Marimba Plus «Flight Over The World» (2012)
Lev Slepner — composer, marimba, percussion
Tatiana Shishkova — vocals, palmas, samba whistle, lyrics
Sergey Nankin — clarinet, bassethorn, bass clarinet, vocals
Timur Nekrasov — saxophones (soprano, tenor, baritone)
Evgeny Lebedev — piano, keyboards, accordion
Evgeniy Yarin — bass guitars
Alexander Kulkov — drums
Special guests:
Vladislav Okunev — percussion (1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8)
Gennady Lavrentiev — tabla, violin, parant (2)
Ivan Antonov — acoustic guitar (5)
Marian Kaldadaru — toba (6)
Roman Agapov — guitar (7)
Iliya Dvoretskiy — flute (8)
I have the courage to say that this is one of the best albums by Marimba Plus! It is inventive, colorful, energetic, positive, sunny, delicious! Great groove, great sound! Wonderful musicians! Interesting solos! Played with respect to the long-standing and deep folk traditions but at the same time with an original attitude towards them. I have never heard a vocalist as careful as Tatiana with the vibration an the end of phrases and who is so organically in the aesthetics of Indian, Spanish, African and other traditions. You may sometimes believe that her roots belong to different nations! Talking about a composition called Marimba Chalan… One wonders if there could be anything interesting made in traditional Indian music after such musicians as Ravi Shankar, Trilok Gurtu, Lakshminarayana Subramaniam, Lakshminarayana Shankar and many others. But Marimba Plus has been able to express a personal attitude to this branch of culture!
This album would be great addition to your collection.
Bravo! Congratulations!
Arkady Shilkloper,
Russian and German jazz musician, hornist
Marimba Plus «New Heart» (2016)
Lev Slepner — composer, marimba, percussion, piano
Tatiana Shishkova — vocals, keyboards, percussion, lyrics
Sergey Nankin — clarinet, bassethorn, vocals, lyrics
Michael Zuyev — saxophone, keyboards
Yulia Malikova — trumpet, flugelhorn
Evgeniy Yarin — bass guitars
Artem Fetisov — drums
Special guest:
Alex Glushkov — guitar
Recorded at Vladimir Osinsky studio
Recording engineers: Ilya Kononov, Valentin Osinsky and Evgeny Shevchuk
Recording assistant — Nikita Belykh
Mixing — Ilya Kononov
Mastering — Valentin Osinsky, Vladimir Osinsky
Producer — Tabriz Shakhidi
Artwork — Anna Karpova, Dmitry Geller
Vellua «Portrait of Souls» (2018)
Written and composed by Haval and Joe Haco
Musicians invited to Vellua project to record this album:
Tatiana Shishkova (Russia), Maria Stadbichenko (Georgia), Daddou (Egypt) — vocals
Stein Bull-Hansen (Norway) — guitar
Sean Nerney (Singapore) — keys and synth
Carolina Treuel (Venezuela) — cello
Dragan Buca Tederovic (Serbia) — bouzoki
Kalin Gregoriev (Bulgaria) — ney, kaval
Recording label: Världsmusik