About Toke-Cha, Modern Ethnic Music, Modern Folklore

Was formed in autumn of 2001 in Moscow

Style: World music, Modern Ethnic Music

(Acoustic Ethno-BreakBeat, Live Ethno-Electronic, Electro-ethnic music, Ethno-Ambient, Multiinstrumental and Drum Show, Folk, Root and traditional music)

BULAT Gafarov – the leader of the Toke-Cha band. Composer and musician multi-instrumentalist:

Electro-acoustic violin, flutes, didjeridu, kalimba, percussions, drums, vargans, gamelan, ocarinas, yochin, igil, gopi chand, kalyuka, harmonicas, morinhuur, sitar, tabla, xylophone, koto, piano, tungur, electronic sounds & other

Singing: overtone (throat), east, african, russian, beatbox & other

During concerts, Bulat often plays several musical instruments simultaneously.

Vladimir Krylov - guitars, bass guitar, percussions

Sessional musicians:

Aleksey Fadeev - ethnic drums, percussions, harmonica, vargans

Boris Izzumm - various percussions & drums, singing bowls, *

Vasiliy - duduk, vargan, clarnet, various percussions & drums *

JOHN Kukaryamba - various percussions, vargans, didjeridu, vocal, cuica, flute, udu, ocarinas, harmonica, "a singing bowls" *

Ruben Oganezov - percussions, vargans *

The last events:

Festivals: "Kazantip", "Ethnolife" (2004-2005), "Ethnoland" (2006), "Veresk", "Space Parade", "Novaya Era" (New Ayr), "Ayurveda", "Island Brahma", "The New Year's Ethno-Carnival Peace & the Consent", "The world festival of tea & Coffee" (on the Red Square in Moscow), Space of joy (2006), "Moscow in Rhythms of Nations of the world", "Without borders", "Solar plexus", The youth ethnic art festival "The Brotherhood of students - the brathergood of people", The world festival of tea & Coffee (2007, Kolomenskoe), "3 International Festival of a jazz", "Beckoning worlds", Sixth International Festival "Sharq Taronalari" (Uzbekistan, Samarqand), Fifth Moscow Festival of Domestic Cinema "Moscow Premiere", "Kino Yalta", "Preobrazhenie" (sokolniki-fest), "Edinenie" (Unity), "Silk Way", "Festival of Traditional Chinese Lanterns" (2008-2009), "Moscow in rhythms of nations of the world 4", "Kinotavr" (2009), "Creation of Peace" (2009), reggae festivals & other

Theatres: MHAT by Gorky, MHT by Chekhov, STD (at Evgeniy Grishkovecz "Osada" & Altgaki "In thicket"), Theatre by Vasilyev, GITIS ("Hotel of two Worlds", "Dream in summer night"), Pag & Arm Theatre (The project Factory), Small World Theatre ("Dream in summer night"), Moscow Experimental Theatre (multimedia show "Universe Creation"), RAMT & other

Exhibitions: Expocentre ("Peugeot", "Yukos" (Oil & Gaz-2004)), The Moscow House of the painters ("Small Nationalities"), "New Era" (MDH), "Flowers" (in the museum of the East), Museum of education of Moscow (Ethno musical travel), "International Tourist Fair MITF-2005" (Gostinniy Dvor), Museum of nomadic culture, Forum-Exhibition "Clubs of Moscow", The center of the modern art "Mars", "BibliObraz" , 10th International Exhibition "Construction & Technologies" 2009 (with "Hitachi") & other

Presentations: Opening of the First Buddhist Temple in Moscow, "Eugene Perma", "Parliament", Magazine "Eneit" (Plazma Hall), Magazine "Biangel", Jeweller Interior "Korloff", Birhday of the house of a fashion "Jenua Beaute", VIP party boutiques "Lancel" & "Douglas", "AUDI A6 Allroad", aOpening the VIP of hotel "One Only" on Mavricas, BBF + "Norilskiy Nickel", "Volkswagen EOS", Opening of ecological shop "Grunvald", Presentation of the beginning of automobile round-the-world travel, party of TNK BP, New Year of GAZPROM (Imperial Park Hotel), Dom kino (The House of Cinema) film "Ferris wheel" by Vera Glagoleva, "The Ugly Swans" (by Konstantin Lopushanskiy), RDTECH company holiday, British Petroleum company holiday, Company "Hewlett-Packard" conference, presentation of the book of poet Konstantin Kuksina of "Argish of Words", company "Hitachi" presentation, "Toyota X-Country" (In five cities of Russia), "Qatar Airlines" (Devoted to opening of new air communications between Ankara and Qatar), presentation of own disk "Toke-Cha. Live" & other

Stage and clubs: MMDM (Moscow International House of Music), CHA (The central house of the artist), Cultural centr "DOM", "MHA", On the Red Square (Vasil'evskiy spusk), "Forum hall", "Plazma hall", "Expocentr", DK MAI, "Moscow House of Nationalities" (At the government of Moscow), "Stone", "First", "Shadow", "Rotonda", "Roxy", "Shtopor", "Rhythm-Blues cafe", "Tochka", "Kul't", "OGY Project", "Kitayskiy Letchik Djao Da", "16 tons", "Zapasnic", "Veresk", "4 rooms", The union of composers", "Gun Cafe", "Infinity", "Ballantine's Bar", "Gorky Beach", "Sexton", "Z club", "Neo", "1000 miles", Boutique-club "Armida", "Om cafe", "The Chinese Dream", "Coluare", "Jumanji", "Sobranie", "Archeology", "Rich", "Tabula Rasa", "Bilingua", "Rock n Roll Pub", "Duma", "World roof", "Chillout gallery" & other

In clubs of tea culture: "Zhelezniy feniks", "East", "INBI", "Ulun", "Green Panda", "Chavan", "Mate", "Ermitazh", "Bagua" & other
Casino: Arbat, Crystal, Metelicza, Angara ("A club"), Assambley

Tours:

Kazakhstan (Alma-Ati, Astana) for the president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev;

Kalmykia (Elista, the project "Russian Dakar") concert for thr president of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov;

Norway (Tromse) - World Music Festival, join concert with Volga band;

Ukraine: Kiev - "Pianomaniya" project with Dmitry Malikov;

Novosibirsk - the Concert on a main square during a full solar eclipse;

"Kazantip" festival - Evpatoriya; Yalta - Opening of the Film festival of Domestic Cinema; , Koktebel, Kharkov & other;

Buryatiya (Ulan Ede, Theatre "Baikal"), Uzbekistan (Samarqand) - "Sharq Taronalari festival", Mongolia (Ulan Bator);

Sochi (Russia) - film festival "Kinotavr" (2009);

Ankara (Turkey) - for Qatar Airlines, among visitors of holiday: President and prime minister of Turkey, the sheikh of Qatar;

Kazan (Tatarstan, Russia) - musical festival "Creation of Peace" (2009);

S. Peterburg (Russia), N Novgorod, Samara, Krasnoyarsk, Ekaterinburg, Great Novgorod & othe

Join projects with:

Bobby McFerrin (Opera "Bobble"), Vera Glagoleva (film "Ferris wheel"), Dmitry Malikov (show «Pianomania»), Andrey Makarevich (at festival "world Creation"), group "Chaif" (on a Kinotavr 2009), Evgenie Grishkovets (performance "Siege"), Garik Sukachyov (in a film «Sun House»), Mark Ilich Pekarsky, Nogon Shumarov (the honoured artist of Russia and Altai), Group "Volga", group "Namgar" (Buryatiya. An album «Nomad»), theatre "Baikal", group "Hi-Fi" (music and a clip), Devid Lynch (on the channel «Culture Catch»), Natalia Anastaseva («Small world theatre»), Sergey Filatov (festival "Ethnosphere"), Sergey Starostin, Sergey Klevensky, group "Green Point", ensemble "Chukotka", Jury Balashev, Jan Bederman, Zerkalo band, Nikita Dmitrievsky and others

We've written music for films:

"Chertovo Koleso" (Ferris wheel") by Vera Glagoleva (Russia, 2007)
"Fishman" by Olga Stolpovskaya (Russia, 2004)
Interview of David Lynch on "Culture Catch" (Usa, 2006)
"The Entrepreneur" for Bricklin Documentary llc. (Usa, 2007)
"House of the sun" by Garik Sukachev (Russia, 2008)
"On low frequency" documentary film by Artem Kochukov

For theatres and performances:

"Hotel of two Worlds" by Eric Emanuel Smitt. The director Patric Rollen, Igor Grigurko. (Rati)
"Siege". The director Evgeniy Grishkovecz (STD theatre)
"Sleep In Summer Night" (ethnic part). The director Natalya Anastasyeva. "Little World Theater"
Experimental theatre "Pag&Arm" - "The Fish/Sun"
"Badma Seseg" ("Flower of a lotus"). Theatre Baikal (Buryatita, Ulan Ude) - The director Dandar Japovich & German Pikus
Ballet "Sansara" by Nikita Dmitrievsky

For computer game "Shelter Online" by "Digital Worlds company"

Info in mass media:

On radio: "Russia", "Culture", "Mayak", "Classic", "Arsenal" & other;

On TV: "Russia Today", ORT (1 Russian TV), "Euronews", "Culture", "STS", "TNT", "Dtv", "Stolitsa" (Capital), "Style", "Zvezda Tv", "Stolitsa +", Buryatiya Tv, "Tv Mir", Samarqand & Tashkent Tv & other

Articles about us left in magazines: "Jalouse", "Ethno sphere", "Afisha", "Dosug", "Molotok", "Alquimia (inbi)", "Eneit", "Info the stream", "Around of the World", "MK" & other

"Music of phytogenesis" [2002], "Matrix"(Shamans) [2003], "Live 2004", "LIVE" [2005], "On Line" [2006-2007] *

At the organization of show-programs the group cooperates with:

sand show, dance show (go-go, east dances, a modernist style ballet), fire show (show with fire, fakirs) collectives, theatres

Mob.Tel: +7 915 143 16 01