Ñoncert tour of Nagual-band
Poland
9.03 WARSZAWA (Hydrozagadka) 20.00
Germany
10.03 BERLIN (Wallywoods) 20.00
11.03 LEIPZIG (Neuer Raum Fuer Kunst)
12.03 DORTMUND (SOAHC)
France
13.03 DIJON (Sciences-Po) 19.30 - Conference.
14.03 CLUNY (Arts et Metiers) 21.00
15.03 LYON (le Bastringue) 21.00
17.03 MONTPELLIER (plaine Lune) 21.00
18.03 TOULOUSE (le petit London) with radio FMR. 21.00
19.03 BORDEAUX (La Centrale) 21.00
20.03 POITIERS (Bar du clain) 21.00
21.03 BRESSUIRE (Mexicano) 21.00
22.03 LIMOGES (Au bout du monde) with radio Beaub FM. 21.00
25.03 MELLE (Cafe du Boulevard )- 21.00
27.03 ANGERS (t'es rock coco). with Radio G. 21.00
28.03 BREST (Festival Invisible) + Uzjsmedoma + Stanley Kubi
29.03 RENNES (Chez Dodo) with Festival MOO. 21.00
30.03 PARIS (Montreuil- Bar du Marche) avec Belprojet 21h.
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A lot of cultures live inside us and, as a matter of fact, each of us is a migrant. We do not stay long in one place. We are in constant motion, covering either large or small distances. It is this motion, this changeability and relativity of our knowledge that the band NAGUAL seeks to reflect in its creative work.
Free and Moving Trip
Our ensemble came into being in the winter of 2000. There are six main musicians in it. We study the roots of music, modern genres, formation of folk cultures, the relations between people – everything that directly concerns our creative work. We create sound by means of the instruments we have chosen, their unusual combination, and our own emotional experience. The instruments range from exclusively-archaic to classical ones:
Leonid Pavlyonok – vocals, dance, snare drum, guitar, elkin nos, djembe, didgeridoo, kuhicly, zhaleyka, hlyak (earthenware jar);
Victor Semashko – clarinet, flute, tambourine, pipe;
Anaka Shaposhnikova – dulcimer, vocals, djembe, vargan (Jew’s-harp), banbor, spinning wheel;
Yuri Naumenko - konrabass, vocal;
Benjamine Cope - klarinet, vocal.
Session musicians:
Maria Vassilevskaya (from "Belye Litsa) - violin
The musicians from
NAGUAL create all the songs they perform themselves. The songs are based on world folk musical culture and relations between a person and the world.
The song may be diverse: an amusing or sad one, with a clear subject or abstract, wild, absurd. What really matters is that the song is to go farther than the point we are at. We let each song develop its own way, that is, after something small appears, it begins to develop and takes its shape during the concerts, just the way authentic folklore does, in accordance with its own objective laws. The song takes from life everything it lacks for its integrity.
This musical phenomenon is Psycho-folk in which the personal is combined with the common.
The manner of singing is both primitively-pristine and post-modernistic, it being an intricate combination of the phonemes from various groups of languages with the sounds of animate and inanimate nature and psychophysiological processes.
The meaning of such creative work is to make people astonished with the world; it is a kind of a biostimulant, an ability to experience emotions and to express them freely.
During five years we took part in more than 250 concerts (solo and together with other groups and musicians) in such countries as Belarus, Russia, Poland, and Lithuania. We participated in various charitable actions for orphan children and for physically challenged people, in international and local festivals; we played in Chinese tea-houses, at art exhibitions and punk-parties; we appeared on television and radio as well as created surreal performances (butoh dance, presenting people with hay, roller-skating, magic wood-chopping, etc) and street impromptus.
We shared the stage with: “Knyaz’ Myshkin” (free music, Minsk, Belarus), “Virus Likha” (ska, reggae, Minsk, Belarus), “Glupyi Belyi” (reggae romance, Moscow, Russia), Ol’ga Aref’eva (Russian rock, reggae, Moscow, Russia), “Kirpichi” (the very “Kirpichi” from St.-Petersburg, Russia), “Drobinska” (Balkan folk music, St.-Petersburg – Moscow, Russia), “Kosti” (rock psychedelic, Gdañsk, Poland), “Yur’ya” (folk-rock music, Minsk, Belarus) and mmmmany more…
Some of the Festivals We Took Part in:
1. “Sinyi Perets” – international festival of vanguard music, Minsk, Belarus, 2002;
2. “X – traditsiya” – international festival of non-traditional plastic theatres, Minsk, Belarus, 2002;
3. “Fiesta Borealis” – festival of alternative music, Olecko, Poland, 2004, where we were awarded with the second prize;
4. “Vnie Formata” – festival of alternative music, Rostov-on-Don, Russia, 2004;
5. “Taukachyki” – festival of folk-modern, Minsk, Belarus, 2004;
6. “Etnosphera” – international folk-festival, Skierniewice, Poland, 2005;
7. “Musyka Mira” – international festival of world music, Moscow, Russia, 2005;
8. “Pustyie Kholmy” – festival of alternative music in the forest, Kaluga region, Russia, 2004-2005.
Discography, Recordings:
1. album “Oshchushcheniya, zabveniye…”, 2002 (released through ONYX records, Minsk, Belarus);
2. music for a puppet play “Priklyucheniye Pin-Pina”, director – Sveta Ben’, 2003;
3. album “U Zemli Pod Yubkoi”, 2004-2005 (released through “RADIO A5”, Poland; additional material was recorded at DEREVO record-s, Minsk, Belarus);
4. Festival compilation “Fiesta Borealis”, 2004 (Poland);
5. “Kontsert Dlya Mamy”, 16.09.2004;
6. NAGUAL’s improvisation “songs of quiet clay”, 2005.
Compilations:
7. “Kul’tura Na Pomoshch’” + archive video (Minsk, Belarus – Moscow, Russia), 2003-2004;
8. “U Zemli Pod Yubkoi” – maxi-single + archive video (Minsk, Belarus), 2004;
9. “Pesni Autentichnykh Pereselentsev” + archive video (Minsk, Belarus – Moscow, Russia), 2004.
Music Videos:
2003 – “Utesheniye Snegom”, director – Denis Markin
2004 – “U Zemli Pod Yubkoi”, director – Alla Vol’skaya, cameraman – Oleg Girel’
2005 – “Abrikosovye Koridory”, director – Anna Gorlach
Contacts:
web-site:
www.nagualia.net
e-mail: nagual@tut.by
Musicians Who Helped Form nagUal
There were more than 30 of them during four years. We are really proud of this!
The principle is following: play till you enjoy it; if tired, then try something else.
Sometimes it is sad to part, but since all everybody turned out to be versatile, they kept on moving.
We Are Grateful to These Audacious People:
Ivan Zhuk - guitar
Anna Pigas – vocals
Egor Zabelov – bayan
Lyoshik Yachnik – banbors, trombone, vocals, rustles
Bagrat Vartanyan – violin
Vassily Malevanny – guitar, shouts
Tyoma Gavryushin – bass guitar, then double bass
Anya Frolova – dulcimer
Masha Gorelik – djembe, dulcimer, ubar, piano, banbors, vocals
Dima Gavrilik – guitar, synthesizer
Ksyusha Minchenko – djembe, violin, sound basin, vocals
Tanyusla Tishchenko – synthesizer, banbors, vocals
Sakha Bokhan – mouth organ, singing casserole, elkin nos, vocals, wild dances
Andreika – percussion, flute
Sergei Baranov – bass guitar, double bass
Oleg Zubovich – percussion (slapped the drums of the drum set)
Lyosha Burnosenko – vargan (Jew’s-harp), concertina
Katya Bliznets – dulcimer
Benjamin Cope, our English friend, – clarinet, vocals
Valentin Tkachenko – bassoon, pan-pipes, vocals
Kuznets Lyosha – percussion, vocals
Victor Kul’pin – bagpipe
Lyosha Tarasevich – percussion, drums
Vadim Shklyarik – bass guitar
Katya – dulcimer
Tanya Naumova – tambourine, kobylka, vocals
Maxim Korol’ – djembe
Egorka Eric – theremin
translated by Elena Britikova
