edition of the ETHNO PORT Poznań Festival comes this year ...of an outstanding composer, vocalist...

7th edition of the ETHNO PORT Poznań Festival comes this year as a four-day event, from June 12th to June 15th.

The three festival stages will see performances by fifteen artists and groups who represent diverse, sometimes very remote cultures. The Festival, this genuine celebration of music, will begin with a concert of an outstanding composer, vocalist and instrumentalist, Dhafer Youssef. On the first day, you are also welcome to partake in the joy of music and dance in the Castle Courtyard courtesy of Poznański Dom Tańca. The following days will bring a true mosaic of musical traditions. There will be artists from Finland, Romania, India, Korea, Hungary, Congo, Turkey, USA, Jamaica, Brasil and Iran. Each day will aslo a feature a performance by artists from the Polish scene of world music. The invited artists do not differ only in terms of country or origins but also in the manner of approaching traditional material from which their music springs. Each and every one of them has their own way of rendering source material on stage: from meticulous reconstruction of the historical sounds to free and unconstrained use of the potential inherent in their harmonies and rhythms. The diversity of approach is also evident in the choice of the “tools”: traditional instruments go side by side with electric guitars and state-of-the-art electronics. Apart from the giving the audience an opportunity to get to know the “Other”, showing that creative freedom manifested in the artists’ choice is one of the major tasks we seek to accomplish when developing the programme of successive editions of the Festival. Besides concerts, which are Ethno Port’s core events, the audience may attend the accompanying events: meetings and film screenings (as part of the Ethno Dossier project, prepared by AMU’s Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology), music workshops and special activities for children. The Festival will once again transform the space in the very heart of Poznań: throughout the week, the car park in front of the castle will become a green meadow, showing how little is needed to change our surroundings into a friendly space.

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promoter: ZAMEK Culture Centre in Poznań

sponsors: Dalkia, Gaz System

Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and designated grant of the Poznań City Hall.

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Festival Director: Andrzej Maszewski / [email protected], tel. 607 609 003

Festival Coordinator: Bożena Szota / [email protected], tel. 607 609 031

Production: Andrzej Pazder / [email protected], tel. 607 609 026

Promotion: Grzegorz Bibro / [email protected], tel. 607 609 027

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PROGRAMME 12.06. Thursday______________________________________________________________________

20:00 opening concert: Dhafer Youssef (Tunisia) / The Grand Hall

22:00 concert - dance party with Dom Tańca Poznań / Castle Courtyard

13.06. Friday______________________________________________________________________

11:00 -14:00 music workshops / room 213

12:00 press conference with the artists / The Rehearsal Room

13:00 Ethno Dossier / New Pałacowe Cinema

16:00 -20:00 Little Ethno / The Rehearsal Room

c o n c e r t s

18:00 KAROLINA CICHA & BART PAŁYGA “In many a tongue” (Poland) / The Grand Hall

20:00 FANFARE CIOCĂRLIA (Romania) / car park

22:00 GANESH-KUMARESH (India) / Castle Courtyard

00:00 JAMBINAI (Korea) / The Grand Hall

from 23:30 festival club / Castle Courtyard & Dubliner Pub

14.06. Saturday_______________________________________________________________________

10:00 -14:00 „recreational” activities on the grass / car park




c o n c e r t s

16:00 TRANSKAPELA (Poland) / The Grand Hall

18:00 SÖNDÖRGŐ (Hungary) / Castle Courtyard

20:00 LES TAMBOURS DE BRAZZA (Republic of Congo) / car park

22:00 TAKSIM TRIO (Turkey) / Castle Courtyard

00:00 CHARMING HOSTESS (USA) / The Grand Hall


15.06. Sunday_____________________________________________________________________

10:00 -14:00 „recreational” activities on the grass / car park




c o n c e r t s

16:00 PEKKO KÄPPI (Finland) / The Grand Hall

18:00 TREBUNIE TUTKI & TWINKLE BROTHERS “Songs of Glory” (Poland/Jamaica) / car park

20:00 RENATA ROSA (Brasil) / The Grand Hall

22:00 HOSSEIN ALIZADEH & PEJMAN HADADI (Iran) / Castle Courtyard


DURING THIS YEARS FESTIVAL, VOCAL, DANCE AND INSTRUMENTAL WORKSHOPS WILL BE CONDUCTED BY RENATA ROSA, LES TAMBOURS DE BRAZZA AND HOSSEIN ALIZADEH & PEJMAN HADADI.

ARTISTS 12.06. Thursday______________________________________________________________________

DHAFER YOUSSEF

www.dhaferyoussef.com

A Tunisian virtuoso of oud, composer and singer, Youssef was born in 1967 in Teboulba, a small fishing village. His family, albeit not wealthy, was rich in musical traditions, boasting generations of muezzins among its members. 1990 marks a watershed in Youssef’s career as he decided to leave for Vienna where, spellbound by jazz and other genres, he took part in numerous jam sessions. Musical encounters with many brilliant artists, in particular with a number of top Scandinavian jazzmen are the source of Youssef’s major achievements. The artist has 8 albums to his credit, with Electric Sufi deserving particular attention, being a fascinating attempt to employ voice as an instrument. Likewise, the meeting of oud lute and electric music produced extraordinary results, which in 2003 and 2006 won the artist nominations forBBC World Music Award. His latest release, Birds requiem has been conceived as a film score. Youssef voice accompanies Hüsnü Senlendirici’s clarinet and Aytaç Dogan’s canun. The project also features musicians from earlier collaborations: guitarist Eivind Aarset, trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer, pianist Kristjan Randalu, double-bassist Phil Donkin and drummer Chander Sardjoe.

DOM TAŃCA POZNAŃ www.domtancapoznan.blogspot.com

Poznański Dom Tańca gathers musicians who explore the most interesting and the most archaic forms of dance and traditional music, instruments and performing practices. The core of their activity is associated with processional dance – the oldest form of celebrating the ritual of meeting. Polish folk dances represent the other aspect of their practices, with the stately kujawiak, mazurek , the sweeping polka, the old kontro (a modified contradance) or the mystical oberek. During the encounters the artists pay great attention to the presentation of disappearing or rare instruments, such as Polish bagpipe, dulcimer, concertina, bass, hurdy-gurdy, as well as to the art of story-telling and collective party. The originator and the driving force behind Poznański Dom Tańca is Jacek Hałas – accordionist, lyre player, singer, co-founder and member of numerous groups and bands.

http://www.dhaferyoussef.com/http://www.domtancapoznan.blogspot.com/http://www.etno.serpent.pl/jacekhalas/index.html

13.06. Friday________________________________________________________________________

KAROLINA CICHA & BART PAŁYGA

www.karolinacicha.eu

Two brilliant multi-instrumentalists, Karolina Cicha i Bart Pałyga,

join their forces in a joint project entitled “In many a tongue”,

which received the Grand Prix at the 16th

“Nowa Tradycja” festival

in 2013. The project enjoys constantly increasing recognition

in Poland and abroad. The concerts of both artist are a combination

of beautiful music and remarkable, though somewhat forgotten

poetry and exceptional stage personalities. “In many a tongue”

brings back, redefines and enlivens the culture of historical Podlasie,

where many nations and languages coexisted creating a unique

and rich culture which sadly faded into obscurity. Compositions

by Cicha and Pałyga merge the sound of archaic instruments

and modern means, while the songs are sung in nine different

languages. During the concert the audience will listen to lyrics

in Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Russian, Roma, Belarussian, Yiddish, Polish,

Tartar and Esperanto, and music performed on the combination

of samplers, loopers and ethnic instruments (morinhuur, dotar,

Jew’s harp, duduk, accordion, pipe, mandola). We will also hear the

archaic overtone singing.

FANFARE CIOCĂRLIA www.asphalt-tango.de/fanfare/artist.html

Translation of the band’s name offers a surprise: Fanfara Ciocarlia

stands for Lark’s Song. It is even more surprising when one listens

to the fastest, most efficient and funkiest brass band of the world.

The musicians come from Zece Prajini, a small village tucked away

somewhere in north-eastern Romania, whose beaten roads are

thronged by geese, horses and carts. The village is inhabited by 80

Gypsy families, who lead their traditional lives of farmers, subject

only to the change of seasons. In the communist years, the village

remained isolated, and this is probably why the old Ottoman

tradition of brass bands accompanying weddings and funerals

survived there, though it disappeared without a trace elsewhere

in Romania. In 1997, the band conquered Europe and then won

numerous fans in the USA, Asia and Australia. The musicians speak

only their Roma dialect, but their music is a universal means

of communication, a language understood all over the world.

Regardless of the place, the audience goes amok in much the same

way when they are hit by the juggernaut of Balkan funk, which

changes concerts into wild parties. The Times of London describes

them as a “heavy, monster sound”, while Fanfara’s recordings

introduced their incredible rhythms into dance clubs around

the globe.

http://www.karolinacicha.eu/http://www.asphalt-tango.de/fanfare/artist.html

GANESH-KUMARESH

www.ganeshkumaresh.org

Brothers Ganesh-Kumaresh come from Tamil Nadu, the Land of the Tamils, a southernmost state of India. They are among the most important performers and composers of the Carnatic music – the classical music of southern India. They began to perform at a very early age, reaching the first hundred concerts before they were 10. The violinists represented their homeland in such prestigious events as the Darbar Festival in London or the Asia Pacific Festival in Berlin. Since 1972, they have recorded several dozen albums, which either sprang from their own explorations or were outcomes of larger projects made in collaboration with dance groups and such recognised musicians as Dr. Balamurali Krishna, Ustad Zakir Hussain, Vikku Vinayakaram, Ustad Shujaat Khan, George Brooks, John McLaughlin or Trilok Gurtu. Brothers are also responsible for a number of scores and pieces featured in Bollywood films, e.g. Dance Like a Man and Chandrikai.

JAMBINAI www.earthbeat.nl/jambinai

The band creates their own new genre, where post-rock and avant-

garde, electric guitars and electronics meets the sound of traditional

Korean instruments. The artists take the audience on a journey

starting with hypnotic, meditative passages, through increasingly

dark, gravelly intensity to the white-hot explosion of molten steel.

The group employs traditional Korean instruments (haegeum, piri,

geomungo) and combines them with electronic, post-rock

soundtrack. Their work reflects the spiritual and social

contradictions faced by the generation which has come to grow up

in the 21st

century. The artists’ background is the avant-garde scene

of the Seoul’s hip Hongdae quarter. In 2013, their album Differance

received a Korean Music Award. The band performed at World

Village Festival in Finland and Scena Contemporanea in Brasil.

With their challenging, provocative and yet deeply compelling

music, Jambinai explores the murky borderlands of tradition

and contemporary world, deservedly reaping popularity

and recognition.

http://www.ganeshkumaresh.org/http://www.earthbeat.nl/jambinai

14.06. Saturday_______________________________________________________________________

TRANSKAPELA

www.transkapela.com

The music of Transkapela is an encounter of two worlds. The first is a universe of symbols, old beliefs and the extraordinary music of the Carpathians. The second world is a contemporary one, providing a background of musician’s imagination which gives shape to the songs they compose. Their work draws on the cultural wealth of Transcarpathia, its Romanian, Ruthenian, Hungarian, Roma, Jewish and Polish roots. Transkapela have performed at the major festivals of folk, ethno, world, jazz and indie music in the country and abroad (e.g. in Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, France, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Germany, Czech Republic, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Danmark, Belarus, Lithuania and Ukraine). In the course of a decade of their existence, Transkapela have created a substantial body of artistic work and won many prestigious awards, including the eminent “Folkowy Fonogram Roku”, an award with which journalists of the Polish Radio and music critics honoured their album Sounds & Shadows in 2005.

SÖNDÖRGŐ www.sondorgo.hu

The group was founded in 1995 in Szentendre. Unlike most bands

playing Balkan music, Söndörgő does not rely on brass instruments,

opting for tamburitza instead. The tambura is a small and prolific

instrument similar to the mandolin which is sometimes

accompanied by wind instruments and accordion. The band’s

collaboration with Macedonian Ferus Mustafov, the king of gipsy

music, produced two albums Oj Stari and Oj Javore. Their third

release, Söndörgő & Ferus Mustafov In Concert proved an

international breakthrough, introducing them to stages and concert

halls across the world. The group’s latest Tamburising – Lost Music

of the Balkans, featuring great vocals from Antal Kov cs and K tya

Tompos came out 2011 under Harmonia Mundi/World Village label,

which brought the music of Söndörgő to listeners in 60 countries.

LES TAMBOURS DE BRAZZA www.maitemusic.com/fr/

/.../les_tambours_de_brazza

Les Tambours de Brazza of Congo, created in 1991 by the drummer

and songwriter Emile Biayenda, blend tradition and modernity.

The musicians play the ancient Ngoma drums as well as on

contemporary drum sets, bass, guitars and other instruments.

During the concerts, we get to hear the rhythms of the various

Congolese ethnic groups mixed with contemporary influences.

The rhythms take us back to the times when the great drum,

the ancestor of all percussion, was the companion of a whole

continent. Thus, Les Tambours de Brazza, practising their magic

of rhythm and body, establish a bond with ancestral gestures

and rites. And although their music resounds with the echoes of rap

and reggae, it is the drum which becomes a fully-fledged and

timeless instrument. Through their songs, cheerful and full

of humour, these modern griots convey the universal message

of peace, freedom and brotherhood.

http://www.transkapela.com/http://www.sondorgo.hu/

TAKSIM TRIO www.facebook.com/TaksimTrio?fref=ts

For centuries, Istanbul has been a point where the cultures of East

and West would meet. The name of the band, who draw on

the incredibly abundant tradition of the city, comes from one

of the busiest, liveliest and also noisiest squares in the very heart

of Turkey’s old capital. Taksim also has a second, more important

meaning, as it denotes a type of improvisation in Turkish classical

music. The three virtuosos are steeped in Gypsy culture, but at

the same time remain open to all other sounds and influences,

even those which stem from places remote from Bosphorus. During

their concerts, the velvety mellow clarinet of Husnu Seniendirici

weaves around the pure notes of Ismail Tuncbilek’s baglama

and the somewhat dryer, guitar-like canun played by Aytac Dogan.

Together, they forge musical magic whose oriental melodies merge

the old sounds with the very modern approach to tradition.

The trio’s music is an embodiment of Istanbul, in all its grandeur.

As the artists themselves put it, “it is a music for both the heart and

mind”.

CHARMING HOSTESS www.charminghostess.us

Charming Hostess was established by Jewlia Eisenberg, an artist

who spent their formative years to the backdrop of traditional

and revolutionary soundtrack of a Brooklyn commune. Her work

celebrates the atmosphere and the mentality of the diaspora in

which she grew up. In her songs everything becomes one – the body

and the instruments, the sacred and the profane, the intimate

sensations and the collective experiences. All her wok was released

by John Zorn’s Tzadik Records, as part of the Radical Jewish Culture

project. Their latest albums are Sarajevo Blues, a tale spun on

Bosnian poetry of resistance and The Bowls Project, whose lyrical

material originates from Jewish amulets of the Babylonian era.

When sending us her promotional material, Jewlia Eisenberg wrote:

“With roots in Spain, branches in the Balkans, and the freak-folk soul

of Oakland, Charming Hostess rocks ancient music with a radical

sensibility.. Sung in Judeo-Spanish, Sefardic songs incorporate Arabic

scales, Hebrew chants, Turkish rhythms, Slavic harmonies, and

a diaspora consciousness. Charming Hostess sings Sefardic songs

of gritty sex, drunken musicians, and anti-authoritarian protest.

Music for lovers—of wine, women, and song.”

http://www.facebook.com/TaksimTrio?fref=tshttp://www.charminghostess.us/

15.06. Sunday_____________________________________________________________________

PEKKO KÄPPI

& K:H:H:L www.pekkokappi.com

Pekko Käppi is a visionary composer of the Finnish neo-folk scene as well as a singer and player of jouhikko – an Old Finnish bow lyre. His work has revolutionised the performing technique on the instrument, which the artist plugged into the amplifier and coupled it with other unorthodox equipment. As a researcher of the Finnish folk music, he is more than well versed in the ancient Finnish tradition of runo singing, into which he has woven elements of blues and rock, and added some archaic experimental chaos into the mixture. The artist’s new band – Pekko Käppi & K.H.H.L. is a trio formed during recording sessions to the album Rammat Jumalat, the contents of which are described by critics as “archaic boogie”. The musicians say that the abbreviation K.H.H. L. stands roughly for “Bones of a Dead Crazy Horse”.

TREBUNIE TUTKI & TWINKLE BROTHERS

www.trebunie.pl www.soundcloud.com/adry-itus/rasta-pon-

top-bass-itus-rmxx

After the two decades which have elapsed from the first revolutionary recordings of Trebunie Tutki & Twinkle Brothers, the time has come for a new joint project, entitled Songs of Glory/ Pieśni chwały. The release is not only a record of yet another, highly creative encounter of musicians who come from distant parts of the world, but also, as the artists put it, “a proposal for those who Seek, Remember, who want and are able to Love. Although the new notes are light and have that dance-like quality and the joy of shared music-making resounds through every bar, we speak about dignity, identity, the right to be yourself, to your own tradition and you own path to God”. The leaders of the bands, Krzysztof Trebunia-Tutka and Norman Grant agree that time is their ally. Thanks to time, they were able to “believe in nature” in every single moment spent together and in every composition, and then sing in their charismatic voices: “Choćbyś ostoł som nie dej złomać sie, bo o honor swój trzeba dbać co dzień/ I Will Honour You and I Respect You”.

http://www.pekkokappi.com/http://www.trebunie.pl/http://www.soundcloud.com/adry-itus/rasta-pon-top-bass-itus-rmxxhttp://www.soundcloud.com/adry-itus/rasta-pon-top-bass-itus-rmxx

RENATA ROSA www.renatarosa.com

Renata Rosa is one of the most distinctive and characteristic figures among Brazilian artists of the young generation. In her work, she draws on the traditional rhythms of the states Alagoas and Pernambuco: coco, toré (a type of indigenous vocal poliphony), maracat and cavalo marinho. Her singing goes hand in hand with brilliant technique of playing the rabeca – a stringed bow instrument which dates back to medieval times. Enchanted and captivated by the music of north-eastern Brazil, Rosa subjects it to the heat of her own sensibility and combines with the influences of urban culture, thus concocting an exceptional and powerful sound of her own. Over 9 years, Rosa played more than 190 concerts across Europe performing in major concert halls and at renowned festivals. In 2004, her debut Zunido da Mata brought her one of the most important prizes in international world music - the Choc de l’Année awarded by the French Le Monde de la Musique magazine. Her second release, Manto dos Sonhos was nominated for World Music Central’s Best World Music Album 2012. At present the artist is working on her third LP entitled Encantaҫões. In today’s world music scene, you will find few such voices as Renata Rosa.

HOSSEIN ALIZADEH &

PEJMAN HADADI www.hosseinalizadeh.net www.pejmanhadadi.com

Hossein Alizadeh is one of the most important figures in contemporary Persian music. He learned its classic variation with many masters, which produced the first recording, a collection of the traditional radif compositions. He studied composing at the University of Tehran and subsequently composition and musicology at the Berlin University. Alizadeh was also a conductor and soloist of the Iranian National Orchestra of Radio and Television, the founder of Aref Ensemble and a member of the famed Bejart Ballet Company’s orchestra. The artist recorded dozens of albums, with one, made in collaboration with Djivan Gasparyan, nominated for Grammy Award for Best World Music Album of 2006. A virtuoso of tar and setar lutes, instruments known across Persia before Islam. During Ethno Port Poznań, Alizadeh will appear with Pejman Hadadi, an Iranian percussionist renown and much acclaimed for his innovative approach to the traditional tombak drum, which consists in his ability to produce melodic patterns within rhythmic structures and to create complex variations on the basic sounds of the instrument. The artists have performed together in the most prestigious concert halls of the world (UCLA Royce Hall, Toronto Centre for the Arts or Carnegie Hall).

______________________________________________________________________________________ FESTIVAL PASS – PLN 100 pass including opening concert – PLN 120 day ticket for Friday (13.06.) – PLN 60 day ticket for Saturday (14.06.) – PLN 70 day ticket for Sunday (15.06.) – PLN 60 concert tickets Dhafer Youssef – PLN 40 / Pekko Käppi – PLN 20 / Ganesh-Kumaresh – PLN 30 / Jambinai – PLN 30 Transkapela – PLN 20 / Söndörgő – PLN 20 / Taksim Trio – PLN 30 / Charming Hostess – PLN 30 Karolina Cicha & Bart Pałyga – PLN 20 / Renata Rosa – PLN 30 / Hossein Alizadeh & Pejman Hadadi – PLN 30 free entry Dom Tańca Poznań / Fanfare Ciocărlia / Les Tambours de Brazza / Trebunie Tutki & Twinkle Brothers
http://www.renatarosa.com/http://www.hosseinalizadeh.net/http://www.pejmanhadadi.com/

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