This ensemble first met on the equivalent of an online dating site for musicians and other people looking for other things, including "dates". They found each other through a mutual interest in Progressive Rock Fusion of the instrumental variety and a need to jam.

Sheldon Kreger: young, enthusiastic and steeped in geek lore was Odin's Itch first Drummer. 

Neil Valette: lightly brooding and a man who is on the hunt plays Bass with a liquidy smoothness that will have you saying, It sounds better than butter, if you could hear butter play. 

Tom Blackburn: Hamster whisperer, lover of anything orange, Lord of the Cheese plays Stringed instruments. He mainly plays guitar but occasionally mandolin and lap steel in a way that not even he knows what he's doing. 

These three men agreed to start seeing each other, musically, in the late summer of 2013.

They worked hard on original instrumental music that Tom had written and after six months decided to take the relationships to the next level and try a 4some. They brought in another guitar player and decided to name the band Oomblik but neither of those two decisions took hold so after some more searching on that web site they used earlier they came across Knute Snortum. 

Knute, tall, semi dark and mysterious plays Keyboards. Knute, the K is not silent, Snortum has a vast knowledge of music theory, animal husbandry and the inner working of the mind, which he uses to ply the keys like they were that tool thingy that Scandinavians use for carving things.

6 Months later there would be creative differences between Sheldon and the band and it was agreed that Sheldon would stay and help record some demos and then leave. 

May 2015, after several try outs with different drummers along comes Jake Cantrell. Jake, the man with a million drums, deep DJ voice, and a love for camping has a simple 4 piece set of drums with cymbals raised high and a Bruford had lunch with Mitch Mitchell way of playing. When Jake entered the band they decided to change their name to Odin's Itch after asking friends for band name ideas.

So now they stand aligned with the common goal to go forth and do the best they can with what they have at that moment.

You really can't ask too much else from anyone. 

Born in Ukraine, artist, lives and works in Poland and Germany.
She sings and accompanies herself on piano, electronic instruments, drum; she composes and arranges music in different styles (inspired by classic, jazz, folk), is engaged in teaching (workshops); appears on the theatrical stage. She has released more than 10 albums. 
She is the author and co-author of music for stage plays. 
Currently, in Poland (Warsaw) she works as an actress in the Jewish Theatre.

Roksana Vikaluk studied classic piano at the Music College, Ternopil, Ukraine, 
Jazz vocals at Post-Secondary School of Jazz, Ewa Bem cl., Warsaw, Poland, 
Jazz composition and arrangement at the Academy of Music, Institute of Jazz, Prof. A. Zubek cl., Katowice, Poland.
"I play and tell... I live on stage and at the same time create a story where theater and folk music intertwine, while the Russian romance is next to jazz and electronic moods. So, I share with the audience the same air that I breathe ..."
In repertoire:
own compositions, songs in Ukrainian, Polish, Tatar, Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian languages.


Liquid Sound Club – every 1st SAT of the month by the residents https://soundcloud.com/noxlay &  https://soundcloud.com/stachy

Check our homepage for upcoming club editions

Listen to contemporary ambient, electronica and future chill under water.. From 8pm to midnight live at the Spa Venues as described above, through the Liquid Sound system.

The Liquid Sound Club stands for retro-futuristic sound design and modern bathing culture. djs and live acts perform via the patented Liquid Sound System™ , even under water.  Estimated 2009 in Bad Sulza/GER followed 2010 by the Spa Venue Bad Schandau near Dresden and the third one in Bad Orb ( 2013 )near Frankfurt/Main made the triumvirate of the three thermal baths complete. Since 2015 Liquid Sound Club Events also takes place on a monthly base at the Thermalbad Bad Zurzach spa Venue in Switzerland.

The music we create, has been inspired by the sounds of the World - it is not just about folk melodies, but equally the sounds of life around us, - the sounds, which we catch, convert and adapt in our own special way. Respecting the constancy of Tradition, at the same time we remain in a natural harmony with the vibrant world of sounds around us, which is constantly changing, metamorphosing. Being immersing within this soundscape, we discover ourselves and new music spaces, each time from scratch ...

Folk Melodies (Ukrainian, Russian, Jewish), street sounds, wildlife, pulsing rhythms,  white singing; unique combination of acoustic instruments with electronic sound effects - all this can be described as progressive Folk-Electronic  style, within which we create.
  
Another interesting element of our program is playing the instrument Bow Chimes, created by Bob Rutman.
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Muzyka, którą tworzymy, jest inspirowana Brzmieniem Świata - chodzi tu nie tylko o melodie ludowe, lecz w równym stopniu o dźwięki otaczającego nas Życia, - dźwięki, które staramy się uchwycić, a później przetworzyć, zaadoptować na nasz sposób. Szanując stałość Tradycji, jednocześnie pozostajemy w naturalnej harmonii z tętniącym wokół nas Światem Dźwięków, który nieustannie się zmienia, metamorfozuje. Zanurzając się w Nim, odkrywamy siebie, inne przestrzenie muzyczne, za każdym razem od nowa...
 
Melodie ludowe (ukraińskie, rosyjskie, żydowskie, lecz z przewagą ukraińskich), dźwięki ulicy, przyrody, pulsujące rytmy, śpiew biały; połączenie wyjątkowego instrumentarium akustycznego z elektronicznym, efekty dźwiękowe - wszystko to można określić jako styl Folk-Electronic-Progressive, w ramach którego tworzymy.
 
Z pewnością jednym z najciekawszych elementów programu wykonywanego przez nas jest gra na instrumencie Bow Chime, skonstruowanego przez Boba Rutmana.

hi folks,
this is a tribute-site for jim morrison & the doors. you find 3 kinds of songs: those i BOOTLEGED with doors-notes (titles are similar to the original), those i made with jim-voice-samples and those who just match thematically....this is no commercial thing! thanks to MASSIFBEATS (didier hallemesch) from belgium for his little help from a friend (2 songs).....hope you like it....

Paul Brody is a remarkable trumpet player, composer, arranger based in Berlin... (His) music combines exciting arrangements, catchy tunes, and compelling solos into another classic of the new Jewish Renaisance. Brody is forging a new Jewish jazz for the 21st Century.  

-John Zorn 

Paul Brody's Sadawi has recordings on the TZADIK LABEL,  JAZZWERKSTATT, and is releasing CDs on ENJA RECORDS in 2014 and 2015. 


The first four tracks show a little of what the band will take on tour in the next year. 

With the poetry of ROSE AUSLAENDER,  Sadawi has a special project to tour with vocalist and actress, Jelena Kuljic. (ENJA RECORDS 2014)

For more information about the band please go to our booking agent's website: http://www.asianetwork.de/?page_id=2075

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