Renato Borghetti
Gaia Cuatro
Tango Negro Trio & Juan Carlos
Caceres
Javier Girotto & Aires Tango
Maria Kalaniemi
Didier Laloy & S-Tres
Martin Lubenov
Maja Osonjik Band
Mostar Sevdah Reunion
Danças Ocultas
The Samurai
Riccardo Tesi & Banditaliana
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RENATO BORGHETTI
Gaucho Power at its best
Accordion virtuoso Renato Borghetti is the star among the
new folk musicians from Rio Grande do Sul in Southern Brazil.
The charismatic gaucho has revised, adapted and modernized
many of the native sounds of his home country. His fast and
playful tunes combine the sounds of the Argentinian pampa
with central European, Italian and French elements into a
sparkling, contemporary mixture of Tango, Polka, TexMex and
Musette. >more |
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TANGO NEGRO TRIO & JUAN CARLOS CACERES
Tango Negro
Caceres takes us on a trip in time to give back to tango
it’s strong popular music roots. At the end of this
journey we will find Murga, cousin of the Brazilian march,
Argentinian Milonga, African Candombe, Cuban Habanera –
the black soul of tango thant tends to be forgotten and repressed
in Argentina. With his smoky and lascivious voice Caceres
sings about life in Buenos Aires, of homesickness and exile
and the wounds of time, thus creating an irredescent web of
musical-historical cross-connections and socio-political reality.
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GAIA CUATRO
A puzzling encounter between Argentina
and Japan on the frontier of Jazz
The fiery and intense character of Argentine music, mixed
with the refinement of Japanese musical tradition provide
the raw materials for this exceptional quartet, created from
the meeting of two major symbols of Japanese jazz and two
inventive Argentine musicians from the European scene. >more
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JAVIER GIROTTO & AIRES TANGO
Tango Jazz
Born in Cordoba, Argentina, saxophonist and composer Xavier
Girotto has been on top of Italian and European jazz for many
years. Since 2000 he has been a member of the Orhcestre National
de Jazz de Paris. In 1994 he founded his own quartet Aires
Tango whose “treated tango” – an amusing
and passionate fusion of Argentinian tango and jazz improvisation
- immediately became a big success in Italy. >more |
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MARIA KALANIEMI
The queen of Finnish Accordion
Maria Kalaniemi, a master of free-bass button accordion,
is one of Finland's leading contemporary accordionists. Once
a member of pioneering groups Niekku and Aldargaz, from the
Sibelius Acdemy Folk Music Department, where she now teaches,
her roots are in folk and classical music but her sights and
abilities go far beyond existing styles. >more |
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DIDIER LALOY &
S-TRES
The Belgian revival of diatonic accordion
Didier Laloy was 13 when he first touched a diatonic accordion,
since that time he has grown into a master of the instrument
and composer and is considered as one of the most active representatives
of the diatonic accordion revival in Europe. >more |
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MARTIN LUBENOV
Sofia Mahala - Balkan Grooves
He is the new star shining on Vienna’s accordion sky.
At the age of only 28 years, Martin Lubenov is already among
the top Balkan-accordionists. With breathtaking virtuosity
and playful elegance he combines Balkan Roma music with shades
of swing, modern jazz, tango nuevo, salsa and musette and,
doing so, pays honour to it like Astor Piazzolla did to tango
and Richard Galliano did to musette. >more |
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MAJA OSOJNIK BAND
The new exciting voice from Vienna
Vienna based Slovenian Maja Osojnik has made herself a name
as a singer and flutist in manifold projects ranging from
baroque music to contemporary electronics. And she also loves
jazz and the gloomy, melancholic sides of Slovenian folk music
- which 2006 resulted in her first CD >more |
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MOSTAR SVEDAH REUNION
Café Sevdah
Mostar Sevdah Reunion is an exquisite group of artists sharing
the same passion. Some might say that they live for Sevdah
and that could be the only cause of their existence. To decode
and to represent this over 400 year old traditional music
from Bosnia and Herzegovina is a difficult task to cope with.
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DANÇAS OCULTAS
Four accordions from the edge of Europe
"Danças Ocultas" are four young accordionsts
from Agueda near Porto who are among the most innovative and
most exciting representatives of contemporary Portuguese music.
For some years now they have been rising on the international
world music scene – with an apparently very simple concept:
quiet, lyrical, more or less traditional, with only four diatonic
accordions. >more |
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THE SAMURAÏ
The ultimate squeezebox experience
"The fabulous talent-studded programme includes no less
than five of the most dazzling exponents of the squeezebox.
They have all made a huge contribution to advancing the cause
of the diatonic accordion, each in their own sphere: trad,
folk, liscio, Irish music, jazz, film scores – the list
goes on and on. >more |
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RICCARDO TESI & BANDITALIANA
Un ballo liscio
Riccardo Tesi may well be called the epicentre of the Italian
folk- and worldmusic-scene. For 20 years he has been one of
the most imaginative players of the organetto, the diatonic
button accordion. As an ethnomusicologist he has explored
the liscio, the waltz of his native tuscany, the musical traditions
of southern Italy, the Balkans, Madagscar, Africa or India
as well as jazz or Nino Rota’s film music. With his
Banditaliana he melts all those elements into a colourful,
refined and easily dancable art music... >more |
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ZAMBALLARANA
Fresh winds from the „Island of Beauty“
Zamballarana are a group of young enthusiasts from Pigna,
an idyllic little town in the mountains of Western Corsica,
the wild and mysterious “Island of Beauty”. Founded
in 1997 by Jérome Casalonga, the band gives the traditional
island sounds a global touch, mixing them with other contemporary
and mediterranean musical forms. >more |
