Ljova

I had the great pleasure to see Ljova (pronounced YO-vah) in the basement performance space at the Cornelia St. Cafe in New York City.

Unlike his somewhat outside uploads to ccM, the show was filled with beautiful melodies. He played with a band consisting of stand-up bass, accordion and percussion. It's very hard to categorize the music in the show, but a lot of it is what I would call 21st century tango, similar, but on a smaller scale, to Piazzolla's Tango Ballet.

I got to talk to him after the show and he was really sweet and promised to upload more to ccM. ;)

From here, he goes to Washington D.C. to play at the Kennedy center and then next week at Carnegie Hall. (This is is pretty much the fourstones schedule as well.)

Ljova's interactive BABY naming contest

Ljova's interactive BABY naming contest. From the SoupASonic.

This new baby is a 6-stringed acoustic instrument, made by the excellent Eric Aceto of Ithaca, NY. On its belly, it carries the strings of a viola (C-G-D-A), the violin (G-D-A-E) and a super-low string (F), one pitch higher than the bottom note of the guitar. Size-wise, it's taller than a violin but shorter than a viola, clocking in at 14 inches.

Ljova would like some help naming his new baby. Head over to his blog if you have a suggestion.

What a beautiful sounding instrument - Freshwood.

I have my fingers crossed that we'll be hearing some samples at ccM soon. : )

Innabar & Ljova live in Budapest

Inna Barmash (Innabar) & Lev Zhurbin (Ljova) organized an irregular pub jam session in Budapest ( Hungary) in Kőleves (Soup of Stone). Inna & Ljova got married, and now they are on honeymoon. Inna sang 3 beautiful song, Ljova played his viola. Ljova improvised with Zoltán Lantos (violin) some free etno based string music, and a yiddish folk song with Bob Cohen (violin, vocal).Two hungarian ccMixters (Minimal Art, hepepe.hu) were present as well...
G-d Bless Ya Inna & Ljova! Keep on Rockin!