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Kasper Søeborg Ohlsen
About me: Kasper Soeborg is an experienced musician, Guitar-player and Composer with 6 CD’s and 3 books containing original guitar-music as documentation on the Olafssongs label.
Over the years Kasper Soeborg's repertoire has spanned from psychedelic rock to computer music , so one may say he has emerged from the "melting-pot" of jazz, fusion, flamenco, folk and classical with a style and spirit that is very much his own ”Worldmusic”, including studies and experiments/workshops in harmonics and overtone singing. In the autumn 99 Spanish guitar and Flamenco studies in Sevilla, Andalusia, Spain, supported by "Statens Kunstfond" (the State Art-fondation of Denmark) developed his art. This has, since then, led to many travels to Andalusia, Spain. From 1989 Kasper Soeborg has been giving koncerts in Denmark, Sweeden, The Czech republic, Poland, France and the Kola-Peninsula over Moscow to Chuvashia in Russia. Also Canada ( as a part of "The SuperDanish" festival and New York in 2004 as well as several tours in Greenland, and the Faroe Islands. La Semaine de la Musique Instrumentale 2007 in Tunesia. 5. Bimbache OpenArt Festival en El Hierro (Canarias) 2009. International promotion at MIDEM (Cannes, France)1995-99,and 2003-5. International promotion at WOMEX 2003 and 2005 (Newcastle) and 2006 , 2007, 2008 (Sevilla),2009 (Copenhagen
Bruno Amstad
About me: Singer/Vocalartist<br/>
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-Born 1964 in Luzern, Switzerland<br/>
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-Startet as Singer in different Rock – Funk – and SoulBands in the
80tis, before he changed into Jazz and free improvised Music.
Bands like „Dead Zone“ ore the „Marco Käppeli Selection“ was his
First experiences in that kind of Music.<br/>
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-Later he played as musician in many Bands and Projects together with Fredy Studer, Christy Doran, Joseph Bowie (Defunkt), Tim Berne, Jim Black, Muthuswami Balasubramoniam, Reto Weber, Bänz Oester, Bobby Burri, Dave Doran, DJ Olive (Sonic Youth), etc.<br/>
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-Actualy Bands are „Christy Doran’s NEW BAG“, „Asita Hamidi’s BAZZAR“, „WAL“, „LUNCHBOX“, Duo with Albin Brun and also SOLO.<br/>
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-Amstad was Touring In South America (Brasil, Peru, Argentina, Venezuela, Bolivia), Madagaskar and South Africa, India, Vietnam, Canada, the US and the most europien Countries.<br/>
He also get Workshops at the Konservatory of Hanoi (Vietnam),
and some Musicscools in South America.<br/>
He played also with traditional Musicians like the Phon Lang Orchestra Hanoi, and Musicians in Dakar (Senegal) and Bolivia.
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-Amstad Teaches in The Highscool for Music in Luzern/Switzerland, singing overtone and throat singing as well in his own specific style.<br/>
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-1996 „Werkbeitrag“ of the City of Luzern<br/>
-1999 „Anerkennungspreis“ of the City of Luzern<br/>
-1999 Award for the best Filmmusic (industriemovie) at the Filmfestival of Locarno (ch)<br/>
-2004 Jazz-Award from the „Zürcher Kantonalbank“<br/>
Dieter Wienand
About me: I am Dieter Wienand, living near Cologne, born in 1959, January 3 rd in Siegen/Germany, musician and mystical. I´m inviting everyone to sing and to express himself in his voice, because voice is a mirror of ourselves. As a young man I studied Christian protestant theology. But today I share a quit wider spiritual horizon, like the Sufis, saying: "There are many lamps but only one light.« I also think about religions : »Religion separates, spirituality unites.« In the age of 18, I had the grace to receive a mystical experience. It changed my life totally. I thought, I had to study theology, but I had to study myself. I´m listening to the mystic call in music and try to be a companion on the pilgrimage to find the Goddess in our hearts. Once I studied the piano as a child, I shared my love to music as a teacher about 20 years, discovering singing in 1990 and overtone singing in 2000.Now, I give concerts and workshops in singing all over Europe. Where I am, I´m on looking for exceptional, good sounding and holy rooms for singing. As a baritone I´m a member in the overtone Choir of Dusseldorf since 2003.In 2004 and 2005 I organized the cologne overtone-singing festivals. 2008 we founded the choir »singing like it is in heaven« in Cologne and Berlin.
I published 4 CD´s: "TranZenDance" (2000), "Music for meditation Vol.1" (2003), "Tabla meets overtone "(2007), "The Desert Call", Music for overtone singing, fujara and didgeridoo (2008)
Bernard Kleikamp
About me: I can at least answer the question how I got interested in music. I think it runs in the family. Apparently my granddad (father's father) was an amateur musician in his bachelor's days. He then lived in the village of Tudderen in Germany, near Sittard in the south of The Netherlands, and was playing the flute in a sort of local flute and drum marching band. And during carnival he would play the accordion and sing songs. I got this information from my 84-year old aunt the other day, who told me that after he married, my grandfather was never seen performing music again... My grandma (mother's mother) lived in West-Frisia and was a singer. I think she was one of the informants of Dr. B. Veurman and Dr. D. Bax in their classic folk song collection "Songs and Dances of West-Frisia" ("Liederen en Dansen uit West-Friesland" published in 1944). My mother was a singer too, all her life she was an alto in a fairly reputed choir in the town of Hoorn, where I was born. She taught me all the songs that she had learned from her mother. And I was always interested in music, I went to music school, had piano lessons, but at an early age decided I did not want to be a performing musician. I felt much better at ease off stage than on stage. After secondary school I went to university (in Amsterdam), studying drama and ethnomusicology, and got involved in the organisation of the local folkclub and folkfestival in Leiden (where I live since 1969). And from there it gradually expanded. There's a story about the early years of PAN Records and how I got to be its owner in the liner notes to the Crooks CD (PAN 151), the CD is sold out now, but will eventually be available again via digital distribution.
I have a special interest in overtone singing and the music of Tuva, Khakassia, Mongolia, Altai, and Bashkortostan. As far as I can tell, PAN Records (the record company that I own) was the first company in the West (there were already a few LPs on Melodiya) to release a CD with overtone songs from Tuva (maybe with the exception of Smithsonian Folkways, I am not sure when that one was released). My company was also the first to organise tours with overtone singers from Tuva (1991), and I also brought them to the USA and Canada (1992 and 1993) where later they became world famous as Huun Huur Tu, but I wasn't involved then anymore, as the band had split up and I decided to stay loyal to Gennadi Tumat (see PAN 2090), whom I thought to be the more talented. He was also the most whimsical, and for years we talked about making a solo-CD, but he could never find the discipline to do studio work for long periods. You can read all about that in the liner notes to PAN 2090.
I am actively promoting the traditional music from Holland, and there are quite a lot of such CDs in the PAN catalogue (PAN 2004, 2025, 188, 157, 159, 179, 191, 192, 204, 205, 208, 210, 211, 214, 216, 218, 220).
GANA - Ganpurev Dagvan
About me: Ganpurev Dagvan
(Music composer, musician and throat singing)
He plays the Mongolian traditional musical instruments Ikh-khuur, Morin-khuur, Tobshuur and he also sings undertone throat singing, as well as music composer.
In his traditional robes - Gana in pelzbesetztem garb - seemed the musicians. With the suggestive sounds of the bass violin and Ikh-Morin khuur-khuur, Gana abducted in the Mongolian culture of his homeland. His songs tell of Genghis Khan, the leader of the scattered tribes into a kingdom together by the endless steppes and the pride of the whole people daring riders - the horse.
Genghis Khan's favourite woman was named after their ancestor, the graublauen Wolf, the legend of the Mongols descend after all. With the mythical figure of the wolf, between heaven and earth upside, identified the Far East has always been popular. Boerte is also the first piece of the program devoted to the Gana jump directly to the European cultural boundaries and listening habits asking. The bass violin Ganas swings deep, told entertained. And much deeper including, dark, vibrant, almost dominant booming and the pervasive sounds of Umzad, the undertone throat singing. As a rhythmic spoken or wonderfully melodious, but always in sync with the vibrations of the bass violin, penetrate from the depths of the throat tones the next room.
Especially critical but touching manner and an atmosphere of the dialogue sounds of votes in the “Altai magtaal "and in the “Legend of the Yellow Dog".
D. Ganpurev was seen as the Artemis Records Original Movie Award for Best Score music by Hamptons International Film Festival.
And he was considered the best list 4 / 2005 - Prize of the German Record Critics.
Andrea Ferroni
About me: Andrea Ferroni, Turin - 1977.
Charmed by the didjeridoo, he begins his studies as a self-taught musician, therefore he follows courses and workshops hold by worldwide famous artists. However he mostly studies very personal techniques in depth.
Studies overtone singing with Tran Quang Hai, Roberto Laneri and Bernard Dubreuil; digital recoring and ethnic music with Luca Morino.
He studies Saxophone with M° Nando Massimello.
So far, he's worked with: “Architorti”, Tony Esposito, Daniela Paci, Roberto Laneri, Marco Trochelmann, Giuseppe Verticchio, Ilario Vannucchi, Ilaria Drago, Roberto Canone, The Wimshurst's Machine band, Paolo Sanna, Fabio Santagostino, Alessandro Giacomelli, Lorenzo Giorda, Ipercussonici and many others. In less than four years, he participates to the most prestigious European festivals in France, Switzerland, Germany, Great Britain, Austria and Portugal achieving great feedback from critics and reviews in specialized magazines. He establishes the 'Scuola del Didjeridoo' ('Didjeridoo School'), where he starts teaching in 2003. He focuses on his teaching methods and research on phonetics, logopedia and physics. He holds workshops and courses all over Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Great Britain. In 2006, he teaches in the ethnic school 'Iat Gong' in Genoa, an institute which has gathered the major experts and performers of various traditional art disciplines from all over the world. He founds the cultural association 'Yidaki', involved in promoting the native Australian music and culture, which has reached a number of almost 100 members in Italy and abroad in less than one year. With it, he also establishes 'Yidaki News', the only magazine in Italy dedicated to the didjeridoo and the aboriginal culture. He publishes four CDs named: "Windproject" (2003), "Noises & Voices" (2004), "Tribal Revolution" (2005), “Breaking Through” (2006), “Ritratto” (2007), "Windproject 2008". He personally builds his instruments, which are very appreciated in Italy and by many artists who play them live.
Janne Tuomi
About me: Janne Tuomi was born in 1973 in Tampere, Finland. Coming from a family of musicians and music educators, it was only natural that this first-born began playing the piano at the age of six. But the infatuation was not to last as percussion soon lured him away from the ebonies and ivories.
Tuomi commenced studying at the Conservatory of Tampere in 1995 and further honed his skills at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music in Odense, Denmark. After undertaking a study trip to New York City, Tuomi graduated from the Conservatory in 2000 with honours. In 2001 he travelled to Los Angeles to take private lessons. In 2006 Tuomi did his diploma recital as part of Tampere Biennale contemporary music festival, again with honours.
During his professional career Tuomi has acted as a free jazz drummer, classical percussonist and everything in between. He has performed with guitarists Antti Kotikoski, Raymond Boni, Sakari Luoma and Marzi Nyman, saxophonists Daunik Lazro, Jone Takamäki and Jorma Tapio, pianists Iro Haarla and Seppo Kantonen, bass players Ulf Krokfors, Sampo Lassila and Claude Tchamitchian and numerous others.
In recent times Tuomi has taken part in productions by the Balanescu Quartet and John Zorn’s ’Finnish Cobra’ . Jazz and classical aside, the percussionist works with groups like Slobo Horo and Suurin Onni that specialize in world music. He is also the percussionist in renowned trance rock group Circle.
Apart from recording and performing various styles of music with a burning passion, Tuomi teaches percussion both privately and at the Palmgren Conservatory in Pori. He is also experienced as a theater musician.
His first, critically acclaimed solo-cd 'Approaching' was released in 2004. The following 'elg' will be released in 2008. Recordings for third one 'Resonance' has already began.
SoRIAH
About me: The Portland musician and ritual artist known as Soriah (a.k.a. Enrique Ugalde) first came into being more than 10 years ago. His unique
vision has evolved to draw equally from performance and musical traditions both modern and ancient--- raga, shamanism, the revisionist arts of electro-acoustics, noise, butoh, and free improvisation.
One element which pervasively informs his work, is traditional Tuvan throat singing. Soriah has extensively trained in, and received recognition for his achievements with, this style of overtone singing. Most recently, he was honored as the Third Place winner in the International Symposium of Khoomei Competition, and "Best Foreigner" in the 2008 Ustuu-Khooree World Music Festival in Tuva, where the form originated.
As much as the complex musical underpinnings of Soriah's music reach back to Central Asia, he traces his roots back to his father’s homeland of Mexico. His explorations of the cities and wilderness of Mexico and considerable research into the Aztec mysteries, as well as the
present-day animism of Tuvan Shamanism, have deeply influenced his
pan-cultural ethos.
Through costume, movement and meditation Soriah evokes an otherworld of profound mystical import. Though the settings for his performances have ranged from arenas, concert halls and churches, to swamps, caves, tree tops and even an abandoned nuclear reactor, his project carries its own sense of place and time, which transcend the concrete world.
The recorded works of Soriah are chiefly available from Beta-Lactam
Ring Records; along with compilation appearances on URCK's
"Post-Asiatic" series, Sonick Sorcery's "Visions From The Garden", and
Mobilization's "How To Destroy the Universe Part 5".
Credits also include live and recorded guest appearances with Blixa Bargeld, Perry Ferrel, The Legendary Pink Dots, Jarboe, Master Tuvan Throat Singers Chirgilchin, Psychic TV, The Church, Chrome, GWAR, The Polyphonic Spree, and The Dresden Dolls, as well many other local and international acts.
The newest official recording, " A T L A N "--- in collaboration with Ashkelon Sain (Trance to the Sun, Submarine Fleet)--- is scheduled for release in Spring of 2009.
Raphael De Cock
About me: The uilleann pipes (Irish bagpipes) discovered Raphaël in 1989 after hearing a broadcast of Liam O Flynn and Donal Lunny's concert at the Dranouter Folkfestival 1988. A few years later Raphaël became involved in jam sessions with musicians who later formed the band Shantalla. He also learned a lot from Tommy Keenan (Paddy's brother). In 1991 he started a duo called Cú Chullainn (Irish music), together with Sacha Van Loo. Later on the duo Cú Chullainn became the trio Crónán with Greet Garriau (Fluxus) as a third musician. In these bands Raphaël played the uilleann pipes as well as whistles, kantele (Finnish harp), jews harps, kaval (bulgarian flute) and sälgeflöt (swedish overtone flute). At the same time Raphaël discovered the Siberian 'throat singing' vocal styles from Tuva and the Khakass zither chatkhan.
In august 1998, he taught a 'throat singing workshop' at the Gooik Folk Music course. From then on, Crónán became the new sextet Keukkojoen. This band is specialised in many different vocal traditions from Europe and beyond. From 2001, he became one of the gaiteros in A Banda, and later on in A Contrabanda. In 2003 he replaced Jowan Merckx in some concerts with the project Profielen/Perfiles with Wannes Van De Velde, Amparo Cortes and Ialma.
Since 2004 he has been experimenting with vocal techniques from Sardinia (hopefully resulting in a new band called Tenore e Cuncordu de Marinis Santu Seminis TeCuMaSaS), and in 2006 with Chinese woodwind instruments Bawu and Hulusi. He also took up and promotes the Muchosa, one of the old style Belgian bagpipes with some microtonal possibilities which is being revived. OSUNA is a flexible project depending on the demand or personal feelings, ranging from a duo project to a quintet performing meditative listening or dance music based on tradititional vocal and instrumental music styles and improvisation.
Recently the "OSuna project" grew into a marriage between Anatolian and Siberian music, exploring the rich harmonies and dialogues between saz, tanbur and chatkhan, with surprising trips ranging from Tuvinian overtone singing, vocals from the "Mediterranean Zone", Nordic cattle calls, sean-nós songs, medieval ballads.... with sublte accompaniment of the persian drum tombak and double bass
Luc SOUVET
About me: Musicien de formation classique, j'ai découvert les musiques traditionnelles grâce à Tran Van Khé (le Père de Tran Quang Haï) qui enseignait l'ethnomusicologie à la Sorbonne (Paris IV). J'habite l'île de la Réunion où j'enseigne l'éducation musicale; je suis également coordonnateur musique de l'Académie (service de la DAAC, dirigé par Ali Sekkaki). Nous avons beaucoup travaillé sur la voix dans les musiques traditionnelles, Haï est venu cinq fois de suite pour intervenir dans les écoles de notre île ; en 2003, nous avons invité les HUUN HUUR-TU de la République de Touva (entre la Mongolie et la Sibérie) et ils sont venus pour la première fois dans l'océan indien. A cette occasion, un très beau film sur le chant diphonique a été tourné sur notre île par Christian Beguinet (CRDP de la Réunion) et Emmanuel Pons (Université de Saint Denis) et nous avons organisé la rencontre de Gilbert POUNIA (chanteur réunionnais du groupe ZISKAKAN, très connu à la Reunion, en France et en Europe).
Sur le CD de Ziskakan ““Banjara” (récompensé par le Césaire 2007 du meilleur CD des Dom-Tom de l’année), je pratique le chant diphonique sur un titre créé lors de cette magnifique rencontre (Bal boukan).
Classical musician, I discovered Traditionnal Music with M. Tran Van Khé (Tran Quang Haï’s father) who was teaching ethnomusicology in the French University of Sorbonne (Paris 4). I’m leaving in Reunion Island (near Mauritius and Madagascar) where I teach Music in a College and I’m also music coordinator for the Academy of Reunion. For the cultural Departement of the District (DAAC service) we worked on voice in traditionnal music and Haï came five times in Reunion to meet our students in a lot of schools; in 2003 we invited the HUUN HUUR-TU from the Republic of Touva (between Mongolia and Siberia), and they came for the first Time in Indian Ocean. A magnificent film on DVD has been filmed with Christian Beguinet (CRDP of Réunion) and Emmanuel Pons (University of Saint Denis) and we organised the meeting of them with Gilbert POUNIA (Reunion singer of the Band ZISKAKAN, well-known in Reunion, in France and in Europe).
On the Ziskakan’s CD “Banjara” (Césaire 2007), I practise overtone on a title written at the occasion of this magnificent reunion (Bal boukan).
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