Official site of Toke-Cha band
Style: Modern Ethnic Music, World music
(Multi-instrumental and Drum show, Live Ethno-Electronic, Acoustic Ethno-BreakBeat, Ethno-Ambient, Folk and traditional music)
BULAT Gafarov – leader
of the Toke-Cha band. Composer, musician
multi-instrumentalist:
Electro-acoustic violin, flutes, didjeridu, kalimba, percussions, drums, khomus, gamelan, ocarinas, yochin, igil, gopi chand, kalyuka, harmonicas, morinhuur, sitar, tabla, xylophone, koto, piano, doshpuluur, tungur, electronic sounds & other
Singing: overtone (throat), east, african, russian, beatbox & other
At concerts Bulat plays at once on several musical instruments.
Vladimir Krylov - guitars, bass guitar, percussions
The last events:
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
Info in mass media:
On radio: "Culture", "Mayak", "Classic", "Arsenal" & other;
On TV: "Russia Today", "Culture", "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] *
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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
E-mail: toke-cha@toke-cha.com
Mob.Tel: +7 915 143 16 01