About Zoran the Bottleman

ZORAN MADZIROV is the inventor of the Bottlephone -a new feature of a solo music instrument and brought it to a professional playable level over the last 20 years. His charismatic personality, highly virtuosic and emotionally committed performances established him as today's most exiting and critically acclaimed bottle-player across Europe and America.

Changing completely the concept of what a solo percussionist can do, now days you are witnessing an ultimate destiny-reshaping of performing arts. 

Zoran's Bottlephone contains up to forty carefully chosen, diatonically liquid-tuned-bottles, on two rows and two floors. He also created and developed special mallet technique, which allows him playing on extraordinary virtuoso level. Beside his own, he uses the Vallotti and Pythagorean tuning system. 

Zoran performed and has bean honored from musical giants like STING, TITO PUENTE, TINA TURNER, HARRY BELAFONTE, The SCORPIONS, TOMMY EMMANUEL and many others.

His "...extraordinary mallet technique..." as TITO PUENTE called it gave Zoran the gift of flying with his feet on the ground.

He is also the founder of the already legendary group Les BARONS KARAMAZOFF in 1987 with Edin Karamazov -guitar & lute, -currently performing with STING. 

Zoran the Bottleman brought the "BOTTLE MUSIC" in world famous TV Channels, Concert Halls, Cabaret, Theaters, Festivals, Variete's, Dinner Shows and Special Venues such as: CNN-LARRY KING, ARTE, TV-5, ARD, Fox5, RTL, 3Sat, ZDF, TF 1, ORF, Sat-1, Le Plus Grand Cabaret du Monde with PATRICK SEBASTEIN, PALAZZO, POMP DUCK & CIRCUMSTANCES (also in collaboration with CIRQUE DU SOLEIL), WINTERGARDEN, APOLLO, LeCIRQUE, TAVERN ON THE GREEN-NYC, WINDOWS OF THE WORLD-WTC NYC, OPERA HOUSE -Dusseldorf, BEETHOVEN Hall, PHILHARMONIE -Koln and many more. 

His adventurous repertoire ranges from Bach trough Mozart, to Jazz or BEATLES, ...from antique to contemporary.

Collaborating with bassist Ellington MINGUS, grandson of Charles, Zoran also appears on numerous jazz festivals.

ZORAN MADZIROV -composer, performing & recording artist, was born 14.01.1968 in Strumica, Macedonia as a son of a jazz drummer and a theatre actress. He lives around the planet preparing for jamming' on the Moon. He plays Bottlephone, Vibes, Drums, Tuned-Bike-Wheel, Marimba, Musical Bottles and Glasses, Percussion and is always ready to make music out of everything, or better to say "nothing".