Guitar player, I mainly play acoustic with two guitars, one Tailor and the other "sit-guitar" I designed and had custom-made with 16 strings, which sounds in between a guitar and a sitar. As a musician and composer, I am currently involved in different world music projects: from India to Africa. One of the projects involves Indian Classical and some of my compositions are accompanied by a tabla player, frequently Nabankur Bhattacharya (dit Pinku)),This project also includes my artistic quest and work from the past 8 years and the many different projects and Indian musicians I have been involved with during this time. more infos www.marcliebeskind.com/bio The group Taffetas is the second project and can be defined as a blend of many influences. West-African roots, Indian and Mongolian influences with a lot of improvisation all mixed together. The other musicians involved in Taffetas are Ibrahima Galissa on Kora, Nana Cissokho playing Kora and singing, Christophe Erard playing bass and double bass and singing, and myself playing guitar. We have recently added percussion with Ibrahima Ndaye playing calabash and Djembé. 3 CDs have been released www.taffetas.ch, www.cdbaby.com/tafetas From 1978 to 1998, I mainly played jazz, with an electric guitar, and I released three records with my quartet and one with a group called Little Big beat, “http//www.marcliebeskind.com“> www.marcliebeskind.com I am also a sound engineer and producer, and recorded several projects in Africa and in India with my studio “Nomad Hip Studio“. www.marcliebeskind.com/release
Marc Liebeskind made his classes at the Geneva Conservatory of Music at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern and also in New York with the masters of contemporary guitar, John Scofield, John Abercrombie and Bill Frisell. Back in Switzerland in 1985, he formed the "Marc Liebeskind Quartet" which until 1997 began work on the dynamic contrasts and unconventional forms they are to Brazilian urban or more colors, for an exploration of the stamps and ideas of the moment. A "jazz" resolutely today that the band will play on the stages of many festivals in European countries as well as Africa and Brazil. During this period, he also collaborated on numerous projects ranging from duo to big band and is dedicated to education, including workshops AMR. It also forms the art of sound recording. Since 1997, his musical route continues to the rhythm of African music and Mandingo Wassoulou encounter concerts and learning with great masters of this music, Toumani Diabaté, Bassekou Kouaiyté, Kélétigui Diabaté. This work will lead to the formation of the group "Taffeta" to be international in scope, concerts in England, France, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, North Korea; Zanzibar and Tanzania. Meanwhile, since 2000, it was the discovery of classical music of North India, where he studied with several masters of this music for ten years. To meet its musical aspirations, he began editing a guitar and conceptualized the "Sit-Guitar" on which he plays since the Hindustany music, but also its own repertoire based on ragas. During this period, he performed in India and Europe with big names of this music, Pandit Anindo Chatterjee, Rakesh Chaurasia, Rupak Kulkarni, to name a few. He created the group in 2006 "GendeRevolution" with the tabla Calcutta Nabankur Battacharia and violinist Sukdhev Mishra of Benares. He founded another trio with the flutist William Barraud and tabla Prabhu Edouard late 2009 to reconnect with his past in part jazz Always the same time, he created the Hip Nomad Studio with which it moves since 1998, registrations in India, Africa and Europe several musicians and his own productions. It is becoming producer and publisher in 2009 and founded the label "New Healing Sounds". In 2014 he starts to play with Ibra Galissa and forms the "Galissa Liebeskind quartet"