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An Invitation!

Ljova invites you to Ljova and the Kontraband's album release for "No Refund on Flowers", and unique concert experience for the whole family

January 2014 update

january 2014 update from Ljova

Protected: a long overdue Ljova and the Kontraband post-tour update

Reverse genrectomy

Revisiting an older post about genre, finding out that Genre in music employs people, creates niche markets and gives us something to talk about.

Joy & Madness: Three Weeks in the Life of Lev ‘Ljova’ Zhurbin (a diary for the Journal of the American Viola Society)

for several uniquely varied weeks in April-May 2013, Ljova kept a diary at the request of the Journal of the American Viola Society. Read the article

midsummer update

What we’re doing to the “Rite of Spring”

a preview of "The First Rite", Ljova's arrangement of the folk sources from Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring"

Ljova and the Kontraband are going to WOMEX

a special announcement about Ljova and the Kontraband going to

Quitting Facebook – one month later

Ljova writes about his experience quitting Facebook, and the associated guilt trip