Dr. Bajan, Russland/Skt. Petersburg – Sovietabilly – aus den Einflüssen von Klezmer, Jazz, Chanson und Volksmusik plus Rock´n Roll entstand Sovietabilly (Balkan meets Charlie Parker, Mano Chao trifft auf Gorki…)

Dr. Bajan, Russia/ Saint Petersburg – Sovietabilly – under the influence of klezmer, jazz, chanson and folk music, plus rock ´n roll Sovietabilly came to be! (Balkan meets Charlie Parker, Manu Chao bumps into Gorky.)

Sovietabilly

 How the hell does a simple mortal uncover the fact that there’s another way for someone to play the accordion (bayan) that doesn’t sound like bloody clomping stompy old Cossacks?

Urban speed-folk? World music art rock? As soon as you too become enmeshed into Dr.Bayan’s orgiastic trance, you will know that all attempts to find a single term of description are in vain, any one too narrow to fully grasp the total experience.

The style of Sovietabilly is a highly individual hybrid of Russian and European musical languages, with the unmistakeable stamp of an outstanding lead-accordion (bayan).

 Dr.Bayan (formerly Dr.Bayan & Brain Drain) performs his unique music on traditional instruments. Aside from his stunning originals, composer Dr.Bayan also astonishes with brilliant cover-versions honouring favourite hits from throughout musical time.

 The words are in Russian, the band international - a Russian, a Ukrainian, an Italian Swiss and a German - drawing their experience from across a variety of European musical culture genres. The violinist from classical and gypsy music, the double-bassist from the avant-garde spiced with Italian folk music, the drummer with a passion for jazz. Together they create a fiery mix that infects your feet with dancing, simultaneously going straight to the brain.

With their unbelievably intensive stage presence Nikolai Fomin, Anton Teslia, Davide de Bernardi and Alf Schulze won the sixth „World Wide Music Award“ at the Berlin and Brandenburg „Musica Vitale“ 2004 music festival competition.