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Artist: Baltic Tenors
Artist: Ensemble Mare Baltic
Artist: Dahling
Combining their own unique brand of pop sensibilities with bold and brash melodicism as well as insightful lyrics, Dahling have rocked around Estonia for 5 years. Now, they finally stand on the verge of both domestic and international breakthrough.... [+] Read More
Artist: SuperHuman LV
SuperHuman – simply one of the best rock band in Baltic region of Europe was formed in 2004 by guitarist Uldis, a well known rock musician from Riga, Latvia. “It was a tough road.’’ he explains, “It took almost a year to find the right people who really know how to rock’ n roll. We are all about playing pure... [+] Read More
Artist: Astro'n'out
Formed in January 2003 the band is leaded by the one of most beautiful voices in Latvia and a real songwriting talent – Mara Upmane. The debut album entitled “Kuš Kuš” was released in November 2006 and has delivered decent selling results in Latvian market. The album presentation concert was a big success bringing 1 500 people and all the... [+] Read More
Artist: Ensemble FizFüz
Although based in Germany, the quartet Ensemble FisFüz has specialized in Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, North African, and Baltic music -- in other words, music that involves what is known as modal or scalar playing (a style of playing that is easily recognizable even if one doesn't understand the term's exact technical meaning). FisFüz... [+] Read More
Artist: Trakija Ensemble
The traditional dance music of Eastern Europe has been brought to the international stage by the Trakija Ensemble or the Trakiya Ensemble. Under the direction of clarinet player Ivo Papazov (born 1952), the group continues to craft a turbo-charged approach to the wedding music of the Baltic region. Formed in the city of Plovdid in 1974, the... [+] Read More
Artist: Lyn Dobson
Lyn Dobson helped to introduce the tenor saxophone and flute to British rock. A featured soloist with Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames and Manfred Mann in the 1960s, he went on to make important contributions to albums by Humble Pie, the Locomotive, Roy Russell, Keef Hartley, Nick Drake, John Martyn. Ian Matthews And Southern Comfort and Soft... [+] Read More
Artist: Digital Poodle
Industrial sounds are mixed with dance rhythms by Toronto-based Digital Poodle. Initially featuring the electronic programming of Pupka and Reduct, the group has experienced numerous personnel changes. Their 1997 album, Combat, included only one original members -- vocalist Mouth 392.
Formed in 1987, Digital Poodle released their first six... [+] Read More
Artist: Gidon Kremer
Violinist Gidon Kremer was born in Riga, Latvia on February 27, 1947; he began studying music at age four under the tutelage of his father and grandfather, both noted string players in their own right. Three years later he was accepted to the Riga Music School, and at 16 won first prize at the Latvian Republic. Following a tenure studying at the... [+] Read More
Artist: Eva-Maria Hagen
Born on October 19, 1934, Eva-Maria Hagen started her stage career in 1953, still under Bertolt Brecht who was then boss of the world-famous Berliner Ensemble theater. When she started a relationship with the ostracized songwriter and poet Wolf Biermann in 1965, the GDR authorities started harassing her, leading to subsequent bans on her work as... [+] Read More
Artist: Marcel Cellier
Swiss-born Marcel Cellier has been an influential folk music disc jockey, song collector and organist for nearly four decades. The recipient of a Grammy award for his production of a field recording album, L'Albanie Mysterieuse, in 1990, Cellier s helped to bring such virtuoso pan pipers as Gheorghe Zamfir and Dumitru Farkas to international... [+] Read More
Artist: Day & Taxi
The Swiss jazz trio Day & Taxi has been saxophonist Christoph Gallio's main on/off project throughout the 1990s. Personnel changes have made it difficult for the unit to record (only three albums during the decade), but it enjoyed a certain popularity among avant-garde jazz fans in Europe, America, and Japan, as many international tours testify.... [+] Read More
Artist: Jarboe
Jarboe's recorded and performed projects produce only her unique energy. She draws from a variety of charged sources, from her early exposure to snake-handling revivals in the Mississippi delta, parents who were in the FBI, her participation in a lounge act, experimental performance in gallery & live radio settings,her 14-year critically... [+] Read More
Artist: The Cactus Brothers
Originally a side project for several members of Nashville's popular Walk the West, the Cactus Brothers eventually overshadowed their alter ego to take on a life of their own. After touring for the better part of a year in support of Walk the West's self-titled 1986 debut album, vocalist/guitarist Paul Kirby and bass player John Golemon joined... [+] Read More
Artist: Neeme Järvi
Neeme Järvi is one of the busiest international conducting stars, and has recorded an amazingly wide repertoire of music.
He was born in Tallinn, the capitol city of then-independent Estonia. It was occupied by the Soviet Union in 1940, taken by the advancing German Army in 1941, and retaken by the Soviets in 1945. He was brought up in the... [+] Read More
Artist: The Master Kruger
Nowadays Master Kruger is considered by right one of the most professional disk jockey (if not the best one) in Ukraine working in techno style. Kruger has also shown himself as the most brilliant and unordinary personality, who doesn¡¯t waste his talent performing only on the best concert stages and in the most popular clubs of Ukraine.Master... [+] Read More
Artist: DJ Master Kruger
br />Bio:Nowadays Master Kruger is considered by right one of the most professional disk jockey (if not the best one) in Ukraine working in techno style. Kruger has also shown himself as the most brilliant and unordinary personality, who doesn¡¯t waste his talent performing only on the best concert stages and in the most popular clubs of... [+] Read More
Artist: Guido Cantelli
Guido Cantelli should have been one of the conducting giants of the 20th century. After emerging as a talent to be watched amid the turmoil of wartime Italy, he was acknowledged as a great conductor following his 1945 debut at La Scala in Milan, and Arturo Toscanini came to refer to Cantelli, more than a generation younger than the celebrated... [+] Read More
