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Matia Bazar is an Italian pop band formed in Genoa in 1975 by Piero Cassano (keyboards), Aldo Stellita (bass), Carlo Marrale (guitar), Giancarlo Golzi (drums) and Antonella Ruggiero (vocals). They scored their first hit that year with 'Stasera che sera'. In 1978 they performed at the Festival di Sanremo and won first prize with 'E dirsi ciao'. They represented Italy in the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest with a song called Raggio di luna. Matia Bazar scored some further international hits in the 1970s with 'Per un' ora d'amore' (1975) and 'Solo tu' (1977). Their biggest hit is 'Ti Sento', becoming...
Halasan Bazar is an experimental psych-pop band based in Copenhagen, Denmark, though their roster and sound sample from more cosmopolitan realms; band members hail from across northern Europe and even Australia, the group brought together in a collective invocation of rock and psychedelia. Led by songwriter Fredrik Eckhoff, the band finds strong points of affinity with the historic outpourings of New York’s Greenwich Village and San Francisco’s evolving character as a nexus for similar sounds, excelling most when lines of influence blur under the guidance of Eckhoff energetic vocals and whimsical lyricism. A dedicated crooner, the spontaneity of his vocal...
Bazar Blå is a new-creating folkmusic-band. With Björn Meyer (bas-guitar), Johan Hedin (nyckelharpa) and Fredrik Gille (percussions), they play music from many different cultures and origins. .
Since its start in the small venues of Quebec City in 1999, the band has performed more than 300 shows in Quebec and in France, each time demonstrating the greatness of its character. It's mostly on scene that those six musicians (Hugo Fleury, Josianne Laberge, Thierry Gâteau, Antoine Breton, Martin Desjardins, and Jean-Étienne Joubert) forged their reputation of happy urbans troubadours, creating feasts and laughs everywhere they go.
During 2006, the band loses their double bass player, Thierry Gâteau. He is replaced with grace by Alexis Dumais, but the Polémil bazar adventure sings its swan song. To the great sorrow...
