino Sehgal; and often works in performances
with Walter Sabato, actor and director in shows. In 2005, she recorded
the CD "Grazie Dei Fiori?" under the label "Caligola
Records", dedicated to the Italian song of the 50s. In July 2004,
she won Best Student award at the Michelle Hendricks Vocal Workshop
at Spoleto, with the Spoleto Arts Symposia. She lives in New York since
2008, where she works as a singer and a teacher.
bNb
Elena Camerin -voice and electronics
Khabu Doug Young - guitar
Bob Bowen - bass
Elena Camerin
on MySpace
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Jason Candler
New York, USA
Saxophones, Guitar, E se ... co-founder
www.guarsh.com
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Marco Cappelli
Palermo, Italy
Guitar
Marco
Cappelli was born in Napoli, 1965, and has played guitar since age
10. As a teenager, after some years of playing blues, rock as well
as in Neapolitan folk music bands, he studied classical guitar and
graduated with honors from the S. Cecilia Conservatory in Rome.
His collaborations span from contemporary music to jazz and improvised music:
with the "Carmen Project" by Enrico Rava he played in the most important
jazz Festivals in Europe (Saalfelden, Willisau, ...) as well as in Canada (Montreal,
Toronto, Vancouver, ...). He also works with such musicians as Han Bennik, Michel
Godard, Franco Piersanti, Giovanni Sollima, Markus Stockhausen ...
Nowadays, Marco Cappelli follows along an original artistic trip, in which free
and easy he changes from complex written music to improvisation: his solo concerts
connect the guitar repertory of the last century with more extreme avant-garde
music of recent times.
He currently teaches at the V. Bellini Conservatory in Palermo, where with his
students he formed the "Ensemble del Conservatorio V. Bellini di Palermo" in
1998, and recorded for the label "Teatro del Sole" and the magazine "Guitart" a
CD with music of the Cuban composer Leo Brouwer. For the same label he recorded "YUN
MU", a guitar solo CD which was acclaimed as one of the 10 best CDs of the
year 2002 by ALIAS magazine.
www.marcocappelli.com
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Chourmo
Cagliari, Sardinia
Arts Collective
The
Chourmo collective - a group of cultural activists of the Cagliari
area of Sardinia - during the last few years, and mostly in the Marina
quarter (in collaboration with social, creative, handicraft trades)
has organized, promoted and supported artistic and cultural productions
and manifestations of varied kind, often supported by organizations
of solidarity and voluntary service. Since October 2003, Chourmo has
produced and organized several editions of “Marina Café Noir” -
Festival of applied literatures, theater, music and film. The
festival is actively involved in the realization of original productions
and workshops, creating programs that combine the talents of artists
who may have never worked together before. The collective sees itself
placed side by side with the writers, musicians, performers, and film-makers
coming from the world, and being able to construct new acquaintances
between various artistic attitudes. The association is always planning
initiatives and collaborations for future editions.
Giacomo Casti
Simone Murru
www.chourmo.it/
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Greg Cohen
New York, USA
Contrabass
Arranging and bass playing has always
been an important part of Cohen’s process. He has written for
theater, film and recordings and has arranged for some of today’s
finest artists (Marisa Monte, David Byrne, Dagmar Krause, David Sanborn,
Tom Waits and Gal Costa).
His bass playing credits are extensive and include artists such as Ornette Coleman,
Kenny Davern, Elvis Costello, John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Willie Nelson, Bill
Frisell, Norah Jones, Dave Douglas, Tricky, Jesse Harris, Keith Richards and
Charlie Watts, Woody Allen, Ken Peplowski, Joey Baron, Donovan, Crystal Gayle,
Bob Dylan, Alan Watts, Lee Konitz, Richie Havens, Dino Saluzzi, Lou Reed, Odetta
and Danny Barker.
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Cutlery
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Cutlery is an all-female trio from Brooklyn,
NY who play a blend of experimental and folk music with instruments
such as typewriter, clarinet, violin, banjo, melodica, and candlesticks. Cutlery is
very chameleon-like, and these ladies have been known to
veer off into sea shantys, chamber music, and raucous rhythms.
Heidi Harris - vocals, clarinet, guitar, percussion
Christen Napier - vocals, banjo, percussion
Jessie Shaffer - vocals, violin, percussion
www.sirensofsilverware.com
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Elephant
Brooklyn, USA
Accordion Duo
Elephant
is an accordion duo. On one accordion, playing both hands and making
grimacing, threatening and come-hither faces, is Max of Endroit Sterling.
On the other accordion, sometimes playing one hand, sometimes playing
the other, always playing beau et doux, is none other than the célèbre
et fabuleux Genevieve of Route Express Orientale. They play tunes they
like, mostly from Eastern Europe. They play lentement. They play vite.
They will always take time for un verre de vin ou un chocolat entre
les airs. Don't rush them. Voici! Elephant! En garde!
www.el-e-phant.com
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END
New York, USA
Laptop
Writer
and musician CHARLES PEIRCE records & performs under the alias
END. Offering up a seductive and playful collage of music, he reworks
a variety of genres and ideas -- from surf rock to lounge music to
old sci-fi themes -- into a frenzied and unlikely mix of beats and
electronics, spiced with a flamboyant party vibe straight out of a
60s B-movie. He has toured throughout Europe, the US, and Russia; composed
music for independent film; and toured with Fantomas, Melt Banana,
Snog, Kid 606 and Jason Forrest.
www.worldwentdown.com/end
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Oran Etkin
New York, USA
Bass clarinet, clarinet, sax
Oran Ektin has been described as a "great
clarinet player" and "an excellent improviser" by
the New York Times' jazz critic Ben Ratliff and a "woodwind
maestro" by PRI's internationally syndicated show,
Afropop Worldwide. He has performed around the world with musicians
ranging from jazz guitarist Mike Stern to rapper Wyclef Jean. His latest
album, Kelenia (Motema Music), fuses traditional Malian and
Jewish music with modern jazz creating what the Boston Globe dubbed
a"hypnotic balance between straight-ahead jazz and world music".
The CD features Oran's working group with Malian griot musicians Balla Kouyate,
Makane Kouyate and bassist Joe Sanders as well as guests including vocalist Abdoulaye
Diabate, Grammy Award Winning artists Lionel Loueke and John Benitez and even
a string quartet on one track. The resulting sound is a reflection of Oran's
musical personality rooted in jazz but shaped by the many musical worlds that
Oran is a part of in New York, including African, Jewish, Haitian and New Orleans
music. Even before its release, Kelenia debuted at # 10 on the nationwide radio
charts and All Music Guidehas declared that Oran "sets a new standard
for world music in the decade of the 2000s".
Oran Etkin's Kelenia
Oran Etkin - bass-clarinet, clarinet, sax
Makane Kouyate - calabash, djembe, vocals
Yacouba Sissoko - kora
www.oranetkin.com
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Luca Fadda
Cagliari, Sardinia
Trumpet, Electronics, E se ... co-founder
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Avram Fefer
New York , USA
Saxophone
Saxophonist and bandleader Avram Fefer has been performing and recording
internationally since 1990. After spending the decade as a soloist
with a number of different bands, his first several recordings as a
leader were singled out as among the Best of 2001 and Best of 2002
in publications such as Downbeat Magazine, the Village Voice (New York),
Cadence magazine, the Chicago Weekly Standard, and JazzPortugal. As
a section player and soloist, Fefer has been featured in a number of
large ensembles, including the David Murray Big Band, Butch Morris
Orchestra, Joseph Bowie Big Band, Mingus Big Band, Frank Lacy's Vibe
Tribe, and the Rob Reddy Octet. His jazz compositions have been played
by Roy Campbell, James Zollar, Curtis Fowlkes, Sean Conly, Ben Allison,
William Parker, Tomas Ulrich, and Brad Jones, among many. He continues
to perform with numerous jazz and new music ensembles, including the
bands Burnt Sugar, Hahahaes, and Kakande as well as his own Afro-Latin
band, Free Spirit.
www.avramfefer.com
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Paolo Fresu
Cagliari, Sardenga
Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Born the 10 February 1961 in Berchidda,
in the Italian region of Sardinia. He began to study his instrument
at the age of 11 in the "Bernardo
de Muro" Musical Band of Berchidda. After various experiences
in pop music he discovers jazz in 1980 beginning his professional activity
in 1982, at first attending the "Seminari Senesi" then recording
for RAI-RadioTelevisione Italiana under the direction of Bruno Tommaso.
He gets a degree as Perito Elettrotecnico (i.e. electricity technician)
in Sassari, then in 1984 he graduates in Trumpet at the Conservatory
of Cagliari with the maestro Enzo Morandini and later he attends the
faculty of "DAMS - music section" at the University of Bologna.
His activities counts over 280 records and more than 2.500 concerts.
He lives between Bologna, Paris and Sardinia.
www.paolofresu.it
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Rachelle Garniez
New York, USA
Accordion, Vocalist
Accordionist/vocalist/songwriter
RACHELLE GARNIEZ is known as a "Diva with a Difference" and
a "Master of Surprise". Wistful, witty, sardonic and sentimental;
her tragi-comic story-songs channel influences including tango, klezmer,
early jazz, blues, psychedelic rock & country & western.
www.rachellegarniez.com
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David Grubbs
New York, USA
David
Grubbs has released nine full-length solo albums, has appeared on more
than 100 commercially-released recordings, and has composed soundtracks
for films and installations. In 2000, his album The Spectrum Between
was named “Album of the Year” in the London Sunday Times.
He was a founding member of the groups Gastr del Sol, Bastro, Squirrel
Bait, and the Wingdale Community Singers, and has participated in the
Red Krayola since 1993. He directs the Blue Chopsticks record label.
Souls of the Labadie Tract, his second collaborative recording with
poet Susan Howe, was released in March 2007. He is a 2005-6 grant recipient
in Music-Sound from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
web
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Bryan Hamecs
New York, USA
Installation Artist
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JJ Hayes
Staten Island, USA
Poet
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Hungry March Band
Brooklyn, USA
Brass Band
Roaring out of Brooklyn
NYC, the Hungry March Band is the greatest brass march band of all
time. The HMB is based in New York City. They are a community group
with a membership as diverse as their music. Put on your dancing shoes
and break out the fancy threads because they’ve got the party
going on - a blazing parade of flesh, blood, steel, brass and wood.
They are the music of the people!
HMB's musical repertoire consists of original compositions
written by band members as well as scores selected from our multi-cultural
world community. These songs range from New Orleans street bands, European
brass traditions, Gypsy/Roma classics, wedding brass bands from India,
the jazz world and the global community of NYC. The band is an ever
evolving musical experiment influenced and inspired from Brooklyn’s
backyard with Latin flavor, punk rock noise, hip hop beats and music
of the streets.
HMB's discography
includes three self-produced CD’s. The most recent, “Critical
Brass” was recorded at Loho Studios, NYC, in the Spring
of 2004 merely days after returning from a very successful
European tour. Their second release “On the Waterfront” (2003)
was recorded in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and dedicated to the
hallowed grounds upon which the tunes were wrought. The virgin
debut, Hungry March Band Official Bootleg, (2001) consists
of a series of live recordings and is considered an historical
reference for exercises in wind, percussion and fluid dynamics.
www.hungrymarchband.com
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Gary Lucas
New York, USA
Guitar, Vocals
A world class guitar hero,
a Grammy-nominated songwriter, an international recording artist
with over a dozen acclaimed solo albums to date, and a soundtrack
composer for film and television, GARY LUCAS is on the move.
Dubbed “Guitarist of 1000 Ideas” by The New York Times, and “a
true axe God” by Q, the British world music magazine fRoots recently
hailed him as “without question, the most interesting and challenging
guitarist playing today.” He was also cited recently by the editors of
DownBeat as one of their “66 Hot 6-Stringers” alongside John McLaughlin,
Richard Thompson, B.B King, Pat Metheny and others.
www.garylucas.com
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André Martinez
Brooklyn, USA
Drums, Percussion, Painter
www.earthpeople.tv
www.henrygregggallery.com
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Mike the Barber
New York, USA
DJ
Mike "The Barber" spins Ragtime
and Popular Music from the turn of the 20th-century using original
hand-crank talking machines from the early 1920's......Your grandparents
music was not what you think.
The
Ragged Phonogram Program
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The Moonlighters
New York, USA
THE MOONLIGHTERS have been a part
of the New York City jazz and pop music scenes since they formed in 1998. Based
around a core of harmonized vocal duets backed by warm acoustic instruments including
Hawaiian lap steel guitar, ukulele, guitar and bass, they explore traditional
and classic tunes with a unique, romantic approach that is appealing to listeners
of all ages. Their original songs encompass many styles of 20th Century jazz
and pop: ragtime, swing, Hawaiian, country, blues, and even be-bop flavors can
be found among their recordings. They list among their influences Duke Ellington,
Bessie Smith, the Boswell Sisters, Sol Hoopii, King Bennie Nawahi, Annette Hanshaw,
Al Bowlly, George and Ira Gershwin, and many more illustrious entertainers from
the golden age of popular music, when tunes on the radio held appeal for every
member of the listening audience. Their romantic lyrics and lyrical musicianship
make them a favorite of lovers and jazz fans wherever they perform.
Bliss Blood - vocals and ukulele
Cindy Ball - vocals and guitar
Peter Maness - bass
Mark Deffenbaugh - steel guitar
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Fabio Morgera
New York, USA
Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Italian-born FABIO MORGERA came to New York in
1990.
Since then he has built a solid reputation as a Jazz trumpeter and composer,
leading his own groups and playing with the Mingus Band, the Village Vanguard
Orchestra, the Roy Hargrove big band and Groove Collective. With the latter he
was Grammy nominated for Best Contemporary Jazz Album of 2006.
"Need for Peace" Trio:
Fabio Morgera - trumpet, flugelhorn
Christos Rafalides - vibraphone
Gianluca Renzi - contrabass
www.fabiomorgera.com
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Roberto Pellegrini
Italy
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Doug Principato
Staten Island, USA
Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
www.earthpeople.tv
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Marguerite Maria Rivas
Staten Island, USA
Poet
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Jofre Romarion
New York, USA
Bandoneonist
JOFRE ROMARION - TANGO BANDONEONIST Winner of
the National Prize of the Arts Grant given by the director of the National
Symphonic Orchestra of Argentina, Jofre has performed in Italy, Spain,
Chile, EEUU, and the most important citys in Argentina as Solist and
Arranger, in New York has played at the most important venues such
as New York City Center Theatre, Jazz Standard, Symphony Space, Metropolitan
Museum, & Rosie O' Donnell Live.
Jofre Romarion Quartet:
Jofre Romarion - Bandoneon
Gustavo Casenave - piano
Carlos Pavan - guitar
Nick Danielson - violin
Jofre
Romarion on MySpace
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Antonello Salis
Italy
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Tony Scherr
New York, USA
Guitar, Bass
Since coming to New York
in the 80s, Tony Scherr has become one of the city's most prolific
and in-demand sidemen, playing itegral roles in the music of such notable
artists as Bill Frisell, John Lurie (Lounge Lizards), Steve Bernstein
(Sex Mob), and Norah Jones, as well as some of New York's better-kept
secrets, such as Jesse Harris and the Ferdinandos, The Wollesens, Ursa
Minor, and Slowpoke. Tony has recorded most of these latter artists
at his Brooklyn home studio, helping to foster and document a tight-knit,
intimate scene of players who are as skilled and daring as they are
broadminded and modest.
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Jenny Scheinman
New York, USA
Violin
JENNY
SCHEINMAN, violinist/composer, was voted the #1 Rising Star Violinist
in the 2004 and 2003 Downbeat Critics' Polls, has performed and recorded
extensively with Bill Frisell as well as Norah Jones, Vinicius Cantuaria,
Madeleine Peyroux, Nels Cline, Marc Ribot and Myra Melford. She grew up playing
folk music with her family in northern California, studied at Oberlin Conservatory,
and has been performing as a jazz violinist since she was a teenager. In the
last several years she has released three recordings of original music: Live
at Yoshi's (Avant), The Rabbi's Lover (Tzadik) and, most recently, Shalagaster
(Tzadik). A fourth CD, featuring Bill Frisell, Ron Miles, Doug Wieselman,
Rachelle Garniez, Tim Luntzel and Dan Rieser, was released by Cryptogramophone
in the summer of 2005.
www.jennyscheinman.com
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Jon Shina
Brooklyn, NY
An Iraqi American originally hailing from
Boston, Jon Shina's music has been featured in VICE magazine's web series Motherboard
and Saturdays with Spike, as well as Media Minutes, the longest-running syndicated
radio program of its kind. He is currently working on a new album, set
to be released sometime next year. He now resides in lovely Williamsburg,
Brooklyn.
Jon Shina on MySpace
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Yacouba Sissoko
Mali
Kora
Yacouba Sissoko is a Master Kora player from the
Djely griot tradition. He was born in Kita, Mali. His grandfather, Samakoun Tounkara,
began teaching Yacouba when he was 12 years old. Samakoun's wife Bintouba Diabate
was a famous singer in her own right. They raised Yacouba and educated him in
his griot heritage and in many lessons about life. Oumou Tounkara, his mother,
was a star in the Ensemble National du Mali. Yacouba attended the Institut National
des Arts du Mali in Bamako. After his graduation, he played with artists like
Taye and Oumou Sacko, Haja Soumano, Djallou Demba, Ami Koita, Fantani Koure,
Kandia Kouyate and l'Ensemble Instrumental du Mali.
In 1993, Souleymane Koli,the leader of the Ensemble Koteba of Abidjan recruited
him. Yacouba spend the next 5 years performing all over the world with this 45-piece
band. In his career, he has traveled to almost every nation on the African continent,
as well as most of Europe, Canada, the US and Australia. He is in demand as one
of the best kora players in the world, playing with jazz, Latin and R & B
bands as well as traditional African ceremonies. As leader of his own band, Siya,
and member of the group Super Mande, Yacouba continues to record with many famous
musicians, including the groups Source, Tamalalou and Fula Flute.
www.fulaflute.com
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Andy Statman
Brooklyn, USA
Clarinet, Banjo
A formidable and consummate
musician, Andy Statman is known for his musical wizardry on the mandolin,
as well as his innovative interpretations of Jewish music on the
clarinet. This program covers the genius of Statman from his distinctive
improvisational renditions of Klezmer, music of the Chassidic masters,
and American roots (bluegrass and blues) to original works drawing
upon jazz and other traditions. "...a master of two idioms..." NY
Times
www.andystatman.org
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Colin Stetson
New York, USA
Woodwinds
Woodwind player COLIN STETSON
plays powerfully while circularly breathing for long periods, draws
multiphonics out of a sax with great skill, and commands an audience's
attention with his focus and melodic improvisations.
www.colinstetson.com
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Gianmaria Testa
Rome, Italy
Singer, Guitar
Gianmaria Testa was born near Cuneo
(in Italy’s Piedmont
region) in 1958. He grew up in a family of farmers and taught himself
to play guitar, writing his first songs as soon as he learned his
chords. Gianmaria played and sang in several local rock bands before
discovering his true, solitary vocation. In 1993 and 1994 he won
first prize at the Recanati Festival for emerging singer-songwriters,
where he met a French producer, Nicole Courtois, who took a liking
to his demo tape. His first CD, Montgolfières, came out
on Label Bleu in 1995. Gianmaria’s warm, dusky voice tells
stories of wind and memories, earth and fog, objects that soar
from one horizon to another and ladies in train stations (“Donne
nelle stazioni”) who head off on someone else’s arm
without looking back. His music is personal and richly melodic,
flecked with accents of tango, bossa nova, habañera and
jazz, but as spare and essential as a pencil sketch, imparting
great beauty with simplicity and directness.
www.gianmariatesta.com
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Brian Wolff
New York, USA
Tuba, Electronics
"I know there are a lot of Wolf-bands out
there but I decided that Wolff is my name and I'm keepin' it. I've been planning
this project and making albums for a while but it has just now come to fruition
as a complete entity unto itself. I previously played in some bands out of Austin,
Texas where I used to live, one of which was called Drums and Tuba (The other
goes way back and was called Hominy Bob) and for a while there we were playing
well over two hundred shows a year. I've spent a significant chunk of time hiding
in my apartment and working on being able to pull this solo act off live. The
concept I'm working with is that all the sounds are generated by, with, and through
the tuba itself with the help of numerous guitar pedals and other sundry looping
devices. Singing is through the tuba. Percussion is banging on the tuba. I play
the tuba and beat box through it as well. You get the picture. And by the way,
there's no need to be afraid. It's not nearly as scary as it sounds."
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Stephane Wrembel
France
Guitar
French
guitarist and Hot Club of New York founding member, STEPHANE
WREMBEL celebrates the tradition and virtuosity of Gypsy
guitar while embracing jazz, world, bluegrass, folk, Latino
and rock.
www.stephanewrembel.com
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Wil Wynn
Staten Island, USA
Poet
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