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Tummel is the path breaking klezmer and Balkan band that with ever-present energy takes your heart on a bungy jump. Known as a formidable live band, the Tumlers have for over 25 years managed to turn many a crowd into a roaring, shaking, ferocious mega party. With the motto “music for restless souls”, the band re-invents the traditional East European music and turns it into something completely their own. The band’s albums, OY! (2001), Transit (2004), Payback Time(2009) and Push (2014) have received lots of very enthusiastic reviews. Tummel has toured extensively both in Sweden and across Europe, worked with Music schools and orchestras, and also has done workshops, music camps, and a joint performance together with the Finnish dance group Tsuumi, with the title “Herd Behaviour”.
Dance! A symphonic, dancing journey to the east.
In “Tanz!”, dance music is in focus. Joy, madness and groove from various Eastern European folk traditions are mixed with newly written and classical orchestral arrangements. The result is an irresistible and playful concert program. Klezmer/Balkan veterans Tummel, together with conductor Daniel Hansson, have dug deep into the Eastern European musical tradition and created a unique program of orchestral works inspired by traditional Eastern European music and composers such as Prokofiev, Bartok and Brahms. This is mixed with a selection of Tummel’s own compositions in traditional style provided with tasteful orchestral arrangements by Daniel Fjellström. The pieces of music in the program slide in and out of each other in an interplay between Tummel and the orchestra, where the members of Tummel sometimes act as soloists, sometimes play themselves, and sometimes the whole orchestra chases in front of them. When differences and similarities between Eastern European folk music and art music are explored in “Tanz!”, the music speaks for itself. The content will be an open-minded and engaging program with roots in tradition and branches in the present. The program was first performed with the Malmö Academic Orchestra in 2023, and has since been performed once more with them.
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School/Family concerts
Flyttfåglar (Migrating birds) is a combined film and school concert which tells the story of the band members’ and their families’ histories, which are all filled with migration, as is the history of Mankind generally. The film is made in cooperation with the director Carl Moberg. The project can also be combined with a workshop where the pupils are encouraged to investigate and share their own family histories.
Tummel with young musicians!
Tummel has great experience in working together with young musicians on different levels. For the really young musicians, we have our Two note songs, where the students only need to know two notes to be able to play along! We have developed this together with El Sistema Kristianstad. (watch video above!) For a bit more advanced students, we have the material Bojan Allstars, three songs that are arranged on differnt complexity levels for all possible instruments. That material is published by Gehrmans.
Herd Behavior
Herd Behavior is a show mixing elements of music, dance and performance, in which the audience take a very active part. The show concists of a number of tableaus, “worlds”, where different aspects of human herd behavior, good and bad, is studied and problematized. Besides Tummel and dancers from Tsuumi Dance Theatre, every performance involves one or more local “herds”, who may or may bring their own rehearsed material into the performance. There is no stage, but the performance takes place right among the audience, which is incouraged to participate and interact with the performance. You can see more pictures from the premiere in Helsinki here!
Parties and events
“It was totally amazing to drive into the yard, and hear you play while the guests were chatting. Your music contributed with magic!”
Irina and Lage, bride and groom.
Tummel often plays at weddings, birthdays and other parties, and also at corporate events of different kinds. Our joyful, vivacious music is the perfect party starter!
Members
Since 2015, Tummel is a quintet, consisting of
- Pär Moberg, saxophone
- Daniel Pergament, drums
- Jonatan Ahlbom, tuba
- Tobias Allvin, guitar and bouzouki
- Annika Jessen, clarinet
In Flyttfåglar, Annika is replaced by the Maccedonian clarinet virtuoso Blagoj Lamnjov and Daniel by Danish/Argentinean drummer Fernando Massino.