Toke-Cha band
It is created by autumn of 2001 in Moscow
Style: Modern Ethnic World Music
(Acoustic Ethno - BreakBeat, Live Ethno - Electronics, Ethno-Ambient, Drum Show, Street Beat. Live)
BULAT Gafarov – Composer, leader
of the Toke-Cha band. Composer, musician
multi instrumentalist (can play simultaneously on 4 musical instruments):
The electro-acoustic violin, various percussions, vargans, flutes, kalimba,
gamelan, ocarinas, yochin, igil, ethnic singing (overtone throat, east, african,
russian, beatbox & other), gopi chand, kalyuka, harmonicas, morinhuur, sitar, tabla, xylophone, koto,
electronic sounds, drums & other
mastering, programming; the web master & designer;
Vladimir Krylov - guitars, bass guitar, percussions
Aleksey Fadeev - ethnic drums, percussions, harmonica, vargans
also as the guests:
Boris Izzumm - various percussions & drums, singing bowls, *
Vasiliy - duduk, vargan, clarnet, various percussions & drums *
JOHN Kukaryamba - various percussions, vargans, didjeridu, vocal, cuica, flute, udu, ocarinas, harmonica, "a singing bowls" *
Ruben Oganezov - percussions, vargans *
The last performances of group:
- Koncerts platforms and clubs: MMDM (Moscow International House of Music), CHA (The central house of the artist), Cultural centr "DOM", "MHA", On the Red Square (Vasil'evskiy spusk), Forum hall, Plazma hall, "Expocentr", DK MAI, The Moscow House of Nationalities, "Stone", "First", "Shadow", "Rotonda", "Roxy",
"Shtopor", "Rhythm-Blues cafe", "Tochka", "Kul't", "OGY Project", "Kitayskiy Letchik Djao Da", "16 tons", "Zapasnic", "Veresk", "4 rooms", The union of composers", "Gun Cafe", "Infinity", "Ballantine's Bar", "Gorky Beach", "Sexton", "Z club",
"Neo", "1000 miles", Boutique-club "Armida", "Om cafe", "The Chinese Dream", "Coluare", "Jumanji", "Sobranie", "Archeology", "Rich", "Tabula Rasa", "Bilingua", "Rock n Roll Pub", "Duma", "World roof", "Chillout gallery" & other
- In clubs of tea culture: "Zhelezniy feniks", "East",
"INBI", "Ulun", "Green Panda", "Chavan", "Mate", "Ermitazh", "Bagua" & other
- At theatres: MHAT by Gorky, MHT by Chekhov, STD (at Evgeniy Grishkovecz "Osada" & Altgaki "In thicket"), Theatre by Vasilyev,
GITIS ("Hotel of two Worlds", "Dream in summer night"), Pag & Arm Theatre (The project Factory), Small World Theatre ("Dream in summer night"), Moscow Experimental Theatre ("Universe Creation" multimedia show) & other
- At festivals: "Kazantip", "Ethnolife" (2004-2005),
"Ethnoland" (2006), "Veresk", "Space Parade", "Novaya Era", "Ayurveda", "Island Brahma",
"The New Year's Ethno-Carnival Peace & the Consent", "The world festival of tea & Coffee" (on the Red Square in Moscow), Ethnoland (2006), Space of joy (2006), "Moscow in Rhythms of Nations of the world", "Without borders", "Solar plexus", The youth ethnic art festival "The Brotherhood of students - the brathergood of people", The world festival of tea & Coffee (2007, Kolomenskoe), "3 International Festival of a jazz", "Beckoning worlds", Sixth International Festival "Sharq Taronalari" (Uzbekistan, Samarqand), Fifth Moscow Festival of Domestic Cinema "Moscow Premiere", "Kino Yalta", "Preobrazhenie" (sokolniki-fest), "Edinenie" (Unity), "Silk Way", "Festival of Traditional Chinese Lanterns", reggae festivals & other
- At exhibitions: Expocentre ("Peugeot", "Yukos" (Oil & Gaz-2004)), The Moscow House of the painters
("Small Nationalities"), "New Era" (MDH),
"Flowers" (in the museum of the East), Museum of education of Moscow (Ethno musical travel), "International Tourist Fair
MITF-2005" (Gostinniy Dvor), Museum of nomadic culture, Forum-Exhibition "Clubs of Moscow", The center of the modern art "Mars", "BibliObraz" & other
- On presentations: "Eugene Perma", "Parliament", Magazine "Eneit" (Plazma Hall), Magazine "Biangel", Jeweller Interior
"Korloff", Birhday of the house of a fashion "Jenua Beaute", VIP party boutiques "Lancel" & "Douglas", "AUDI A6 Allroad", at opening of the first Buddhist temple in Moscow, Opening the VIP of hotel "One Only" on Mavricas, BBF + "Norilskiy Nickel", "Volkswagen EOS", Opening of ecological shop "Grunvald", Presentation of the beginning of automobile round-the-world travel, party of TNK BP, party of GAZPROM (Imperial Park Hotel), The House of Cinema (film "Ferris wheel" by Vera Glagoleva), "The Ugly Swans" (by Konstantin Lopushanskiy), RDTECH company holiday, British Petroleum company holiday
+ presentation of own disk "Toke-Cha. Live" & other
- At Casino: Arbat, Crystal, Metelicza, Angara ("A club"), Assambley
Tour activity:
Kazakhstan (Alma-Ati, Astana) for the president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev
Kalmykia
(Elista, the project "Russian Dakar") concert for thr president of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
Ukraine: Kiev - "Pianomaniya" project with Dmitry Malikov;
Novosibirsk - the Concert
on a main square during a full solar eclipse
"Kazantip" festival - Evpatoriya; Yalta - Opening of the Film festival of Domestic Cinema; , Koktebel, Kharkov & other,
Buryatiya (Ulan Ede, Theatre "Baikal"), Uzbekistan (Samarqand) - "Sharq Taronalari festival", Mongolia (Ulan Bator),
S. Peterburg (Russia), N Novgorod, Great Novgorod & other
- ON EVERY POSSIBLE CORPORATIVE PARTIES
The Information about Toke-cha in mass-media:
- On radio: "Culture", "Mayak", "Classic", "Arsenal"
& other;
-On TV: "Russia Today", "STS", "TNT", "Dtv",
"Stolitsa", "Style", "Zvezda Tv", Buryatiya Tv, "Tv Mir", Samarqand & Tashkent Tv & other
Articles about us left in magazines: "Jalouse", "Ethno sphere", "Afisha",
"Dosug", "Molotok", "Alquimia (inbi)", "Eneit", "Info the stream", "Around of the World", "MK" & other
Records/albums:
"Music of phytogenesis" [2002], "Matrix"(Shamans) [2003], "Live 2004", "LIVE" [2005], "On Line" [2006-2007] *
* Toke-Cha makes audio record at the studio (record label) which head is Gafarov Bulat. The name of studio - "TRec"
At the organization of show-programs the group cooperates with:
sand show, dance show (go-go, east dances, a modernist style ballet), fire show (show with fire, fakirs) collectives, theatres
The Toke-cha has own concert equipment
