Sam Shalabi / Nicolas Caloia / Yves Charuest ・ Toni Dimitrov

Name: Sam Shalabi / Nicolas Caloia / Yves Charuest ・ Toni Dimitrov
Start: 2024-10-03T19:00:00+02:00
Location: club wakuum

Schedule

Thu Oct 03 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

club wakuum | Graz, ST

Sam Shalabi / Nicolas Caloia / Yves Charuest
Crazy Music for a crazy world.
Sam Shalabi is an Egyptian- Canadian composer and improviser, living in Montreal, Quebec. Beginning in punk rock in the late 70s, his work has evolved into a fusion of experimental Arabic Music that incorporates traditional Arabic, shaabi, noise, classical, text, free improvisation, electronics, and jazz. He has released 9 solo albums, 6 albums with Shalabi Effect (a free improvisation quartet that bridges western psychedelic music and Arabic Maqam), and 4 albums with Land Of Kush (an experimental 30 member orchestra, for which he composes). He has appeared on over 60 albums and toured Europe, North America, and North Africa. Recent projects include albums with Dwarfs Of East Agouza, a Cairo based trio with Alan Bishop and Maurice Louca -Albums with Karkhana a group featuring members from all over the Middle East and collaborations with vocalist Nadah El Shazly, Oren Ambarchi Angel Bat Dawid. He has also composed music for over 20 films in North America, Europe, and The Middle East.
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Yves Charuest was a member of the Peter Kowald Trio (1985-1990) with German bassist Peter Kowald and South-African drummer Louis Moholo, with whom he played extensively in Europe and the USA. He also played with several musicians from the US and abroad such as William Parker, Agustí Fernández, Nate Wooley, Georg Graewe, Roscoe Mitchell, Lê Quan Nin, Dominic Lash, Mark Sanders, Steve Noble, Richard Scott and Audrey Chen. Charuest has collaborated with electroacoustic composers Jean-François Denis, jef chippewa and Jean Piché. Charuest’s solo work has recently gained renewed momentum. He has always devoted most of his creative energy to improvisation in varying forms and contexts: free improvisation, encounters between improvisation and notated material (conventional and graphic notation, verbal instructions), ensembles with more apparent stylistic links to free jazz. In collective situations as well as in solo, his approach is characterized by his sense of form and his attention to the sonic properties as well as the formal potentialities of the material he works with.
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Nicolas Caloia is a Montreal based bassist, composer, and bandleader. He works at creating a living music by using rigorously composed material to channel collective improvisation. He can be heard in ongoing collaborations with Tristan Honsinger, Joe McPhee, Matana Roberts, Malcolm Goldstein, Kim Zombik, Lori Freedman, Rainer Wiens, and Yves Charuest or in past projects with Roscoe Mitchell, Marshall Allen, Steve Lacy, Hassan Hakmoun, William Parker, and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia. Nicolas has composed for and led many ensembles including 20 piece, Juno and GAMIQ nominated Ratchet Orchestra. He has fulfilled composition commissions from the Quatuor Bozzini, Tour de Bras, Productions Super Musique, FIMAV, Radio Canada, and CKUT 90.3 fm.
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Toni Dimitrov
Toni Dimitrov takes us on a deep and engaging journey through his artistic abilities and experience in the music industry. With numerous releases, collaborations, and aliases to his credit, Toni Dimitrov has earned a reputation of great prominence in the underground music community, thanks to his artistic sensitivity and ability to create evocative and emotional soundscapes.
The artist leads us on a unique sonic journey in which ambient sounds are skillfully blended with field recordings to create an immersive, fluid, and engaging musical experience. The delicate and calm beginning of the ambient sounds gradually transforms into a more intense and dense crescendo, thanks to the addition of increasingly complex and layered field recording sounds.
Toni Dimitrov knows how to use ambient textures and field recordings synergistically, creating a hypnotic and imaginative atmosphere that captures the listener and takes them into a suggestive imaginary world that transcends the known reality.
In summary, Toni Dimitrov represents a highly significant musical experience, combining technical mastery and artistic sensitivity to create an engaging and evocative musical work that transports the listener on an exciting and unforgettable journey.
Toni Dimitrov is a multimedia artist, cultural producer, radio host, communicologist, organizer, curator, label owner, mountain climber and nature lover, living in Macedonia. He connects all those with the love for music, sound art and field recordings. Have been curving his way into the new experimental music/sound art scene with his solo engagement, collaborative releases, radio art and art installations. Working in the field of sound art and experimenting with electronic music and radio for more than 20 years. Have released under several monikers, bands and collaborations such as Hunter/Gatherer (with Ingman Wannerberg), Fayerabend (with Mykola Yosypenko), sound_00 + lefterna (with Boban Ristevski), post global trio (with Dimitar Dodovski and Martin Georgievski), post global duo (with Robert Farrugia), Private Mountain (with Dimitar Dodovski), between many others, having countless albums and eps on diverse labels around the world and performed on many events and participated at several residencies. His radio programs are broadcasted on the music radio Kanal 103 ‘post global: conceptual program for new music’ and ‘Music and Politics’ and are dedicated to contemporary electronic music, ambient, soundscape and political discourse. The artistic career involves art installations, sound and sound installations, drawings, video, photography, exhibiting on various exhibitions locally and abroad. His last participation was at the historical sound art exhibition “Audiosphere Sound Experimentation 1980–2020” at Museo Reina Sofia Madrid, curated by Francisco Lopez. he is curating the labels post global recordings and élan vital recordings. The recent professional engagements were on projects related to political analysis of media. At the moment he is director of Cultural Informartion Center – Skopje.
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