Vladiswar nadishana biography books

Vladiswar Nadishana and Julia Surba

Two incredible creative human beings from ancient Kuzhebar. Nadishana plays pretty much every instrument you can imagine and some more and composes original and highly unique and beautiful music. Julia creates art in form of Pyrography and designs inspired by the Kuzhebarian culture. Check out their website and their instrument shop

Richard Ekre-Suzzi

Amazing Composer, Pianist Bansuri Virtuoso and Improviser. Part of the Trio &#;Aranya&#; with Mauricio Garay and myself.  Check out his website for examples of his film work and his various ensembles.

Mauricio Garay

Mauricio plays and designs his own instruments in the guitar family. His music lives somewhere between Flamenco, Gismonte, Medieval and Ambient music. We met first in the ensemble &#;Mishra&#; and nowadays play together in the trio &#;Aranya&#; with Richard Ekre-Suzzi.

River Guerguerian

a good friend and always an inspiration. He got me interested in mounting frame drum sets and picking up the Cajon. He’s touring regularly with Omar Faruk Tekbilek and his trio Free Planet Radio. Stay tuned for the release of his solo CD, some of the most beautiful percussion music I have heard.

Glen Velez

The man who started the modern frame drum trip. Without him the frame drum community wouldn’t be half of what it is today and I would follow a different profession. If you know a little bit about frame drums, you know his work and what he did for the instrument. Check out his website and the work with his wife Lori:

Robinson

has been one of the first frame drummers active on the web. Already back when I started to play, his website was one of the best and most inspiring online resources. He is also organizing the NAFDA frame drum festival events and performing with his wife Ray among many others. Visit his amazing website:

Miranda Rondeau

I met Miranda first at NAFDA in New Jersey She is highly active in the woma

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CZECH REPUBLIC

Petr Jasinčuk

Influenced by Jonathan Cope, Vladiswar Nadishana, Vladimir Markov, and Áron Szilágyi, Petr is one of the most enthusiastic members of the Czech jew’s harp community. He is organizing public and personal workshops and wishes to popularize the instrument. In , he organized the first Czech jew’s harp festival called “Festival Jiná Dimenze” (Festival of Different Dimension). He plays within a band called Nigunatica. IJHS Board member since

ITALY

Alessandro Zolt

Anthropologist and ethnomusicologist from Turin University, his researches focus on folk music, popular instruments and organology. He made an important study of the jew’s harp in Valsesia and is currently working on a book with Prof. Alberto Lovatto on the Valesia ancient jew's harp traditions and production. His ongoing research centers on alpine musical instruments and their presence in ethnographic and other museums. He is also musician and plays jew's harp, accordion, hurdy gurdy, bagpipes, and whistles. He plays in some musical groups: Autre Chant, Kitchen Implosion, and Tradhuo. IJHS Board member since

FRANCE

Sam Mourot

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NETHERLANDS

SWITZERLAND

Philippe Dallais

Expert in the following fields: world history and ethnomusicology of jew’s harp, instruments in collections, and visual representations. Promotion of the instrument through courses, lectures, publications, organization of concerts, and cultural mediation in museums or in schools. IJHS Board member since

SAKHA REPUBLIC (Yakutia)

Varvara Stepanova

Performer of traditional genres of folklore of the Sakha people. Singer of the tradittional Sakha circular dance oһuohai. Titles: The Master of the Wolrd Culture (), Achiever of Culture of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (), Khomusist-improviser (). At Yakut Music College named after v she

Vladiswar Nadishana is a Russian multi-instrumentalist and composer, who creates his own path in music, design, dancing, rites and other life processes.

His music style is ethnic fusion, ethnic jazz or world fusion &#; the creative synthesis of different musical traditions of the world on the basis of contemporary technologies.

In , along with studying at the Cinema Engineers Institute in Saint Petersburg, Vladiswar Nadishana began his self-education in playing guitar. Then he mastered other instruments like fretless bass guitar, sitar, mandola, chanzy, jew&#;s harp, ethnopercussion (darbuka, jembe, kalangu, udu, frame drums); winds (bansuri, quena, kalyuka, zhaleyka, gayda). In addition, he has created some experimental musical instruments: dzuddahord, pruzhingum, plastrimbaphon, rablorrum, ghostcatcher, pin-sansa, spring-pivot-gamelan, banbang (beer and coffee-tins), etc.

In he founded his first group Soulbuilding Society together with Lavrenty Mganga, then he played in Ensemble Ri,with Lavrenty and Youl (). He also launched two other projects with Youl: phonic Duet () and The Fourth Race ().

-was the foundation year of a trio Russian-Tuvan Karma Knot with a throat singer from Tuva, Ayas Holazhyk. Vladiswar also played in the group Capercaillies at the Treshold of Eternity.

In Berlin he worked with famous ethno DJ Genetic Drugs and with Ramesh Weeratunga, a musician from Sri Lanka . All these groups and artists create music based on an experimental synthesis of musical traditions from all over the world (ethno jazz, ethno fusion, new world music etc.)

Since Vladiswar lives in Tibercul, the biggest ecovillage of the world. There he established The Department of Sound Microsurgery (DSM) . DSM is a creative research laboratory, tackling a wide variety of project: from mastering unknown ancient musical instruments to investigating the influence of modern sound electronics on the human energy structure. The Department researches also how musical instrumen

The Russian Ethnic folk/psych/ambient/Gothic/Electronic/World music group from St. Petersburgband THEODOR BASTARD visits the Netherlands again in March. On March 18th in de Peppel in Zeist to be exact. Their unique performance on the Castlefest stage in was one of the highlights that year. If you have missed them you can see them in the Peppel or at Castlefest The band has already released some of the best traditional folk/ world music albums so far with Pustota, Ouikomenie and Vetvi. Mastermind Fedor Svoloch found some time to answer some of our questions.

Can you tell us more about your inspiration when you create music?

We are always inspired by nature - we travel a lot not just for the concert tours but for camping trips too - in the wild. And of course we are inspired by our native northern land. Ladoga, Karelian Isthmus - these are our places of power. This is our land where we grew up and I think our sound would not exist without this Karelian influence. When you go away to the islands in the North of Ladoga you find yourself in a very different world, in another dimension. Not a soul around, only you and nature. There are nests of gulls, there are vipers. Ladogian sea calfs go out to the rocks. They are wholly amazing, with black abyssal eyes.

When can we expect new studio material from you? Will it be in line with Vetvi or will it sound different?

The worst thing for a musician is to become predictable. Our band will continue to set before ourselves the new objectives which are the challenges for us, musicians, and we can not predict what will be the result. When I'm asked about a sequel to Vetvi I answer the sequel will not be. We'll try to create something new. It looks like a travel to unknown lands. When we started to compose Vetvi we didn't know what we would reach. The main idea guided us: an album about the Russian North - that what we know. The album Oikoumene was the view to outer space, the album