With Cello, Loopstations, effects, and her "powerfully expressive voice" (Berliner Morgenpost), Ashia Bison Rouge creates a whole world made of sounds, rhythms, moods and moving melodies. Dreamy, dynamic pop songs and rhythmic, electronic style pieces are connected by layers of ambient sounds to create what she calls a ‘Song Archipelego’ in her live shows. All the songs and compositions are performed live in the moment and only with her instruments and effects: no electronics, and no synthesizers. Think of it as an Organic-Cello Orchestra Concert! Her style at times comparable to the Portland Cello Project, Zoe Keating, as well as other cello based performers including 2 Cellos.

Ashia Bison Rouge is inspired by nature, ancestry, movement, and dance. Next to her solo-project she has performed with Cirque du Soleil, created pieces for Base Berlin Artistik, Chameleon Theater, and performs a key cello-playing-acting-singing role in the ‘acrobatical’ "Der Helle Wahnsinn". She was born in Wroclaw. Poland, then grew up near Seattle/Portland, USA, and currently lives in Berlin, DE. In Spring of 2015 Ashia Bison Rouge had the honor to perform her solo songs with the Salem Chamber Orchestra in Salem, Oregon. She has also performed with the Songbird Collective, Portland Cello Project, Arstidir, Vagabond Opera, and Jherek Bischoff.

Hazmat Modine draws from the rich soil of American music of the 20’s and 30’s through to the 50’s and early 60’s, blending elements of early Blues, Hokum Jugband, Swing, New Orleans R & B, and Jamaican Rocksteady. The band is fronted by Wade Schuman’s harmonica and singing and includes sousaphone, guitars, and percussion, saxophon, trumpet, trombone, banjitar, banjo and Hawaiian steel guitar. The band’s sound reflects musical influences ranging from Jazz to Rockabilly and Western Swing to Middle-Eastern, African, and Hawaiian musical styles. They have collaborated with Natalie Merchant, Tuva’s Huun Huur Tu, the Kronos Quartet and Benin’s Gangbe Brass Band.

Since their debut album "Bahamut" (2007), Hazmat Modine performed about two hundredfifty concerts in 20 European countries, playing well-known festivals like Jazzfest Vienna, Copenhagen Jazzfestival, Berlin Jazzfest, Stockholm Jazz Festival and many others. . As well the band appeared on festivals in the US, Canada, Russia, Borneo, Brasil, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand.

Their album, Cicada (2011), reached number one on the European World Music Chart, WMCE. Cicada was also nominated for a BBC award and received the Charles Cros Grand Prize in France for the Best Blues Album in 2011. In addition, Hazmat Modine has the song „Bahamut“ from their first album featured in the Oscar-nominated movie "Pina" by Wim Wenders (2011), and they created and performed the soundtrack for the award-winning documentary “Windfall” (2012). Their new CD Extra-Deluxe-Supreme (2015) was released in Europe (Jaro) and in the U.S.

In 2016 Hazmat Modine celebrated their 10th anniversary year of performances in Europe.

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The Warsaw Village Band with 7 bandmembers (voice, dulcimer, violin, viola, suka, hurdy-gurdy, frame drum, big drum, bass and trumpet) is a symbol of young, intelligent Eastern European music which combines tradition with modern elements and is capable of eliciting enthusiastic responses from rock audiences and traditionalists alike.

The New York Times once referred to them as one of the most important bands on the World music stage comprising "the sound of globalization!".

2004 the band received the "BBC WORLD MUSIC AWARD, The Warsaw Village Band´s newest album "Sun Celebration" was awarded with the Polish Grammy, the Fryderyk Award 2016 "Album of the year - for roots music, it became top no. 2 of the World Music Charts Europe, WMCE 2/17.

Their 7th album "Sun Celebration" exalts in the spiritual brotherhood that crosses religious and ethnic boundaries which are elevated in these restless times and that Warsaw Village Band have experienced on their travels. It features world famous guests from India, Persia & Spanish Galicia.

In the spring of 2017, the band toured Australia and New Zealand and played at WOMAD and WOMADelaide Festival, among others. The band performed at UK radio BBC3 and summer festivals in Poland, Germany, Spain and France. The album "Sun Celebration" was recorded with guest musicians from Galicia, India and Persia. In February 2017, it reached #2 on the World Music Charts Europe. A fitting gift for the 20th anniversary on stage, followed by performances in Poland, including in November with renowned guest musician Bill Laswell. 

The 2018 anniversary album "Mazovien Roots Re:action" earned very good reviews and was presented live in Hungary, Italy, Poland, England, as well as at the Jazzahead Fair as the opening concert at the Bremen Theater in Germany.

"The Warsaw Village Band has presented one of the most beautiful world music albums of the year, which should please folk purists as well as open-minded pop music fans." Bavarian Radio Album Tip

In 2019, they successfully toured England, Portugal, the Czech Republic and Sweden.

Despite or perhaps because of Covid19, the band will release their latest album "Waterduction" in Poland in November 2020 and in Europe in spring 2021.

WWaterduction" - It seduced us. The water of the river, the well, the rain, the dew, the mist and the tears. We are all equal to the water. Once again the band explores Mazovia. This time they have left the land behind and let themselves be carried away by the current of the river, which makes them explore new cultures. So now they are inspired not only by the Vistula itself, but also by Urzecze, an ethnographic micro-region near Warsaw that stretches between both banks of the Vistula.

Line-up:

Magdalena Sobczak
Dulcimer (Hackbrett), vocals

Sylwia Swiatkowska
Violin, viola, suka, vocals

Ewa Walecka
Violin, hurdy-gurdy, vocals

Maciej Szaijkowski
Frame drum, percussion

Piotr Glinski
Big drum, percussions

Pawel Mazurczak
Double bass

Milsoz Gawrylkiewicz
Trumpet, flugelhorn

Also available "live-projects":
Warsaw Village Band & Mercedes Peón
Warsaw Village Band & Dhoad Ensemble

Please feel free to contact us.

Red Baraat is a pioneering band from Brooklyn, New York. Conceived by dhol player Sunny Jain, the group has drawn worldwide praise for its singular sound, a merging of hard driving North Indian bhangra with elements of hip-hop, jazz and raw punk energy. Created with no less a purposeful agenda than manifesting joy and unity in all people, Red Baraat’s spirit is worn brightly on its sweaty and hard-worked sleeve. 

“Their infectious rhythms roll over the audience like a hurricane and let the audience breathe only in a short ballad pause.”

RHEIN MAIN PRESS (GER)

In 2019 Red Baraat toured twice in Europe and performed in clubs and at prestigious festivals like Colours of Ostrava in Czech Republic, Etnosur Festival in Spain, FMM Músicas do Mundo Festival in Sines Portugal, Plai Festival Romania and others in Austria, Czech Republic, Poland and Germany.

Red Baraat’s June 2018 album release, “Sound The People”, hit the top 10 on the World Music Charts Europe and was heralded in the US as the anthem soundtrack for the South Asian diaspora by US hipster, indie-rock magazine.

“The album is full of moments that hit with the force of a spiritual awakening…The funk, ska-punk, and other American forms that make their way into the music are layered intricately within the same threadwork as the ragas on which these songs are pulled from. Each piece is a gesture of cultural harmony, rendering not only genre irrelevant, but the geographic placement of those sounds.”

STEREOGUM (US)

2018 also saw the band touring Kazakhstan, Abu Dabhi, US, Canada and Europe. They headlined the renowned WOMAD Festival in Cáceres, Spain in front of 10,000 people, performed the Vienna Konzerthaus (Philharmonie) in Austria and had the crowd jumping at Rudolstadt Festival in Germany. Red Baraat played in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Switzerland.

The release of Red Baraat’s 2nd album in 2013, Shruggy Ji, debuted at #1 on the Billboard World Music charts in USA and propelled the band on a world tour that has yet to stop. They’ve performed at Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, WOMAD, globalFEST, Lincoln Center, New Orleans Jazz Fest, along with clubs, theatres, and arts centers. Along the way they sold out rooms as diverse as the Luxembourg Philharmonic and the New York City’s legendary rock club Bowery Ballroom, and performed at the request of The White House (Obama), TED and Olympic Games.

But even as it’s clear that Red Baraat has built a startling history of performances in iconic settings, the band’s bread and butter remains the sweaty clubs, festivals, packed performing arts centers, and college auditoriums that keeps the band on the road all over the world the last several years. It’s here where Red Baraat does what it does best - communing with their audience in a joyful, near hedonistic celebration of music and dance, which tellingly, draws a crowd even more diverse than the players on stage. The universality of what Red Baraat does is undeniable. And this is no happy accident. It is the product of intention and design. Says Jain, “The band…our songs…are addressing the multiplicity of viewpoints,” says Jain. “There’s ‘Zindabad,’ which means ‘Long Live’ in Hindi. In that song, we’re saying that we celebrate life, we celebrate devotion — but we also celebrate agitation and revolution. If we can unite people of all backgrounds and ethnicities to partake in the exuberance of life through the universal language of music, then life is that much sweeter.”

Line-up:
Sunny Jain   - dhol/vocals
Sonny Singh  - trumpet/vocals
Chris Eddleton  - drumset
Jonathan Goldberger - guitar
Lynn Ligammari  - soprano saxophone
John Altieri  - sousaphone