By obvious reasons, the Russia-based festival is getting much of its press in Russia, not English.
In Russian, «MuzEnergo» was reviewed by such strong Russian mass media as
- «Podmoskovie» TV channel
- «Culture» state broadcasting company
- «Izvestia», «Trud», «Gazeta», «Komsomolskaya Pravda» & «Rossiyskaya Gazeta» newspapers
- «Profile», «Bolshoy Gorod», «Afisha» & «Jazz.Ru» magazines
- numerous local press
On international level, the broadcasting coverage is the main up-to-date festival success. It was made by a several companies from European Broadcasting Union, including
- BYBTRC, Belarus
- CYCBC, Cyprus
- DEDKU, Germany
- DEWDR, Germany
- MDTRM, Moldova
- PLPR, Poland
- PTRTP, Portugal
- RSRTS, Serbia
- SESR, Sweden
- GBBBC, United Kingdom
In printed press, «MuzEnergo» was covered by «Russia Today» information agency and several magazines and newspapers from different countries, primarily on national languages. The latest mentioning in English came from AllAboutJazz:
OPEN-AIR JAZZ IN AND AROUND MOSCOW,
AllAboutJazz, 03.09.2009, by Cyril Moshkow
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A Dixieland parade, on a similarly modest level, also marks the start of another science town festival, only it's in the opposite direction, about 80 miles north of Moscow, in Dubna. On the shores of Volga, Russia's (and entire Europe's) biggest river, here in its upper portion, the 65-thousand-big Dubna is the seat of the Moscow State University Nuclear Physics Institute and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, one of the most significant international nuclear research facilities. The periodic table's 105th chemical element is Dubnium, named so because it was discovered in Dubna in 1968. The city's reasonably high educational rate means that there is a lot of audience ready for complex music forms, jazz included. This is pretty much the formula for MuzEnergo, Dubna's thrice-a-year festival, which offers prog rock, jazz rock fusion, ethno fusion, and jazz.
MuzEnergo's summer edition (below) is being held outdoors, on a nice pinewood clearing on the taller right bank of Volga River, just a few blocks away from the city's quiet downtown. This year, on July 18, the MuzEnergo lineup consisted mostly of Russian bands of a very diverse stylistic range.
Two bands represented the Eastern part of Russia: the Funky House Band from the city of Ufa is a strong funk fusion unit, with dynamic electric bass foundation provided by its leader, Oleg Yangurov, who polished his abilities during his many years of work in the jazz clubs in Bangkok, Thailand, and Tokyo, Japan. From the city of Yekaterinburg, a younger group, the Free Spoken Band, offered a tricky, though slightly under- rehearsed, prog rock program. But the jazziest act came from Kiev, Ukraine—a group led by prodigious trumpet player Dennis Adu (below), who was born in Ghana and raised in Ukraine.
The festival program was closed by Zventa Sventana, an ambitious band from Moscow; they try to marry Russian ethno folklore singing and jazz funk fusion—and not without success, though their lead singer, Tina Kuznetsova (pictured below with Sventana), is still more a jazz singer (which is her education and years of experience) than a keeper of centuries-old ethnic traditions to which she is apparently new. It is obvious though, that under the guidance of the second singer, Alyona Romanova, who holds a degree in ethnomusicology, Tina is gradually mastering the ancient art of folklore singing which, during the decades of Soviet-era oppressions towards "reactionary past," almost became extinct.
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