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Alex Mayer - Didgeridoo
Born in Innsbruck, Austria in 1973. He employs the didgeridoo (yidaki) in a variety of new musical styles and a wide range of settings. Apart from his involvement with Comin’ and Goin’, he makes frequent appearances at concerts and an television throughout Europe both as a solist and with various ensembles (Rolling Stones concert in Zeltweg, Austria, „East meets West“ concerts with Shyam Kumar Mishra, India, Chester C. Washington, USA, Techno-Live Acts, Haller Stadtpfeifer Brass Quintet, VIVA TV Music Channel, ORF Austrian Television). To date Alex Mayer has produced five CDs with POLYGLOBE MUSIC, namely „Traveller‘s Dream‘, „Bola“ (together with the singer Elmira Hanum from Usbekistan), and „Flying Carpet“ (with Shyam Kumar Mishra, one of India’s leading tabla players), the solo-CD „Chill Out Zone“ und „Adventure Club“.

       
   

Bernhard Noriller - Changgo, Berimbau, Small Percussion

Born in Lienz, Austria in 1959, Bernhard Noriller started off by teaching himself to play the electric guitar, and since 1975 has been involved with several groups as a guitarist and composer; he took the TaKeTiNa©-course for changgo and berimbau with Reinhard Flatischler and Heidrun Hoffmann followed by the advanced course with Reinhard and Cornelia Flatischler; took a course in traditional Corean Music with Kim Dong-Won (SamulNori, Seoul, Republic of Korea)

       
   

Klaus Falschlunger - Sitar

Born in Innsbruck, Austria in 1969, Klaus Falschlunger spent three years studying under two masters of the sitar in Delhi and Benares, India; since 1995 he has continued his studies with the sitar and classical Indian music as a regular student of Daniel Bradley in Vienna; CDs also with the Tibetan female singer Dechen Shak-Dagsay („Dewa Che“) and Gerhard Fankhauser („Seven Spheres“)

       
   
Paul Heis - Soprano- andTenorsaxophone, EWI, Bodhran

Born in Oberperfuß, Austria in 1969, he studied the saxophone under Florian Bramboeck and graduated from the Tiroler Landeskonservatorium in Innsbruck in jazz and popular music. After musical studies at the Brucknerkonservatorium in Linz (Austria) he widened bis musical horizons through various workshops and courses with Bob Mintzer, Peter Herbert, Eric Marienthal, J.M.Londeix, Vinko Globokar, Harry Sokal and others. Concerts with Gerlinde Heis-Kronsteiner (harp) as the duo-formation "heismusic", at the Tiroler Landestheater (opera und musical), with the Tirolian symphony orchestra, „Marsiade“ ....
       
   
Gerald Rumpold - Six-String- und Fretless-Bass Guitar
Born in lnnsbruck, Austria in 1961, Gerald Rumpold studied the bass at the BSM Munich/Germany (Horst Polland), BIT - Los Angeles/USA, City College of New York/USA (Peter Mathews, Ron Carter); Live: David Gilmor (USA), Dan Carillo (USA), Jamey Haddad (USA), Rodney Holmes (USA), Max Kinker (Germany), Alex Deutsch (A/USA), Franz Hackl (A/USA), John Clark (USA), Jojo Mayer (USA), Hermann Delago (A) a.s.o.; scholarship from the Federal Ministry of Science, Research & Art; "Isral E. Drabkin Memorial Award“ for "Most Promising Music Mayor" (New York/USA); in Top-40-, Jazz- u. Latinbands like Alcala, Una Mas, José Teran, Menage, Heavy Mental, Confusion, The Thing On The Doorstep
       
   

Erwin Vindl - Surdo, Buk, Small Percussion

Born in Innsbruck, Austria in 1959; studied Brasilian and Cuban percussion under Ingrid Wild (A); took courses in traditional Corean Music with Kim Dong-Won (SamulNori, Seoul, Republic of Korea); plays the surdo for the samba group "mais uma"

       
   
Alexander Kunchev - Cajón, Udu, Percussion
Born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1978. Studies at the Tiroler Landes - konservatorium in Innsbruck; since 1998 IGP-Studium; several prices at competitions in Bulgaria.
Since 2000 teaching at the music schools in Kitzbühel and Seefeld;
member of "Los Coronas", "Semino Rossi Band", "Landeskonservatorium Bigband", ""Big Band Tirol" , "Latin Guitar Connection", "Alcalá", etc.
       
       
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