BANDS
EKLEKTIK ORCHESTRA
by Radek Bond Bednarz. A unique venture inspired by various themes, combining improvisation and interaction on a big stage at unique locations.
Home & Identity / 2019 /
Home & Identity / 2019 /
Fully improvised set at Mercedes-Benz garage, featuring a multi-kulti line-up of artists from Israel, Turkey, Norway, Japan, Switzerland, UK and Poland. With Yossi Fine / microtonal guitar /, Ben Aylon / senegalese percussion /, Sharon Mansur / keys /, Sarah Tandy / piano /, Berke Can Özcan / drums & self-made percussion /, Bond / bass & effects /, Erland Apneseth / Hardanger fiddle /, Stephan Meidell / guitar & effects /, Øyvind Hegg-Lunde / drums /. Accompanied by Azumi Oe, Japanese butoh dancer on an elevated car platform. Sound by Roli Mosimann, light design by Tord Knudsen.
Manual / 2018 /
Manual / 2018 /
Held at the former Wroclaw Feature Film Production facility with extraordinary line-up: drummers Josh Dion, Samuel Rohrer, Øyvind Hegg-Lunde, bass players Yonathan Levi, Geoff Krally, Bond, guitarist Eivind Aarset, fronted by trumpet players, Nils Petter Molvaer and Sebastian Studnitzky. Light design by Tord Knudsen.
Reversed / 2017 /
Reversed / 2017 /
Finalizing Eklektik Session „Architexture” festival at historic Wroclaw Opera House. The reversed stage provided the audience unique backstage experience and amazing balcony perspective. On drums Swiss wizard Jojo Mayer, backed by Alfred Vogel on a self-arranged kit, double bass players John Davis and Paweł Pastuszka, Dj Dieb 13, Ståle Storløkken on keys, Bond on bass and local brass section led by saxophonist Adam Bławicki.
Echoes / 2016 /
Echoes / 2016 /
The biggest Eklektik Orchestra performance held at National Forum of Music few weeks after its grand opening in 2016. Marking collaboration with NFM Wroclaw Philarmonic and soloists: Mariam The Believer (Sweden), Guo Gan (China), Mieko Miyazaki (Japan), Nadishana (Siberia), Waldemar Kasta, Natalia Lubrano, Endy Yden (Poland). Arranged and conducted by Marcin Mirowski with selection of mountain stories on a big screen.
The Deep / 2015 /
The Deep / 2015 /
Performed at New Horizons Cinema in Wrocław, finalizing Punkt Eklektik Session, collaborative project with Punkt festival / Kristiansand, Norway. THE DEEP has been dedicated to stories emerging from under the surface of sees and oceans with original soundtrack performed by polish-norwegian collective with Nils Petter Molvaer, live remixers Jan Bang and Erik Honoré, Erland Dahlen and Ganesh Anandan.
Lost Highway / 2014 /
Lost Highway / 2014 /
Tribute to David’s Lynch cult movie and its official soundtrack on a cinema stage shared by artists from Poland with international guests: Jan Bang / live sampling /, Eivind Aarset / guitar & effects /, Alfred Vogel / drums /, Lucien Dubuis / tenor sax /, and singers Ranjit Prasad, Adrianna Styrcz, Szymon Danis, Endy Eden and Agrest.
HANG EM HIGH
Power trio w/ Lucien Dubuis and Alfred Vogel
„Tres Testosterones” out of Switzerland, Austria and Poland with four „hot like melted iron, cool as Clint Eastwood” studio albums and worldwide touring. Call it low-western-rock jazz-ambient punk with live electronics, whatever… HANG EM HIGH, that’s what they call it.
DISCOGRAPHY:
The Kidnapping of Ståle Storløkken / 2020 /
Tres Testosterones / 2017 /
Beef & Bottle / 2014 /
Hang Em High / 2013 /
MILOOPA
Latest album VERKE from 2016 marked band’s 15th anniversary. Not officially disbanded Miloopa didn’t perform nor record since then. However, as one of the first Polish exports, they were touring extensively, highlighting European festival stages with early energetic live d’n’b and jungle sets. On the second release Unicode Miloopa collaborated with Roli Mosimann, renowned swiss producer / Faith No More, The Young Gods, Jojo Mayer / who helped to re-define the band’s sound. Collector’s releases include CD packed in a meat-can and limited 100 vinyls of VERKE album in personalized copper casings hand-crafted on individual orders.
DISCOGRAPHY:
Optica / 2011 /
Unicode / 2008 /
Nutrition Facts / 2005 /
SILENT WITNESS
Bond’s open solo concept. As the main composer, arranger and producer invites artists met along his way for unique collaborations. The concert line-up features Mieko Miyazaki, renowned Japanese koto player based in France.
DISCOGRAPHY:
Silent Witness || / 2022 /
w/ Ben Aylon, Jimi Tenor, Stevo Atambire, Moussa Diallo, Erland Dahlen, Sinaubi Zawose, Mari Kvien Brunvoll
Silent Witness / 2019 /
w/ Mieko Miyazaki, Loup Barrow, Mood, Samuel Rohrer, Sebastian Studnitzky, Igor Pietraszewski, Alfred Vogel
SINAUBI ZAWOSE
Tanzania Wagogo tribe contemporary afrobeat
Sinaubi Zawose was born in the renowned Zawose family of the Tanzania Wagogo tribe. Together with members of the family Sinaubi creates bridges connecting past and present generations, delivering unique blend of traditional Gogo and contemporary afrobeat with powerful messages in Swahili and tribe dialect. GOGO HIP recorded live at Wanene Studios, Dar es Salaam, produced by Bond, was recognized by World Music Charts Europe among best albums of 2023.
DISCOGRAPHY:
Gogo Hip / 2023 /
w/ Sinaubi Zawose, Lucas Ubi Zawose, Bahati Zawose, Ally Lumbi
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