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_Ateshhan Yuseinov is one of the most interesting guitar players, not only on the Balkan. With his unique technique which can be characterized by its fast rhythms and changes of the Balkan music and combined by improvisation in a very open way of playing he has aquired cult status. Apart from the guitar Yuseinov is famous for his multi-instrumental skills. He is equally in command of playing the tambura as well as the saz.

_Yuseinov recordings and concerts with the group „Zone C“ and Okay Temiz followed.
Ateshhan Yuseinov also worked with the Zig Zag Trio / Peter Ralchev and Stoyan Yankoulov for a long time and the recorded the CD „When the bees are gathering honey“ (Kuker Music).

_He was also successful with the Zig Zag Trio feat. Ivo Papasov.
Afterwards he took part in the special project „Fairground“ (Kuker Music) of Ivo Papasov with whom he has played in the „Ivo Papasov & His Wedding Band“ for some time.

_For the festival „Strings On Fire“ a special string project with Zoltan Lantos, Vladimir Volkov and Stoyan Yankoulov was realised.
The new project Kalman Balogh, Peter Ralchev and Csaba Novak was created for the jazz festival in Graz in 2005.

_Yuseinov also staged at Rudolstadt Tanz & Folk Festival, Strasbourg Bienalle, Elmau Jazztival, New York BoC Marathon, Salzburg Balkan Fest, Graz European Culture Capital, Wien Accordion Festival, Bruxelles Europalia, Dresden Festival, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Gypsy Festival Tilburg, Moskow World Music Festival, Fächerwelt Karlsruhe, Umea Folk Festival, Balkanfeever Vienna, Sziget Festival Budapest, Time in Jazz Sardinia, Cormons Jazz & Wine, Budapest World Festival, Graz Jazz Festival, Auerbach Festspiele etc. etc. etc.

_Ateshhan Yuseinov's guitar work techniques are mind blowing, yet he is not all technique. On faster numbers, he has a seventies-era jazz-fusion buzz, while on "The fog is lifting" his tenderness is evident.
PEGGY LATKOVICH / Rootsworld

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Project:

Atesh & Venera

___Are you keen on experimental music which bears the mighty local spirit of the wedding but also an inventive curiosity toward exciting global sounds? If this is so, now is the moment to dash into the labyrinth of extraordinary and explosive fusion, spiced with an overdose of Balkan folk, jazz rock, Bulgarian, Romanian, Gypsy, and Turkish music!..

___Ateshhan Yuseinov, the phenomenal guitarist, virtuoso and innovator in the world of the free music making, and Venera Marmozel, cradled with the folk singing of Danube area which is now approached by her in a modern and impressive manner, have chosen to take the challenge of the vital artistic provocation. Their music has not only abandoned well tried cliches; it also catches and penetrates into the human soul as only the masters-improvisers are able to do it. Either with a pinch of humour, sensual pleasure or a notion of mysterious expression, their unpredictable sound excursions leave you breathless while playing around a bunch of firing and imaginative novelties…

___Venera and Ateshhan: together in life, why not also in music?.. Not alone their irresistible artistic journey, they enjoy a first-class company of superb musicians who are well inside the marvels of the Balkan music and seem to be eager, again, to retrieve and hunt up the hot passions of the Balkan soul, to twirl round the swing of the famed native grooves, vivid tunes and colourful tones, drawn out of the knotty regional clew that seals the music from the Balkans.

___Claire Levy