Balkan Brass World

Take your normal brass marching band, embalm them in plum brandy, ship them to a Roma village in Serbia for a year, force them to watch every Emir Kusterica film 100 times, bring them back to Vancouver and set them loose on an underground rave party. Something like that. Orkestar Slivovica often perform with a Luciterra tribal bellydance troupe.

Wandering the streets of Vancouver with battered and ancient instruments, appearing and disappearing into the night, and dressed in the highest fashions of your great-grandparent’s youth, with a bottle in hand of that delicate concoction which is half of the band’s name, everything they cross paths with becomes a Balkan wedding dance party, with tunes from Serbia, Macedonia, and other mysterious and distant lands, and like this sentence, the music runs on forever...

With OLIVER SUTTON sighing soulful solos on the sax, KRISTINA ZALITE bashing big beats on the bubanj, ALYSSA SEMCZYSZYN squeezing sorrow on the accordion, MAREN LISAC, MATT RODGERS, and GEOFF COLPITTS crying out the pain of the past on trumpets, SUSAN GEROFSKY, CHELSEA WALTON, CORY SWEET and MYTHICAL MAN backing the beat on the baritone horns, MICHAEL LOUW rolling rhythms of Eastern lands on the darabuka and snare, and DEIRDRA KIAI booming out the bottom end on the sousaphone, and everyone taking a turn at singing songs of suffering and joy. Frequent guest musicians and collaborations with the LUCITERRA dancers add their own magic to the mix.