Hanka Vojtechova

function: booking agent
company: Indies Scope

participation in

WOMEX 2006
WOMEX 2007
WOMEX 2008
WOMEX 2009
WOMEX 2010
WOMEX 2011

Since 2002 manager of one of the top Czech world music bands Cankisou, working as a manager and booking agent for Indies production agency closely connected to an independent label Indies Scope (www.indies.eu)

Booking these bands:
CANKISOU - mixes influences from various ethnics with rock roots. Wild rhythms, positive energy and rich collection of exotic instruments make audience from Réunion island in an Indian ocean to Pakistan dance. The only Czech band at Sziget 2010 (performing at world music stage). New CD Fayt released in September 2011. www.cankisou.cz

TARA FUKI - two women, two voices, two cellos and very intimate music. Their songs for two wooden bodies interlaced by caressing sound of Polish language create a fragile web of tones which, by a wave of a bow, can change into dangerous trap. Tara Fuki received the Czech Academy of Popular Music award in the "Alternative Music - World Music" and "Newcomer of the Year" category for 2001 and in the "World Music" category in 2007. The first Czech band ever at the global music fair WOMEX 2007 in Spain. Their fourth studio album Sens shows Tara Fuki in a quieter aspect, with fewer digressions in other genres. You can also hear more intimate but also more improvised music. www.tarafuki.eu

BRAAGAS - colourful women voices and folk songs from all around Europe. Performance at Rainforest world music festival 2010 on Borneo island. The band is characteristic for their expressive and colorful vocals and vivid rhythmic and also for the use of non traditional instruments, such as cither, bagpipes, shawm, shalimo and different kinds of percussion. www.braagas.com

TRABAND - although the band has changed its style many times during the years from balkan brassband, over folk songs with harmonium to current rock, you can always recognise the original sound thanks to its leader Jarda Svoboda. www.traband.net

LESNI ZVER - an original mix of jazz, drum´n´bass and psychedelia. Their compositions span from regular songs to purely improvised stuff, when they basically let the music spontaneously drive on in unintended directions, eventually ending up either in heavenly arcs of spiritual joy or in a roaring hell. "We do not perceive nu-jazz as a music necessarily connected with jazz in the historical sense of the word. It is more of a common ground, a starting point full of freedom and spontaneity, that is not limited by any definition of it as genre, and lets us wildly exploit our imagination." Performances at Lotos Jazz festival 2010 (Poland), Kaunas Jazz festival 2010 (Lithuania), Jazzire 2010 (Serbia), Eurojazz 2011 (Mexico). www.myspace.com/lesnizver

EVOLUTION DEJAVU - mixing world music and electronic, influenced by Fundamental, Transglobal underground, Asian Dub Foundation, The Prodigy or Limp Bizkit. The band is DJ, percussions, bass guitar, singing and colorful range of non-traditional instruments and sounds from all over the world. www.myspace.com/evolutiondejavu