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Noga is a swiss singer-songwriter and educator Her latest album LEV was released in 2023 (Evidence Music)

Biography
Swiss artist of Israeli-Berlin origin, singer, musician, and improviser, Noga has been developing a career for about twenty years that takes unconventional paths with complete freedom, singing in several languages with contrasting sounds. After more than ten albums, including one with Sony, "LEV" (Evidence Music, 2023) is her second album in Hebrew. It was preceded by releases mostly in French (but not exclusively): "Next" (Musique Sauvage/Pias 2018) ; "Chant de Paix," a single in 2019, with a music video produced by RTS (Swiss radio television) ; and "Et si," an EP in 2020 (live studio recording).

Noga also collaborates with other artists and performs in various contexts. She sings in acoustic projects such as Muqarnas or Garder toujours le fil de la Merveille, intertwining her voice with those of various sacred traditions: Hebrew chant, Slavic Orthodox, and Moroccan Sufi samaa...

In her "vocal improvisation/contemporary art" facet, she performs with percussionist Thierry Hochstätter (ASAP2 group). In all her projects, there is a desire to explore sounds to elevate the vibrational frequency and connection between beings, with very contemporary music. This desire is particularly noticeable in the album "LEV," which revisits certain psalms

Over 20 years ago, Noga founded Catalyse, an artistic center in Geneva, which promotes the voice in all its forms and transformative powers. Noga chairs the institution, ensures the pedagogical vision and guides strategy-development questions. Assisted by her team, she created the sonoga© pedagogy, followed by the Catalyse school (singing/theater/improvisation), which has more than 300 regular students.

Noga is also dedicated to other spaces, which are like oases where one reinvents living well together, renews certain rituals, and reinvests in spirituality, notably Gaïana Terre des Possibles, in the heart of nature in Saint-Jean-de-Tholome, France

Noga is the artistic director of the AVOCLAP Vocalimpro Festival in Geneva

Musicians

 * Patrick Bebey : piano, keyboards, senza, pygmy flute, vocals...
 * Olivier Koundouno : cello
 * Arnaud Laprêt : percussions
 * Asher Varadi : electric guitar and bass, drum machine, synths, stems...
 * Daniel de Morais : theorbo,archlute

Discography

 * Lev - Evidence Music ©2023
 * Et si… - goElan / Digital-Absilone ©2020
 * Chant de paix – Single – Musique Sauvage /RTS ©2019
 * Next - Musique Sauvage/PIAS ©2018
 * Laisser partir – Noga/Patrick Bebey©2016 - goElan/Willy Lugeon/InOuïe distrib
 * Eli, can you hear me – Single/Featuring – Sloe Joe & the Ginger Accident ©2015
 * ASAP2 – Noga/Thierry Hochstätter - Environnement sonore 2014 ©2014 -goElan/Willy Lugeon
 * Ça tourne – Noga/Patrick Bebey ©2014 - goElan/Willy Lugeon/Volvox Music/Rue Stendhal
 * Miel & Poivre / Poivre & Miel ©2010- goElan/Harmonia Mundi
 * Rien de neuf, sauf les Bulles ©2006 Viser la Lune/ Willy Lugeon
 * N Project / Berechit ©2008 - Viser la Lune/Willy Lugeon
 * Kurt Weill Jazz-Songs, Noga & Quartet ©2000 Sony Classical

Workshops
Noga regularly leads workshops combining singing, improvisation, and various practices inspired notably by circle song, focusing on enhancing each individual's potential, with different emphases: musical practice, leadership, self-esteem, special pedagogy, etc. In this context, she works, for example, with the Department of Public Instruction of the Canton of Geneva, developing an e-learning training program for primary school teachers. Emphasizing sound, language, and group vibration, she also guides workshops around psalms, in Hebrew. Convinced of the transformative power of the voice, Noga also opens new spaces for her students where each can let themselves be carried away, by horses (voice and horse workshop) or by moving letters (body and living letters/voice and tehima workshop).