Acapella express group. The Pentatonix group as an example of the right development towards acapella
Acapella groups at the celebration will cheer up even the most bored guest. Their staged voices, sounding together or separately, make you concentrate on the melody of sound, appreciate the vocal abilities and the possibilities of the human voice as an independent musical instrument. In our catalog you can find both duets and a cappella choir. Each group has its own role and its own program. Someone is tuned to lyrical performances, someone turns the audience on with folk acapella songs, and someone creates a show from covers.
Acapella groups will set the holiday in the right way
Depending on the tasks that you set for the event, you should choose the performers. For example, singers with popular or funny songs in the program are better suited for a wedding. For creative evenings or for anniversaries, look for performers with a repertoire and roles that are classic for this genre. This Musical direction requires special care when choosing.To get acquainted with the work of the acapella groups presented in our catalog, look at the profile of each. There you will find not only photos of artists, reviews of previous customers, but also video materials that will allow you to get a general impression of the singers' performance in public. Evaluate the costumes of the performers, their skill in owning their own voice, how they make contact with the audience.!
Max Timoshin and production company tMotion present
in the club "Durov"
The most popular a cappella group in Russia!
Vocal group "Acapella Express"
Their music dreams at night, and in the morning, they say, wings grow from it on the back ....
There are six of them. They are young and beautiful. Talented dreamers, tireless inventors, lovers of fooling around on stage and at the same time - real pros. Experience and an impeccable sense of proportion give rise to stylish arrangements, ingenious improvisations and that very rare "singing" when several people become a single organism, all of whose components exist in perfect harmony with each other.
It all started ten years ago, when vocalists Narine Dzhinanyan, Max Kostra, Katya Nadareishvili, Anton Kasatkin, Ksenia Penkovskaya and Andrey Tunik, who had known each other for a long time, decided to work together. Completely different personalities, united by one desire - to create something new, truly interesting and extraordinary, intriguing and expressive, international and exclusive in the acapella genre.
The intricate name "A`cappella ExpreSSS" justified itself almost immediately: the newly minted group, soon after its creation, went on a great musical journey. They rushed swiftly and energetically: from Singapore to America, through Asia, Russia and Europe, kindling the flame of inspiration with the power of voices and the beauty of harmony, coloring the canvases of arrangements with bright colors musical cultures all over the world. The musicians themselves define their work with the term "acapella fusion". The repertoire of "A`cappellaExpreSSS" organically coexists with world hits, "non-standard jazz standards", folklore of various nations, classics, current pop music and their own compositions: reggae, swing, r&b, soul, Russian folk or Georgian choral singing - they succeed with amazing ease.
From the first minute of the concert to the last chord, they enchant the listeners with the perfection of the impeccable polyphony of voices, amaze with musical surprises and the unique dramaturgy of each individual number. The secret of success of "A`cappellaExpreSSS" is both simple and very complex: they do what they like in the first place.
This approach was appreciated not only by the band's fans, but also by top managers of the recording industry: by signing a contract with UniversalMusicRussia, "A`cappella ExpreSSS" became the first jazz musician in Russia, whose album ("Voice MeSSSage") was released worldwide.
The group's arsenal includes not only performances at major festivals and music fairs, but also collaboration with famous performers including a star Russian stage Laima Vaikule. And at the end of last year, the group debuted in a new genre of vrock opera "Perfumer" based on the novel Patrick Suskind n and music by IGOR DEMArin.
In addition, the new composition of ACAPELLA EXPRESS "It's time to go after the women" hit the top lines of the hit parade on "Russian Radio".
Among the achievements of the group:
Ward Swingle Award for Best Jazz vocal group"
(competition "Vokal Total" 2003, Graz, Austria)
CARA Award (Contemporary Acapella Music Association, USA) for "Best Jazz Album 2004" ("Magic Moment")
Festivals "Montreux Jazz", "Vokal Total", "Jazz Parade", "Solevoci", "Jazz In Time", " Slavic Marketplace"," Jazz province "and others ...
Soundtracks for the films "Life is One" (music by A. Rybnikov, special award of the festival "Kinotavr"), "Phiromancer" and others...
Concert « A` cappellaExpreSSS» will take place within the framework of the project « JazzmInMotion» - a series of weekly concerts of the best Russian and foreign jazz musicians at one of the most comfortable and stylish venues in the capital. Recognized luminaries and rising stars, followers old school and experimenters discovering new modern trends - « JazzInMotion» gives the audience great jazz in all its manifestations!
Concert starts at 20.00
The address of the club "Durov": st. Pavlovskaya, 6 (metro station Dobryninskaya/Serpukhovskaya)
Today, the performance of music a cappella popular all over the planet and shown in various genres music: folk music, rock music, pop, rhythm and blues, jazz and others.
A cappella is not exclusively sung in churches (as most people think). Available big number high-class teams with a very large number of admirers. In addition, there are "university" bands that are very popular in the United States.
What is a cappella?
A chapel (Italian a cappella, “like in a chapel”) - polyphonic, mostly choral, performance without instrumental accompaniment.
The choral work of Orthodox cathedrals uses vocals only a capella. In old Eastern temples, melodic accompaniment is sometimes allowed, including the use of classical musical instruments.
A capella is also often used in the chamber choral music European composers 19th century.
I present to you a selection modern teams singing a capella!
Barbatuques-Baiana
The term appeared in late XVII century, it is usually associated with the practice of papal worship in the Roman Sistine Chapel. In a broad sense, singing "a cappella" refers to any vocal music(soloist, vocal ensemble, choir and combinations of vocal compositions) without instrumental accompaniment.
Distributed in folk art, church music(Early Christian - an apologist for praise to God, rendered exclusively by the word (logos), voiced by a human voice, without "flutes and trumpets", was already Clement of Alexandria; early Catholic and Orthodox - organ accompaniment in the West was first used only around 670), and then in the works of composers of the Dutch school, the work of Giovanni Palestrina.
The "a cappella" style of singing was also developed in the secular art of singing by Renaissance composers, including in madrigals.
Like the style of a professional choral art singing "a cappella" was defined in cult polyphony by the end of the Middle Ages, reached its peak among the masters of the Dutch school and received a classical expression in the Roman school (Palestrina, Benevoli, Scarlatti). It should be noted that in the XVII-XVIII centuries a cappella singing (especially secular) could be accompanied by solo instruments or general bass; then performance without accompaniment at all began to be valued again.
choral art Orthodox churches uses singing exclusively "a cappella". In the ancient (Monophysite) churches of the East (Ethiopian, Coptic, Malabar) sometimes it is allowed musical accompaniment, including using traditional African and Asian instruments. In Russia, the famous Alexander Grechaninov was a supporter of the introduction of instruments into worship, but this decision was not taken by the Local Council of 1917-1918.
A cappella singing is widely used in chamber choral music of European composers of the XIX century. He reached great heights in Russian choral culture of the 20th century. (op. by Taneyev, Kastalsky, Rachmaninov, Chesnokov, Viktor Kalinnikov, Davidenko, Koval, Shebalin, Shostakovich, Sviridov, Salmanov; activities of the Synodal Choir, the Court Singing Chapel, etc.). Nowadays, a cappella singing is widespread in many countries.
IN spoken language musicians use the phrase "a cappella singing" (not a term).
They teamed up ten years ago. Six talented young people gathered in one team to do their favorite thing - to sing. Surely everyone heard their voices on television - not a single holiday is complete without a brilliant consonance. Jazz professionals, virtuoso improvisers and inventors, brilliant arrangers who work great in a team. This is all - the vocal group "Acapella Express".
Max, Ksenia, Narine, Anton, Katya, and Andrey are six simple names of difficult vocalists who charge the halls with their energy and easy attitude to the stage. Those who like to fool around and dream up create bright arrangements that no one has ever done. This group can be compared to a single organism full of health: they “melt together” so well with each other. Each shade of one voice perfectly matches the shades of the other five, each part of this one whole works so harmoniously that it is impossible not to admire them.
Acapella is the imitation of the sounds of musical instruments with voices. The addition of "Express" in the name of the group justified itself immediately after its creation. The guys wanted to create something special, expressive and intriguing, unusual and exclusive, extraordinary. And they did it. Absolutely various works, harmoniously combined with the acapella genre, causing goosebumps. A successful idea resonated in the hearts of the inhabitants of the whole Earth: Asia, Russia, Europe, they are eagerly awaited everywhere - from Singapore to America. As an innovative train rushes along the rails, so the Acapella Express rushed energetically through different countries.
"Acapella fusion" - this is how the vocalists themselves define the style of their work. The group's repertoire includes a whole range of works of various genres, which, nevertheless, are in perfect harmony with each other. Here are world hits, and folklore, classical, pop music, jazz. In addition, the own fruits of the work of the mind, fantasy and voice are also fulfilled. These are works in the style of r&b, choral singing, soul, reggae, swing - the virtuosos succeed in everything.
At their concerts, you can often see how the audience looks around in search of musicians. The vocalists are so good at imitating bass guitar, saxophone and drums. Exclusive personalities who created exclusive group impress with their skills and capabilities. From the very beginning of the performance, when the first chord sounds, until the very end, when the last sound dissolves into the walls concert hall, "Acapella Express" keeps the audience in an intriguing delight. An impeccable combination of voices, strong dramaturgy and an indispensable surprise in each performance make it impossible to tear yourself away from the stage.
Naturally, outstanding talents were noticed. The legendary record company "UNIVERSAL MUSIC" signed a contract with the vocalists and now their album "Voice meSSSage" is distributed worldwide. This is the only group in Russia that has reached such a high international level.
The team's list of trophies includes numerous awards in jazz and vocal festivals, such as "Montreux Jazz", "Jazz In Time", "Slavianski Bazaar", etc.; award of the Contemporary Association of Music Acapella in the nomination "Best Jazz Album 2004"; Ward Swingle Award for Best Jazz Vocal Group. Acapella Express wrote and performed several soundtracks for feature films and repeatedly occupied the lines of the Jazz radio charts, where only recognized authors get. Acapella Express is a truly new sound of music.
Acapella Express in Durov club
The term "a cappella" appeared at the end of the 17th century and, translated from Italian, means "as in a chapel." The term is usually associated with the practice of papal worship in Rome's Sistine Chapel.
The current a cappella bands have tried to bring a modern approach to the instrumentless performance of melodies, often interspersing such an attribute of hip-hop culture as beatboxing and vocal reproduction of instrumental parts. famous songs.
TUT.BY has chosen 10 most unusual and famous a cappella bands in the world.
Barbatuques
Barbatuques was founded in 1996 by Brazilian musician Fernando Barba. For a long time Fernando was engaged in research on the technique of body percussion - musical performance by extracting sounds with the help of the human body. First as a hobby, but then, while studying at state university Brazil on the course "Popular Music", he delved into the study of rhythm, and a few years later he founded his own research center. With the Barbatuques team, which includes students of Barba, he took part in many social and cultural projects and traveled almost the whole world. On this moment The band's discography includes two albums and two DVDs from the show Corpo do Som.
Jukebox Trio
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Acapella trio from Kazan, performing in their own style"street beat a cappella" and performing cover versions of famous songs and his own works. creative activity Jukebox Trio started in 2004, in 2006 on music festival "New wave"in Jurmala, the musicians received special prize- "The Golden Star of Alla Pugacheva", and exactly one year later the musicians opened Elton John's performance in Rostov-on-Don in front of 90 thousand people.
The team was especially famous for their work on the full-length film "Alvin and the Chipmunks", where the musicians sang all the Russian-language songs of the cartoon characters.
At the moment, there are three full-length albums in the Jukebox Trio discography: Acappellipsis, Rodina I and Rodina II.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
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Ladysmith Black Mambazo (Ladysmith is the name of the South African city in which the group originated, Black Mambazo is a black Zulu ax that, according to legend, defeats opponents in battles) was founded by Joseph Shabalala. In the 60s, he created a children's Zulu "song and dance" group, which then transformed into male choir. The choir revived the traditions of the Zulu choral singing iscathamiya, which means "crouching step" in Zulu. This style originated in the mines South Africa when a black worker after a six-day working week I wanted to entertain myself with nightly singing of songs and dancing "at my fingertips" so as not to attract the attention of the guards.
The first album Amabutho was recorded by the choir in 1973. It was the first African LP to be certified gold in sales. The record was transferred to CD and is now sold all over the world, becoming the best-selling record in the history of South Africa.
The band's discography includes more than 40 albums, for which the musicians were nominated for Grammy 13 times, four of which they put in their piggy bank.
local vocals
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Danish choir, founded by conductor Anna Ostergaard and consisting of 23 people. It consists of singers of various ages, including programmers, actors, teachers and retirees. There are no professional singers among the participants. In 2013, the choir won second place at the international vocal competition in Aarhus.
The group's repertoire includes Danish folk songs, as well as cover versions of songs by Leonard Cohen, Dido, Tori Amos, Michael Jackson and hits from the 90s. By the way, a potpourri video with hits from the 90s has gained more than 6 million views on YouTube and has become one of the most viewed clips among Danish artists.
Naturally 7
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American a cappella group formed in New York in 1999. The founders - brothers Roger and Warren Thomas, having gathered 5 more vocalists, actively participated in a variety of music competitions USA, in most of which they won prizes and won.
Over the course of 16 years, Naturally 7 released seven full-length albums, and a cover version of Phil Collins' In the air tonight reached number three on the charts in France, Belgium, and South Africa. The album Wall of Sound took 29th place in the British music tops in 2009.
Out of the blue
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Out of the Blue is the men's a cappella choir at the University of Oxford. The team was founded in October 2000, but since it consists of university students, it does not have a permanent membership. The choir participates annually in the Edinburgh Arts Festival. also in track record appear: a performance at the Royal Palace, a US tour and numerous victories in major vocal competitions Britain, including International festival choral art among colleges and The Voice Festival.
The group gained great popularity by participating in the popular British television show Britain's. Got Talent and a cover video for Shakira's Hips Don't Lie, which has over five and a half million views on YouTube.
Pentatonix
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Pentatonix is the most popular a cappella band of our time with 7 million subscribers on YouTube and 57 million views of the Evolution of Music video. Founded in 2011 in Arlington, Texas. After winning the American a cappella show collectives The Sing-off five singers noticed the music label Sony Music.
The musicians released two full-length albums, in 2013 they received the YouTube Music Awards for the cover version of the song. group Imagine Dragons "Radioactive", and this year they were awarded the "Grammy" in the nomination "Best Acapella Band".
Perpetuum Jazzile
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Slovenian acapella band, founded in 1983, but gained wide popularity only in 2009, after performing their own interpretation of Toto's song "Africa" at a concert in Italian city Udine.
The video gained 17 million views, and the choir went on a tour of Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Canada and the United States, accompanied by constant sold-outs. In 2009, Perpetuum Jazzile took prize-winning place at the World Choir Games, called the Choir Olympics, in Graz, Austria.
Spiralmouth
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The Spiralmouth band practically does not give concerts, spending most of the time in the studio perfecting their vocal abilities. Self-titled debut album acclaimed music critics and in 2009 won the "Best Pop Rock Album" award at the UK A cappella Awards for Innovation in Recording.
Van Canto
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German a cappella metal band formed in 2006. Performs music in the style of A Capella Hero Metal, invented by the participants themselves. The group consists of five vocalists and one drummer. According to the musicians, they wanted a beatboxer vocalist instead of a drummer, but not a single candidate could physically withstand more than 5 minutes of performing the band's rhythms. The band's repertoire includes their own compositions and cover versions of famous songs by Metallica, Black Sabbath, Nightwish and many others. In 2014, Van Canto headlined Europe's largest metal music festival, Wacken.
