Official website of Toke-Cha band - Multiinstrumental World Music
Style: World music, Multiinstrumental folk show
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.
Some of our previous events and joint projects: |
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Our tours: |
Ukraine: festival "Kazantip" 2001;
Kalmykia (Elista, the project "Russian Dakar") concert for the president of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov (2006);
Buryatiya (Ulan Ede) composed music for Theatre "Baikal", Mongolia (Ulan Bator) (2006);
Kazakhstan (Alma-Aty, Astana) for the president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev (2007);
Ukraine: Yalta - Opening of the Russian films festival (2007);
Uzbekistan (Samarqand) - "Sharq Taronalari festival" (2007);
Ukraine, Kiev - "Pianomania" project with Dmitry Malikov (2008);
Novosibirsk - the Concert on a main square during a full solar eclipse (2008);
Sochi (Russia) - film festival "Kinotavr" (2009);
Ankara (Turkey) - for Qatar Airlines, among visitors of holiday: President and prime minister of Turkey, the sheikh of Qatar (2009);
Kazan (Tatarstan, Russia) - musical festival "Creation of Peace" (2009) joint concerts with Andrey Makarevich and Volga band;
Norway: Tromse, 2009 - "World Music" Festival (joint concert with Volga band);
Canada 2010 - festivals and concerts in Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Nelson, Wells, Pefferlaw. Solo and join with Namgar band;
Canada 2011 - festivals and concerts in Vancouver, Montreal, Nelson, Wells, Prince George - Bulat solo;
USA - 2011, concerts and festivals in Los Angeles and New York;
Norway (Moi Rana, 2011) - "Smelte Digelen" festival with "Arctic Mood" project;
and in Russian cities: S. Peterburg, N Novgorod, Samara, Krasnoyarsk, Ekaterinburg, Great Novgorod & other
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In clubs of tea culture (in Moscow): "Zhelezniy feniks", "East", "INBI", "Ulun", "Green Panda", "Chavan", "Mate", "Ermitazh", "Bagua" & other
Casino (in Moscow): Arbat, Crystal, Metelicza, Angara ("A club"), Assambley
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Our joint Projects: |
With artists: Bobby McFerrin, Andrey Makarevich, Mark Pekarsky, "Chaif" band, Dmitry Malikov, "Volga" band, "Namgar", "Hi-fi" band, "Green Point" band, Garik Sukachyov, Bogdan Titomir, Herman Vinogradov, Jura Balashev, Jan Bederman, Sergey Filatov, "Tetris" band, Sergey Starostin, Sergey Klevensky, ensemble "Chukotka", "Zerkalo band", Brynjar Rasmussen, Igor Grigorev, "Couple" band, Pelagea, Tina Kuznetsov, Nino Katamadze, Marta Ruiz Villamil, Edson Cordeiro, Andrey Mongush, Adam Matta, Andreas Schaerer, Vladimir Kryzhanovsky, Dmitry Vasilyev, Katya Chernyavskaya, Joey Blake, Christiane Karam, Brenna MacCrimmon, Bori Magyar, Marina Sabianina, Gaya Arutyunyan, with orchestra of Moscow and others
We have worked with many directors. Here are a few of them: Yevgeni Grishkovets (perfomance "Siege" ("Osada")), Garik Sukachyov (film "House of the sun"), Vera Glagoleva (film "Ferris Wheel"), Nikita Dmitrievsky (ballet "Sansara"), Nikolay Basin (ballet Moskva), Olga Stolpovskaja (film "Fishman"), Natalia Anastaseva (perfomance "Sleep In Summer Night"), Igor Grigurko, Patrick Rollen, Aleksey Shilin, Anzhela Golubeva (perfomance "Hotel of two worlds"), German Pikus, Artem Kochukov (film "On the low frequency"), Tandy Beal (Opera "Bobble") and others
We have played concerts for presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan, Kalmykia, Turkey, ambassadors of France, India, Jordan, Mongolia and others.
Our band have played concerts and performed at many festivals in Russia, USA, Canada, Norway, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Kalmykia and Uzbekistan.
We travel a lot, record audio and study folk music of other countries. On the Toke-cha band website I have created an encyclopedia of the musical instruments.
Bulat and band Toke-Cha have more than 10 diplomas and awards from the Government of Moscow, India and various festivals.
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We composed music for:
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Music for "Sand-animations": "Jaguar cars" ; "Japan sand art" ; "Two sides" ; "Cafe" ; "Mask" ; "Chess" more videos with sand art here: www.Sand-Show.com www.Sand-Animations.com |
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Theatres and performances: |
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For computer game "Shelter Online" by "Digital Worlds company"
I've composed music and took part in the recording of music for several known films, performances and shows.
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Info in mass-media: |
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Records/albums:
"Music of phytogenesis" [2002], "Matrix"(Shamans) [2003], "Live 2004", "LIVE" [2005], "On Line" [2006-2007], double album "Eclecticus" [2011]
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