original piece from Ivo papazov. 

Violin: Marianne Richter 
Accordion : Ira Shiran 
Clarinet: Adrien Braud 
Darbuka: Attila Wiegand

03 dalboshka

02 turceasca

original piece from Marin Bunea and Petar Ralchev.
Violin: Marianne Richter 
Accordion : Ira Shiran 
Clarinet: Adrien Braud 
Darbuka: Attila Wiegand

01 Bunea Ralchev suite

first piece is from Trifon trifonov "slow ramadan song " in farmers market , the second piece is from Ferus Mustafov . 

Violin: Marianne Richter 
Accordion : Ira Shiran 
Clarinet: Adrien Braud 
Darbuka: Attila Wiegand

06 Slow ramadan song / Bosilski cocek

Our version of the very Great Tunan Kurtisev tune! ( Roma Macedonian )

Dijamanti Cocek

From a Jam with the great Emanuela mindrila in Sandman Café.

Emanuela's Doina

Ajvar plays a spicy mixture of itchy Balkan instrumental pieces, that may lead to involuntary dancing, perspiring and smiling.

Ajvar collaboration starts in the early months of 2017 , when Ira Shiran ( Accordion ), Marianne Richter ( violin ) and Adrien Braud ( Clarinets ) began to meet to share their passion for the balkan music repertoire , playing Horas, Coceks , Geamparale, Taksims . Rapidly joined in summer by Cristian ( the bass player), and Attila on the drums . 

Our dedication to this music and desire to reproduce the same intention make us « sticking to the style »,  expressing the way of our masters.  
By playing as well as Romanian and Moldovan « Lautari » style ,  Bulgarian, Macedonian and Turkish cultures, we cover a wide range of styles , influences by soviet or western culture to Oriental, Asian roots. 

We all come from very different cultures ; Ira is from Israel at « the door » of Asia , Marianne is from Berlin and grew up in a family of classical artists, Cristian is from Chili and bring with him his South American grooves, as well influenced by classical guitar studies, Adrien is from France and  is mostly autodidact. Attila on drums is half turkish and German. 


 In this repertoire we play in different metrics, we play a lot of pieces in 9, some in 12, 7, 5 and 4 of course. So, for us, coming in a dance festival will be very interesting,  because  folk dancers know how to step on this asymmetrical grooves, and connect us more with the public, and or course we love to feel the contact with the audience, when everybody jam around, and go crazy !!  We also play on demand, trying to build the set as convinient as possible for the public;  Even if we don’t have any mazurka’s grooves in the repertoire, slow 7 beat groove could be danced like an unstable 3…

Ajvar

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