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ZORAN MADŽIROV - THE BOTTLEMAN
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Zoran Madžirov - The Bottleman (MK / USA)
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Zoran Madžirov, The Bottleman, is Nu-Jazz / Alternative / Classical musician from New York, New York, United States of America. Zoran Madžirov - composer, performing & recording artist, was born 14.01.1968 in Strumica, Macedonia. He lives around the planet prepering for jammin' on the Moon. He plays Bottlephone, Vibes, Drums, Tuned-Bike-Wheel, Marimba, Musical Bottles and Glasses, Percussion and is always ready to make music out of everything, or better to say, "nothing".

Zoran Madžirov is the inventor of the Bottlephone - a new feature of a solo music instrument and brought it to a professional playable level over the last 20 years. It contains up to forty carefully chosen, diatonically liquid-tuned-bottles, on two rows and two floors. He also created and developed special mallet technique, which allows him playing on extraordinary virtuoso level. Beside his own, he uses the Vallotti and Pythagorean tuning system. Changing completely the concept of what a solo percussionist can do, you are witnessing an alternation in musical history.

Having performed with or for musical giants like Sting, Harry Bellefonte, The Scorpions, and many others, Madžirov chose to further explore the vibrations in our universe. His extraordinary mallet technique, as Tito Puente called it, gave Zoran the gift of flying with his feet on the ground. He is also the founder of the group Les Barons Karamazoff in 1987, including Saša Dejanović - guitar & Edin Karamazov - guitar, lute, wash-tub-bass (also known as Sergej Karamazov or Edin Džananović) performing classical and world music, very unusual way, touring world-wide.

His latest CD releases, "Dalnovod" with Petar Tashev and "Bottling Jazzy" with Alexandar Spasoski, are where he define himself as a contemporary musician, composer and improviser, inaugurating the new main-stream and assuring future for the jazz today. In 1995 the Arte TV Channel issues an extra TV emission in honor of his body work. Macedonian Radio-Television has realized two documentaries and appearing on Eurovision 2000, and Mondovision on new-years eve 2005. Collaborating with bassist Ellington Mingus, appears on numerous jazz festivals (SJF 2000, Girrona-jazz-in-bottles-2004).

He is starring in Saša Orešković's true story based on reality, "Round Sound", a music documentary film where he is also the co-author. US Department of Justice awarded him with Green Card as an alien musician with extra ordinary ability.

Macedonian percussionist Zoran Madžirov has made a career of birthing the blazing virtuosity and individualism of Balkan jazz into the 21st century, streaming inimitable instrumentation and the latest incarnations of modern music into this genre's vast sea of influences. This year's offering, "Bottling Jazzy", begins with (and returns to) sparse fragments that evoke Radiohead's Kid A, peppered with perhaps the sonic equivalent of drinking fine wine and Madžirov's claim to fame: 40 diatonically-liquid-tuned bottles he has titled "the Bottlephone" and plays with mallets.

Enlisting the help of wünderkind computer sound designer Aleksander Spasoski, Madžirov performs electronica-inflected jazz with significant nods to canonical Western classical composition and Macedonian folk song. But the glue that holds everything together is the joyous aplomb with which he leaps into the Great Unknown, manifest in both his self-crafted feature instrument and the effervescence and surprise of his songcraft. Notes, tone colors, and rhythmic patterns enter and exit on their own terms, creating a series of compelling coincidences that give each track its unique flavor; at the same time, echoes of "head" structure and folk aesthetics render the music's ambience as a cloak of tradition.

The first two tracks stand firmly within electronica genres (lounge, drum and bass) that have come to characterize the urban metropolis in the majority of Americans' imaginations, thanks to mass media. After making himself intelligible to this target audience (a talent honed in NYC subways), Madžirov slowly challenges the listener to focus on motifs and their development, as well as the role of different instruments in giving them shape. The subsequent "Shturec" and "Tu Be Ve" move into the more experimentalist ground covered by To Rococo Rot and Björk's Medulla, as the Bottlephone moves to the fore in volume and relevance.

From Track 5 on, Madžirov commences a call and response with a wide variety of personal influences, mirrored by the appearance of guitar and accordion: it is here that the disc enters the realm of the extraordinary. On "Round Above," the bottles become a melody instrument accentuating the melancholy of this waltz with the delicacy of a fragile ego. In stark contrast, the following track, "On the Phone," finds Madžirov breaking out into improvisations with logic-defying speed and clarity.

The CD reaches its apogee in Madžirov's reworking of a Macedonian song in traditional 7/8 meter, "Opa Iha." On this track (no. 9), bottles and samples present the melody in ghostly shards and neurotic repetitions before it erupts into completeness via live brass orchestra and vocal exclamations. This thought-provoking musical commentary on the relationship between past and present can be taken as a statement of the work's credo, where a respect for "roots" runs deep enough to honor their ability to accommodate the new realities that Madzirov pushes himself to face head-on, time and again. © Amy Frishkey.







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