At Shisha Cafe, Pune. The line up on 23 November looks really good. I can't go as I'm traveling on those days, but some of you may be interested. By the way, Shisha Cafe provides a lovely ambience with their Mojito pitchers, draft beer and Berry rice and kebabs
Subject: Fwd: JAZZ FEST bands profile
DACH
Performing on thu 22 Nov - 7:15 pm
Line up
David Six - piano
Andrej Prozorov - saxophones
Abhinav Khokhar-bass
Mathias Ruppnig - drums ,
DACH is a half Austrian, half Ukrainian ensemble rooted in Jazz, Folk and Improvised
Music.
Before the group was formed in Berlin in 2012, the members of the quartet performed
and learned from giants of Jazz like Joe Zawinul, Dave Liebman & Bill Frisell.
This is DACH’s second time in the Indian subcontinent. All four members of the band
contribute with their compositions to create a creative and contemporary jazz sound
with a respect to the tradition of improvised music.
DACH’s latest Album RADIO LIBERTY is an artistic response to the Ukrainian revolution.
„Radio Liberty inevitably leads to bursts of euphoria“ - Bird is the Worm (Music Magazine,
USA)
SUPERGOMBO
performing on thu 22nov -8:45pm
Line up :
Etienne Kermarc -Bass
Riad Klaï -Guitar
David Doris - Percussions
Aurélien Joly - Trumpet
Jerome Bartolome - Saxophone
Romain Nassini - Keyboards Wendlavim Zabsonre - Drums
SUPERGOMBO is an exciting new offshoot of the cultural blend made in France. Their Afrofunk sound is probably coming from the Tout Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo and the Headhunters, blended with influences such as Senegalese Mbalax, Congolese Soukous, Funk and Jazz.
SUPERGOMBO’s seven musicians also know how to slow down and take their time. They borrow other influences from Bamako to Ouagadougou, with a stopover in la Guillotière, a lively Lyon neighborhood known for its own cultural mix.
SUPERGOMBO really wants to take us all on a trip and get us on the dance floor . From his father’s years in Africa, Etienne Kermarc inherited the West African sounds – which he blended with his own jazz idiom. His fellow travelers are Aurélien Joly and Nacim Brahimi with their horns, Romain Nassini and Riad Klaï for the harmony, David Doris from Reunion Island and Wendlavim Zabsonré from Burkina Faso on percussions and drums – all of them involved in the writing and arrangements.
SUPERGOMBO offers an African suite that glides and shimmies its way from East to West, and from the West Indies to the Far East!
It should come as no surprise that SUPERGOMBO enjoys using rhythmic repetition and sometimes flirts with electronic trance. Their music never forgets its roots, though, nor the stories they tell.
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AUROVILLE ALL STARS
performing on friday 23 Nov 7:15 pm
Line up
Maarten Visser...sax
Jens ....bass
Jeoraj George ..drums
MV3 (Maarten Visser Trio) will play a set of new original repertoire by Maarten Visser this year at Shisha Jazz Festival 2018.
The trademark open approach to structure and improvisation is intact but compositionally the music has taken a turn, scavenging and leeching on to the musical past and present of the individual musicians, looking for sound.
Biography Maarten Visser (1972)
Between 1994 and 1998 Maarten Visser studies saxophone at the ‘Brabants Conservatorium (Netherlands), composes for a number of groups he plays for.
After finishing conservatory in 1998 he goes to Chennai (India) to study carnatic music – which doesn’t go very far..
In 2000 he starts a collaboration with choreographer Padmini Chettur, composes music for ‘Segment of a Solo’ (2000), ‘Fragility’ (2001), ‘3 Solos’ (2003), ‘Paperdoll’ (2005)’, PUSHED (2006), Beautiful Thing 1 (2008), Beautiful Thing 2 (2011), Walldancing (2012) Varnam (3 channel video-installation, 2016).
Jens:is classically trained in violin and guitar (Mozarteum Salzburg, Austria). As co-founder of the “Modern String Quartet” he has performed over 1000 concerts in 6 years while at the same time performing with renowned musicians, such as Mercedes Sosa, Joan Baez, Charlie Mariano and Konstantin Wecker. Since more than 25 years he works as musician, composer, arranger, producer and music educator in Auroville. During the past fifteen years he has mainly focused on contemporary improvised music and has been touring in India, Europe and the United States. Holger has been teaching a large variety of skills to young enthusiastic music students. At present he is setting up a Music Academy for higher music studies in Auroville, which aims at opening its gates to dedicated student in 2018.
Jeoraj George was trained at Drumtech, a college for drummers in U.K. He graduated bagging the top student award from his batch. After returning to India he has been teaching and performing with various bands in India. He has conducted Workshops on Drum techniques and concepts for various companies and music schools in different parts of India. He has performed in some of the major music He has shared the stage with some of the eminent musicians of India like Dr.L.Subramaniam, Shashank, Amit Heri, Madhav Chari,Louis Banks,John Antony,Mishko M’ba,Dondieu Divin,Shankar Mahadevan, Hariharan, Sudha Raghunathan etc.He has also performed for various commercial film music projects by A.R.Rahman, Harris Jeyaraj, Karthik Raja, and Yuvan Shankar Raja in India and abroadl
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MIND FLO
Performing on friday 23 Nov 8:45pm
Line up
Simon Moullier - Vibraphone
Sharik Hasan - Piano/Synthesizer
Alexander L. J. Tóth - Bass
Anthony A. Tóth - Drums
The birth of MND FLO began as a trio between Pianist, Sharik Hasan, Bassist Alexander L. J. Tóth, and
Drummer Anthony A. Tóth. For them, it was one of those stories where they met and everything just clicked from the start. The trio originally met in Boston, while studying at the Berklee College of Music - a time of endless musical experimentation, and the beginning of a meaningful friendship that has lasted throughout the years.
The rich heritage between the members of MND FLO is something that's highly influential to all of them, and they often find themselves being asked about where they all come from. Hailing from vastly different parts of the world including India, France, Trinidad, Hungary, and Canada, MND FLO has found a never-ending pool of inspiration to draw from within this diversity. "To us, one of the most beautiful things about creating music is digging into those roots and incorporating elements of your own culture within the music".
Another concept that the group aims to achieve within their music is the idea, or interpretation of what they like to call "Flo". They describe Flo as a feeling where everything fits into place, allowing for a sense of seamlessness and being fully immersed in the music. Aside from music, they say Flo can relate to everyday life. There's Flo in the way you dress, there's Flo in the way you speak, it's in the mind, and it's almost always present when the four of them come together.
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AHIMSA
Performing on sat 24th Nov 7:15pm
Line up
Matthias Müller - Guitar
Dominique di Piazza - Bass
Andrea Marchesini - Drums
Neyveli S Radhakrishna-Double violin
AHIMSA is a four-piece world music ensemble.
The group grew out of a chance meeting in 1999 of Munich-based guitarist Matthias Muller and South Indian violinist S. Radhakrishna, which blossomed into friendship, mutual admiration and eventually a musical partnership. With the addition of two ace Indian percussionists and a bassist, the line-up of Ahimsa was born, and their two albums to date, `Seven Steps to Liberty’ and `What is the Nature of Spirit?´ have acquired broad critical acclaim.
In 2012 Ahimsa developed the desire to change the line-up and become more ‚jazzy‘ and more ‚modern‘ and ended up with the new Ahimsa Quartet featuring world-class bass-player Dominique DiPiazza( John Mclaughlin, Bireli Lagrene, Nelson Veras etc... ) and Andrea Marchesini on drums who performed with Jonas Hellborg and Shawn Lane ….
In Ahimsa’s fiery compositions, the complex rhythmic structures and raga improvisations of Carnatic music are extemporaneous, yet meticulously balanced with the harmonic diversity of western classical music and the unlimited expression of jazz. The band creates daring and compelling explorations, their musicianship is superb and their live performances are incendiary.
Attesting to their dazzling virtuosity, the band’s individual members have collaborated with a veritable who´s who of modern music-from Pandit Ravi Shankar, John McLaughlin, Shawn Lane, Dr. L. Subramaniam to Bireli Lagrene and Pandit V.M. Bhatt-to name just a few.
MANY ROOTS ENSEMBLE
Performing on sat 24th Nov 8:45pm
Line up
Rohit Gupta ....trumpet & keys
Ryan Safari....sax
Abhishek Debsikdar ....drums
Subid Khan .....guitars
Souvik Bhattacharya...bass
Anand Bhagat..vocals & percussion
MANT ROOTS ENSEMBLE , a band
of young & talented musicians based in Bombay dares to delve into different genres unlike any other band around .The core members namely Subid, Souvik & Abhishek have had various line-ups inviting musicians from all over the country to present varied styles in music such as Reggae, Jazz, World Music, Afrobeat.
We at Shisha have included this bandour jazzfest to showcase local talent too.
The band will be closing the jazzfest with a repertoire of Afrobeat (Fela, Astake...)
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