Festival Kumpania
The Kumpania Tzigane association, one of the most important organisers of events of Balkan culture in France, organizes its international festival on September 4th and 5th, 2009 in the South of France: The Festival Kumpania.
All this during two days on a magic site. Concerts, Electro balkan night, expos, exhibitions, conferences, Balkan food, free camping under the sun and the moon. All for 15 Euros!
With:
Romano Drom (Hungary)
Nadara Gypsy Band (Romania)
Terne Chave (Czeck Républik)
Antwerp Gypsy Ska Orkestra (Belgium)
Pad Brapad Moujika (France)
Slivo Electric Klub (France)
La Kumpania Beats (France)
Le Cri Du Choeur (France)
Ariano Folkfestival
New Klezmer podcast
Keith Wolzinger of Klezmerpodcast.com reports:
Klezmer Podcast 54: Video podcast with Watcha Clan. This marks the first video podcast for the show. My guests are the members of Watcha Clan, who performed in Los Angeles on 17 July, 2009 on their North America tour.
You can watch the latest Klezmer Podcast (Vodcast?!) here.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Klezmer Podcast 54: Video podcast with Watcha Clan. This marks the first video podcast for the show. My guests are the members of Watcha Clan, who performed in Los Angeles on 17 July, 2009 on their North America tour.
You can watch the latest Klezmer Podcast (Vodcast?!) here.
New Fanfare Ciocarlia releases this autumn
The autumn of 2009 promises to be a hot one. Not only will we see the release of the second album by Mahala Rai Banda, but we can also expect two new releases by Fanfare Ciocarlia. One will be a 'greatest hits' album, the other one will be a live CD/DVD package.
Watch this space for more info in the weeks ahead.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Watch this space for more info in the weeks ahead.
New Dunkelbunt album
Here it is: The new dunkelbunt album!
RAINDROPS & ELEPHANTS - Piranha Re:Interpretations (PIRANHA)
[dunkelbunt]'s music is like an imaginary river. If looked for on a map, it would start somewhere in India. It would head out west and follow a fairly certain path while constantly changing in size and intensity, through the Orient and into the Balkans. From there, things get a little more confusing. Like a delta it spreads, and none of its offshoots take precedence over the others. It keeps moving - west, north, south, looping around itself, on the way adding dancehall and electro, reggae and house, bossa and breakbeats, jazz and ragga to the mix. With his ever-growing list of featured vocal collaborators like Cloud Tissa, Jimi D, Selecta Bence et.al., [dunkelbunt] continues to expand and recreate his unique musical universe, beyond any borders set between the cultures by the prejudices of the fundamentalists on all sides.
For Rain Drops and Elephants other musical traditions bubble to the surface and enter the stream from the deep, wide wells of Piranha Musik's repertoire: Simentera from the Cape Verde Islands and Fanfare Ciocarlia from the Carpathian Mountains, Boban i Marko Markovic from the banks of the Danube river and Frank London from New York's Lower East Side, Ihsan Al-Mounzer from resurrected Beirut, Ruth Yaakov from ancient Jerusalem and Watcha Clan from Marseilles' hard harbour 'hood. In [dunkelbunt]'s Piranha Re:Interpretations, the influences from both sides are clearly visible and wholly harmonious.
Variety is the spice of life!
Get your personal copy on www.dunkelbunt.tk (CD / VINYL) with an extra homemade dunkelbunt spice mixture or of course in all common records stores. Mp3s on Itunes / etc.
RAINDROPS & ELEPHANTS - Piranha Re:Interpretations (PIRANHA)
[dunkelbunt]'s music is like an imaginary river. If looked for on a map, it would start somewhere in India. It would head out west and follow a fairly certain path while constantly changing in size and intensity, through the Orient and into the Balkans. From there, things get a little more confusing. Like a delta it spreads, and none of its offshoots take precedence over the others. It keeps moving - west, north, south, looping around itself, on the way adding dancehall and electro, reggae and house, bossa and breakbeats, jazz and ragga to the mix. With his ever-growing list of featured vocal collaborators like Cloud Tissa, Jimi D, Selecta Bence et.al., [dunkelbunt] continues to expand and recreate his unique musical universe, beyond any borders set between the cultures by the prejudices of the fundamentalists on all sides.
For Rain Drops and Elephants other musical traditions bubble to the surface and enter the stream from the deep, wide wells of Piranha Musik's repertoire: Simentera from the Cape Verde Islands and Fanfare Ciocarlia from the Carpathian Mountains, Boban i Marko Markovic from the banks of the Danube river and Frank London from New York's Lower East Side, Ihsan Al-Mounzer from resurrected Beirut, Ruth Yaakov from ancient Jerusalem and Watcha Clan from Marseilles' hard harbour 'hood. In [dunkelbunt]'s Piranha Re:Interpretations, the influences from both sides are clearly visible and wholly harmonious.
Variety is the spice of life!
Get your personal copy on www.dunkelbunt.tk (CD / VINYL) with an extra homemade dunkelbunt spice mixture or of course in all common records stores. Mp3s on Itunes / etc.
