Cheparukhin
Alexander Cheparukhin is a music producer and promoter. Founder and director of GreenWave Music - Moscow based company, which is a combination of a record label, artist management and show/festival production. Manager and record producer of internationally acclaimed quartet Huun-Huur-Tu from the Republic of Tuva. Founder and artistic director of the number of musical festivals including “Creation of Peace” (Kazan, Tatarstan, since 2008, about 200 000 – 250 000 visitors every year), “Movement Fest” (Perm region), “Music of Freedom” (Perm), “Gogolfest” (Perm), Sayan Ring (South Siberia), Viva Cuba! (Moscow). Mr. Cheparukhin produced many shows and festival programs in more than 40 countries, including United Kingdom (where he co-produced East Winds Series of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and X-Bloc Reunion in London (festival of new music of ex-USSR and Eastern Europe). Organiser of the Russian and ex-USSR tours of many international artists, including John Fogerty, Brian Wilson, Patti Smith, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Kraftwerk, Kronos Quartet, John McLaughlin, Michael Nyman, Philip Glass, John Zorn, Manu Chao, Gogol Bordello, Buena Vista Social Club, Public Image Ltd etc.
Russisches Popfestival Die Welt für 150 Rubel
- Cheparukhin
- Saturday, 17 July 2010 00:00
- Written by Aleksei Gavrilov
Der Sommer der Liebe erreicht den Ural: Zu Besuch auf dem ersten internationalen Popfestival in Perm
- Von: Sebastian Reier
- 17.07.2010 - 17:42 Uhr
© Aleksei Gavrilov
Alternativkultur auf dem russischen Land: Das Dvizhenie-Festival bringt immerhin mehrere Tausend Leute zusammen
A Tale of Three Festivals
- Cheparukhin
- Sunday, 31 August 2008 00:00
- Written by Joe Boyd
Joe Boyd
… In early July, I set off for Russia and the Wild East. Moscow has become the world’s most expensive city and the changes since my first visit in 1990 are astounding. Muscovites have made the transition from comrades to consumers with ease; they stride in and out of expensive shops with the same strut that the Russian army showed invading Georgia! (OK, that’s a bit of a stretch, but it is hard not to notice today’s Putin-esque confidence in contrast to the ashamed insecurity of the Yeltsin era.)
Throat singing nomads tour Alaska
- Cheparukhin
- Thursday, 14 November 2002 00:00
- Written by TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER
Quartet to perform in Juneau on Friday
Posted: Thursday, November 14, 2002
By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER
THE JUNEAU EMPIRE © 2002
Like a nomadic sheep herder wandering the countryside, the throat-singing quartet Huun-Huur-Tu is traveling throughout the United States on a tour that ends in Alaska, including a show Friday, Nov. 15, in Juneau.
Originating out of Tuva, a Central Asian region nestled between Mongolia and Siberia, the heritage of "xoomei," or throat singing, is one of Asia's oldest oral traditions, where a single vocalist produces two distinct notes.
Deep from the throats of Mongolia
- Cheparukhin
- Wednesday, 19 August 1998 10:44
- Written by Super User
By BBC Correspondent Mark Coles:
It may sound like an advert for an antisceptic throat wash, the vocal equivalent of the Australian didgeridoo or the sort of sound you make first thing in the morning after a heavy night of alcohol and cigarettes.
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