Nabelóse shows Austrian prepared piano virtuoso and yodeler Ingrid Schmoliner and the French horn player Elena Kakaliagou from Greece, putting their hands and voices on traditional folk music from both countries.
Ingrid Schmoliner moves between the genres of new music, improvised music, free jazz, and folk music. Teaming up with the member of Zeitkratzer, RANK Ensemble, PARA, and Zinc & Copper Elena Kakaliagou, they form a duo that creates dark interpretations of ancient songs and tales from mountains and the sea.
Nabelóse combines prepared grand piano, the French horn and imaginary and mother tongues, to unknown territories of sound by breaking the feeling of measured time and space. Various reviewers and audience describe Nabelóse's music as deep-listening music, timeless and strongly atmospheric, in live concerts as via their albums.
Austrian vocal, piano and improvisation artist Ingrid Schmoliner distinctively expands the tonal language of current avant-garde music with her striking piano preparations and the multilayered combinations of her compositional patterns. Due to her manifold education and specialization in the fields of vocal training, overtone singing, jazz vocals and yodeling in 2009 she was invited to sing as guest soloist at the opera in Graz, Austria. Artistically she moves in the genres of new music, experimental-improvised music, avant-garde music, free jazz, folk fusion and folk music. A further focus of her work is on the interdisciplinary collaboration with dancers, choreographers, and video artists. Ingrid Schmoliner initiated projects such as Luiss, the Kollektiv TARO, and PARA. She is the founder of the Raum 4 concert series in Vienna and curates the New Adits Festival for Contemporary Music in Carinthia, Austria.
Elena Margarita Kakaliagou is a Greek-Austrian French horn player and performer, based in Berlin. Starting out with piano lessons, she moved on to the French horn at the age of 18. After completing her studies in Athens with Vangelis Skouras, she moved on to KUG-Graz (Austria) to continue her education under the teaching of Hector McDonald. Instructed by Erja Joukamo-Ampuja, she obtained her Master's degree from Sibelius Academy (Finland) in 2010 in French horn and chamber music. During her career, Elena Kakaliagou has received scholarships from Klangforum, Impuls Academy and Ensemble Modern with teachers like Mike Svoboda and Bill Formann.
Her field of specialization is free improvised and contemporary music, next to classic chamber music. She has performed premiers with ensembles like Ensemble Linea, Schallfeld and KNM Berlin in festivals like Ultraschall Berlin, Maerz Music and Randspiele (Germany), Musica Nova and Lá-bas (Finland), Musica and Tour de Babel (France), Warsaw Autumn (Poland), New Adits and Kaleidophon (Austria), Ultima (New York), Sound Live Tokyo (Japan). She has worked with individual artists as Riikka Innanen,
Phill Niblock, James Andean,
Ingrid Schmoliner, Katharina Klement,
CC Hennix,
Robin Hayward, Simon Martin, Matias Guerra, Thomas Noll, to name but a few.
Elena Kakaliagou is the co-founder of the Helsinki-based "Rank Ensemble", the Austrian trio "PARA", the Duo Kakaliagou/Schmoliner, the Duo Guerra/Kakaliagou and is a member of Zinc & Copper, Zeitkratzer and
Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage, the ensemble of CC Hennix.
