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His first solo album "Siete Cuerdas Tapatías" was released in Mexico 2015 presenting his pursuit to find
new musical sounds and possibilities within the contemporary Mexican guitar. The album received the
sponsorship of the Mexican Government.

His performance at the international Jalisco Jazz Festival 2016 sharing the stage in Teatro PALCCO with
John Beasley, Frost Ensemble, Toktli, Federico Sanchez, earn a nomination for ‘Best Jazz Concert Mexico 2016’ (Lunas del Auditorio Award). The Festival released a CD with highlights of the festival 2016, with the life track of Carlos Corona’s Song ‘Mezcal y Garoa’.

Undogmatic, open minded and playful, the band breaks the usual genre boundaries, following the tradition of developing their own vigorous style. A mixture of Funk / Socca / Ragga-Beats, coupled with West African percussion arrangements and wind instruments, inspired and influenced by Fela Kuti’s afrobeat and brass band of the Balkans.

Some songs are sung in Wolof, the native tongue of the Senegalese lead singer Abass Ndiaye, and tell about friendship, solidarity, search for knowledge, asks questions about his own roots and talk about dancing and celebrating the joy of life without having money.

The imaginary compositions and the classic trio format provide plenty of space for improvisation and interaction while the traditional roles often shift: Klampanis‘ lyrical bass at times becomes melodic center piece, the flamenco guitar is integral part of the rhythm and Hiroshi extends his percussion setup with pitched instruments such as Kalimba and Handpan. The musicians live in Athens, Madrid and New York and just as diverse is their sound that is inspired by jazz, chamber music, flamenco and other Mediterranean influences.

 

With experimental voice-acrobatics, prepared piano and strings, her compositions fuse archaic traditions and contemporary visions to outstanding soundcapes.

Since 2007 she performes together with her sister Natalie Meipariani, violinist, and her partner Giga Khelaia, cellist, as Russudan Meipariani Ensemble: transforming archaic traditions and contemporary influences into an enchanting universe of sounds, their
concerts are an magic invitation for crossing borders- between Georgia and Germany, between musical genres; out of their roots into a sounding world of cultural diversityuntamed, wild and magic.

Syriab Band performed concerts with Ensemble Reflektor, the orchestra of the National Higher Conservatory Lübeck, „Neues Kammerorchester Bremen“ and Trio d‘Iroise in Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck and Hannover. The musicians also conduct workshops. It is their vision to draw attention to oriental folklore, to spark interest, to inspire western musicians to improvise and try new approaches, and to spread the joy of music.
 

«Seven is Heaven» is originally a four hands piano piece built on a 7-count rhythm, inspired by a beat played with percussions during weddings and festive ceremonies in Morocco. Inspired by tradition, Myriam El Haïk, pianist and composer, uses processes of repetition, variation and layering of rhythmic and melodic patterns to constitute a piece that inscribes itself in a contemporary, minimalist and repetitive aesthetic but also in a peculiar genre of beat music open to other styles.

In 2018, when Myriam El Haïk met the trumpettist and composer Christoph Titz at the first Gnaoua Festival Berlin in WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN Christoph had the idea to remix the piece. He rearranged the seven is Heaven’s patterns among a different composition with an open instrumentation including, piano, trumpet, darbouka, electronic sounds …

The encounter of the two musicians gave to the original piece a new form that mixes a recorded electronic version with live acoustic performance creating a multicultural euphoric groove. For the Festival Creole, the duo El Haïk-Titz decided to invite Alaa Zouiten as a guest. The texture of the ‘oud and the talent of Alaa as musician and improviser should open «Seven is Heaven» to bright and colourful skies.

The WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN is sponsored by the Senate Departement for Culture and Europe.