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Aziza Mustafa-Zadeh in our catalogue!

admin — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:48:43 +0000

After her wonderful concert at the Auditorium 400 of the Museo Reina Sofia, in the frame of the Festival Ellas Crean, we are honored to represent for Spain Aziza Mustafa-Zadeh, one of the great artists of today’s jazz world. Pianist and singer Aziza melts refined jazz techniques, with an absolutely multicultural view, incorporating elements of traditional music of Azerbaijan, her native country.

Rim Banna in Barcelona on the 2nd of May

admin — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:43:18 +0000

Rim Banna, the voice of Palestine, the singer whose voice according to the Dayly Telegraph is: “…at once disconcertingly youthfull and anything but childish…” will be in Barcelona Casino L’Aliança in Poble Nou next 12th May to re-encounter with his audience in Barcelona. At the same time she is preparing a tour in clubs and theaters in northern Europe (Germany, Holland, Belgium and Switzerland) for fall (October and November 2012). Promoters, programmers and venues that may be interested in be a part of this tour, please contact PTWMUSIC…

Savina Yannatou starts a new project

admin — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:16:10 +0000

Savina Yannatou start a new project with the collaboration of singers Lamia Bediaoui (Algeria) and Martha Mavroidi (Bulgaria). The three female voices take us back to a traditional and Mediterranean universe that is at the same time contemporary.
Obviously, the instrumental backing is in charge of Primavera Salonico, one of the most daring groups in regard to updating the Mediterranean sounds …

Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico

admin — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 23:07:14 +0000

Based on traditional material - mainly from the Mediterranean Area - Savina Yannatou and the group Primavera en Salonico offer an open sound without borders or labels, from simple songs extending to contemporary music forms.
Insisting on acoustic instruments, half of which have their origin in the East, they attempt at exploiting their specific sound, oftentimes also exploring them to the limits of their possibilities. Beyond her exquisite interpretive capacity Savina Yannatou gives special emphasis to the expression of the "music" of each different language, without letting that stop her from oftentimes using her voice as one more instrument.

With a background that combines classical studies and "authentic" traditional music with improvised music and jazz, Savina Yannatou and the musicians of Primavera en Salonico find themselves like rope-dancers on the chord which connects the modal music of the East with the equivalent music of Western Europe, music of the Middle Ages and the popular polyphonies of the Mediterranean. Beginning from the melismatic riches of the Eastern Maqam and the charming irregular rhythms they explore the territory of collective free improvisation, meeting there modern jazz.

Savina Yannatou and Primavera en Salonico have been giving concerts all over the world since 1996. This includes the whole of Europe, the United States, Israel and Taiwan, and venues like the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Barbican in London, the 92nd Street Y in New York, The Holon Theatre in Tel Aviv, the Melbourne Concert Hall and various WOMAD festivals, as well as numerous other world music festivals, like Stern Grove in San Francisco, Taipeh World Music Festival, Fiesta des Suds in Marseille and many others. Highlights of 2003 include the Moers new Jazz Festival in Germany, Music Meeting in Holland and a sold-out Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, in 2004 Etnosur Festival in Spain and Musicas do Mundo in Portugal, while 2005 started with a concert at the 20st edition of the International Jazz festival Muenster in Germany.

Together with Primavera en Salonico Savina Yannatou recorded "Primavera en Salonico", Sephardic Folk Songs from Salonica (Lyra), Mediterranea (Sounds True, USA/ Lyra), The Virgin Maries (Lyra), Terra Nostra, a live CD licensed by ECM Records in 2003 and a new production by ECM, result of creative collaboration with producer and label founder Manfred Eicher: Sumiglia, which was released in March 2005.

Aziza Mustafa-Zadeh

admin — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:49:01 +0000

Daughter of Vagif Mustafa-Zadeh, pianist who developed a fusion between jazz and traditional music of Azerbaijan at the beginning of the 60's, singer and pianist: Aziza Mustafa Zadeh was born in 1969 and, soon, began studies as a classical pianist at the Baku Conservatory, his hometown.

His early passion for jazz on the one hand, and the desire to reinterpret traditional music and songs from their land, became the startup for one of the most fascinating styles that - from Asia- have come to the West.

Rim Banna

admin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:01:00 +0000

“...a voice that is at once disconcertingly youthfull and anything but childish...”

(The Daily Telegraph).

Folk, jazz and rock, backgrounds for words of Mahmoud Darwish, Zuhaira Sebbagh, and other contemporary Palestinian poets, singing about the hopes, fears and feelings of a suffering people. Received with enthusiasm by the Arab world and the international comunity, Rim Banna performances present a post-modern music, connecting traditional Arab song with the most contemporary sounds.
The Palestinian singer, lyricist and composer Rim Banna was born in Nazareth, in the Galilee. She studied music and singing in the High Institute for Music “Gnesins” in Moscow. She graduated in 1991 after six years of academic studies, and specialized in modern singing and conducting singing ensembles.
Rim Banna presents the modern Palestinian Arabic song, which has been received with enthusiasm by the Arab world and the International community. Her songs are categorized as a post modern and highly appreciated in the Arab world, being considered as a new form of contemporary Arabic song, that promises a bright future for the Arabic music, both in the Arab World and at the international level. Rim Banna´s performances are very demanded in the Arab countries, from the late 80`s.
Her participation in the colective album:”Lullabies from the axis of evil” produced by the Norwegian label KKV, together with Sarah Jane Morris, Nina Hagen or Lila Downs, opened international doors to Rim Banna´s live performances. Rim have played live shows in France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Russia, Kazakstan, Portugal, Romenia, Denmark, Sweden, Egypt, Jordania, Tunis, Morocco, Canada among other countries. Rim Banna won in 2002, the National Prize for the Arts of the Palestinian Authority.
Rim has currently 9 albums published. After “The mirrors of my soul” produced by the Norwegian company KKV, and distributed internationally, she just relased “Seasons of Violet” also with KKV, a brilliant production, on the halfway between Arab music, jazz and pop, on which the voice of Rim shines over great contemporary arrangements.

Rabih Abou Khalil

admin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:00:31 +0000

One of Lebanon's international artists, born and raised in the cosmopolitan Beirut of the 60's and 70's, Rabih learned to play the oud (the king instrument of Arab music ) at the tender age of 4 years. The Lebanese civil war, forced him to leave his country in 1978 to study classical flute in Munich in Munich Academy of Music with Walter Theurer. Studies of classical Western music allowed him to combine the theory of Arabic music with diverse other styles. While classical Oud instrumentalists strove to imitate the human voice inflections, Rabih Abou Khalil explored new paths for the instrument. Currently Rabih's technique are recomended as study material for jazz guitarists, while his compositions comprise a summary of centuries of Arab culture, without sound, even remotely, as traditional Arab music.

Rabih Abou Khalil has established itself as avant-garde composer and one of the most renowned musicians of the oud. Not only because their compositions are timeless but also because it raises questions that nobody dared to take before getting create its own language. Commissioned by the South West German Radio, wrote a very unusual composition for string quartet. The release by the famous Kronos Quartet was the highlight of the Stuttgart Jazz Summit in 1992. In his CD: "Arabian Waltz" with the Balanescu Quartet managed to integrate the string quartet (for centuries the queen ensemble for Western classical music) in Arabic music and language.

His last work "in Portuguese”, is a new adventure: the composition of a full concert inspired by the Fado. Ricardo Ribeiro's voice one of the most dedicated young fado (also involved in the film "Casa de Fados by Carlos Saura) sings contemporary melodies that retain both the essence of Fado, such as the Arabic roots of Rabih Abou Khalil. All this on an upbeat contemporary jazz, halfway made between the North-American drummer, Jarrod Cagwin, bassist French: Michel Godard and Italian accordionist Luciano Biondini, all partners of Rabih musical adventures since the early 90's.

Yacine & the Oriental Groove

admin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:43:35 +0000

Yacine Belhacene was the leader and singer of Cheb Balowski and Nour, two bands who defined the urban / mestizo sound from Barcelona of the early 2000s. Re-imagined as Yacine & the Oriental Groove, his music matured, without losing a bit of energy. The sound is urban, hard but sophisticated at once.
The electric oud of Yannis Papaioannou, full of wah wah and effects, naturally draws Eastern Mediterranean melodies over North African, reggae or pop rhythms. Sometimes as if we were in a return of the 60's groups, sometimes traditional, but always very intense. Keyboards accentuate the feeling of psychedelic group, expanding soundscapes, while the rhythm section: bass, drums and percussion, masterfully maintains the rhythms of chaabi, rock, reggae or funk, giving to the ensemble the drive to convert a concert of Yacine & The Oriental Groove into an experience that moves simulta- neously brain, feet and over all: the soul.

La Musgaña

admin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:11:18 +0000

La Musgaña offers us a view of all the instrumental music from the Castilian meseta exploring the essence of Castile’s rich tradition and developing the aesthetic possibilities of a cultural heritage with so much racial mix.

Europe and Africa, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic have all left their mark on the centre of the Iberian peninsula, and any reference to their art or music finds its reflection in our own Castilian culture, enabling us to continue with a tradition which, far from being static, has imbibed every source it has found on its way.

With an enormous wealth of rhythms and styles from religious offertories and peasant dances: the charradas, ajechaos and charros of Salamanca and Zamora; the bailes corridos of Avila; the pindongos from Caceres, and the dances, airs and songs of Leon or Burgos, to the jotas, songs of supplication, romances and Christmas carols from Madrid, Segovia or Valladolid, La Musgaña reveals to us a whole range of native, ethnic and contemporary instruments which provide the perfect timbre at every moment of this creative look at the deepest roots of our culture.

Trio Joubran

admin — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:01:07 +0000

Samir Joubran was born in Nazareth (Israel), son of a renowned oud luthier and a singer. He began playing the oud at the age of 5 years and at 9 began his studies at the Music Institute of Nazareth. Also graduated from Mohamed Abdul Wahab Conservatory in Cairo.

According to himself, his music is inspired by the legacy and the Palestinian dream of a peaceful Palestinian state. Hi is one of the most talented Arab oudists, but ironically is forbidden to play on most of the Arab world because its condition of Israeli citizen.

In 2003 he began playing with his brother Wissam Joubran, and they released the album "Tamaas" in the same year, considered a masterpiece arising out of innate talent, deep knowledge of the oud and improvisational ability of the two brothers. Wissam also inherited his father's profession, and is the first luthier of Arab origin in joining the Andoni Stradivari Institute in Italy.

Adnan Joubran joined his two brothers in 2004 to form "Le trio Joubran" and published the album "Radan"in March 2005. Adnan made his debut with his brothers in Paris at the age of 15 years (currently 18) and is regarded as a prodigy by them.

Together they have captured the ears of Western Europe, also have traveled around the world with his music. They have also starred in the documentary "Improvisation" (Raed Andoni, 2005), which tells how the two older brothers teach the small Adnan for his debut with them in Paris, immersing us in the daily life of this unique and marvelous family, Joubran.