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Boban I Marko Markovic in Utrecht

2010-04-28T00:52:00.000-07:00

For our Dutch readers: Boban I Marko Markovic will perform in Utrecht, the Netherlands on may 6th, Boban's birthday!

All info is here.

BOBAN I MARKO MARKOVIC ORKESTAR + DJ RROMANO SUNO
Donderdag 6 mei 2010 | 21:00 | afterparty 22:30 | Euro 19 |
kortingspas Euro 16,15 | RASA-pas of U-pas Euro 11,40

In memoriam Ljiljana Buttler

2010-04-27T12:22:00.000-07:00

Ljiljana Buttler, the queen of "gyspy soul" has died. She was 66 years old.

Looking for Balkan Band to play at wedding

2010-04-07T04:04:00.000-07:00

We received a request from a frequent visitor of our website, Alexia from Lebanon:

"Hello, my name is alexia and my fiancé and I are huge fans of Balkan music specially Emir Kusturica's and the Non Smoking Orchestra's music,

We are getting married on October 2nd in Beirut, Lebanon, and we are interested in having a gypsy Balkan band at our wedding. It is impossible to find such bands in Lebanon, this is why we thought about contacting you in order for you to help us in this matter, we are ready to get the band over here and pay for their tickets, hotel and fees..."

If you can help Alexia please drop us a line at info@balkanbrassworld.com

Hungry March Band to Embark on West Coast U.S. Tour

2010-04-06T00:08:00.000-07:00

Hungry March Band, New York's inimitable music and performance ensemble, will begin their week-long West Coast tour, "It Came From New York!" in Seattle on Friday, April 9 at the third annual HONK! West Festival. HMB plays their final West Coast show Sunday, April 18 in San Francisco. For more info on scheduling, visit www.hungrymarchband.com.

Founded in Brooklyn in 1997, HMB's global brass repertoire and carnivalesque theatricality have taken them from coast to coast and to Europe, where they've been enveloped into a longstanding tradition of community and professional brass bands. Veterans of six European tours, "It Came From New York!" is the group's second voyage to the West Coast, and their California debut.

Why the West Coast? If the invitation to attend HONK! Fest West convinced HMB to return for a second visit, another possibility made this trip hard to resist. For many in the project, "It Came From New York!" holds special importance: it's their first-time ever playing in San Francisco, home to many fellow brass travelers and to the Burning Man organization, whose East Coast followers have especially supported HMB over the last decade as their original sound and presentation has developed.

HMB arrives on the West Coast fresh from a summer that included the Pouet Pouet Circus Festival in France's Loire Valley and the Sant'Anna Arresi Jazz Festival in Sardinia, where they collaborated with American conductor Butch Morris. In October, HMB attended Boston's fourth annual HONK! Festival of activist street bands as well as the Brooklyn HONK! Festival. Though different in content, together these festivals highlight HMB's unique ability to effortlessly meld improvised music and movement with catchy hooks and social dance.

Imagine if the conservatory jazz ensemble kidnapped the local marching band's baton twirlers and pom-pom dancers. Inspired by the wild Gypsy brass bands of Macedonia, sprinkled with the surrealism of Fellini, and a deep dish of New Orleans' Second Line, this crew runs loose in Coney Island while playing original compositions flavored by Latin, Balkan, Indian, Salsa, Afrobeat, Punk, Jazz, New Wave, No Wave, Caribbean, Swing, Hip Hop, Techno and oh, a few good old sing-a-longs. Ladies and gentlemen, this blazing entity of flesh, brass, blood, steel and wood could be no other than Hungry March Band.

More info: www.hungrymarchband.com.

DJ Delay releases Brass, Wires & Bass

2010-03-24T02:56:00.000-07:00

Beaming productions is excited to announce the upcoming release of DJ Delay's "Brass, Wires & Bass" (Cat # BEAM01). Out 31.03.2010 digital (iTunes, Amazon and other stores).

Conceived on the dancefloors of Berlin and Melbourne, birthed in the studios of Argentina, Budapest and Belgrade and raised through a Berlin studio filled with, well, brass, wires and bass, this is a remix album like no other that plumbs the depths and traditions of Eastern European music styles.

Brass, Wires & Bass is the new offering from DJ Delay, featuring remixes of some of the finest Balkan music has to offer: La Cherga. Max Pashm, Boban Markovic, and many more. Tweaking, fiddling, pushing the parameters and genre defying sonical touches all combine to give an imprint of what these music forms can sound like when taken to the limit.

DJ Delay aka Beam Up aka Sonical are the monikers and aliases that Brian May works under, exploring the different facets of sound and sound design that have seen him releasing tracks since 1999. From the outdoor trance scene in Australia of Earthcore, Rainbow Serpent and Submerge Chill Festival to supporting the likes of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, African Headcharge, DJ Spooky and The Evolution Control Committee amongst many, many others, Brian has consistently challenged musical notions, dub reasonings and event management and curation. As a radio host he steered the mothership of "Into the Groovy" on PBSFM from 1990-2002 and now produces and presents the show of the same name on www.straightup.com.au. In Melbourne he co-curated Australia's first regular Balkan night at Horse Bazaar ’05-’08 The Good, The Bad and the Balkan as well as Forward the Bass (dub), Loony Tunes (Animation) Steel Drum (Dub & related) and Living Version (Roots reggae, dub and wider) between '98 and '08.

This is his first release since relocating to Berlin in 2008 where he continues to stride forward with Rotfront, Popkomm and various performances throughout Europe.

More info: www.myspace.com/deejaydelay

Romano Drom in Utrecht, The Netherlands

2010-03-18T03:23:00.000-07:00

Saturday march 27th Romano Drom is playing in RASA, Utrecht (The Netherlands).

This Hungarian gypsy ensemble incorporates several foreign styles and instruments into their music to add a new dimension to traditional Olah songs, such as flamenco and the accordeon.

Starts at 21.00 h.
Ticketsale: www.rasa.nl
030-2316040 (Wednesday-Friday 15.00-18.00)
Address: Pauwstraat 13A, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Songlines Music Awards 2010 nominations

2010-03-17T03:33:00.000-07:00

Songlines magazine announces the final nominees of the Songlines Music Awards 2010 and releases a compilation album on March 22, featuring all 16 nominated artists.

The Songlines Music Awards recognise outstanding talent in world music and are voted by Songlines readers and the general public. There are four categories: Best Artist, Best Group, Cross-Cultural Collaboration and Newcomer. The final nominees are the top four in each category from the public vote. The winners of each category will be announced in the June issue (#68) of Songlines, on sale from April 30, 2010.

See the list of nominations here.

Fanfare Ciocarlia on tour

2010-03-12T03:47:00.000-08:00

Upcoming tour dates for Fanfare Ciocarlia:

11.03.10 Athens (GR) Gazarte
12.03.10 Athens (GR) Gazarte
15.03.10 Prague (CZ) Akropolis
17.03.10 Rubigen (CH) Mühle Hunziken
18.03.10 Waldhut-Tiengen(D) Stadthalle
19.03.10 Bonn (D) Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle
20.03.10 Munich (D) Muffathalle
22.03.10 Zagreb (HR) Aquarius
22.05.10 Luckau (D) Bülitz 13
23.05.10 Landshut (D) Wintergarten Live Club
26.05.10 Stockholm (S) tba
27.05.10 Bergen (N) NattJazz Festival
28.05.10 Oslo (N) Balkan Beat
29.05.10 Geneve (CH) Mai ou Parc
01.06.10 Mannheim (D) Alte Feuerwache
02.06.10 Erlangen (D) E-Werk
04.06.10 Granada (E) Festival
05.06.10 Almeria (E) Festival

Mahala Rai Banda on tour

2010-03-08T16:03:00.000-08:00

Upcoming tour dates for Mahala Rai Banda:

26.03.10 Bursa (TR) Hayal Kahvesi
08.04.10 Wien (A) Konzerthaus
09.04.10 Budapest (HU) Kunsthalle (with The Gypsy Queens & Kings)
10.04.10 Brussels (B) Festival Balkan Trafik (with The Gypsy Queens & Kings)
11.04.10 Amsterdam (NL) Melkweg (with The Gypsy Queens & Kings)
14.05.10 Bielefeld (D) Forum
15.05.10 Hannover (D) Pavillon
17.05.10 Reutlingen (D) FranzK.
19.05.10 Rubigen (CH) Mühle Hunziken
20.05.10 Aarau (CH) Kiff
21.05.10 Fribourg (CH) La Spirale
22.05.10 St.Die (F) Festival
23.05.10 Dornbirn (A) Spielboden
26.05.10 Halle Saale (D) Objekt 5
27.05.10 Frankfurt a.M. (D) Brotfabrik
28.& 29.05.10 Prag (CZ) Khamoro Festival
30.05.10 Tilburg (NL) International Gypsy Festival

25th Annual Jewish Music Festival

2010-03-05T01:59:00.000-08:00

From Berlin to Buenos Aires, from the melodies that bring ecstasy, to cool jazz and hot klezmer, the 25th Jewish Music Festival has embraced the entire multifaceted world of Jewish experience and let it sing.

The Festival captured an elderly Ukrainian Yiddish singer's work on the fly and inspired a new generation of artists. It produced a staged reading of the only 19th-century opera on Jewish themes (La Juive), anda Czech children's opera (Brundibar) produced by the inmates of the Jewish concentration camp at Terezin. It's seen world-premiere collaborations, and even a marriage proposal on stage.

Now celebrating its twenty-fifth year, this year's Jewish Music Festival (March 20-29, 2010 and July, 2010) explores the sacred resonances of world Jewish music at venues mostly in downtown Berkeley in March and downtown San Francisco in July, with West Coast and U.S. premiere performances by Diaspora Redux, Lorin Sklamberg, and Susan McKeown. The celebration continues in July, when the Festival will present several multimedia arts events to mark its quarter century, including the world premiere of a JMF commissioned piece, Dan Plonsey's Bar Mitzvah.

"We're living in a time when people are looking for answers in different places," reflects Eleanor Shapiro, festival director. "The Jewish Music Festival this year focuses on a mix of the sacred and secular. Our attitude is that in this economy, we need all the help we can get; whether it be Jewish and Muslim mystical music and dance, or Irish and Jewish songs about love, death, betrayal, and the demon drink. Musical salvation can also come through an ensemble mix of Jewish New York, Berlin and Buenos Aires , thanks to Diaspora Redux."

The great riches of song and its ability to induce contemplation and ecstasy lie at the heart of Sacred Jewish and Muslim Music of the Middle East with the Yuval Ron Ensemble including Mevlavi Dervish Aziz (March 20), which brings together the joyous music and movement of a whirling dervish, Armenian Orthodox melodies, and Jewish traditions. Under the thoughtful direction of Israeli composer Yuval Ron, who recently scored the Oscar-winning film West Bank Story, the group unites as Sufi feet fly and Ron's oud evokes the universal ache of human experience.

The heady mix of sacred and profane is also celebrated with Saints and Tzadiks (March 28; West Coast premiere), when acclaimed Klezmatics singer Lorin Sklamberg and stunning vocalist Susan McKeown reveal the unexpected ties between Jewish and Irish songs. "Saints and Tzadiks touches the real oppression faced by both groups, and the very rich culture of words and music they developed in defense," Shapiro explains.

Festival goers can also discover bliss the old-fashioned way: by learning niggunim, the melodies used in Hassidic tradition to achieve an ecstatic state, from Klezmatics members Frank London and Lorin Sklamberg at an open Friday night service and participatory performance of Zmiros (March 26) . But watch out: this religious music can get as wild and passionate as any rave. "It's a continuation of using music to reach a sacred space. The melodies themselves are transformative. And I can't think of anybody better to learn them from than Frank and Lorin" Shapiro smiles, "It can be dangerous. I once broke a glass singing with them by pounding it too hard as we sang around a table."

Mapping unexpected corners of the diasporic experience has long been part of the Festival's mission. Diaspora Redux (March 27; American premiere), a Berlin-based project led by Brave Old World's Alan Bern, captures its sonic essence, with an innovative blend of jazz, tango, klezmer, and new music. "Bern has gathered top players from vital centers of Jewish culture, cities like Berlin, New York, and Buenos Aires ," notes Shapiro, "They come of out of secular traditions, but have this amazing improvisational spirit that reaches a different kind of ecstatic state." Musicians can explore the role of improvisation in new Jewish music themselves during a master class with Bern and other members of Diaspora Redux (March 28).

Festival goers will also get an opportunity to hear a novel take on klezmer thanks to the rich acoustic arrangements of Klezmer Buenos Aires (March 29). Founded by two self-taught, innately talented musicians with roots in Eastern Europe , the duo has spent decades perfecting their playful approach to tango, klezmer, folk, and jazz on a staggering array of unusual instruments. "I have seen them in three different countries and every time they shock everybody out of their seats. I like to take bets on how many encores they'll get," laughs Shapiro. "I've never seen an audience let them play fewer than three or four."

While savoring sacred resonances from across the diaspora, this year's Festival also looks back to where the most recent secular Jewish music revival unexpectedly took off. Almost dying out after World War II, Eastern European Jewish folk music or klezmer, got a new lease on life in the coffeehouses and libraries of 1970s Berkeley. "Though the klezmer revival was going on at roughly the same time on both coasts, the Klezmorim, here in Berkeley , were the first," says Shapiro. "I've done the research."

The Festival does just that, with a lively panel discussion, Back to the Roots: Notions of Jewish Music Revival, featuring international Jewish music scholars (March 14) and by holding the Festival in a storied venue, the Freight and Salvage Coffee House. After ten years, the most famous folk venue west of Chicago is in a new green building resonant with wood salvaged from the building's last incarnation. "The Freight and Salvage has been the heart of the folk scene for thirty years," Shapiro says, "and now it's got a wonderful space, with gorgeous sound and great accessibility. I can't think of a better place to hear our artists."

The Festival's anniversary party continues into the summer, with several groundbreaking events in July. Dan Plonsey's Bar Mitzvah, a Festival-commissioned performance piece by whimsical and idiosyncratic composer Dan Plonsey, will premiere at the Contemporary Jewish Museum. Inspired by Babylonian lore, Jewlia Eisenberg of Charming Hostess will create a multi-media installation titled "The Bowls Project " at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The transcultural electronica of Watcha Clan, led by singer/dancer Sistah K, takes Berber, Sephardic, and Ashkenazi Jewish grooves into the 21st century via sounds conceived in Marseilles.

In this time of economic cutbacks, when everybody seems to be struggling, the Festival continues to showcase world-class performers from France, Germany, Argentina, and beyond. "Our dedication to Jewish music as a genre and to introducing fantastic artists to the Bay Area is unwavering," says Shapiro. "It's this commitment that has sustained us for twenty-five years, and that brings old and new audiences out every year."

In March, most Festival concerts will be held at the new Freight and Salvage Coffee House around the corner from the Downtown Berkeley BART station. In July, Festival events will take place at YerbaBuena Gardens, Center for the Arts and the Contemporary Jewish Museum, in San Francisco. See www.jewishmusicfestival.org for ongoing updates and ticket information. Tickets: 1-800-838-3006

Gogol Bordello Non-Stop on DVD March 16th

2010-02-25T02:06:00.000-08:00

A vibrant chronicle of one of today's most notorious and revered live bands, GOGOL BORDELLO NON-STOP follows Eugene Hütz's gypsy-punk brigade around the world as they spread their liberating libertine musical gospel. Filmmaker Margarita Jimeno tracks their raucous gigs from 2001 to 2006, from NYC to Italy, as the band rises from dingy basements to festival main-stages. The cast is a rotating circus of polyglot personalities from Israel, Russia and America, who dish on their music, their heritage, and their favored vices. Hütz, a sardonic mustachioed Ukrainian immigrant and the group ringleader, fuses his gypsy heritage with a love of punk rock and burlesque. Part carnival barker, social organizer, and poet, he's a mesmerizing presence on-stage and off.

GOGOL BORDELLO NON-STOP is an artful documentary that mixes flamboyant costumes, intricate dance choreography, a relentless beat and an explosive energy not seen since the dawn of rock 'n' roll.

The DVD will be released by Knitting Factory Entertainment, a specialty distribution arm of Kino Lorber, Inc. dedicated to releasing the best in world music documentaries. Drawing on its rich history of introducing indie and avant garde musicians to audiences at New York's legendary Knitting Factory club, the label will focus on bringing the world music experience to an even wider audience with definitive films about the most exciting artists of our time. Recent releases include A Not So Silent Night, featuring Kate and Anna McGarrigle and Fela Kuti: Music Is The Weapon.

Debut cd by Molotow Brass Orkestar out now

2010-02-23T02:50:00.000-08:00

Dutch label WM Recordings is very proud to present the release of the debut album by Molotow Brass Orkestar from Switzerland.

Molotow Brass Orkestar combine swiss folk songs with a balkan brass playing style and add a little bit of ska to get their unique sound. The band was founded in fall 2007, when 6 friends sat together and started to rediscover songs they knew from their childhood.

The album is available from all major download stores and can be ordered on cd directly from WM Recordings. More info here.

"Concert Tzigane"

2010-02-05T02:43:00.000-08:00

Jeudi 04 mars, Soiree Tzigane, Mr Big Stuff, Toulouse - 21h
Avec Davai (Musique tzigane Russe), DJ Vinodilo / La Kumpania Beats

Gogol Bordello presents Casa Gogol tour

2010-02-04T07:31:00.000-08:00

The guys from Gogol Bordello report:

Gogol's house coming direct to your state of being. To represent for our coming this spring album TRANSCONTINENTAL HUSTLE which will bring the international flavor to American Recordings and was produced by Rick Rubin. To honor these momentus events, Gogol Bordello will be taking on their most epic outing ever ... And we are bringing seriousa familia with us in the form of the physical manifestations of the first ever Gogol Bordello presenta CASA GOGOL tour.

Bringing the maximus amounts of our friend's jams in one show for the ages, CASA GOGOL will be a 3 band show with special appearance by the legendary Tres Leches Afterparty Soundcrew. Gogol Bordello will perform a full set every night.

Joining us in the US will be the world renowned creators of world class eastern flavored rock and roll and suppliers of fine cinematic climaxes DeVotchka and straight outta the bowery punk rock troubadour and our main muchacho Jesse Malin and his band the St. Marks Social

In similar epic spirits the UK and Europe tour will bring our new friends Matt and Kim who brang it so hard with us in Poland our friendship was destined in the stars and the categorical defeating Mariachi El Bronx who bring the mexican jamz with added punk reverence.

Tickets go on sale to general populus on Friday and Saturday. Check your local listings and line up. Do not rest until you have yours.

DATE CITY VENUE
Apr 18 Montreal, QC Metropolis
Apr 20 Toronto, ON The Sound Academy
Apr 21 Royal Oak, MI Royal Oak Music Theatre
Apr 23 Chicago, IL Congress Theatre
Apr 24-25 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
Apr 28 Boston, MA House of Blues
Apr 29-30 Baltimore, MD Rams Head Live!
May 1 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
May 7 London, UK Hammersmith Apolo
May 8 Manchester, UK Academy
May 9 Glasgow, UK Academy
May 10 Norwich, UK UEA
May 11 Birmingham, UK Academy
May 14 Bulligny/Nancy, FR JDM Fest
May 15 Longirod, CH Longirock
May 16 Karlsruhe, GER Tollhaus
May 18 Paris, FR Elysee Montmartre
May 19 Toulouse, FR Le Bikini
May 21 Madrid, SP La Riviera
May 22 Barcelona, SP Razzmatazz
May 24 Bologna, IT Estragoon
May 25 Milan, IT Alcatraz
May 26 Zurich, CH Xtra

Gypsyliana in Berlin

2010-02-03T02:25:00.000-08:00

WM Recordings artist Gypsyliana will perfom in Berlin on february 14. Click on the picture for the announcement in pdf format.

International Gipsy Festival Tilburg

2010-01-31T13:43:00.000-08:00

The 14th edition of the International Gipsy Festival in Tilburg, the Netherlands will feature lots of balkan brass this year: Ekrem & Gypsy Groovz, La Caravanne Passe, Haidouti Orkestar and Mahala Rai Banda. If you're in the neighbourhood on may 30th this festival is not to be missed!. More info at Gipsyfestival.nl.

The Golden Festival celebrates 25th anniversary

2010-01-14T13:48:00.000-08:00

Every January, NY Balkan music scene pioneers the Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band organize the Golden Festival - a massive two-night grassroots Balkan and East European music and dance festival at the Good Shepherd School, 620 Isham Street in the Inwood section of Upper Manhattan.

The Golden Festival is New York's largest Balkan music event, with multiple stages, Balkan & Middle Eastern refreshments, Balkan arts vendors, as well as beautiful Balkan textiles on display. From international stars to local musicians, modern Balkan stylists to folk traditionalists, over 40 bands provide hours of ecstatic listening, dancing and partying.

The Golden Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this Friday and Saturday, and tickets are available here.

For those who won't be able to attend but want to live vicariously, Rob Weisberg's Transpacific Sound Paradise program will broadcast live on WFMU this Saturday from 6pm until midnite (NY time).

The TSP broadcast will take place from one of the festival's three stages, the "Kafana" stage (Kafana is Serbo-Croatian for "cafe"; and the broadcast hq will once again be conveniently located right next to the beer line!).

Balkan Brass World is looking for you!

2009-11-27T13:10:00.000-08:00

Balkan Brass World is looking for CD and concert reviews, news items, bio's of brass bands big and small, links to sites, clips, audio, concert and festival dates for the 'calendar' section, etc.

So, if you would like to submit anything every once in a while, be it CD reviews, news items, etc. please get in touch! You can mail us here.

Looking forward to your contributions and ideas!

Goods news for bands: we can also release your music on all major download stores (iTunes, Amazon, eMusic, etc.)! Contact us for more info.

London based band looking for musicians

2009-11-23T07:42:00.000-08:00

Red Hot Gypsy Fever from the UK have issued the following:

We are an established London based Balkan Gypsy band looking for 2-3 musicians to take our line-up back up to 7. We are looking for a new violinist, a bass player (and posibly an acordion as well).

We have regular gigs and are looking to expand our current repertoire of material by bringing people into the band who love this style of music but who also want to experiment with some new types of gypsy fusion.

Red Hot Gypsy Fever are a seven-piece, live Gypsy folk band based in London. Fusing their Balkan and Anglo-Saxon heritage, they draw inspiration from diverse musical backgrounds including classical, jazz, and folk to create a unique sound all of their own. We play Romany gypsy tunes, traditional Balkan folk, Russian Gypsy Romance, etc. At the moment we are looking to expand our repertoire and experiment with new original compositions and create some new types of gypsy fusion.

You can get in touch through their MySpace.

New Dunkelbunt release

2009-11-19T01:33:00.000-08:00

[dunkelbunt] & CLOUD TISSA - KEBAB CONNECTION
Release date: November 20th, 2009
Release Party: 30. November 2009 - DUB CLUB, Vienna

"Kebab Connection" is a dancehall medley woven into a Turkish/Greek Balkan twist by [dunkelbunt] featuring the Kenian No. 1 ragga MC Cloud Tissa with his Swahili lyrics. This unique tune is inspired by the theme of the same-titled German movie and brings pure Balkan-Dancehall madness.

This remix package includes [dunkelbunt]'s own versions as radio, club and instrumental edit. His "Kedub"-remix turns the song into a more sophisticated track, and a "folkstep"-remix by Serbian laptop wizards Shazalakazoo as well as more mixes by Hungarian top notch DJ's Savages y Suefo and UK's finest Forty Thieves Orkestar complete this EP.

Listen to KEBAB CONNECTION
Available on iTunes, Amazon, etc. from november 20th.

The CD version is ONLY available on dunkelbunt's webpage. It is limited to 100 pieces and comes signed and with a Kebab Spice Mix by [dunkelbunt]

"Kebab Connection" is [dunkelbunt]'s exclusive contribution for his recently released "Sun Dub"-compilation on Poets Club Records. Sun Dub is a "Best of" compilation that has [dunkelbunt] digging the crates of Poets Club Records and Chat Chapeau... highlighted by a string of exclusives and long forgotten pearls. "To me personally, most of these songs are like good old friends that have accompanied me on my journeys and gigs for years now" says [dunkelbunt]. "Sun Dub": a unique groovy compilation that creatively combines different styles.

"Kebab Connection & Sun Dub" Release Party
30. November 2009 - DUB CLUB, Vienna
Camera Club, Neubaugasse 2, 7. Wien

Orkestar Zirkonium at Tractor Tavern

2009-11-16T01:36:00.000-08:00

Come out this Thursday night (November 19th) to Tractor Tavern (Seattle, WA 98107). It's going to be a very special night of horn-driven danceable music.

Orkestar Zirkonium will be teaming up with the local mischievous jazz/punk sextet Reptet that bring as many horns as they do costumes. They have just gotten back from a slamming west coast tour and are releasing their new 7" vinyl entitled Agendacide at this show. Orkestar Zirkonium will kick the night off at 9 pm. We hope to see you there!

More info:
Tractor Tavern
www.orkestarzirkonium.com
www.reptet.com

Klezmatics on tour

2009-11-13T01:25:00.000-08:00

Globally renowned world music superstars (and the only klezmer band to win a Grammy award) genre-bending pioneers The Klezmatics are back on the tour trail with stops in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Russia and the USA. Catch them if you can!

Check the full tour schedule.
Visit The Klezmatics website.

BalkanBeats - A Night In Berlin release and party

2009-11-12T01:21:00.000-08:00

The wait is over... BalkanBeats addicts around the world can score a fresh fix of the good stuff from the genre's most experienced dealer, Robert Soko. Shantel, Boban i Marko Markovic, Magnifico, Rotfront, Ahilea, Deladap, dunkelbunt: "BalkanBeats - A Night in Berlin" offers prime cuts of cutting-edge Slavic soul. Now available digitally everywhere and on enhanced CD with bonus features or 180 gram vinyl in the UK, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Physical releases hit the shops in Australia on 20th November and the USA on 8th December.

The "A Night in Berlin" experience can be had live on Saturday, 14th November at Berlin's Lido. The usual packed-to-the-rafters, in-your-face, DJ-driven-dance-a-thon will be enhanced on stage by those Emigranski Ragamuffins, Rotfront.

Take an audio taste here.

BalkanBeats Live dates (including residencies in Berlin, Paris and Budapest): http://www.myspace.com/balkan_beats

Aberdeen BALKANARAMA

2009-11-02T00:50:00.000-08:00

You are wholeheartedly invited to the next Aberdeen BALKANARAMA:

Come indulge in the sights, tastes and sounds of the Balkans! Come jump, sings, scream, cry and laugh, climb tables and dance the night away! Come party with us proper Balkan style! OPA!

Aberdeen BALKANARAMA proudly presents:
BLACK CAT: uber-energetic 10-piece playing maddest finest klezmer, gypsy and Balkan music
KUCHKE: polyphonic Balkan female choir PLUS Balkan Beats DJs, VJs, dancers, early live jam session (starts v early!), free home-made rakija and much much more.

See you there!

Aberdeen BALKANARAMA
Saturday 28 November
@ Lemon Tree, West North St
7.30pm - late

More info: www.balkanarama.org