WOMAD

Csókolom

From Netherlands

“Enchanted by a woman whose music gave voice to something so eternal and ancient, I listened as the young and the old, the new and the forever, collided and merged. The alchemy of musical genius.” Nora Guthrie, Woody Guthrie Productions Anti von Klewitz is the musical leader of Csókolom, a group whose music is rooted in Hungarian and Gypsy traditions, but whose performances will also include jazz, gypsy-swing and Latin-American music. From Germany originally, charismatic singer, composer/arranger, and dynamic violin player, Anti von Klewitz, trained as a classical violin player in Zagreb (former Yugoslavia) , followed by jazz training with John Coltrane’s former bass player, Reginald Workman.  As a violin player, Anti focuses on Eastern European music, tango and jazz improvisation,and is recognised as one of the first performers to introduce Hungarian music to Germany.  Now based in Amsterdam and Berlin, Anti divides her time between performing with Csókolom; a Cuban-style salsa band Cha-Charanga; Berlin Balkan jazz trio Hora Colora; and composing for dance and theatre companies.  Csókolom are: Sander Hoving, jazz violin and the kontra (Hungarian chord-violin); Anneke Frankenberg, violin, Gregor Schafer, double-bass. Dec 2000