Melatonic

The idea of recording Melatonic was the product of a long and constant search among traditions, styles, tastes, as well as within our own identities. A journey through wondrous ideas showed how smoothly unified differences can be. Those permanent questions about beauty and love, melancholy and depression, light and creation, individuality and universality, inspired our emotional involvement with the project. The answers are to be constantly craved for, travelled to... Melatonic is for us a satisfactory trip towards those questions, whose answers, like desire, remain insatiable by definition.

Bodurov\Düppe\Heineking
T r i o

The trio has been working together since september 2001. It has a large repertoire including standards, modern compositions but mainly originals. In 2002 the trio was awarded with three prizes : -1st prize on the Laidse Stad Jazz Award ; -1st prize on the Erasmus Jazz Award ; -3rd prize on the Pim Jacobs Jazz Prize ;

The band has just releised its debut album including own compositions and linernotes from the famous pianist and composer John Taylor.

Dimitar Bodurov (piano) began his music education at the age of seven. In 1998 he graduated from the high school of music and was admitted as a student at the jazz deparment in Sofia Conservatory(Bulgaria) with major piano. In september 2000, he was admitted as a student in the Rotterdam Conservatory and in june 2002 obtained bachelour diploma. Recently he is a master degree student in jazz piano and composition in the same school. He has been leading groups since age of 18 and performed at different festivals and clubs in Bulgaria, Holland and Germany.

Cord Heineking (bass) started his professional career playing bass guitar in rock bands in Germany.The influence of his Dutch teacher Ruud Ouwehand and his growing interest about jazz made him pick up the double bass.In 1997 he graduated from the Hilversums Conservatory. In 1998 he won the Dordtse Jazz Prize with Avant-garde jazz group Lines End.Together with Jens Düppe he performed at the famous North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands and Reykjavik Jazz Festival in Iceland.

Jens Düppe (drums) graduated from Amsterdam School of Arts in June 2000 after his education at the Franz List Conservatory in Weimar,Germany.He works with musicians as Toots Thilemans, Albert Mangelsdorf, Maria Schneider, Dick Oats,Bert Joris, Silvia Droste,Jeff Cascaro,Hubert Nuß, Emil Mangelsdorf, Michael Borslap,Gerry Burton,Tony Lacatos,Martin Weiss (Hän’sche Weiss Ensemble),Nils Wogram,Florian Ross.