Free and Moving Trip
Nagual – ethnic surrealism: a marsh ethno-punk, a drive, a trance, dancing rhythms, the fairytale lyrics and hip-hop, connection world music with primitive energy of the garage rock.
(Belarus, Minsk)
Concerts, film soundtracks, music to accompany theatre, cartoons, fire-shows, exclusive parties
Nagual’s world is that of ethnic surrealism where the personal blends with the folk, where the archaic becomes avant-garde. “Their music stems from secret depths and at the same time it is the lighthearted foolery of clowns – it is the play of ethnic feelings.” The sense of such a music is an entry into different worlds, a possibility of the liberated experience and expression of emotions.
The invented phonetic language of their songs does not have a single translation. Any attempt to achieve a clear equivalent, a synonym, to explain exactly what is meant – and the magic evaporates, the strength of sound and rhythm disappears, the movement beyond the boundaries of our understanding comes to an end. This is how sings the heart, how flora and fauna sing.
The songs act like mantras opening up particular moods, through which a person comes to the point of the creation of values, to feelings, to the experience of oneself in the world.
The band was formed in 2000. Since then it has played over 600 concerts (both solo and collective in Belarus, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, France, Ukraine, Germany, Romania, Moldova, Finland).
Aside from playing concerts, Nagual also participates in different cultural projects, such as: music for the cartoons “The Snow-Maiden” and “Red Fox, White Fox” (Animos Studio, Russia), music for the puppet play “The Adventures of Pin-Pin” (dir. S. Bene, Minsk Puppet Theatre), music for the contemporary clown theatre “Lunatics” (dir. S. Kovalski, Minsk), music for the ethnic farce “Kiss” (dir. E. Averkova, Minsk) and music for three Belarusian documentary films (dir. S. Ageenko).
Albums: “Sensations, Oblivions…” (2002), “On the Earth Under a Skirt” (2005), “Leaves, Roots” (2005), anthology “Chronicles from Polessya” (2008).
Current Line-up:
Leonid Pavlionok – voice, folk drum, fir tree’s nose, djambee, straw flute, glyak, Thai flute, Chad Harp, ocarina, dance;
Yuri Naumenko – double bass, various percussion, voice;
Anaka Shaposhnikova – dulcimer, voice, reed didgeridoo, spinning wheel, shamanic instrument;
Benjamin Cope – clarinet, voice, tambourine, magic tube, dance;
Andrej Chernooki – drums, voice;
Artem Gubanov – kongo, bongo, voice;
Pavel Ladutko – guitar, voice.
contact:www.nagualia.net e-mail: nagual@tut.by
myspace.com/nagualia myspace.com/nagualfrance
tel: +48662732735 copesta@rambler.ru
