Chui Press Kit (Eng)

Chui are an up-and-coming young quartet from Croatia who have developed their own rather unique take on jazz. Their potent blend of dance club rythms, jazz vocabulary, turbo-charged jazz/rock fusion and an uncompromising commitment to groove permeates their first album from start to finish and has them firmly entrenched as a mainstay on the Central European music scene. At the end of 2013 their second effort was released by Dancing Bear Records to widespread critical acclaim and even greater enthusiasm from their dedicated fanbase. Third album called “Third Sun From The Stone” was released by the end of 2015. and voted the best Croatian album of 2015. In 2017. they recorded album Chui ovu glazbu with Croatian radio-television jazz orchestra, and a they did a colaboration with Croatian vocal diva Josipa Lisac. Album Chui ovu glazbu won two Porin awards (Croatian Grammy award) for the best jazz album and the best jazz performace. Their all-star line-up brings together four of the top cats on the Croatian scene: Toni Starešinić – keyboards & electonica, Vojkan Jocić – sax & electronica , Ivan Levačić – drums, Konrad Lovrenčić - bass.

EUROSONIC NOORDERSLAG, DIMENSIONS FESTIVAL, INMUSIC FESTIVAL, KAUNAS BIENNALL, MENT

Chui performed at EUROSONIC NOORDERSLAG, Dimesions Festival (Kamashi Washington, Grace Jones, Massive Attack...), INmusic Festival (Florence + The Machine, PJ Harvey, Moby…), Kaunas Biennall, Zagreb Vip Jazz Festival (Pat Metheny, Lucky Peterson, Jason Moran, Terence Blanchard, Sonny Rollins, Brad Mehldau, Dave Holland...), Liburnia Jazz Festival (Tower Of Power, Medeski Martin & Wood, Christian Scott, Hiromi Uehara, Gonzalo Rubalcaba...), Tvornica Kulture Zagreb (St. Germain, Omar Sosa, Macy Gray, Joe Zawinul, Morcheeba…), ZEZ festival (Colin Stetson, Mats Gustafsson, Fire!, Dalek, Zu...) Žedno Uho Festival (Tortoise, Tindersticks, Calexico, Hamid Drake, DKV trio...) Jazz Time Rijeka (David Gilmore, John Scofield, Herb Geller, Vasko Atanasovski...), , Free Music Festival (Etienne Mbappe, Raphael Wresing, Alberto Morsico...), Pula Jazz Festival,

Prilep Jazz Weekend…. Chui opened for Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood (us), Etienne Mbappé & Su La Take (cam & fra),

DKV Trio Hamid Drake, Ken Vandermark & Kent Kessler (us), Volcan Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Giovanni Hidalgo, Jose Gola & Horacio Hernandez (Cuba) Tarana (us), Moog Hooch (us).. „This team did without any doubts one of the best and most original instrumental albums in Croatia in 21st century. They build up their own music totally unburdened and tottaly free, following slogan „to be yourself, to be different“ Horvi / terapija.net

„The Second Arrival is an excellent melting pot of modern jazz and progressive rock music. The Croatian album of the year.“ Mislav Miličević / soundguardian.com

„One of the best releases this year in Croatia and a serious candidate for Porin (Croatian top music award) in a number of music categories. Highly recommendable album!“ Dubravko Jagatić / tportal.hr

„For Croatian music scene it seems like Chui felt right from the Mars. Album that opens the universe and relaxes worries of everyday life.“ Zoran Stajčić / ravnododna.com

„Internationally important Croatian jazz product“ Aleksandar Dragaš / jutarnji.hr

„Hear this great album!“ Zlatko Gall / slobodnadalmacija.hr

Chui i Jazz orkestar Hrvatske radiotelevizije >> Chui ovu glazbu

No. 1. album 2017. Slobodna Dalmacija

No.1. album 2017 Večernji list

No.1. album 2017. Hrvatski radio

No.1. album 2017. Mixer.hr

Porin (Croatian grammy award) best jazz album

Porin (Croatian grammy award) best jazz performance

Chui - Third Sun From The Stone

No.1. Croatian album 2015. Slobodna Dalmacija

No.1. Croatian album 2015. Večernji List

No.1. Croatian album 2015. 24 sata Express

No.1. Croatian album 2015. Muzika.hr

No.1.Croatian album 2015. Ziher.hr

No.1. Croatian album 2015. Nacional

No.1. Croatian album 2015. RTL

 

Chui: Toni Starešinić – keyboards, electronics; Ivan Levačić – drums; Vojkan Jocić – sax, electronics, 

Konrad Lovrenčić - bass, electronics, Robert Martinović sound & fx. Video: https://www.youtube.com/user/ChuithebandTV/videos FB: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Chui/227004590709887 Audio: https://soundcloud.com/chui-music web: http://beat-busters.com/chui

youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ_V8c7R7ZU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Vn1RXag6A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqHjKgrR02M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiXPOqs_z8w Deezer http://www.deezer.com/album/11252584 iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/third-sun-from-the-stone/id1042234782 Chui Press Kit (Hr)

Chui su mladi hrvatski kvartet koji njeguje ponešto drugačiji pristup jazzu. Spoj suvremene klupske plesne glazbe u

kombinaciji sa jazzom, elektronikom i rock'n'roll beskompromisnim pristupom već sa prvim albumom („Chui“ Dancing

Bear 2012.) osigurao je Chuievcima kultni status na hrvatskoj glazbenoj sceni. Krajem 2013. godine za Dancing Bear

objavljuju i drugi album „The Second Arrival“ koji kao i prvijenac dobiva samo pohvale od glazbene kritike i publike.

2015. godine pak Chui objavljuje treći album Third Sun From The Stone koji je osim što je pobrao samo odlične

kritike, na skoro svim top listama proglašen za domaći album godine što do sad nije uspjelo ni jednom jazz sastavu u

Hrvatskoj. 2017. godine pak Chuievci su snimili album Chui ovu glazbu sa Jazz orkestrom Hrvatske radio televizije s

kojim s u rasprodali nekoliko koncerata uključujući i onaj u Velikom pogonu Tvornice kulture, a snimili su i pjesmu sa

hrvatskom glazbenom divom Josipom Lisac koja je već od mnogih medija proglašena pjesmom godine. Album Chui

ovu glazbu je Chuievcima donije i dva Porina, jedan za najbolji jazz album i drugi za najbolju jazz izvedbu. A nedavno

su Chuievci objavili i novi singl Pogledaj kojim najavljuju novi album. Na pjesmi gostuje jedan od hrvatskih najboljih

muških vokala Boris Štok,a fenomenalan SF spot za pjesmu je snimio Dalibor Barić.

Chui nastupa u sastavu Toni Starešinić – klavijature & elektronika, Vojkan Jocić – sax & elektronika, Ivan Levačić –

bubnjevi, Konrad Lovrenčić - bass.

Chui je do sad nastupio na svim većim jazz i rock festivalima u regiji uključujući INmusic festival, Dimensions festival, MENT festival, Liburnia Jazz festival, Ferragosto Jam, nastupio je i u velikoj dvorani Vatroslava Lisinskog, Sava Centru u Beogradu, Velikom pogonu Tvornice Kulture, nastupali su i šire po Europi od Francuske preko Nozozemske do nastupa na Kaunas Beinalu u Litvi.

Chui je nastupio kao predgrupa Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood (us), Etienne Mbappé & Su La Take (cam & fra),

DKV Trio Hamid Drake, Ken Vandermark & Kent Kessler (us), Moon Hooch (us), Volcan Gonzalo

Rubalcaba, Giovanni Hidalgo, Jose Gola & Horacio Hernandez (Cuba) Tarana (us)...

„Jedno od najboljih ovogodišnjih izdanja i ozbiljni pretendenti za Porina u više kategorija (jazz, instrumental,

aranžman…). Album za svaku preporuku!“ Dubravko Jagatić za Tportal

„Po svemu sudeći“Third Sun From The Stone“ je ponajbolji domaći jazz album nakon 2004. kad je Boško Petrović

objavio briljantni „B.P.Blues“ i najizgledniji kandidat za hrvatsko album godine“ Ilko Čulić za 24sata EXPRESS

„Internacionalno relevantan hrvatski jazz proizvod.“ Aleksandar Dragaš za Jutarnji list

„Domaći album godine.“ Mislav Miličević za soundguardian.com

„ Jedina granica su njihovi instrumenti i mašta...“ Anđelko Jurkas za hot.net.hr

„Riječ je o albumu bez slabog trenutka, istovremeno futurističkom i staromodnom uz koji možete guštati u

sviračkom umijeću ovih zaista fantastičnih glazbenika.“ Vedran Harča za Rolling Stone

„Chuijte i pochuijte SJAJAN ALBUM!“ Zlatko Gall za Slobodnu dalmaciju

„Chui se nedvojbeno može doživjeti kao jednu od trenutačno najjačih domaćih koncertnih rock atrakcija...“ Janko

Heidl za ravnododna.com

Chui i Jazz orkestar Hrtvatske radiotelevizije >> Chui ovu glazbu

No. 1. album 2017. Slobodna Dalmacija

No.1. album 2017 Večernji list

No.1. album 2017. Hrvatski radio

No.1. album 2017. Mixer.hr

Porin za najbolji jazz album

Porin za najbolju jazz izvedbu

Chui – Third Sun From The Stone

No.1. domaći album 2015. Slobodna Dalmacija

No.1. domaći album 2015. Večernji List

No.1. domaći album 2015. 24 sata Express

No.1. domaći album 2015. Muzika.hr

No.1. domaći album 2015. Ziher.hr

No.1. domaći album 2015. Nacional

No.1. domaći album 2015. RTL

 

 

Chui: Toni Starešinić – keyboards, electronics; Ivan Levačić – drums; Vojkan Jocić – sax, electronics, 

Konrad Lovrenčić - bass, electronics, Robert Martinović - sound & fx. Video: https://www.youtube.com/user/ChuithebandTV/videos FB: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Chui/227004590709887 Audio: https://soundcloud.com/chui-music web: http://beat-busters.com/chui

Za internet najavu preporučamo da koristite neki od ovih videa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ_V8c7R7ZU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1Vn1RXag6A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqHjKgrR02M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiXPOqs_z8w Deezer http://www.deezer.com/album/11252584 iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/third-sun-from-the-stone/id1042234782