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To kick off the European tour of the band THE SOUND ROUTES, WERKSTATT DER KUL-TUREN BERLIN invites musicians who emigrated from their homelands due to adverse conditions, and their European colleagues to the stage on October 12.Italian superstar Roy Paci and the no less well-known French Jazz wind instrumentalist Michel Godard will support an ensemble of international musicians who escaped war and other adversities, on the European tour of the SOUND ROUTES PROJECT. The tour starts on 12 October 2018 in the WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN. Following the Berlin concert, the band will then play at the renowned Bologna Jazz Festival and at the famous Teatro Centro in Sevialla.
The band was formed as part of the EU-funded project "SoundRoutes. Notes to get clos-er", which aims to network musicians from different backgrounds with artists from their (new) homelands - and to have music produced. In cooperation with partner organisa-tions in Belgium, Italy and Spain, the WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN is now hosting the Eu-ropean tour kick-off.
"Since the beginning of the intensified migration movement to Europe three years ago, our house has been home to countless new, great artists," says Philippa Ebéné, Manag-ing Director and Artistic Director of WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN.
Thanks to them, very successful concert series have been created in the WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN, such as ARAB SONG JAM, which operate at the highest artistic level. "A project like SOUND ROUTES must - quite logically - come into life with us."
The members of the SOUND ROUTES BAND were selected during casting processes in the various partner cities of the EU project. Under the direction of the Italian saxophonist Guglielmo Pagnozzi, the musicians spent time as musicans in residence at the WERK-STATT DER KULTUREN. After intensive rehearsals they played their first concert there. Following the motto "NOTES TO GET CLOSER", nine musicians from Syria, Senegal, Italy and France will perform at the opening concert on 12 October 2018. "And we are very happy that we could inspire and enlist Roy Paci and Michel Godard", emphasizes Philippa Ebéné.
The Italian trumpeter, singer, composer and arranger Roy Paci is best known for his band Aretuska and their successful album “Tuttaposto”. Paci’s musical range covers Punk, Rocksteady and Ska to Free Jazz, Calypso, Swing and traditional Sicilian folk music and also reflects his political perspective: Paci got involved with the action “Noi non stiamo con Salvini! (We do not agree with Salvini) as one of the first to publicly oppose Italy’s current migration policy.
Michel Godard, who studied classical trumpet, is a jazz player with a penchant for Re-naissance instruments. He is particularly fond of the serpent, a snake-shaped wind in-strument, the ancestor of the tuba. Godard uses his polyphonic playing techniques (mul-tiphonics) in both contemporary and early music. He formed a quartet with the American tuba virtuoso Dave Bargeron, plays among others in the group of the Lebanese Ud play-er Rabih Abou-Khalil, with the “Capella de la Torre” and his own ensemble “Le miroir du temps”
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