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19:00 | Richard Galliano (France) |
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 Richard Galliano born December 12, 1950 in Cannes, France. In the past, there never seemed to have been one great artist associated with the accordion, an instrument that, because of its connotations, seemed as far removed from swing as it is possible to be. Then along came Richard Galliano, fired by an unrivalled determination to share his conviction that the accordion was worthy have a place at the heart of jazz alongside the saxophone and trumpet. Inspired by the admiration he felt for his friend Astor Piazzolla, creator of the Tango Nuevo, Galliano succeeded not just in doing this, but with his "new musette" style managed to breathe new life into a thoroughly French tradition that seemed to have got stuck. Son of the Italian-born accordion teacher Lucien Galliano, Richard started playing the instrument at the age of four. At the same time as he was learning the accordion, he also studied harmony, counterpoint and trombone at the Nice Conservatoire. It was the discovery of the music of Clifford Brown that introduced him to jazz, at the age of 14, and while he picked up his style of playing choruses, he found, to his amazement, that the accordion was almost unknown in this type of music. Galliano then got interested in Brazilian accordionists like Sivuca and Dominguinhos, discovered the American specialists who approached jazz (Tommy Gumina, Ernie Felice and Art Van Damme), and the top Italian players, Felice Fugazza, Volpi and Fancelli, turning his back completely on the traditional style of playing that dominated in France. In 1973 Galliano moved up to Paris where he impressed Claude Nougaro. He spent three years as arranger and conductor as well as composer in a group where he found himself playing alongside real jazz musicians. He also played on countless recordings by popular French artists like Barbara, Serge Reggiani, Charles Aznavour and Juliette Greco, and on film scores. From the beginning of the 1980s he was able to play much more often with jazz musicians from all backgrounds and improvise alongside them: these included Chet Baker (in Brazilian repertoire), Steve Potts, Jimmy Gourley, Toots Thielemanns, the cellist Jean-Charles Capon, with whom he cut his first disc, and Ron Carter, whom he paired up with to make an album in 1990. 1988 Richard Galliano creates the renown "Festival des Nuits de Nacre" in Tulle (France) and will be its artistic director between 1988 and 1992 (refer to the DVD production by Pierre Barouh, entitled "Accordeons". In 1991, following the advice of Astor Piazzolla, whom he had met in 1983 while working on incidental music for the Comedie Francaise, Galliano went back to his roots, and the traditional repertoire of Valses-Musette, Javas, Complaintes and Tangos that he had long disregarded. Taking a lead from the spirit of Gus Viseur and Tony Murena, he managed to rid the accordion of its old-fashioned image by working on the three-four rhythm, and introducing a whole new rhythmic concept and harmonic style to adapt it to jazz. He announced his new approach on the CD New Musette that he recorded with Aldo Romano, Pierre Michelot and Philip Catherine for Label bleu, and it won him the Academie du Jazz's Django Reinhardt Prize for "French musician of the year" in 1993. This led on to a whole series of albums where Galliano, playing his trademark Victoria accordion, has shown his ease in adapting the instrument to the freedom of jazz. His assurance, mastery of phrasing, and ability to get a vast range of tone-colours from the accordion have meant that he has broken down musical barriers with an instrument that cuts across all genres. In 1996 he crossed the Atlantic to record his New York Tango with George Mraz, Al Foster and Bireli Lagrene, a disc that later won him a Victoire de la Musique prize. He started to gain an international reputation, and a host of new collaborations followed. He created some unusual instrumental pairing, getting together with artists ranging from Enrico Rava, Charlie Haden and Michel Portal (their 1997 disc Blow Up was a huge commercial success, selling more than 100,000 copies), to his fellow-accordionist Antonello Salis, in Italy, and the organist Eddy Louiss, in 2001. For years he played in a trio with Daniel Humair and Jean-Francois Jenny-Clarke (from 1993 until the death of the bass-player in 1998), and then returned to this format in 2004 with a "New York" rhythm, made up of Clarence Penn and Larry Grenadier. There have also been one-off collaborations with Jan Garbarek, Martial Solal, Hermeto Pascoal and Anouar Brahem, Paolo Fresu and Jan Lundgren, and Gary Burton, among others. In 1999 he presented his own compositions, with chamber orchestra accompaniment, together with pieces by Astor Piazzolla. This led to his 2003 homage Piazzolla Forever, in which he went back to playing the music of his mentor. Galliano is an exceptionally versatile musician, able to make his mark in all kinds of musical contexts, from solo appearances (like the Paris Concert from the Chatelet, which came out in 2009), to playing with a big band like the Brussels Jazz Orchestra, in 2008. His exceptional abilities as a soloist are now well-recognized, and he continues to explore a vast range of music, without ever losing that lyrical quality that infuses the ballads on Love Day that he recorded with Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Charlie Haden and Mino Cinelu, or the French Touch which allowed him to make the link between Billie Holiday and Edith Piaf, with the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. More info
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 Tesla Boy is charismatic frontman and producer Anton Sevidov, who from an early age learnt to speak the international language of music through his father's old vinyl collection that included Ray Charles, Prince, Stevie Wonder and Blondie. Tesla Boy is a Russian independent electropop (synthpop) band, which performs songs in English language. It was created by Anton Sevidov in August 2008. The band consists of four members - Anton Sevidov, Leonid Zatagin, Mikhail Studnitsyn and Stanislav Astakhov. The critics claim that the band’s music refers to the period of 80s revival, which gained traction in the end of the first decade of the 21st century. Lookatme.ru named Tesla Boy the best Russian band of 2009. Radio MAXIMUM named it "The breakthrough of 2009th among Russian artists". It has twice become the best Russian band according to LookAtMe. Tesla Boy Band is a regular guest of covers and spreads of many glossy American magazines, such as Interview, InStyle, Rolling Stone and famous Russian magazines, among which are Afisha and Sobaka. Tesla Boy is one of the most successful Russian music projects. The band has become the symbol of new Russian generation, who had listened only western music until Tesla Boy had appeared. No one could have imagined that the Band from Russia would appear on the pages of the British "Q" magazine, in the ipods of American Lady Gaga's sound-producer Martin Kierzenbaum and actor Jared Leto or would be published by cult French label Kitsune. Tesla Boy is the only modern Russian band, which has a really impressive schedule of foreign tours. The amount of application for Tesla Boy's concerts abroad has long acceded the band’s physical capacity. The previous season Tesla Boy were working on a second full-length plate The Universe Made of Darkness. This work in soloists' opinion is more personal than the debut album. Martin Dubka, one of the best English sound-producers, who worked with Ali Love, Cazals, Aeroplane and Tyson, also worked on The Universe Made of Darkness album. The first single from the new album of Tesla Boy has already been broadcasted and has settled down in the spring play-lists of the most popular DJs. The single "1991" revives the spirit of secret rave-parties, which were so popular in the end of the previous century. The second single "M.C.H.T.E." was solemnly presented on Noisey. The second album The Universe Made of Darkness was presented in Gorky Park in Moscow on May 25th 2013. There were more than twelve thousand people on the presentation. All music and lyrics is created by the members of the band; all the concept, format and sound decisions are made by the members of the Band. For this very moment Tesla Boy is an absolutely independent project. In Glav?lub Tesla Boy featuring young bands Mana Island and Gayana and the winner of the Russian TV-show "The Voice" Tina Kuznetsova will perform with their new program Night Tour. The upcoming concert will be a final show of Tesla Boy's Russian tour. More info
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