Results for "Rotterdam"

Michel Banabila

Born: April 14, 1961

Michel Banabila, born 1961, is a sound artist, composer, and producer. His music has been released since 1983, and he has produced musical scores for numerous films, documentaries, theatre plays and choreographies. His work varies from minimal loop-based electronica, fourth world, and neo-classical pieces, to drones, experimental electronica, tribal ambient, and punk-as-fuck tape music. In addition to acoustic instrumentation, Banabila uses samples, electronics, synths, found objects and field recordings. His work has been released internationally by labels like Bureau B (DE), Knekelhuis (NL), Eilean Rec (FR) and Séance Centre (CA).

Fulvia di Domenico

Born: February 20, 1976

Italian singer, born in Roma and raised between Africa, Paris and Italy. Fulvia studied “French and Spanish language and Litterature” in University in Roma and Spain, and worked for a few years as a translator and interpret before going after her singing carreer. She studied Jazz vocals in Rome with Carolina Brandes, Maria pia de Vito, Shawn monteiro and moved to The Netherlands in 2002 to study “Jazz and World music Vocals” at the Rotterdams Conservatorium, from where she graduated in 2006 and where she is stil living and actively working as a singer/songwriter/performer. Fulvia had released in 2011 her first cd with her band, FULVIA-La Ballata dei piedi volanti. She had Played on stages in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Turkey, with international musicians of the Jazz and world music scene.

Tuur Moens

Born: April 17, 1985

EARLY INFLUENCES

Born in 1985 in Duffel, Belgium, music has been a pervasive presence in Tuur’s upbringing, during which his father, passionate for the blues, played the guitar and drums while his mother was immersed in her love for world music. She would take Tuur as a child to an annual world music festival, Sfinks, where Tuur could admire big names like Ali Farka Touré, Salif Keita, Youssou N’Dour, Mori Kanté, Baba Maal, Goran Bregovic, Buena Vista Social Club, Rubén Gonzáles… Tuur reminisces about laying on the couch as a child, listening to Miles Davis, Bobby Mc Ferrin, Salif Keita, Paul Simon, Gilberto Gil, Tower of Power, Wayne Shorter, and such varied influences. After hitting improvised paper boxes, mother's pans and "Fisher Price" drum sets at the age of 3, and later taking over daddy’s drum set on the attic, Tuur’s formal musical journey began at age 8, when his parents subscribed him for classical percussion at the music academy of Mechelen (BE).

Ratko Zjaca

www.ratkozjaca.com

Ratko Zjaca ( short bio) -
 is an award winning guitarist, composer and recording artist  with 17 critically acclaimed recordings under his name 
he has recorded and performed with some of the most influential musicians in  jazz and modern  improvisation music. 
After completing his study at the Rotterdam Conservatory, he also studied at New York University School of Music