Born in Marino in 1988 Enrico Olivanti works as Composer and Guitarist in fields of European Jazz and Contemporary Music. He has published two albums heading his own Quintet. Writes also for Chamber Ensembles, Soloist and Orchestras.

Get 'Return' on limited edition double vinyl & CD: lydiancollective.fanlink.to/return
Bookings: alex@heyboocreative.com

Instrumental jazz/fusion 4-piece collective. Debut album ‘Adventure’ available to buy/stream now. New album 'Return' - out 27/05/22. Featured on Ustwo Games' Monument Valley 2 OST.

With 4 million Spotify streams and 1.3 million views to date on their YouTube channel, a host of solo credits between them (from Roots Manuva to Monument Valley), London’s Lydian Collective are an exciting new musical voice who are about to make their mark in the UK and beyond. The band brings together Aaron ‘Lazslo’ Wheeler (keys), Todd Baker (guitar), Ida Hollis (bass) and Sophie Alloway (drums) – four musicians with individual success under their belts, who have found a collective voice through the band’s music.

The Lydian Collective sound is a unique combination of accessible melodies, accomplished musicianship, hypnotic rhythms and an uplifting vibe, which has already been drawing in audiences from around the world. A unique combination of jazz musicianship, melodies that catch the ear and the heart, and infectious rhythms is brought together to winning effect on their first single release “Thirty One”.

The millions who follow the band’s online channels include fans from as far afield as the USA, China and Japan – with a healthy following on home ground as well, through early support from the likes of Nick Luscombe at BBC Radio 3 and Tom Robinson at BBC6Music – as well as gigs at the London’s Royal Festival Hall, Clore Ballroom and Soho Pizza Express.

An early cameo appearance for the band was on the soundtrack album to Monument Valley 2 - www.monumentvalleygame.com. MV2 is a major game release on the iOS platform, developed and marketed by ustwo, with millions of users around the world.  Todd Baker, the band’s guitarist, wrote the entire soundtrack to the game, and the recording of his track “Child” is a key moment on the soundtrack.

Aaron Wheeler and Todd Baker are the creative minds behind the band’s sound. Both have found success as commercial composers, but they first met at college – where a love of music was their bond.  Aaron’s electronica work as Lazslo also has a successful life of its own, with his track “Mr Sunshine” currently sitting at over 600,000 plays on Spotify (you can check out a version of this track on Lydian Collective’s album). The compositions played by the band arose out of a difficult period in Aaron’s life when a back injury confined him to his sofa for many months. The pure and playful melodies which arose, and appear in the band’s music were part of his long recovery.

Sophie Alloway is one of London’s most in-demand drummers, and she is first call for a host of high profile artists. She toured for 2 years with Roots Manuva, around UK, Australia and New Zealand – appearing with him at festivals, on TV and at awards ceremonies. Her other credits include Afrobeat legend Tony Allen; pop/punk singer Hazel Thomas and UK jazz star Jason Rebello.

Ida Hollis - Ida studied Jazz at Birmingham Conservatoire and has played alongside some of the UK's finest musicians including Gwilym Simcock and Tate Britain artist in residence Tim Whitehead. She has performed at prestigious venues such as Ronnie Scott's, the 606 Jazz Club, Birmingham Symphony Hall and at Glastonbury, Latitude and Cheltenham Jazz festivals.

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Constantin Stimmer, Sebastian Vötterl

Chicha Libre plays a mixture of latin rhythms, surf  and psychedelic pop inspired by Peruvian music from Lima and the Amazon. The Brooklyn collective is made up of French, American, Venezuelan and Mexican musicians who mix up covers of Peruvian Chicha with original compositions in French, Spanish and English, re-interpretation of 70’s pop classics as well as cumbia versions of pieces by the likes of Satie, Love and Wagner.

Chicha is originally the name of a corn-based liquor favored by the Incas in pre-colombian days. Chicha is also the name of Peru's particular brand of cumbia first made popular in the late 60's by bands such as Los Destellos, Manzanita, Los Mirlos and Juaneco y su Combo.  While loosely inspired by Colombian accordion-driven cumbias, chicha incorporated the distinctive pentatonic scales of Andean melodies, some Cuban son, and the sounds of surf guitars, farfisa organs and moog synthesizers; an oddly post-modern combination of western psychedelia, Cuban and Colombian rhythms, national melodies and idiosyncratic inventions which were close in spirit to the Congolese rumba of Franco or the pop syncretism of Os Mutantes.

Chicha Libre started out in 2006 as a tribute to Peruvian pioneers but quickly evolved into an original project which MTV has cited as one of the world's preeminent Tropical Psychedelic band. Indeed, while they remain true to their Chicha roots, Chicha Libre's music has taken a definitely more psychedelic turn drawing more and more from its members' alternative background. 

Chicha Libre's sound and approach are completely indebted to the Peruvian bands it originally emulated. Like their mentors, they use surf guitar, organ sounds and latin percussion to play a mixture of borrowed and homegrown sounds. Their sound has become more processed, synth sounds and treated guitars and the borrowings are differ from that of Peruvian precursors   - classical music and pop debris from 3 continents in Chicha Libre's case – but the latin rhythms that form the basis of the music are both as inherent and as foreign to them as they were to the Shipibo Indians who first took up the electric guitar. 

.Chicha Libre has performed around the world, including Turkey, The UK, Germany, Portugal, Belgium, Denmark, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil,  Mexico, the US, Canada and, of course, Peru. They have showcased at WOMEX, in Copenhagen, and Globalfest, in NYC. They have played in Los angeles with guitarist Jose Carballo, of Chacalon y la Nueva Crema fame, in Lima with Los Shapis and in Berlin with Ranil, the legendary cumbiero from Iquitos. They have toured with cambodian psych-band Dengue Fever and shared the stage with bands as varied as Brazilian Girls, The Skatalites, Frente Cumbiero and the Orchestre Poly-rythmo de Cotonou.

Chicha Libre's music has been featured on TV shows Weeds and Homeland as well as a Simpsons' 20th anniversary special in which they were asked to play the Simpsons' theme "chicha" style alongside the likes of Red Hot Chili Pepper and ZZ Top. They have also scored a Vaclav Havel play which was performed at Colombia's Miller theater in the author's presence and two Charlie Chaplin films which they performed at NY's prestigious Merkin Hall.  Their two albums, Sonido Amazonico and Canibalismo, are available from Barbès Records in North America, Crammed Disc in Europe and Random Records in South America, as is their EP Cuatro Tigres.

Pedro Martins, 22, is a self-taught guitarist and composer chosen by Kurt Rosenwinkel and John mclaughlin as the winner of Montreux socar guitar competition 2015. He has worked, among others, with Milton Nascimento. His first studio album, Dreaming High (Adventure Music, 2012), Received glowing criticism both on the web and in high-profile jazz magazines. Pedro Martins grabs the attention of his listeners by his Brazil-inflected playing style, his refined technique, and a true talent for improvisation and composition.

Marc Leclair - Akufen - Horror Inc - The Stowaway - Hackufen
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Photographies:  Pétronille Gontaud-Leclair 2019


"Without music, life would be a mistake."
                 
                                   -Friedrich Nietzsche

„Jimmy and the Goofballs“ ist eine aus elf Musikern bestehende Band aus Österreich. Musikalisch kaum in ein einzelnes Genre zu drängen, bilden die energiegeladenen Songs eine gelungene Symbiose aus verschiedensten Stilen, darunter neben Reggae auch Hip-Hop, Funk, oder Brass. Mit zwei Sängern, Keyboard, zwei Gitarren, Bass, Drums und einer vierköpﬁgen Bläser-Section bringt die Band ein energiegeladenes Klangspektrum auf die Bühne. Dabei mischen sich eingängige Grooves mit kraftvollen Brass-Riffs, abgerundet durch einen mächtigen Mix aus Gesang und Rap der zwei Frontmänner. Die Texte sind deutsch und bringen den Zuhörer zum Schmunzeln, aber auch zum Nachdenken, Tanzen und Mitsingen.

Neben gekonntem, genreuntypischem Songwriting und überzeugender musikalischer Performance heben sich die elf Jungs vor allem durch ihre einzigartige Bühnenshow von anderen Acts ab. Synchrone Choreographien der Bläser wechseln sich mit frei improvisierten Publikumsinteraktionen der Sänger ab, unterstützt durch das breite Fundament der Rhythmusgruppe. So gehören auch Fahnenschwenken, Polonaise-Tanzen und akrobatische Höchstleistungen zum festen Bestandteil eines Bühnenabends, Langeweile kommt also bestimmt nicht auf.

Nach über zwanzig Auftritten und zwei ersten Plätzen bei österreichweiten Bandcontests allein in ihrem Debüt-Jahr 2014 können „Jimmy and the Goofballs“ bereits jetzt auf riesige Events zurückblicken, darunter unter anderem eine Show auf der Mainstage am Donauinselfest in Wien, einem Gig am FM4-Frequency Festival in St. Pölten oder eine komplette Tour mit dem Red Bull Brandwagen. 
Nach einem Fernsehauftritt bei „Hosted By“ von GoTV und zwei Single-Veröffentlichungen,     eine davon gemeinsam mit Georg Gabler von Gab-Music ist mittlerweile auch ihr erstes Album in Planung, es wird also auch in Zukunft fulminant weitergehen.

Genauere Termine, Links zu ihren Singles bei iTunes oder Amazon, sowie eine genaue Bandbeschreibung und eine pralle Mediengalerie findet sich auf www.jimmyandthegoofballs.com, außerdem kann man den elf Jungs auf Facebook oder Twitter folgen.

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