Steve Tibbetts: guitar, piano
Marc Anderson: percussion, handpan
Michelle Kinney: cello, drones

Marc Sinan: guitar, electronics; O?uz Büyükberber: clarinet, bass clarinet 

Anneli Drecker: voice; Ketil Bjørnstad: piano 

Dine Doneff: double bass, tabla, guitar
Takis Farazis: piano, accordion
Kyriakos Tapakis: oud, mandola
Pantelis Stoikos: trumpet
Dimos Dimitriadis: alto saxophone, flute
Antonis Andreou: trombone
Kostas Anastasiadis: drums
Slava Pop'va-Evdoxia Georgiou: voice
Lizeta Kalimeri: voice
Martha Mavroidi: voice
Lada Kandarjieva: soprano
Elena Ginina: soprano
Elitsa Dankova: mezzosoprano
Irina Gotcheva: alto
 

Elina Duni: voice, piano, guitar, percussion

Robin Williamson: vocals, harp, guitar, whistles
Mat Maneri: viola, violin
Paul Dunmall: tenor and soprano saxophones, clarinet, border pipes, ocarina, moxeño
Ale Möller: mandola, lute, hammered dulcimer, shawm, clarino, drone flutes, natural flutes, bamboo flutes, vibraphone
Mick Hutton: double-bass

Marc Sinan: guitar, Yelena Kuljic: vocals, Lena Thies: viola, Julia Hülsmann: piano, Marc Muellbauer: double-bass, Heinrich Köbberling: drums, percussion

Fasil, based on an idea by guitarist Marc Sinan and author Marc Schiffer, tells of the life of Aisha, the great love and youngest wife of the prophet Mohammed, in the course of an inspired song cycle. The improvisations take as their inspirational starting point fragments of Koran recitations recorded by Marc Sinan in Turkey. Together with Julia Hülsmann’s songs they form an Ottoman suite, a Fasil. Highlights in this transcultural project include exceptional performances by Sinan himself, and by Yelena Kuljić in the role of Aisha. The singer was recently described by the Frankfurter Rundschau as “the most thrilling new voice in the current jazz scene.”

Kit Downes: Organs
Tom Challenger: Tenor Saxophone