Biography
Toke-Cha band (TokeCha) — one of the well known Russian music groups which plays ethnic and ethno-electronic music.
Musicians have named own style - Modern Ethnic Music. It is different rhythms on ethnic drums, beatbox, throat, east, african and russian singing, sound processors and about 300 musical instruments of the different countries of the world, which are in a personal collection of the band.
Sounding of Toke-Cha is very modern, because in the compositions musicians harmoniously mix such styles as BreakBeat, Drum'n'bass, Trip-Hop, Trance, Hip-Hop and Ambient with Folk and Ethnic music, instruments and songs of the different countries of the world.
The first concert the group played in 2001 in the native city - Moscow. Its popularity since then was starting to grow. Toke-Cha became the honorable participant of large festivals and television programs; their music sounds in many films and theatrical performances.
The leader and founder Toke-Cha – Bulat Gafarov, the composer and musician multi-instrumentalist.
Bulat professionally plays more than on 200 musical instruments, such as: electro-acoustic violin, various percussions, drums, didgeridoo, kalimba, flutes, vargans, gamelan, topshur, ocarinas, accordions, morin khuur, xylophone, yochin, koto, sitar
He sings throat (overtone), oriental, Indian, Russian singing and Beatbox.
At concerts Bulat plays at once on several musical instruments. For it his sometime name "Man-orchestra"
The first concept of sounding of Toke-Cha was – “Phytogenesis Music”, eco-friendly music.
So band named the first album, recorded in 2002 on "TRec Studio".
After that 4 more albums have been recorded: "The Shaman's" (2003), “Live 2004”, a multimedia disk “Live 2005” and "On Line" (2006. Music for films & Live).
On an official site of the band www.toke-cha.com you can find: music, video and photo, information about band, musical instruments and the poster of coming events.
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