Featuring Sizzle Ohtaka (vocalist)

Project Zlust
Dzjian Emin (French horn)
Gazmend Berisa  (violin)
Ivan Bejkov (bass)
Frank London (viola)

Richard Marriott (wind instruments)

The Page Out of Order Band has been formed by Yoshiko Chuma to collaborate on a new performance work featuring 16 exciting dancers and musicians onstage.  The music is a unique mix of instrumentalists and vocalists from Macedonia, Japan and the US who blend a range of sounds from very traditional to the very contemporary.  The complete work which includes 3 more musicians and 7 dancers will premiere at Dance Theater Workshop from January 16 to 20.

Richard Marriott has been active as a composer, performer, and instrument builder for over thirty years. He is founder of the Club Foot Orchestra, the premiere ensemble for live music performance with silent film, performing at venues such as Lincoln Center, BAM and Smithsonian Institution. His new group, Ensemble Lumiere New York, was unveiled last April at the Rubin Museum. Many of his recent compositions are especially noteworthy in their innovative synthesis of Asian and Western elements. An opera Prince Lan Ling, scored for orchestra and Chinese Opera singers and instruments, is to premiere in Hangzhou in 2008. His film score Legong, Dance of the Virgins, for Balinese gamelan, string quartet, trumpet and clarinet is widely available on DVD and will be touring internationally in 2007.

Sizzle Ohtaka uses her extraordinary, flexible, and unique voice as an instrument to create music which cannot be simply classified as traditional, new age, world music or experimental. She calls her original vocal style “Rainbow Voice” and has sung and performed in hundreds of radio and TV commercials. In 2003, she created Futon Logic, an eclectic performance troupe, and performed at I.C.A. (Institute of Contemporary Arts) in London. Sizzle also sings and performs her original style of vocals and has participated in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Berlin Jazz Festival, the Kazakhstan Jazz Festival, and the Song Festival in Estonia, among others. Her recent works include the TV program Nihongo de Asobo, for which she produced the music and sang traditional children’s songs. Her 19th solo album Sugarland was released in August 2006.

Project ZLUST is a band from Macedonia, whose members hail from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds, reflecting the great diversity to be found in the Balkans. Their work demonstrates not only inspiration, but also a great knowledge of their roots, which is further enhanced by academic musical training. The blend of tradition and modern musical approaches gives birth to a unique sound, crowned by the band's very particular combination of unusual instruments. Their music is diverse and dynamic in sound.  The group has appeared in festivals in Europe and this is their first US appearance.   Zlust was founded in 1998, releasing their self-titled EP in 2000. Since then, they've released two albums under the name of Project Zlust — Live, and the soundtrack for How I Killed a Saint, DNO-Tishina. They have recorded music for TV documentaries including The Children of 1948, and The Painter. In 2004, they played on their former professor Nikola Kodjabashia's The Reveries Of The Solitary Walker, which was voted album of the week on Radio BBC 1.   They also performed on two film scores with composer, Kiril, Bal-Can-Can and The Great Water.