Lazik

Lazik is a reflection of the beautiful cultural melting pot that Cork has become. We started out as a group of session musicians, where we discovered we couldn’t resist wandering off the didly-eye path of the standard Cork session repertoire. To our delight we discovered that other great and well-travelled musicians had a similar appetite for different signature ‘weird’ world music. Thus, in 2005 we all decided to come out of the session closet and Lazik was, is and will be!

Our repertoire is varied, to say the l’east. Our love of suave melodies, crazy rhythms and wild dancing is the chore of our sound. Our journeys around the world collecting songs and tunes, and our various musical and cultural backgrounds provide us with a wealth of inspiration. Wild dance tunes with Scandinavian power and Bulgarian upbeat mix with Eastern rhythms; French chansons and Breton dances blend with Irish tunes and Greek, Turkish and Yiddish melodies. We bring you a night of shimmering bellydance rhythms, rocking Scandinavian melodies and groovy Eastern European music.




Besides haunting the hills of Cork with our groovy sounds we have toured The Netherlands, Belgium and France, rocked-up the Ennis Trad Fest 2006, shook the Cork Folk Fest 2006 and collaborated with the bellydancers of Rashenkoti for the Cork Ladyfest 2008 and Tribal Cure 2008. We have supported the French/Malian band Tinariwen in Cork Opera House and cast a dancing spell on the fabulous audience of The Festival of World Cultures 2008 in Dun Laoghaire. We collaborated with Andy Ivrine for Cork Folk Festival 2009, Martin O'Connor and band for Festival of World Cultures 2010, and Txütxükan for Dingle Festival Na Beltaine and the fabulous 'Gypsy Carnival' Nights in Cork.

We just released a new album 'Far Fetched', CD Launched the 3d of March 2011 in the Crane Lane Theatre CORK followed by a 5 gigs tour around Ireland.The album is available at Claddagh Records.



Contact:
Stella Rodrigues (IE) Tel: +353 86 8090978
Dylan Gully (FR) Tel: +33 6 81 69 44 09
Email: info (AT) lazikmuzik (Dot) com

Members:

Christelle Moisan : Flute, Voice
Barry O'Donovan : Guitar
Stella Rodrigues : Fiddle, Voice
Dylan Gully : Clarinet
Yvonne Leahy - Fiddle
Christian Martin - Electric Bass
JB Heine - Percussion