Paris to Kyiv launches new CD (10/30/05)

Paris to Kyiv launches new CD

TORONTO - The Paris to Kyiv ensemble celebrated its first internationally released CD, "Fragmenti," with a concert at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts' Jane Mallett Theater in Toronto. The songs from this genre-blending album provided the soundtrack for this musical celebration scheduled for Friday, October 21.

With one foot firmly on Canadian soil and the other in Eastern Europe, Alexis Kochan has uncovered an arrestingly original soundscape in between her Paris to Kyiv project. For the past 10 years, Ms. Kochan and her collaborators have blended ancient Ukrainian music with contemporary sounds. Drawing on the deep musical traditions of Eastern Europe, they weave a universal sonic tapestry, working in strands of jazz and new music, medieval Slavonic chant, dance tunes inspired by Carpathian Mountain fiddlers and blind bandura players, original compositions and ancient ritual songs with roots in the Neolithic era.

Recorded in New York and Winnipeg, "Fragmenti," Paris to Kyiv's fourth album, retains the group's signature Ukrainian folk poetry, prayers and song fragments, while introducing electric, acoustic and classical elements, meditative grooves and overtone chanting. The disc assembles the talents of Ms. Kochan, violist/guitarist/singer/songwriter and Fragmenti producer Richard Moody and bandurist/sopilka player Julian Kytasty, as well as welcomed special guests: overtone singing artist Alan Schroeder, percussionists Christian Dugas and Rodrigo Munoz, and fretless bassist Paul Yee.

Paris to Kyiv will present "Fragmenti" on an eastern Canadian tour with stops in Stratford, Ontario (Friday, October 14), North Bay, Ontario (Monday and Tuesday, October 24-25 ), Montreal (Wednesday, October 26), Gatineau, Quebec (Saturday, October 29) and Iqaluit, Nunavut (Monday, November 1).

Further information on Paris to Kyiv can be found on the website www.olesia.com or by e-mailing [email protected].

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