Marimba Plus
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About Marimba Plus
The International Olympic Committee officially opened its 119th session in a ceremony at the national theater featuring the Olympic Anthem played on a MARIMBA (for the first time in Olympic history).
Russian marimba is the band "Marimba Plus" - the unique project in Russia where marimba is the leading instrument and the creativity basis!
Welcome to Olympic Games in Sochi-2014!
Marimba is an instrument which originated in Africa. It's a wooden relative to xylophone incorporating in its sound the ethnic shades and extraordinary timbre power, which is capable to touch any listener.
"Marimba Plus" - is an instrumental project under the leadership of a marimbaphonist Leo Slepner. The group unites in its style the elements of jazz, ethnic music and contemporary chamber pieces. This stylistic cocktail is able to satisfy the taste of any music gourmet. Here we witness the interpenetration of ethnic traditionalism with academic symphonism and jazz improvisation. "Marimba plus" - uncovers a mysterious world of music images, makes us plunge into the ethno-jazz mystery, which surrounds the listener, and enchants him by meditative richness.
The "Marimba plus" program is based on the works by the group leader - Leo Slepner, whose composing talent was marked by a Russian reward "Triumph". The main concept of his work is in fusion of various music genres. "Marimba Plus" also performs the works by contemporary Russian (Gorsky, Lakhuti, Shilkloper) as well as foreign (R.Galliano, L. Schifrin, H.Silver) composers in original arrangements, written for the special set of instruments. The unique, energetic performance of the group leads the listeners to real delight. The combination of classical instruments makes the music acquire classical sound while the saxophone solos, the rhythmic parts of the contrabass and percussion add the jazz drive. And all this is intertwined with the mild sound of marimba.
The members of the "Marimba Plus" are the young professional musicians, who have graduated from the Russian Gnesin Music Academy and Moscow State Conservatory, and have won prizes at foreign competitions and festivals.
In 2007 Lev Slepner became the official endorser the marimba mallets of Encore Mallets (USA) in Russia . The group has 4 albums for the present. The first was released in 2001. The presentation of the second one ("The Charmed World"), which was recorded together with A. Shilkloper, took place in the Chaikovsky hall in February, 2004. The third solo album "Zebrano" was presented in the Moscow International House of Music in April 2005. At March 2007 the group presents the new album "Celestial Elephant".
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"We all admire the spangled acrobat with classical grace meticulously walking his tight rope in the talcum light; but how much rarer art there is in the sagging rope expert wearing scarecrow clothes and impersonating a grotesque drunk! I should know." (Vladimir Nabokov) Thank you for your friendship! Musical greetings from Munich/Germany! Feel free to download my music!
posted Jan 9
Andrea Celeste says:
Thanks for your friendship and for your kind words!
posted Feb 2