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Festival report. Airvault 2009

Posted on July 31st, 2009 by jsurba.
Categories: exhibitions, festivals, foto, music instruments.

Le Rêve de l’Aborigène ’09

Absolutely great festival!

At the beginning there were only two persons who brought and developed the idea of the festival: Sylvestre& Fred.

On the pic below Nadishana (left) and Silvestre (right)

This year the festival happens for the 8th time and as usual brings together many musicians and alternative people from all over the world. This time there were over 4.000 people who enjoyed their beeing together from till of July in a beautiful place in the nature  near the city Airvault in France.

Thhe festival is focused on didgeridoo, jew harps and troat thinging.

On the festival area you could  see many groups of people playing together just for fun or testing music instruments on many stands.

The first part of the day was full of different workshops (on the pic below – jew harp workshop of Nadishana)

and of open stage performances

and in the evening everybody was attracted by the rich and  interesting concert program on the main stage under  powerfull cedar trees.

My personal favorites in the concert program were Dörvön Berkh-group with traditional throat singing (Mongolia), Dubravko Lapaine (Croatia) with his incerdible didg techniques and Nadishana (!). Sorry for no pics, I was filming during concerts:)

The remarkable side of the festival is that it is not only devoted to music but also present and support the alternative style of life. Everything goes in an ecological way.  Alkohol on the festival is absolutely forbidden, what creates a very rare atmosphare of clearness, joy and pure celebration. We enjoyed it a lot!!! I didn t see any dust during all our beeing there (only in the dust bins :)).More than that on the festival you can find only very good organic food, and there is no use of one way dishes, people wash up themselves, doesn t matter if you are an orginizer of the festival or an artist or a visitor.

Me and Nadishana were very happy to be on the festival with the concert and  stand with music instruments and art objects.    

We also thank for good organisation, for the interest to our art and for the great atmosphare during the concert of Nadishana. First time in my life I saw such sensitive and enthusiastic listeners!

I would also like to use the possibility to thank all people who sincere helped us during the festival. Long live Le Rêve de l’Aborigène!   I am sure we ll come back there again. It is really a place to be!

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Website updates!

Posted on April 30th, 2009 by jsurba.
Categories: design, foto, henna painting, music instruments, pyrography.

Please check out pyrography (all galleries) and logo section, music instruments, henna design to discover new artwork!

Some of update examples are here, please enjoy!

fashion section will be updated soon too!

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New custom Frame Drum with Pyrography

Posted on April 30th, 2009 by jsurba.
Categories: design, drums, foto, music instruments, pyrography.

was made newly for musician Erik Anderson

Drum: David&Roman Drums

Pyrography: Julia Surba

Feedback from Erik when he got his drum:

“Hi Julia,

I’m very impressed with your fine art work as well as the drum in general.  What a pleasure to own such a fine instrument. 

Sincerely,

Erik”

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Report about our visit to Pirenostrum 2008

Posted on August 16th, 2008 by jsurba.
Categories: exhibitions, foto, music instruments.

The old small charming village Boltana placed high in Pyrenees gave kind welcome for music instruments builders, musicians and guests  from different countries. They all came because of Pirenostrum, the festival of music instruments.

Here everybody knows each other and the old stoned houses called “casa” always have their own names. For our exhibition stand we got place in the beautiful casa Coronel.
   

Each day was full of program and a lot of visitors came to see and to try bagpipes from differents parts of Spain, hurdy gurdy, flutes, drums etc. etc. etc…  The old casa Coronel was full with people too. They   were interested in our instruments: jews harps, futuristic fujaras, futujaras

and bagpipes as also nice small flutes from Mallorca called Xirimjeta made by our friend Junajo: a talented painter, ceramist,  biologist and bagpipe builder in one! With him we were happy to travel and have the stand together.

during smal breaks Julia was decorating the bagpipe made by Junajo and Nadishana was playing Futuristic Fujara, so no time was lost there:)!

During the festival there were two good surprises, which were very special for us. The first was a meeting with an innovator in bagpipe building – Francisco Calvo Regueiro, very nice person. His gaitas can be easily played for about half an hour without hard blowing into the bag!!! Sounds like a dream for a bagpipe player, wright?! And Francisco was very interested in futurustuc fujara. Of course in this situation the exchange of instruments was the best solution for both: Nadishana and Francisco:)

The second thing was a meeting with a boy from the village who had seen the concert of Vladiswar Nadishana at the Conspiremus-festival two years ago and was infected by the wish to learn to play jews harp. We remembered him well, because he came after the concert to the stage to see the jews harp from a close distance, and Nadishana was showing him how it works. Now he came especially to get his first jews harp from Nadishana and was very happy after he hold his own one in the hand. We hope to see him next time playing!

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New hat collection from Kuzhebar Design

Posted on June 14th, 2008 by jsurba.
Categories: design, fashion, foto, Kuzhebar.

New  ethno hat collection from Kuzhebar Design.
Material: cotton and polyacril (symbols)
Price: 29,- Euro

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Design for Futuristic Fujara

Posted on June 13th, 2008 by jsurba.
Categories: design, foto, music instruments.

The idea of Paul Marshall about making slovak traditional overtone flute called FUJARA out of PVC is not lost. More than that Nadishana  encouraged  Max Brumberg, experienced fujara maker to build one, which became the name Futuristic Fujara. They both put new ideas to the construction, so this new beautiful sounding music instrument which actually combines 3 instruments in one has influenced Kuzhebar Design to develop special designs for it.

The results are here to see. Two Futuristic Fujara designs in brown: opaque and glossy, one in balck and one in bronze.

To buy Futuristic Fujara and to watch instructinal and demonstration video please go here.

We developed also suitable fujara-bags made from esthetic leather imitate called "nappa", which are very light and easy to clean.

New designs of Futiristic Fujara are coming soon!!!

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Frontal world plane or kuzhebarian mandala

Posted on April 4th, 2008 by jsurba.
Categories: Ancient Kuzhebar, foto, Kuzhebar, pyrography.

One of the forms of the world picture engraving in Ancient Kuzhebar.
The solar symbol in the centre depicts the arch-father of Ancient Kuzhebar – Yagdyn.

The inner circle build Dethless Creatures, who bring into the world different kinds of beings, which symbols you can see on the external circle.  On the frontal world plane  it is easily  to recognise axles, which present the vision of an always growing and renewing world.

Julia Surba. Pyrography on wood, diameter 34сm

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Good news! Our art prints and postcards are available!

Posted on February 15th, 2008 by jsurba.
Categories: Ancient Kuzhebar, design, foto, pyrography.

Now you can have your favorite atrtwork of Julia Surba on a postcard or like an art print. Postcards are two side printed and art prints are made on  tibetan hand made kahari-paper* and on cyperus papyrus**

kahari paper* is traditionally made from plant Canabis sativa, which grows high in Himalayan mountains. The paper is hand made and has a beautiful texture. Each piece of paper is unique, and the artprints look like hand painted on it.

Cyperus papyrus** also called Papyrus Sedge or Paper Reed is traditionally made from plant Cyperaceae, which grows in the wetter parts of Africa. Papyrus has a good recognisable texture and looks very impressive. Because of that the artprints looks lifelike on it.

All these stuff and much more is available in our new online shop, called KUZHEBAR STORE. You are welcome!

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Pyrography design on bulgarian flute

Posted on February 7th, 2008 by jsurba.
Categories: design, foto, music instruments, pyrography.

Here you can see the traditional bulgarian flute called dvujanka or dvojanka with pyrography design on it, which is newly made by Julia Surba. The flute is made from wood and has two chanters. One chanter is for playing and another one is a dron.

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Jew’s harps from China and Vietnam for sell

Posted on January 5th, 2008 by jsurba.
Categories: design, foto, music instruments, pyrography.

Chinese Kou Xiang in beautiful decorated wooden box (design work by Julia Surba “Kuzhebar Design”). Price: 39 EUR ($57)

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Double Dan Moi (Vietnam) in beautiful decorated wooden box (Artwork by Julia Surba) .Price 24 EUR ($35)

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Mini Dan Moi (Vietnam) in beautiful decorated wooden box (Artwork by Julia Surba). Price: 18 EUR ($26)

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