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Theodor Bastard is an international world-music collective. The band works between genres that can be defined as world music, folk, experimental, and trip-hop. The trademark of the band is the unique voice of Yana Veva and the unimprovable sound-producing by Fedor Svolotch.
Theodor Bastard is one of the most successful contemporary Russian music collectives. The band works between genres that can be defined as world music, darkwave, and trip-hop. The trademark of the band is the unique voice of Yana Veva and the unimprovable sound-producing by Fedor Svolotch.
Yana Veva has a rare vocal timbre, and she uses a special vocal technique that refers to Arabic and Indian vocal traditions. Besides singing in Theodor Bastard, Yana recorded an album with Stefan Hertrich (Shiva in Exile, Darkseed, Betray My Secrets) "Nour," in which all vocals were sung by Yana.
To support the album, Theodor Bastard went on tour around Russia, Belgium, Germany, and visited several festivals in Europe and Russia. Live performance is the strongest aspect of Theodor Bastard (totally there’ve been more than 300 concerts in the band’s history). There are six musicians in the band who use plenty of electronic devices and special acoustic instruments like various ethnic percussions, kazu, saz, and others.
Apart from recording their albums, Theodor Bastard is always keeping in touch with musicians from other countries: collaboration with Martin Atkins from Pigface, who released a track by Theodor Bastard at his label Invisible/Underground Inc.; with Peter Christopherson of Coil – the band recorded a version of "Love's Secret Domain"; with Ethan Jordan, an American saxophonist, playing live together in Brussels; and also Theodor Bastard was the support band for the Nine Inch Nails gig in St. Petersburg, August 2007.
In June 2011, the band successfully performed at the largest German festival WGT in Leipzig. The concert took place on one of the main stages of the festival, in the Central Theater of Leipzig. Also, during the tour, the band gave solo concerts in Poland and Lithuania.
Recently, in November 2011, the release of "Remixed" on CD - the collection of remixes of Theodor Bastard’s songs - has taken place. Such artists from all over Europe as Neotropic, Animals on Wheels, Up, Bustle & Out (all three of them have signed on the label Ninja Tune), Scanner, State of Bengal, Geomatic, Flint Glass, and others took part in the work on the collection.
During all the fall and winter of 2011, Theodor Bastard was occupied with the recording of the new album which, as the musicians themselves admit, has become the most complicated and tedious in their career. The musicians had recorded the material in several studios at the same time. Many invited guests took part in the recording. On the album, one can hear such instruments as udo, mbira, marimba, reco-reco, caxixi, ashiko, and spring drum. Fedor also used the instruments that he had invented and contrived with his own hand of improvised material such as coconuts, door springs, empty bottles, and plastic. The album will be the most lively and diverse in its contents in the entire history of the band. Also, the famous British band Fun-Da-Mental (in collaboration with the Africans The Mighty Zulu Nation) and the unique French singer Julien Jacob took part in the recording of the compositions for the album.
Theodor Bastard is one of the most successful contemporary Russian music collectives. The band works between genres that can be defined as world music, darkwave, and trip-hop. The trademark of the band is the unique voice of Yana Veva and the unimprovable sound-producing by Fedor Svolotch.
Yana Veva has a rare vocal timbre, and she uses a special vocal technique that refers to Arabic and Indian vocal traditions. Besides singing in Theodor Bastard, Yana recorded an album with Stefan Hertrich (Shiva in Exile, Darkseed, Betray My Secrets) "Nour," in which all vocals were sung by Yana.
To support the album, Theodor Bastard went on tour around Russia, Belgium, Germany, and visited several festivals in Europe and Russia. Live performance is the strongest aspect of Theodor Bastard (totally there’ve been more than 300 concerts in the band’s history). There are six musicians in the band who use plenty of electronic devices and special acoustic instruments like various ethnic percussions, kazu, saz, and others.
Apart from recording their albums, Theodor Bastard is always keeping in touch with musicians from other countries: collaboration with Martin Atkins from Pigface, who released a track by Theodor Bastard at his label Invisible/Underground Inc.; with Peter Christopherson of Coil – the band recorded a version of "Love's Secret Domain"; with Ethan Jordan, an American saxophonist, playing live together in Brussels; and also Theodor Bastard was the support band for the Nine Inch Nails gig in St. Petersburg, August 2007.
In June 2011, the band successfully performed at the largest German festival WGT in Leipzig. The concert took place on one of the main stages of the festival, in the Central Theater of Leipzig. Also, during the tour, the band gave solo concerts in Poland and Lithuania.
Recently, in November 2011, the release of "Remixed" on CD - the collection of remixes of Theodor Bastard’s songs - has taken place. Such artists from all over Europe as Neotropic, Animals on Wheels, Up, Bustle & Out (all three of them have signed on the label Ninja Tune), Scanner, State of Bengal, Geomatic, Flint Glass, and others took part in the work on the collection.
During all the fall and winter of 2011, Theodor Bastard was occupied with the recording of the new album which, as the musicians themselves admit, has become the most complicated and tedious in their career. The musicians had recorded the material in several studios at the same time. Many invited guests took part in the recording. On the album, one can hear such instruments as udo, mbira, marimba, reco-reco, caxixi, ashiko, and spring drum. Fedor also used the instruments that he had invented and contrived with his own hand of improvised material such as coconuts, door springs, empty bottles, and plastic. The album will be the most lively and diverse in its contents in the entire history of the band. Also, the famous British band Fun-Da-Mental (in collaboration with the Africans The Mighty Zulu Nation) and the unique French singer Julien Jacob took part in the recording of the compositions for the album.
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