Monday, 26 October 2009

Nadishana Trio: new project has been started

http://www.myspace.com/nadishanatrio

Nadishana - dzuddahord, hybrid kaval, futujara, hu-lu-si, bansuri
Armin Metz - 6-string fretless and fretted bass
Steve Shehan - percussion, hang drum

Three sonic travellers on their journey through scapes of ancient Kuzhebar, present ethno world fusion and future ambients melt their musical identities into one sound. Born in three different regions of the planet they came together to share their wide-spanned instrumental skills, blending exotic sculptures with earthy grooves and distinctive melodies, creating mind-shifting rhythms played with trancey facileness.

Tuesday, 13 October 2009

New CD of Steve Shehan "AWALIN" is out! (feat. V. Nadishana)

Steve Shehan, essential composer and percussionist, member of the Hadouk Trio, signs here a new challenge: AWALIN, (my promise), an album born from his encounter with the Tuareg musician Nabil Othmani, son of late great poet of the desert, Baly Othmani. "Awalin" symbolizes the evidence of a continuation, a relay, of the trust of a father reiterated by his son in respect and friendship.  Steve Shehan gave his word, his promise, during his last trip to Djanet as he did throughout his years of collaboration with Nabil¹s father. The commitment, the pleasure to continue innovating enable to convey Tuareg culture and oral collective memory, nowadays very compromised by the invasive presence of television. It was a new challenge to highlight the "word", Tuareg poetry by incorporating Nabil Othman¹s and Steve Shehan¹s creativity together with the taste and vitality of this new generation. Banjo, pedal steel guitar, dobro, classical guitar, duduk, angklung, hang, futujara, hu-lu-si, kaval, dumdum, berimbau, strings, tar, saz, Kamantche, piano, mingle with the sound of the lute and folk guitar, and with a new more African flair that Nabil offers with his sweet and clear voice.

Steve Shehan expresses once again his love of Tuareg music by surrounding himself with modern, electronic, shamanic, Berber, Brazilian, Middle Eastern, Cuban, and especially African movements, bringing together Tuareg culture and the generous universality of music. He is also surrounded by prestigious guests such as Vladiswar Nadishana, Ibrahim Maalouf, Didier Malherbe, Claude Samard, Nono Belkrief, who, beyond their friendship, bring a unique and original flavor.

Monday, 21 September 2009

Space Drum - Nadishana (my tribute to hang drum cult:)


http://nadishana.com/Rus/MainEng2.htm
this video was made at Steve Shehan's studio ( http://steveshehan.com ).
I'm playing on one of his instruments custom made for him. It's called Space Drum. This is my first try on this instrument.

Monday, 13 July 2009

Nadishana - test of new bagpipe

http://nadishana.com
Just testing new spanish bagpipe - fresh out of the box:)
I traded it for the futujara.
It's elaborated and made by galician luthier Francisco Reguero. This gaita have special construction: it's very quiet and needs very few air to play. Actually that's the easiest bagpipe i played on!
it has no drone pipe, so i use the drone from my computer.

Saturday, 11 July 2009

Interview for Ethnotempos webzine (in French)

Vladiswar NADISHANA –

Un écho lointain de Sibérie

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Quand on dit d'un artiste qu'il est multi-instrumentiste, on l'imagine bien maîtriser environ trois à quatre instruments. Vladiswar NADISHANA, lui, en joue plus d'une centaine ! Cet artiste russe, découvert en France par le biais de ses collaborations avec le quatuor vocal expérimental ORGAN'X, le percussionniste Steve SHEHAN et le HADOUK TRIO, est décidément une énigme de la nature, en même temps qu'un créateur hors pair. Maîtrisant divers instruments à cordes, à vents et de percussions, dont une bonne partie ont été inventés ou réinventés par lui, Vladiswar NADISHANA a la fibre de la fusion ethnique et du métissage ethno-jazz bigarré et sinueux, mais dont les racines sont nourries par l'écho d'une tradition sibérienne aujourd'hui disparue, et que NADISHANA s'évertue à redynamiser. A partir d'une culture improbable, il a généré une forme très personnelle de folklore sinon imaginaire, au moins poly-dimensionnel. Pour ETHNOTEMPOS, Vladiswar NADISHANA ouvre