JODL-SCREAM FUNK-FUSION

Jodlfunk, Irish jigs, Balkan ornaments, ragas turned reels and alpine harmonies: in intimate comradery with a taste for theatrics and improvisation, Claudia, Aleš and Matija move between soft, lyrical songs to heart-lifting dance tunes. A rollercoaster of inter-cultural, genre-hopping folk and original music takes the listener on a journey from the west coast of Ireland, across the high open Alps to the rugged Balkan peninsula. Past performances have included appearances at Nekropolis Festival (CZ), Floating Castle Festival (SLO), Kultursommer Wien (AT), Aeson Festival (IT), Vienna International Accordion Festival (AT) and Kultur-Bahnhof Leisnig (DE).

Music:

Oj Jelena, Jelena, jabuka zelena

Dangerously nice / Jagoda Malena

Sligo-based Austrian violinist/singer/yodeller and composer Claudia Schwab has performed on numerous recordings and collaborated with a range of cross-genre artists. She has published three CDs of original work in 2014 (Amber Sands), 2017 (Attic Mornings), and 2024 (Went To Walk), which received a variety of excellent reviews by magazines and radio stations. She was commissioned to write for the NCH Sounding the Feminists Commissioning Scheme 2019 and was awarded a Next Generation Bursary Award from the Irish Arts Council (2019), the Neuer Deutscher Jazzpreis 2019 and a Hubert Von Goisern Förderpreis (2020). Alongside her solo show Claudia currently performs with Los Hostes (feat. Matija Solce & Aleš Zorec), Trio Hupsala (feat. Johannes Bär & Vinzenz Härtel), the Irish Gamelan Orchestra and Cathy Jordan’s Crankie Island Song Project. Her solo show has brought her to perform across Europe, India, Canada and Egypt. She has performed at the Umefolk Festival (SE), Floating Castle Festival (SLO), Kaleidoscope (IRE), Fleadh TV (IRE), Body&Soul Festival (IRE), Cairo Jazz Festival (EGY), Hemavan Folk Festival (SE), Kadikoy Sessions (TU), Les Polysons Festival (BE) and Virufolk (ET). 
www.claudiaschwab.com 

Musician, puppeteer, actor and director as well as puppetry professor, festival organiser and activist, Matija Solce, finished his doctor studies on Alternative Theatre and Puppetry at the Prague Theatre Academy (DAMU), on the theme of “The musical perspective of puppet theatre”. In his works he closely connects music and theatre, and therefore his concerts often turn into interactive theatre performances, or hispuppet shows become musical compositions. With his accordion and suitcase full of puppets he travelled the globe, experiencing venues as extreme as prisons, ashrams, people's bedrooms or big halls of international festivals. His work has received over 30 awards. 
https://www.matijasolce.com/

Acclaimed percussionist, jazz drummer, student of philosophy and comparative literature Aleš Zorec has recorded and toured extensively with ethno-jazz bands Karavana iluzij and Istanbul. More recently he has been making music for theatre and dance performances (Gilgalovanje (2018, Glej Theatre), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Snail and the Whale (2018, MB puppet theatre), Abonma, Just in appearance sometimes as everyone else (2016), A Few People Search for Happiness and Laugh Themselves to Death (2019, SNG NG).

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