Kuryokhin Festival held April 20 to 28, with the stars of world music

C 20 to 28 April in the middle of the "Home" and "Tochka" club, the 8th International Festival Sergei Kuriokhin called "FGC 2005." It is not known to us in understanding SKIF. At the Moscow Festival Kuryokhin stars appear ethnic, jazz and improvised music - Volkov Trio, Japanese orchestra Shibusashirazu and other stars of the music world. Sergei Kuriokhin memorial festival held since 1996 - the year of his tragic death. Sergei Kurehin from this life in July 1996, and from September to December of this year in Moscow Nikolai Dmitriev, who is also no longer with us, a three-month festival mezhduzhanrovy PASSION Sergei, which provided the audience his film, theater productions with his music , an exhibition of artists - connected Kuryokhin friends and of course the very different music, one way or another with the work of Sergei. In New York in January 1997 and in May 1998 Festival SKIF and SKIF-1-2 was held. They took the musicians from Russia, the U.S., Europe and Japan. SKIF festival was invented and first implemented a native of Leningrad, a New Yorker, cellist Boris Raiskin. After the first SKIF Boris tragically killed, and a second New York SKIF has his friend, New York-based producer David Gross. In 1998, he moved to Russia SKIF and since then almost every year (except in 1999) was carried out in parallel in St. Petersburg and Moscow. The festival will be held in St. Petersburg Sergei Kuriokhin Foundation in Moscow - the agency has long arms, which he founded and Kurehin Dmitriev and was taken on the basis of its cultural center HOUSE. But Moscow Festival was originally a completely different way. In St. Petersburg, he brings to life the idea of a total power kurehinskuyu Popular Mechanics, not limited by time or space, no genre boundaries. All activities are compressed into a weekend, concerts are held in parallel on multiple sites located in the same building, literally from dawn to dusk. For a weekend in which to perform dozens if not hundreds of groups and soloists of all artistic direction - from amateur bards avant professionals. For the public, there is a problem of choice because it does not "learn" physically not proposed as a tenth of the total area. In Moscow - on the contrary - the festival is in the middle of the stationary HOUSE format instead: it takes 1-2 weeks, and for the evening are the only two to three compositions, so choosing a self makes. This difference formats, actually end up on the fact that the Moscow and St. Petersburg Scythians simply were different festivals, are to perform in the capital led mainly professional chosen and have musicians, and from the perspective of home - the best of best. Accordingly, since 2003, Nikolay Dmitriev even decides to change the name of the festival FGC - Festival Sergei Kuryokhin. Although the center HOUSE decrypts this abbreviation is also a festival of contemporary culture, in fact, FGC - is primarily a music festival that new improvised music that was closest Kuryokhin pianist, composer and conductor. Last year SKIF turn one of its program directors and the remaining St. Petersburg, the team decides, Moscow a social club, "branch" of his Scythians. Thus, the Scythians and the final line-up of FGC. Sun abbreviation FGC can now decipher even a festival (and not so much) heavy culture. Home, of course, still with the Scythians, more than that, much of the modern and the severity of the artists who will perform at the FGC, in Russia it takes work home, and they travel to St. Petersburg with our submission. Festival opens to say so, the Japanese "Popular Mechanics" - a Shibusashirazu Orchestra (Japan), which was inspired by some accounts, by the experience of Sergey Kuryokhin: Sun, April 20 to 28 in Moscow FGC. Actually, everything must be said, by just that the show Shibusashirazu -. "There was Sasha Highway" like gambling, as an attempt to reproduce the tongue twister necessary, the number of participants and the choreography of contemporary Japanese dance 'Butoh' orchestra Shibusashirazu performance space more than the house, and we present them in a new area of the club "Point". The exact opposite of the Japanese - "illogical" ALOG Norwegian and English duo Galen Klyushnikov - singing to the piano. Under the pseudonym "Nick Galen" hidden Briton, a very remarkable and in Russia (and Sweden) is known, and not just as a musician. Who is - you learn by coming to the concert. If we were talking about duets, it is our own, Peter: Tatiana Kalmykov (voice, overtone singing, harp, Didgeridoo (from "exotic" groups "Ole Lukkoye)) and Alex Levine (accordion, piano), recently returned from the Amsterdam home in St. Petersburg, the quartet "Tops yes roots." New media technology is not only in the Netherlands at the Utrecht Festival practiced innovative media arts IMPACT (from there to Moscow two programs of experimental videos will bring), but also in the Faroe Islands, where Dane Kristian Vester, aka Goodiepal retirement. Unlike their German-Dutch duo STAALPLAAT SOUNDSYSTEM and Austrian Vegetable Orchestra - each complex sound installations are extracted from simple vinyl objects and vegetarian noise of completely edible. His first visit to Russia Swiss quartet RONIN. If we consider that such an improvised minimalism only in Australia (known trio The Necks), then Nick Bartsh rights in Europe, he -. "Ronin", a lone samurai (not with, but not related to the same kinoboeviku) If the FGC and known and often performed, including our musicians to perform in the house. But FNC not be a hard, if they do not offer anything new. The VOLKOVTRIO turns into a quartet with Andrei Kotov, director of the ensemble of sacred music "Syrian". A father and son Makarov (Smolensk Paris) are the two electronicians - Frenchman Gilles Aubry and Russian Alexei Borisov. Polish guitarist Andrew Izdebsky (free improvisation) is often in our house. But since his last appearance Andrew with his "boys trio" had a remarkable success in the most prestigious in our (Poland), part of the World Festival of Contemporary Music "Warsaw Autumn". As you can see, only shows a list of participants in 2005 FGC - take very modern and very seriously so early music culture. 8th International Festival Sergei Kuriokhin Festival of Contemporary Culture FGC 2005 Festival program: 20 April, Wednesday Shibusashirazu Orchestra (Japan) / crazy Japanese pop music / FESTIVAL OPENING! The association POINT (Leninsky Prospekt 6) begins at 20:00 clock 21st April, Thursday Duet GALEN-KLUSHNIKOV (Great Britain - Russia) BOYS BAND TRIO (Poland) / avant-funk-punk / 22 April, Friday Budapest Klezmer Band (Hungary) / Traditional Klezmer / 23 April, Saturday Vegetable Orchestra (Austria) / Vegetarian noise / April 24, Sunday Quartet Fyodor Volkov-Starostin-CATS (Russia) / ethno-jazz-rock / April 25, Monday Programs International Festival of Audiovisual Arts IMPACT (Netherlands) / Media Arts / April 26, Tuesday, a group of RONIN (Switzerland) / minimalist jazz / 27 April, Wednesday STAALPLAAT SOUNDSYSTEM (Germany - Netherlands) Duo ALOG (Norway) Quartet Makarova Aubrey-Borisov (Russia-France) Goodiepal (Denmark) / experimental sounds - sound installation / 28 Thursday, April draft SWA ( Petersburg) and guests: OVO Theatre (Moscow), Lena Sergeev (Moscow) and other / world music / MORE ON PARTICIPANTS: 20 April, Wednesday Shibusashirazu Orchestra (Japan) Club Point 20,00 / crazy Japanese theater / music on the planet, the craziest band Shibusashirazu suit breathtaking spectacular show at Club POINT, opened the eighth international festival of contemporary culture Sergey Kuryokhin. Orchestra names in Russian as "light", which gathers consistent temperament group, which leads to the greatest rock and jazz festivals around the world, a stadium audience and intimate theater is translated. 21st April Thursday Duet GALEN-KLUSHNIKOV (Great Britain - Russia) Ingredients: Nick Galen (Nik Galen) - solo, improvisation, voice Igor Klyushnikov - piano in Moscow "songs about the main" will be performed for the third time (the first two performances are held in Istanbul and St. Petersburg). Nike plans to Galena - Publisher Russian versions, which no doubt have a chance to become known in our country, dark and melancholic music lovers. BOYS BAND TRIO (Poland) Ingredients: Izdebsky Andrzej (Andrzej Izdebski) - baritone guitar Michael GOSH (Michal Gos) - drums Michael Gorchinskiy (Michal Gorczynski) - tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, two part Boys Band Trio young, but very respectable musicians (members of the powerful music schools in Poland - Warsaw and Gdansk). Founder of Andrzej Izdebsky unique plays baritone guitar. Drummer Michael Gosha journalists. Considered one of the most talented musicians of the new generation in Poland The third team member - Michael Gorchinskiy plays tenor saxophone and bass clarinet, is an improviser, composer and performer. Performances, which he brings on stage at concerts Boys Band Trio is not only interesting from a musical point of view, but also entertaining. April 22, Friday Budapest Klezmer Band (Hungary) / traditional klezmer / Composition: Ferenc Sycamore (Ferenc Javori) - Piano, Vocal Bence Gazda (Bence Gazda) - violin, vocals Istvan Kohan (Istvan Kohan) - clarinet, bass clarinet Gábor Tamás (Gabor Tamas) - trombone, vocals Anna Nagy (Anna Nagy) - Accordion CIS Gabor (Gabor Kiss) - bass Veg BALATS (Vegh Balazs) - drums, percussion Esther BIRO (Eszter Biro) - vocal performances Budapest Klezmer went band return to the audience happy days when the traditional Jewish music was part of everyday life and festive cultural communities in Central and Eastern Europe. The home of the Klezmer - The band was formed in 1990 in the heart of Europe. Creativity of the group - a fascinating musical experiment in Jewish folklore. Music for the band, says the group's founder and music director Franz Sycamore (Ferenc Javori). Other members of the group - also great musicians, most of whom are graduates of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. April 23, Saturday Vegetable Orchestra (Austria) / vegetarian noise / composition: Nikolaus Gansterer (Nicholas Gansterer) KAISER Barbara (Barbara Kaiser) Stefan Kuhn (Stefan Kuhn) Maynharter Mathias (Matthias Meinharter) Joerg Piringer (Jorg Piringer) RAYTERMAYER Ernst (Ernst Reitermaier ) BCC Richard (Richard Repey) SHLEGL Ingrid (Ingrid Schlögl) SHTAYNAUER Marie (Marie Steinauer) Tamara Wilhelm (Tamara Wilhelm) Vegetable Orchestra - the concert and performance, and a salad! In short, nine musicians playing strictly black suits attention on vegetables. After the speech, all the tools are consumed audience. Musical frequency band is wide - from traditional African musical elements of classical European concert music and experimental electronica. All orchestral instruments are made from vegetables. Where it is necessary for the sound, an extra kitchen utensils - knives, blenders and juicers. Carrots and cucumbers - instead of guitars, flutes and whistles "kornishonofon" and "radish-marimba" - instead of a laptop and a sampler. All this creates like nothing on earth, the brand-new, not-and-garden house, but quite vysokosvetsky tone, sound, can not be achieved with traditional tools. Marinated sound ideas and canned noise tradition spread throughout the world with the growth rate of carbon! April 24, Sunday Quartet Fyodor Volkov-Starostin-CATS (Russia) / ethno-jazz-rock / Composition: Leonid Fedorov - vocals, guitar Sergey Starostin - singing, folk wind Andrei Kotov - vocals, hurdy gurdy, psaltery Vladimir Volkov - bass One of the "Star" of the compositions FGC 2005th Each participant individually is a legend of Russian music. Leonid Fedorov - the undisputed leader of the avant-garde jazz-rock group "Auktsion." Andrei Kotov, the choir of Russian sacred music "Sirin". Vladimir Volkov - ". Volkovtrio" the most sought after at the moment new jazz musicians, we succeeded in the many Russian and international improvisers, initiator beat Sergei Starostin, the key experts and collectors of Russian folklore, was the last year for the BBC Wold Music Award nominations. April 25, Monday Programs International Festival of Audiovisual Arts IMPACT (The Netherlands) is a curator - Aren DANNEVIND I / IMPAKT Highlights 2003 II / pictures on Music / Media Art / International Festival of innovative media art IMPAKT place in Utrecht (Netherlands) since 1988 every year more than 100 audio-visual projects, including experimental films, video art, music and sound art, installation, performance and new media. In Moscow, the festival will have two of the program, "Impact Highlights of 2004" and "pictures of music." The first of these consists of the best works of last year's festival, which made the second - it's experimental videos by various authors, mostly Dutch. 26th April, Tuesday, a group of RONIN (Switzerland) / minimalist jazz / composition: Nick BARTSH (Nik Bartsch) - piano Caspar RAST (Kaspar Rast) - drums Björn Meyer (born Meyer) - bass Andy Pupato (Andi Pupato) - Percussion Group RONIN creates maximum effect with minimum means. Despite the multitude of influences - the band's music is strictly individual. It contains seemingly incompatible with the other elements of jazz, funk, classical, embienta, drum and bass, and also the sound of Japanese Noh theater. However, the group is not involved postmodern games to create its own new style. Attention of the public is such that the minimum variation of the main theme and phrasing, and the group, as it is a living, thinking, the development of the body, merging with the natural environment habitat ... "You think because you and the hands and ears" - the group's leader Nick Bartsh. It should say that both RONIN: Short version, and the younger brother of the famous group of the necks. 27th April Wednesday STAALPLAAT SOUNDSYSTEM (Germany - Netherlands) Ingredients: Geert Van Hobin (Geert - Jan Hobijn) Stabenou Carsten (Carsten Stabenow) Duet ALOG (Norway) Ingredients: Espen Sommer Eide (Espen Sommer Eide) - voice, electronics Dag-Are Hogan ( Dag-Are Haugan) - guitar, electronics Quartet Makarova Aubrey-Borisov (Russia-France) Composition: Vladislav Makarov - cello Evgeny Makarov - Guitar Gilles Aubry - Alexei Borisov electronics - electronics Goodiepal (Denmark) Christian Westermann (Kristian Vester) His show - a kind of performance - a lecture in various dialects of northern Europe. 28th April Thursday project SWA (Petersburg) and guests: OVO Theatre (Moscow), Lena Sergeev (Moscow) and other / world music / composition: Tatiana Kalmykov - voice, overtone singing, harp, didgeridoo Alex Levin - accordion, piano details online DOM www. dom.com.ru