<< Toke-Cha band >>
Formed in Moscow, Russia in 2001.
Style: MultiInstrumental World music, Ethno-fusion, Ethnic and Folk Music
(Acoustic Ethno-BreakBeat, Live Ethno-Electronic, Electro-ethnic
music, Ethno-Ambient, Multiinstrumental and Drum Show, Folk, Root and traditional music)
Band members:
BULAT Gafarov composer, unique musician
multiinstrumentalist and singer.
Electro-acoustic violin, flutes, didjeridoo, kalimba, percussions/drums, jews harps,
gamelan, ocarinas, yochin, igil, gopi chand, harmonicas, morinhuur, sitar, tabla, xylophone, koto,
piano, tungur, FX sounds and other. Singing: overtone (throat), oriental, russian, Beatbox & other *
During concerts Bulat
often plays several musical instruments simultaneously as one-man band.
JOHN Kukaryamba - various percussions, jaws harps, didjeridoo, flutes, vocal, udu, "singing bowls" *
VLADIMIR Krylov - guitars, bass guitar, percussions *
Session musicians (onetime and ex) only for live performances:
Ilya Lapin & Boris Mashkov - guitars; Aleksey F & Ruben Oganezov - percussion.
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Some of our previous events and joint projects:
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Our tours:
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Ukraine: festival "Kazantip" 2001;
Kalmykia
(Elista, the project "Russian Dakar") concert for the president of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov (2006);
Buryatiya (Ulan Ede) composed music for Theatre "Baikal", Mongolia (Ulan Bator) (2006);
Kazakhstan (Alma-Aty, Astana) for the president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev (2007);
Ukraine: Yalta - Opening of the Russian films festival (2007);
Uzbekistan (Samarqand) - "Sharq Taronalari festival" (2007);
Ukraine, Kiev - "Pianomania" project with Dmitry Malikov (2008);
Novosibirsk - the Concert
on a main square during a full solar eclipse (2008);
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 (2009);
Kazan (Tatarstan, Russia) - musical festival "Creation of Peace" (2009) joint concerts with Andrey Makarevich and Volga band;
Norway: Tromse, 2009 - "World Music" Festival (joint concert with Volga band);
Canada 2010 - festivals and concerts in Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Nelson, Wells, Pefferlaw. Solo and join with Namgar band;
Canada 2011 - festivals and concerts in Vancouver, Montreal, Nelson, Wells, Prince George - Bulat solo;
USA - 2011, concerts and festivals in Los Angeles and New York;
Norway (Moi Rana, 2011) - "Smelte Digelen" festival with "Arctic Mood" project;
and in Russian cities: S. Peterburg, N Novgorod, Samara, Krasnoyarsk, Ekaterinburg, Great Novgorod & other
FESTIVALS:
"Kazantip" (2002, Ukraine), "Ethnolife" (2004-2005), "Ethnoland"
(2006), "Veresk" (2004), "Space Parade" (2004, St. Petersburg), "Novaya
Era" (New Era, 2003), "Ayurveda" (2001), "Island Brahma" (2007), "The
New Year's Ethno-Carnival Peace & the Consent" (2008), "The world
festival of tea & Coffee" (on the Red Square in Moscow, 2006),
"Space of joy" (2006, Ukraine), "Moscow in Rhythms of Nations of the
world" (2006, 2007, 2008), "Without borders" (2006), "Solar plexus"
(2007), The youth ethnic art festival "The Brotherhood of students - the
brathergood of people" (2007), "The world festival of tea & Coffee"
(2007, Kolomenskoe), "3 International Festival of a jazz" (2008),
"Beckoning worlds" (2007), Sixth International Festival "Sharq
Taronalari" (Uzbekistan, Samarqand 2007), Fifth Moscow Festival of
Domestic Cinema "Moscow Premiere" (2007, Moscow), "Kino Yalta" (2007,
Ukraine), "Preobrazhenie" (Sokolniki-fest, 2007), "Edinenie" (Unity,
2007), "Silk Way" (2007), "Voploshenie" ("Incarnation", 2007),
"Bibliobraz" (2007), "Midummer" ("Solnczevorot" 2007), "Festival of
Traditional Chinese Lanterns" (2008, 2009), "Kinotavr" (2009, Sochi,
Russia), "Creation of Peace" (2009, Kazan, Russia), "World music
festival" (2009, Norway), "Arts Wells" (2010, Canada), "Sunfest" (2010,
Canada, London), "Vancouver folk festival" (2010, Canada), "Little Fest"
(2010, Canada, Nelson), "Ottawa Folk Festival" (2010, Canada),
"Summerfolk" (2010, Canada, Ontario), "Eaglewood" (2010, Canada,
Ontario), "Falcon Rifge Folk Festival" (2011, New York), "Arts Wells -
festival of all things" (Canada, BC, 2011), "Komasket music festival"
(Canada, BC, 2011), "Music in the Mountain" (Canada, BC,
2011), "Festival of Time and Epochs" (2011, Moscow),
"Pop Montreal festival" (Montreal,
2011), "Smelte Digelen" (Norway, 2011), "Marathon health - 2012" (Moscow, Russia), International Eco-Festival of Yoga "Free Spirit" (2013, Kaluga), "International Museum Night" (2013, Moscow), I Street Arts Festival "Open Streets" (2013, Moscow) and others
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Stage and clubs (in Moscow):
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", "BB King", "Zapasnik", "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", "SexTon", "ChinaTown Cafe",
"Zarya Bar"& other
Theatres (in Moscow): 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 (in Moscow): 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), "Biangel" magazine,
Jeweller Interior "Korloff", Birhday of the house of a fashion "Jenua
Beaute", VIP party boutiques "Lancel" & "Douglas", "AUDI A6
Allroad", Opening 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 for 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
In clubs of tea culture (in Moscow): "Zhelezniy feniks", "East", "INBI", "Ulun", "Green Panda", "Chavan", "Mate", "Ermitazh", "Bagua" & other
Casino (in Moscow): Arbat, Crystal, Metelicza, Angara ("A club"), Assambley
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Our joint Projects:
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With artists: Bobby
McFerrin, Andrey Makarevich, Mark
Pekarsky,
"Chaif" band, Dmitry Malikov, "Volga" band, "Namgar", "Hi-fi" band,
"Green Point" band,
Garik Sukachyov, Bogdan Titomir,
Herman Vinogradov, Jura Balashev, Jan Bederman, Sergey Filatov, "Tetris" band, Sergey Starostin, Sergey Klevensky, ensemble "Chukotka", "Zerkalo band", Brynjar Rasmussen, Igor Grigorev, "Couple" band, Pelagea, Tina Kuznetsov, Nino Katamadze, Marta Ruiz Villamil, Edson Cordeiro, Andrey Mongush, Adam Matta, Andreas Schaerer, Vladimir Kryzhanovsky, Dmitry Vasilyev, Katya Chernyavskaya, Joey Blake, Christiane Karam, Brenna MacCrimmon, Bori Magyar, Marina Sabianina, Gaya Arutyunyan, with orchestra of Moscow and others
We have worked with many directors. Here are a few of them: Yevgeni Grishkovets (perfomance "Siege" ("Osada")),
Garik Sukachyov (film "House of the sun"), Vera Glagoleva (film "Ferris
Wheel"), Nikita Dmitrievsky (ballet "Sansara"), Nikolay Basin (ballet
Moskva), Olga Stolpovskaja (film "Fishman"), Natalia Anastaseva
(perfomance "Sleep In Summer Night"), Igor Grigurko, Patrick Rollen,
Aleksey Shilin, Anzhela Golubeva (perfomance "Hotel of two
worlds"), German Pikus, Artem Kochukov (film "On the low frequency"), Tandy Beal (Opera "Bobble")
and others
Our band play
concerts in US, Canada, europe, Asia, Russia. We played concerts
for presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan, Kalmykia, Turkey, ambassadors of
France, India, Jordan, Mongolia, Japan, Egypt and others.
We travel a lot, record audio
and study folk music of other countries. On the Toke-cha band website we have created an electronic encyclopedia of the musical instruments.
Bulat and band Toke-Cha have more than 10 diplomas and awards from the Government of Moscow, India and various festivals.
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We composed music for:
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movies:
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"Fishman" by Olga Stolpovskaya (Russia, 2004)
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Theatres and performances:
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"Hotel of two Worlds" by Eric Emanuel Smitt. The director Patric Rollen, Igor Grigurko. (Rati)
"Siege" ("Osada") - 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
Opera "Bobble" by Bobby McFerrin, Tandy Beal (USA/Russia)
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For computer game "Shelter Online" by "Digital Worlds company"
I've composed music and took part in the recording of music for several known films, performances and shows.
music video
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Info in mass-media:
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Records/albums:
"Music of phytogenesis"
[2002], "Matrix"(Shamans) [2003], "Live 2004", "LIVE"
[2005], "On Line" [2006-2007], double album "Eclecticus" [2011]
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