CIRCUIT 09/2011 (16.09.2011 - 09.10.2011)

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„SONGS & WHISPERS“ - Circuit 09/2011



Marcus Corbett (Marlborough, UK) + Nitin Gaikwad, tabla-player (Pune, Indien)

http://soundcloud.com/marcus-corbett

Marcus Corbett is a highly individual singer/ songwriter with a unique style from Marlborough, UK. A musician with a long involvement with North Indian classical vocal and Tabla, he has also had experience of African high life music having spent some years with Zairean bands. However while these genres have influenced his composition to a greater or lesser degree, he has wrought his own style and made his music his own. With sometimes unusual rhythmic cycles and moody vocals whether solo or accompanied the guitar is always the defining feature…

Corbett will bring the Indian tabla-player Nitin Gaikwad with on tour and therefore emphasises the international influences in his music. He has been studying the tabla with the Indian for several years now and they both have taken their time to have the confidence to play his music because it took a while for Corbett to get the Indian musician to take him and his music seriously. This convergence finally ends up in touring together. The Gaikwad family already has a visible profile in the classical music world in India. Espacially in Pune they are well known because of a family tradition of playing the Shenai. Nitins brother Pramod Gaikwad has also played internationally and now Nitin wants to do the same.



"Marcus Corbett is a rare musical gem with an unparalleled talent for fusing Indian classical melodicism with the song structures of traditional British folk music." - Folk Music Reviewer



Patrick Duff (Bristol, UK)
www.myspace.com/patrickduff


Patrick Duff was born in Bristol and member of the alternative rock band Strangelove. Now he is only on tour as a solo artist. Apart from rock sounds he focuses on folk-acoustic and creates his own music world. In 2009 he released his second album ‘The Maid Straight Road’, which couldn’t be more instrumental. Duff describes himself as a ‘synthesis, which shaped his life’ involving Disney Soundtracks, The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash, which added their influence to the album. The recording of the album consulted musically support from pianists, drummers, bassists as well as the London Philharmonic Orchestra.





Alexander von Rothkirch (Hamburg, D)


http://www.avr.name



Alexander von Rothkirch sings songs about love dedicated to life. Funk and Rock’n’Roll for the hips, Jazz and Bossanova for the soul – his music doesn’t fall in a category just like himself with 1,96 meters. The musician from Hamburg plays the guitar since 20 years and developed his own melodic style that reminds the listeners on classical singer-songwriters only rarely. He presented his catchy songs that sound a bit like Bill Withers, John Mayer and Jack Johnson in more than a hundred shows – among others as local support for bands like Stanfour or Lake.



“Grown up near a forest, affected by New Zealand, arrived in Hamburg.”