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Musician

Mike Savino, born 1976 in Oceanside, NY is a musician based in New York City. Performing on upright bass, electric bass, 5-string banjo, as well as homemade instruments he has toured and recorded with the likes of Kate Havnevik, Ljova, Gina Gershon, Leroy Powell, Scott Kettner's Nation Beat, and The Klezmatics amongst many others. Savino is a composer and singer/songwriter in his own right crafting music that draws from a fascination with American Roots and circus music and his extensive study of Afro-Brazilian rhythms.

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News: Performance / Tour

Ljova and the Kontaband at Cinema Arts Centre (Huntington, NY) on April 3rd

March 27, 2011

Ljova and the Kontraband is new music, i.e. chamber-jam music for the remix generation. As if by alchemy, Eastern-European and Gypsy melodies, Latin rhythms, Jazz-inspired improvisations, and deeply rooted Classical forms are given new meanings in original compositions that fearlessly forge a new direction, with a nostalgic gaze towards the past. Since making its debut in ...