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artist: Marimba Plus
album: Zebrano
label: Ark-System Records
cat: n/a
year: 2006
genre: Jazz
source: Cdda
grabber: Eac
encoder: LAME 3.90.3 --Alt-Preset Standard
quality: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
size: 77,5 MB
link: n/a
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│tracklist.
no. time track title
01 07:00 Marimba Plus - Tango "hot Ice-Cream"
02 06:57 Marimba Plus - Zebrano
03 10:10 Marimba Plus - Rainbow
04 07:14 Marimba Plus - Mission Impossible
05 11:04 Marimba Plus - Jungle
06 07:44 Marimba Plus - Jerusalem
07 06:24 Marimba Plus - Apocalypse
total time: 56:33 min
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│release notes.
Marimba Plus is an instrumental project under the leadership of a
marimbaphonist Leo Slepner. The group unites in its style the
elements of jazz, ethnic music and contemporary chamber pieces.
This stylistic cocktail is able to satisfy the taste of any music
gourmet. Here we witness the interpenetration of ethnic
traditionalism with academic symphonism and jazz improvisation.
Marimba plus uncovers a mysterious world of music images, makes us
plunge into the ethno-jazz mystery, which surrounds the listener,
and enchants him by meditative richness.
The Marimba plus program is based on the works by the group leader
û Leo Slepner, whose composing talent was marked by a Russian
reward "Triumph". The main concept of his work is in fusion of
various music genres. "Marimba Plus" also performs the works by
contemporary Russian (Gorsky, Lakhuti, Shilkloper) as well as
foreign (R.Galliano, L. Schifrin, H.Silver) composers in original
arrangements, written for the special set of instruments. The
unique, energetic performance of the group leads the listeners to
real delight. The combination of classical instruments makes the
music acquire classical sound while the saxophone solos, the
rhythmic parts of the contrabass and percussion add the jazz drive.
And all this is intertwined with the mild sound of marimba.
The members of the Marimba Plus are the young professional
musicians, who have graduated from the Russian Gnesin Music Academy
and Moscow State Conservatory, and have won prizes at foreign
competitions and festivals.
The members of the group are:
Leo Slepner - marimba
Ilia Dvoretsky - flute
Sergey Nankin - clarinet, bassethorn
Anton Chumachenko - Contrabass, bass-guitar
Nikolai Solonovich - chello
Alexander Zinger - percussion
Andrey Krassilnikov - alt and soprano sax
The first concert performance of the group took place in 1999 in a
well-known Moscow club The "Chinese Pilot Jao Da". After that the
group started to be more and more popular and appeared very often
at prestigious Moscow clubs and concert-halls.
In 2000 the Marimba Plus became the laureate of the Moscow
competition ôRockpower 2000ö, having won the second prize. Soon
after that the group took place in the folk-marathone in
Petrozavodsk at a traditional spring jazz festival Bohema-Jazz.
In 2001 the first album was released and the group took part in the
annual Moscow festival "Jazz in the Hermitage Garden". The same
summer they were invited to the TV program of D. Dibrov
"Anthropology".
In 2003 together with the French violinist Didie Lockwood the
musicians went on tour through Russian cities (Perm, Tumen, Samara,
Nijni Novgorod and others). The tour was organized by Daniil Kramer
- a famous Russian pianist. A few times the group appeared in TV
programs ("What do we perform" and "Music Time") at the "Culture"
channel as well as on radio ôCultureö in the program "Laboratory".
The same year the leader of the group Leo Slepner became the
"Triumph" national prize winner as the best composer and jazz
performer.
In 2004 the group has taken part in a number of the jazz festivals
in Suzdal, Obninsk, Tomsk as well as in such prestigious happenings
as the festivals "All the Stars of Jazz" (curated by Anatoly Croll)
and the "Jazz in Archangelskoe Mansion".
ôMarimba Plus ô has become the participant of the Second
International jazz festival in Petropavlovskoe (St.-Petersburg),
where it performed with the jazz stars - the vibraphonist Mike
Manieri and the vocalist Miles Griffith.
In summer the group performed at the Theatre awards ceremony "The
Crystal Turandoth". Another important event for the group was their
participation in the jazz festival of Montabane (France) together
with such stars as Monti Alezander and Patricia Kaas. The group has
recently took part in the subscription concerts organized by Daniel
Kramer ("Classics and Jazz" which took place in the Svetlanov hall
of the Moscow International House of Music).
The combination of energy and professionalism, of jazz playfulness
and academic conservatism, of drive and meditation, of virtuosity
and thoughtfulness makes the career of the Marimba Plus so
successful. At present the group has a broad concert activity,
takes part in lots of festivals (e.g. the annual "Tea Festival")
gives concerts in clubs ("The Dom", "Le Club") as well as in
academic concert halls (The Chaikovsky Hall, The hall of Central
Artist's House). The group often cooperates with the leading jazz
musicians Daniel Kramer, Arkady Shilkloper, Felix Lakhuti.
The group has the three albums for the present. The first was
released in 2001. The presentation of the second one ("The Charmed
World"), which was recorded together with A. Shilkloper, took place
in the Chaikovsky hall in February, 2004. The third solo album
"Zebrano" was presented in the Moscow International House of Music
in April 2005. Now the musicians have got to the work at a new
album.
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