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Matthias Loibner: hurdy-gurdy, live looping
Tunji Beier: percussion, noise, live looping

Zykado is a friendly game inside and outside the bounds of music. rules: none.

In playful experiments with musical and emotional parameters
Matthias Loibner and Tunji Beier achieve a multilayered simultaneity
of sounds, styles and feelings.

Fragility and hardness, acoustic and electronic meet organically in the
archaic-modern sounds of the hurdy-gurdy, drums, stones and bells.

Tunji Beiers roots are african (Yoruba), southindian and jazz,
Matthias Loibner studied classical and traditional european and african
(Buganda) music.

The essence of these experiences is source for zykado.

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Matthias Loibner and Tunji Beier have worked together since 1995 in various
projects in Europe and Australia with deishovida, Linsey Pollak, Ross Daly
the Sandy Lopicic Orkestar and others. The geographical distance from
Weststeiermark to the Sunshine Coast Hinterland could neither affect
their musical exchange nor their friendship.

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left school on his fifteenth birthday (the legally permissable day) because
he felt that to continue school would merely divert him from his real
purpose in life. In 1980 Tunji went back to Nigeria to study Yoruba
percussion. In 1986 he went to South India to study classical indian
percussion and stayed there for three years to receive the highest mark in
the state exam for percussion.

Performed in Nigeria with leading Yoruba Percussionists including Muraina
Oyelami, Ademola Onibonokuta & the Ayandosun family of drummers for
installations of Kings, Masquerades & Acrobats, funerals, festivals & many
social events.

Concerts throughout South India with Karnataka College Of Percussion
and famous singers R.A.Ramamani, Raghavendra, Ashok & many other singers
and instrumentalists. European Tours with Karnataka College of Percussion
and cellist Anup Kumar Biswas. Live jam with Zakir Hussain in Budapest.

Wide experience of fusion with African, Indian, Spanish, Indonesian,
Norwegian, Macedonian & Classical European music and worked with Markus
Stockhausen, Ronald Snijders, Mohamed El Toukhi, Ross Daly, Jaume Bosser,
Wafir Sheik El Din, Greg Sheehan, Djamchid Chemirani, Agus Super,
Terje Isungset, Satsuki Odamura, Volker Jaekel, Mathew Doyle, Thomas
Stronen, Stepanida Borisova (Hulu Project), Linsey Pollak, Matthias
Loibner, Hossam Ramsy Spanish & Indian group Amalgama, Keyvan Chemirani,
Bijan Chemirani and many others.

Collaboration with leading jazz musicians Bill Cobham, Iain Ballamy,
Oren Marshal, Ashley Slater, Trilok Gurtu, Randy Weston, Charlie Mariano,
Burton Greene, Chris Hinze, Dave King.

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Matthias Loibner - hurdy-gurdy  . °  .  °  . °  .  °  . °  .  °  . °  .  °
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born 1969 in Austria, first instruments: piano, guitar and trombone,
partial studies of composition, jazz-composition and conducting in Graz [A]

hurdy-gurdy since 1990, lessons at Barbara Grimm, Valentin Clastrier,
Riccardo Delfino and Gilles Chabenat, 1st price at the "Concours des
vielles et cornemuses", St. Chartier [F] 1994

teaching hurdy-gurdy and improvisation since 1994, author of a
hurdy-gurdy-manual together with Riccardo Delfino

travels due to the occupation with different music traditions a.o.
in Austria, France, South-East Europe, Uganda, Mozambique and Australia

cooperation & recordings with: deishovida [A], Sandy Lopicic Orkestar
[BIH/A/etc], Tunji Beier [AUS], Linsey Pollak [AUS], dididumdum [AUS],
Wild Marmalade [AUS], The Big Five [UG], Celco Paco [MOZ], Ross Daly,
Riccardo Delfino, Alex Deutsch, DJ Shantel u.a.

baroque music with: Christophe Coin & Ensemble Baroque de Limoges [F],
Le Concert Spirituel [F], Les Eclairs de Musique [I], Riccardo Delfino [D]

film- and theatre music with: Hubert v. Goisern, Manuela Soeiro,
Henning Mankell, Dimiter Gotscheff

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