Vibrantly feathered birds of paradise sing melodiously through the forest. The Ramatou Orchestra (Parrot Orchestra) is a jazz octet with a fresh, experimental, and distinctively unique sound. From semi-acoustic jazz with folkloric African influences to Neo-Soul and Fusion, extending to Rock, Electro, and Ambient elements, this eight-member avian ensemble gathers all tangible influences into expressive melodies and atmospheric soundscapes brimming with playful improvisation and clever arrangements, all with a wink.

11.11.2023 Darmstadt Achteckiges Haus
20.07.2024 Tula Festival

Booking: ramatouorchestra@gmail.com

Khadim Seck               [Percussion, Flute, Voice]
Jan Barthel                  [Trombone]
Leon Binder                [Saxophone]
Frederich Helbing       [Guitar]
Matthias Hoch            [Bass]
Alexander Pechmann  [Keys]
Hanna Scharfe            [Baritone Saxophone]
Philipp Wildenhues      [Drums]

#songwriter #improviser #trombone #composer

Artist, multi-instrumentalist, shredder from PGH. This is the page dedicated to my solo work. Be sure to check out my band Rated Eye as well.

contact: isaac.blumfield@gmail.com

Isaac Roth Blumfield is a composer from Saint Paul, Minnesota, currently based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He writes experimental music for acoustic and electronic instruments which explores resonance, materiality, and memory through expanded sonic approaches towards instruments and objects. His music looks for the strange spaces between subjective and unconscious experience, exploring uncanny places between beauty, pain, and strangeness.
His music has been influenced through  through work with performers such as ensemble sonic space basel alumni, Schallfeld Ensemble, violinists Austin Wulliman and Chris Otto, line upon line percussion trio, Ensemble Modern, Barcelona Modern Ensemble, guitarist Francesco Palmieri and Jamie Monck, and Quartetto Maurice at programs such as the Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, the Banff Centre for Creativity, Yellow Barn Young Artists Program, New Music on the Point, Valencia International Performance Academy, Ticino Musica Festival and Freie Universität Berlin im Sommer.  
His music has been broadcast on Swiss Public Radio and supported by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, Fondation Nicati - De Luze, and the Hirschmann Stiftung. He graduated with his Bachelor's degree in composition at New England Conservatory in Boston and a Master's degree in composition at the Hochschule für Musik FHNW in Basel, Switzerland and is currently pursuing post graduate studies at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna. His primary teachers have included Stratis Minakakis, Timothy McCormack, Caspar Johannes Walter, Svetlana Maras, and Clara Iannotta. He is currently a PhD candidate at Harvard University, studying with Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku.

Jonathan Binhack
writes
and sings.

In 2020 Jonathan crossed the Atlantic Ocean on a sail boat, disappeard for 10 months somewhere south of Great Inagua and resurfaced at the anchorage of the 79th street boat basin in New York City in the summer of 21. He spent the winter of 21/22 in Montréal, Canada, to focus on music and poetry. In 2022 Jonathan returned to New York and recorded his debut album.

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