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Ljova's mp3 archive

Thank you for coming to our show!

As promised, here's a selection of free mp3s you can share with your friends.
Preview and download them here:

  1. 1. Bagel On The Malecon

  2. 2. Tango Heavy
  3. 3. Tuchi v Golubom - Clouds of Blue (featuring Ljova's fiancee, Inna Barmash)
  4. 4. Ana Ona (featuring Vieux Farka Touré, Inna, Ljova, and a mix by DJ MiNiMaL_aRT)

You may also enjoy listening to an interview/live performance by Ljova and the Vjola Contraband on WNYC's SOUNDCHECK with John Schaefer. (Stream the show above, or download the podcast here).

Here are a few more items you can purchase for a reasonable contribution:


Enjoy the music, and please keep in touch. If you haven't already, please join my mailing list via the Contact page to be notified of future shows, screenings, and mp3 downloads.

Thanks + best,
--Ljova

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Reviews

This self-released debut recording from 27-year-old Russian-born Lev Zhurbin (aka Ljova), one of New York's fastest-rising composers and instrumentalists, is something special... Ljova continually delights
---Anastasia Tsioulcas, Billboard

Rustic dances and evocative soundscapes, all crafted from ... the gorgeously grainy purr of his fiddle.
---Steve Smith, Time Out New York

Eclectic with an ear for texture...Throaty melodies supported by pizzicato rhythms, lush chordal figures and counterpoint.
---Allan Kozinn, New York Times

Though he was born in the string quarry of Russia and refined in the purifying precincts of Juilliard, Zhurbin turned out to be a lover of gritty hybrids. The music he writes and plays is full of Brahmsian tone, Bartók lines, hiccupping Hungarian rhythms, Klezmer soul and the sexy plaintiveness of tango and the blues.
---Justin Davidson, Newsday

Best of June 2006 New Releases
---John Schaefer, host of WNYC's New Sounds and Soundcheck

Like many younger musicians, this leader has absorbed a panoply of music and gleefully undermines rigid notions of genre.
---Sean Patrick Fitzell, ALL ABOUT JAZZ

From the poignant to the jolly... a superb player and composer, a Brilliant Debut. (Top 10 Jewish Records of 2006)
---George Robinson, THE JEWISH WEEK

No barriers...Fluid stylistic grace...
---Ken Smith, GRAMOPHONE Magazine

The off-kilter rhythms he favors ... tug and pull at you in strange and mysterious ways, as do Ljova's melodies, which have the tuneful, emotive quality of good pop.
---Alexander Gelfand, JAZZIZ Magazine

Proves that an integration between seemingly different cultures is possible, inevitable, and fruitful
---Osvaldo Golijov, composer