„Resonance connection“  the project supported by Goethe Institut Germany 2021
Reflection of the personality, reflection of the soul. The project combines three different characters of musicians who find each other on the level of improvisation, experiment and bring each other to reason. Each piece should create a new sound space and tell a story. The components consist of sounds from rare instruments (including glass harp, waterphone, array Mbira), electronically processed recordings of the sounds and experimental, multi-layered singing. The musicians send each other tracks, develop them further and thus work on a common improvised soundscape. Juan Pablo Villa contributes contemporary and unconventional singing techniques. Wolfgang Eckert, for example, takes the sounds of Izabella's glass harp and uses them to prepare groovy or spatial carpets of sound. Izabella Effenberg plays and records selected instruments from her large collection. A surreal world emerges like painting.
3 countries are represented - Poland, Germany and Mexico. Music can connect and inspire people on different levels, build friendships and show people how important it is to cross borders, especially in the moment. Exchange of experience, inspiration, equality, future, mutual support, networking, togetherness, humanity, equal opportunities through creativity, cultural diversity.

RC LetsSingChiller

„Resonance connection“  the project supported by Goethe Institut Germany 2021

Reflection of the personality, reflection of the soul. The project combines three different characters of musicians who find each other on the level of improvisation, experiment and bring each other to reason. Each piece should create a new sound space and tell a story. The components consist of sounds from rare instruments (including glass harp, waterphone, array Mbira), electronically processed recordings of the sounds and experimental, multi-layered singing. The musicians send each other tracks, develop them further and thus work on a common improvised soundscape. Juan Pablo Villa contributes contemporary and unconventional singing techniques. Wolfgang Eckert, for example, takes the sounds of Izabella's glass harp and uses them to prepare groovy or spatial carpets of sound. Izabella Effenberg plays and records selected instruments from her large collection. A surreal world emerges like painting.
3 countries are represented - Poland, Germany and Mexico. Music can connect and inspire people on different levels, build friendships and show people how important it is to cross borders, especially in the moment. Exchange of experience, inspiration, equality, future, mutual support, networking, togetherness, humanity, equal opportunities through creativity, cultural diversity.

La golondrina

„Resonance connection“ 
Reflection of the personality, reflection of the soul. The project combines three different characters of musicians who find each other on the level of improvisation, experiment and bring each other to reason. Each piece should create a new sound space and tell a story. The components consist of sounds from rare instruments (including glass harp, waterphone, array Mbira), electronically processed recordings of the sounds and experimental, multi-layered singing. The musicians send each other tracks, develop them further and thus work on a common improvised soundscape. Juan Pablo Villa contributes contemporary and unconventional singing techniques. Wolfgang Eckert, for example, takes the sounds of Izabella's glass harp and uses them to prepare groovy or spatial carpets of sound. Izabella Effenberg plays and records selected instruments from her large collection. A surreal world emerges like painting.
3 countries are represented - Poland, Germany and Mexico. Music can connect and inspire people on different levels, build friendships and show people how important it is to cross borders, especially in the moment. Exchange of experience, inspiration, equality, future, mutual support, networking, togetherness, humanity, equal opportunities through creativity, cultural diversity.

The Forest

La profundidad

RC RepetitioEstMater

Kyoto-based sound artist / percussionist / Array Mbira player kita kouhei's 9th solo album "Neospecies" has been released!

"Experimental electronica ambient with the theme of the plants world"

An album in which all songs are inspired by various plants.
Array Mbira sounds like water, analog synths with a cloudy texture, deep bass, old tape noise, field recordings, etc. And this time, he actively incorporates various percussion instruments and builds an experimental ambient world that fuses electronics and acoustic sounds.

kita kouhei - 9th Full Album "Neospecies" Digest

北航平_kita kouheiの3rdアルバム『Imbalance Order And World』に収録の「Imbalance Order And World - 不均衡の秩序と世界」

Imbalance Order And World

Imbalance Order And World - 不均衡の秩序と世界

北航平_kita kouheiの3rdアルバム『Imbalance Order And World』に収録の「The Gear Of Destiny - 運命の歯車」

The Gear Of Destiny - 運命の歯車

北航平_kita kouheiの3rdアルバム『Imbalance Order And World』に収録の「Return Of KAGUYA - かぐやの帰還」

Return Of KAGUYA - かぐやの帰還

北航平 4thアルバム『砂の海の水平線へ向かう』に収録の「Translucent She And The Fact - 半透明な彼女と事実」

kita kouhei 4th Album"Head Towards The Horizon Of Sandy Sea" PFCD78

【Amazon Store】https://www.goo.gl/ES8cfJ
【Tower Record】https://www.goo.gl/MwzWR4


◆Tracklisting

01. Whisper Of Dawn - 夜明けのささやき
02. Head Towards The Horizon Of Sandy Sea - 砂の海の水平線へ向かう
03. Koh-I-Noor - コ・イ・ヌール
04. Rain Falls On A Lotus Flower - 蓮の花に雨は降る
05. Infiltration - 浸潤
06. Chaos Of Inspiration - 閃きの混沌
07. His Conviction - 彼の確信
08. Translucent She And The Fact - 半透明な彼女と事実
09. I Can Not Remember Blue - 思い出せないブルー
10. Responding Life - 命の呼応


発売日　　　： 2018年5月15日(火曜日)
アーティスト： 北 航平（キタ・コウヘイ）
タイトル　　： Head Towards The Horizon Of Sandy Sea（ヘッド・トワード・ザ・ホライズン・オブ・サンディー・シー）
発売元　　　： PROGRESSIVE FOrM
販売元　　　： BRIDGE INC.
規格番号　 ： PFCD78
価格（CD）　： 税抜本体価格￥2,100
収録曲数　　： 10曲
JAN 　　　　： 4582237841022

Head Towards The Horizon Of Sandy Sea

Translucent She And The Fact - 半透明な彼女と事実

Izabella Effenberg „Impressions in Colours“ 

Izabella Effenberg – Vibraphon, Crotales, Array Mbira, Glass Harp, Steeldrum, Waterphone
Yumi Ito (Basel) - Gesang
Jochen Pfister – Piano 
Anton Mangold – Harfe

Das neueste Projekt der polnischen Vibraphonistin Izabella Effenberg verbindet den Sound von Vibraphon, Klavier und Harfe mit ganz besonderen, außergewöhnlichen Instrumenten wie Glasharfe, Array Mbira, singender Säge, Steeldrum, Waterphone, Crotales – Instrumente, die im Jazz und in improvisierter Musik ansonsten praktisch nicht vorkommen. Dabei entstehen völlig neue Klangwelten, welche den Zuhörer*innen ungeahnte, hinreißende Klangerfahrungen ermöglichen.

The sunset

SoundArtist, Percussionist, ArrayMbiraPlayer
Spotify, AppleMusic, Amazon, etc.
https://linktr.ee/kita_kouhei

Solo 9th "Neospecies" Latest Release!

Solo 8th "A Painter's Diary"

Solo 7th "Another Peace" 

Solo 6th "After Loss" 

Solo 5th "Mime Sketch" 

Solo 4th "Head Towards The Horizon Of ~"

Solo 3rd "Imbalance Order And World"

Solo 2nd "akashic records"

Solo 1st "endless cycle of rebirth"

coconoe 2nd "The Dolphins’ Long Dream"

coconoe 1st "A Halo of Light One Day"

1st SoundTrack "KnitCapTheater - Fudarakutokaiki -OriginalSoundTrack"

Studied Jazz Mallets with Bill Molenhof and Roland Neffe at the University of music in Nuremberg. 
After finishing her classical percussion studies in Poland she decided to move to Germany in order to develope artistically and started her Jazz studies. She received her diploma in 2012 and finally achieved her Master degree in 2014. 
Izabella is one of very few female Jazz vibrafonists in Europe and the first from Poland. 
During her studies in Poland and Germany she received various scholarships und won several prices in competitions both for perfomance and composition. 
She played with different well known musicians such as Tony Lakatos, Leszek Zadlo, Nippy Noya, Lars Danielsson,Nicole Johänntgen, Magnus Öström, Steffen Schorn, Norbert Nagel, to name a few. 
Besides her career as Vibraphon soloist and Bandleader she started to write and arrange her own music for different Bands in a variety of musical styles. 
Her debut CD „Cuéntame“ was recorded at the Bayrischer Rundfunk and supported by the cultural department of the city of Nuremberg. On this CD she is accompanied by topclass german musicians and the well known singer Efrat Alony from Israel. 
Apart from that she founded a annual Vibraphon Festival in Nürnberg/Fürth in order to introduce her instrument to a wider public. 
She plays a very seldom instrument array mbira and recorded solo CD "crystal silence - Music for Array Mbira". 
In 2018 she received a culture price of the city of Nuremberg.
Izabella was also 8x Polish Shotokan Karate Master and won a silver medal at the European Champianship in 1999.

www.izabella-effenberg.com 
www.izambira.de
www.vibraphonissimo.de

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