Booking
For bookings, comments, or if you just get emotional, please write to: barbara@lakalash.com
otherwise, go to www.myspace.com/barbaralakalash
and/or http://www.last.fm/music/Lakalash
Barbara Kalaschnikoff aka Lakalash nació en Nueva York bien nutrida de sus raíces rusas desde el inicio. Comenzó a pinchar allá por el ’98, en el Este de Londres (the end, fabric, cargo,
93 feet east, vibe, herbal, plastic people, 333, etc), llevando su musica a berlín, parís, nueva york, lisboa y bogotá. Su carrera de ingeniería de sonido en Madrid la ha llevado a exponer obra en el museo Musac de León, el Art Basel y diseñar sonido para cortometrajes, así como crear ambientes musicales para pasarelas de moda en lugares como el Tate Modern de Londres.
En su selección musical encontraremos sensualidad, alma y profundidad que conducirán a la pista de baile hacia terrenos refinados repletos de baile y soul. Lakalash se maneja con soltura tanto en los ritmos negros que se alimentan de jazz y contundencia como en el house y minimal más envolvente o los ásperos latigazos de drum´n bass.
No en vano ha compartido residencias y aventuras musicales con gente como Simbad (Raw Fusion/Brownswood) con el que hace ya muchos años creó en Londres la todavía activa sesión "Je Ne Sais Quoi" en el mítico Vibe Bar de Brick Lane. Ha participado en interFACE junto con Electriclane (Fabric), una de las primeras radios por internet del Reino Unido, y también ha sido corresponsable de Dialsoul, emisora pionera en recuperar la mejor y más actual música negra para el dial de Madrid. También ha colaborado pinchando en noches del colectivo Dark Archives (dj muerto, pitch, focus y oscar mulero) y de Border Community (luke abbot) en éstos últimos años.
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Born in New York of Russian origin. Ended up in London as a little white girl shaking it with the crowds throwing drum & bass and house shapes onto the dance-floors of the east end (the end, fabric, cargo, 93 feet east, vibe bar, herbal, plastic people, 333, etc). After-show parties at the London and Paris fashion week saw some dark soul seep into their bodies while losing their hairdos. Spain called first for some rave parties in Madrid. Those were hilarious, since her records were used for everything except for playing. Ibiza also called, but that was messy and a triumph on the beach. Bogotá, Berlin, Paris, Lisbon and New York followed.
Hostess to some of the most memorable parties in the east end, it crowded together some hot names in the scene such as Trentemoller, Simbad, A-Sides and Matthias Heilbronn. In endless back to backs that lasted for days on end cheered by all sorts of music heads.
Death visited and went to Madrid, and off she followed it.
There she was given a 4-hour weekly radio show ( the opium sessions) where she put aside the dark electronica in order to absorb her surroundings. Embraced by her peers with their soul, jazz, house and dub, she embarked in a journey that took her years of celebrating life. Losing herself in jazz and flamenco joints in the capital after her late night gigs in order to write lyrics. The radio project ended up being a successful one for the capital after 5 years running on the circulo de bellas artes (Dialsoul), to the dismay of the establishment.
Love started banging at her ears and also her studies in audio engineering and recording arts. Banging hard. Developed an obsession for recording everything that she saw and heard since then.
What does a Londoner in Madrid? Plays and chats with the jazzheads, the turntablists, the technoheads and the drum&bass movement (charada, jazzclub, le swing, demode, ya sta, juglar, etc). Makes music for short films and locks herself up in the studio to make collaborations with artists.
Her style is a mixture of all these things put together. Electronica and soul. Blood and tears. All inside.