“Toubanaki & the Buzz Bastardz”

(World Jazz music)

Balkan rhythms, East’s musical roads and Mediterranean Sea’s melodies blended with contemporary musical harmony and form.

In 2008, Aggeliki creates an explosive group with six virtuoso musicians of Greek traditional and jazz music. In 2015, the band releases its first album, titled “Toubanaki &The Buzz Bastardz”. The recording took place in Athens and mixing in New York. Without doubt is one of the most unique and multi-culturally musical proposals of World Jazz Scene in Greece.

“Drums & Voice Jazztronica duet”

(Nu Jazz).

Jazz improvisation and contemporary electronic music, based on interaction and sonic experimentation.
In 2014, Aggeliki Toubanaki and the drummer Ilias Doumanis create the “Drums & Voice Jazztronics Duet”. The two musicians compose a polymorphic sonic universe using electronic media and programs. Project’s aim is to search and seek for the limits of their instruments’ sound.

[Collaborators: Sound engineering: Paschalis Koletsis, Visual, Media, Real time video projections: Luizos Aslanidis, Lighting Design: Valentina Tamiolaki]

“Jazz Plus” project

(Contemporary Vocal Jazz)

A purely jazz band. Its repertoire covers the modern Vocal Jazz scene and is based not only on spontaneous, in real time, reconstruction of rhythm, harmony and form, but also on the vocal jazz and extended vocal improvisation. Aggeliki Toubanaki created the “Jazz Plus” Project in 2010 along with two distinguished Greek musicians, Grigoris Danis (guitar) and Kostas Konstantinou (contrabass). The project’s main purpose is open and free interactive musical communication. The band has played and shared the scene with many outstanding musicians such as: Nikos Sidirokastritis, Nikolas Anadolis, Andreas Polyzogopoulos, Serafim Bellos, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Dimitris Klonis.

Ulalum

(Contemporary avant-garde Greek music)

Experiential interpretations and subtractive orchestrations of Modern Greek landmark songs. A project based on Greek discography that indicates at the same time Aggeliki’s unique artistic imprint. She created “Ulalum” in 2017 with the cooperation of great Greek musicians: Apostolos Kaltsas (electric bass), Vangelis Paraskevaidis (vibraphone) and Ilias Doumanis (drums). “Ulalum” is a show that combines the past of our musical memories with the contemporary sound.

Toubanaki & “Colpo Grosso” group

(World music)

Music and dance show that brings together musical traditions of the Balkans, Mediterranean Sea, Africa, Middle East and Latin America. The show, presented in 2007, was Aggeliki’s first appearance on stage. She conceived and directed “Colpo Grosso” as an on stage dialogue of music, dance and picture. During the show, original videos of Aggeliki’s journey in Tripoint – Bulgaria/Greece/Turkey – (where she filmed music festivals, gypsies, street musicians, people and places that impressed her the most) were projected on video screen. This project was the “musical laboratory” from which emerged and developed in 2008 the “Toubanaki & The Buzz Bastardz” band.

«Syndesis»

(show)

A musical show–narration in which various musical styles and genres are connected in an experimental approach and imprinted through Aggeliki Toubanaki’s unique performance and exceptional orchestration. In a spectacular voyage in Modern Greek music scene and the musical tradition of the Balkans and the Mediterranean Sea, Aggeliki shares the stage with great musicians, Vasilis Ketentzoglou (guitar), Stathis Anninos (piano), Apostolos Kaltsas (bass), Ιlias Doumanis (drums), and the 5-piece alternative female polyphonic ensemble “Terra Voce”. They create all together a multi-dimensional environment with natural and electronic sounds, loops and counterpoints. At the same time the award-winning cartoonist Soloúp sketches the songs’ stories (live-drawing), connecting emotions with picture and sound.

Sam Roma (traditional Gypsy music, 2015)

Anthypnic Flow (ambient soundscapes, 2010)

Mare Yiem (ethnic music, 2008)

Sanades (9-piece polyphonic ensemble, 2007)

& Music-theatre performance in Yiannis Kostaris’ «Passport project», directed by Valentini Siova, in Zp87, 2015

Theatrical performance “The awaking of memory”, Athens and Epidaurus Festival, 2017

Theatrical performance “From Crete to Smyrna, From Yesterday to Nowadays”, a co-production of “Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall” and the group “Playing Ecologically & Interculturally”.

Jazz musical by the composer and jazz pianist George Anamateros, «Μιὰ βεβαιότης φώλιασε στὴν καρδιὰ τῆς φωτισμένης τυράννου» [“Mia vevaiotis foliase stin kardia tis fotismenis tyrannou”].