In 2005, the EP was released. The first steps on the way to internationalization were given. They performed in festivals in Spain and did a tour in Slovenia. During their journey, they stood for anti-war initiatives, social, cultural and artistic causes, and supported immigrant communities, due to their engaged spirit.
In 2007, with live concerts filling the agenda, they are invited to participate in the recordings of other Portuguese projects like Terrakota and Blasted Mechanism. But they had still time to record their first album, with their own songs.
2008 started with the release of the album Kumpania Algazarra, bringing together fragments of their experiences in the streets, gardens, alleys, squares, unusual places, improvised parties and stages.
Their music is nomad, multilingual and universal.
They´re influenced by a kaleidoscopic sonority: Balkan furor, Arabic drifting, Latin warmth, Afro-Beat refinement, and explosions of Turbo folk and Ska.
The result of this variety of influences, brought together by a unique and original fusion process, is an energetic and contagious moment. Their lyrics invite to a reflection about the inhuman state of the world, and stimulate individual liberation. This musical project brings freshness and enriches the world music made in Portugal, extinguishing geographical and age limits.
Carrying the heritage of European fanfare, KUMPANIA ALGAZARRA flies over the new and the old continent, bringing nearer different ways of being, in life and in music. It´s a show made from melting sounds of folk, appropriate to street events, or to enliven acoustic spaces.
With a more complex and full-bodied instrumental formation, like a good wine, KUMPANIA ALGAZARRA go on stage ready to fire up the audience and shake the ground. Genuine in fusion, vigorous in their lyrics, with their instrumental lineup producing vibrant melodies, they make their shows unforgettable moments of festive celebration. Freedom is an attitude!
MySpace: www.myspace.com/kumpaniaalgazarra
Buy CD: www.cdgo.com
The band RAKIJA is playing traditional music from Balkan in modern and fresh arrangements. After a short time the band became a live act well known for its broad appeal, great energy and musicality and they keep extending their audience. The band continues to grow as a musical unity, and for every gig it just gets better!
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Website: www.rakijaband.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/rakijaband
THE GROOVALIZACION PROJECT:
Multicultural vibes, peripheral music, suburban grooves, nomadic sounds, tribal and regional blends… These are the soundtrack of migrations and cultural fusions, the voices of ethnic groups that stir our cities. A new urban musical shock wave electrifies the turntables of GROOVALIZACION, the high-spirited team of DJs, globe-trotters, producers, video directors; a musical and multimedia network rooted all over the world producing musical events, podcasts, remixes, video documentaries....and who's just given birth to the first global urban radio: www.groovalizacion.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/groovalizaciondjs
The Balkan Trafik Festival is about the coming together of Europe and emphasising the cultures of our southeastern European neighbours.
As with the first two festivals, Culture is the means for this alchemy and interchange between countries.
Culture here with a capital ‘C’ because Balkan Trafik is once again staging musical events, that are a great way of coming together, as well as cinematic events, themed workshops and a circus… All of the above are surrounded by the ‘festival’ atmosphere: theater performances, video jockeying, gourmet specialties and an eastern European select wine bar, organisations’ space, plane tickets at advantageous prices etc
That is a brief outline of the welcome we offer to our festival goers.
The different aspects of the festival meant we were able to cater for 5 000 participants in 2008. In 2007, the figure had already reached 3 200.
This unique festival, which has a special place in European affairs, has become an anticipated cultural event by ex-patriots of south-eastern European countries, our Belgian community and the European public at large.
Only a city like Brussels can offer such cultural diversity and offer in particular such pride in the creativity of our communities.
What is Balkan Trafik ? It’s..
• live music from our south-eastern European neighbors, ranging from traditional to electronic via jazz, dub, and rock…
• 4 sound system equipped auditoriums, 1 acoustic stage and corridors brought to life with a Balkans feel.
• 3 unique ‘100% Balkan Trafik’ productions in the fantastic Henry Le Boeuf auditorium
• Screenings of documentaries and fiction films directed by artists from south eastern European countries or which have the Balkans as a theme. Carte blanche is given to a well-known Balkans director.
• Topical affairs workshops
• Almost 200 artists performing over the course of the 3 day festival of whom most come from the Balkans: Albania, Belgium, France, England, Romania, Montenegro, Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia.
• A selection of wines from the Balkans region with the bar Vino Zirkus at the event
• An organisations’ space in the festival for different organisations working with or coming from the Balkans.
• Various activities for the public (wine bar, culinary buffet, music and circus events)
• Elaborate Balkans themed decorations
Big Opening Day. Film in the presence of the Director: Goran Markovic
Serbian, Hungarian and Romanian Buffet
Music
€ 10,00 :: reductions as usual
Pass Friday
€ 16,00 :: no reductions
Pass Saturday
€ 16,00 :: no reductions
All shows and workshops on a particular day can be attended using the Pass, provided that there are places available.
We accept Article 27 tickets and Cultuurwaardebons.
Tickets via Bozar Ticketshop.
T +32 (0)2 507 82 00
www.bozar.be
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Balkan Trafik Website: www.1001valises.com
Balkan Trafik MySpace: www.myspace.com/1001valises
"What you've believed about these people has been a lie your entire life." Johnny Depp
A dazzling documentary celebrating the musical world of the Roma, showcasing the work of top international Gypsy performers and interweaving tales of their home life and history. Filmed, sometimes by documentary icon Albert Maysles, in Spain, Macedonia, Romania and India, with footage from the Gypsy Caravan Tour of Europe and America.
The soundtrack to Gypsy Caravan, featuring tracks and incidental music both from and inspired by the film, is available from the ICA bookshop, all good record shops, or direct from harmonia mundi distribution.
Date: 14 March
Revealing documentary about the British Gypsy community at the beginning of the 80's. The program looks at some of the common attitudes towards gypsies, and their own attitudes about people who live in houses.
Check this mix by DJ Farrapo recorded live at Sugar Babe
Date: 14 March
The book and CD will be awarded in the category "Most important Travelbook”, the award show will take place on Friday 13 March, 4-6 pm in hall 4.1, on the ITB 2009.
More information on the book: http://www.garthcartwright.com
More information on the CD: http://www.asphalt-tango.de
He needs those aliases not just because of his real identity but also thanks to his wide music taste, he playd everything from drum’nbass to Hardcore house, but now known from his Balkan Beats, Russion disco, Ska, Mestizo (Rock/Pop Latino), Polkastomp, Celtic Folk, FunPunk, Humpa, Yodelmetal, Arabian Carnival and even reggaeton.
Leonid Soybelman - guitar
Ruslan Kalugin - guitar
Phil Freeborn - guitar
Konstantin Orlov - bass
Michail Zhukov - drums, percussion
Irina Doubrovskja - vocals, accordion, piano, keyboards
Thomas Cooper - vocals
Upcoming shows:
| 07.03.09 | D-Berlin | Stella | |
| 30.04.09 | D - Kassel | Weltmusikfestival | |
| 01.05.09 | D - Stuttgart | Laboratorium |
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written by Robert Rigney, Jan 2009
It’s a lifestyle; a feeling; and in the last couple of years a European – a world wide phenomenon.
From Bosnia to Brazil, people know Balkan Beats.
"Robert Soko has been putting on his parties in Berlin since 1993. He was the first to coin the term BalkanBeats in order to somehow define the mix of music from the Balkans – Serbian Gypsy brass, ska and ethno rock. Balkan Beats is folk melodies reinterpreted, given electronic beats and blended with western styles. In the recent past the phenomenon has caught on in other cities around the world where Balkan immigrants live. Balkan Beats parties are thrown all the way from Frankfurt and Vienna to New York and Melbourne.
Robert grew up in Zenica, central Bosnia, listening to western music – to rock and roll, to punk, to ska. In 1990 he left Bosnia and came to Berlin. He took a job as a taxi driver and started hanging out at the Arcanoa, a punk bar in Berlin’s immigrant quarter Kreuzberg with his Yugo friends. The Arcanoa became their domicile. Soko put on his first parties there, playing his Yugo music for fifty Deutsch marks and beer for free. He played Yugo rock, new wave, punk, ska, the music he had grown up with. He celebrated socialist holidays: Tito’s birthday, Day of Women. May First. The parties were a mix of irony and nostalgia, and Soko was surprised how many people came to the parties, as nostalgia for Yugoslav socialism was not the ‘in thing’ in those days of growing Balkan nationalism. And yet the parties grew.
And then something happened. After years of listening and playing western derived rock, punk and ska, Soko found himself returning to his ethnic Balkan music roots, the roots he had rejected as a youth in Bosnia. This was largely due to two figures, Goran Bregović and Emir Kusturica – Bregović who revamped Balkan Gypsy melodies, making Balkan music palatable for a western audience, and Kusturica, whose Gypsy inspired films Bregović did the soundtracks for. Soko played this new/old Balkan music. And people loved it. Women grooved to it. Guys pogoed to it. It was a sensation. The press took notice. From the Arcanoa Soko moved to the Mudd Club in Berlin Mitte. Soko began taking his parties to other cities around Europe, to New York and L.A.
The Mudd Club is history now and Robert Soko has a regular DJ night in LIDO in Berlin Kreuzberg and nights in Paris and Budapest as well as many other cities.
The party goes on. The virus spreads. HYPE AGAIN - HAJDE !" in www.balkanbeats.de
During the last years, Ulf Lindemann alias [dunkelbunt] has recorded the album MORGENLANDFAHRT, to be released in May 2007 on Viennese urban-world label chat chapeau. MORGENLANDFAHRT is a mix of Dub, Reggae, Bossa, Jazz, Electronics, Trip Hop and Break Beats woven with a Balkan twist. Numerous co-operations with both Viennese and international musicians from the Balkan and Klezmer scenes have enriched many of the tracks on the album, namely performers like 5’nizza, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Amsterdam Klezmer band, The Cat Empire, Harry Stojka, Östblocket, MC Killo Killo, Orient Expressions and many more.
With MORGENLANDFAHRT, [dunkelbunt] combines the many facets and faces of Southeast European music with various stylistic elements of electronic- and world music. The results of these efforts are fusions Lindemann calls Balkan-Dub or simply Balkan-Electronics!
Date: 11 March
Time: 20:30h
Location: Crane Lane Theatre, Cork
Tickets: 10€
Detailed info:
Balkan Bohemia
Come play your hand at a world which is rough but full of laughter, where the vodka is strong and the strong are plenty, where the winter’s a fridge but the summer’s a passion… Jump on board the caravan to Balkan Bohemia from 8.30pm on Wednesday March 11th – it’ll be one hell of a ride!
Clap your hands and stomp your feet while 7-piece band Lazik gets you going with their lively mix of Balkan and gypsy tunes, but not before Zingarina teaches you the latest Romany party moves! Shuffle, fold, raise or bluff… but don’t miss out on the magic tricks brought by Ger Kearney. Then get set to be stunned by PassePartout’s circus antics, the premiere of artist Tom Campbell’s latest performance piece, and Niamh Lennard’s live painting session! Also see us through in a wild card when Egyptian Sands takes over the dance floor with her seductive hip circles. The whole extravaganza will be hosted by our very own Nikita Sucadic, after which DJ Mayakovsky together with special guest DJ Jure Novak get set to keep you twirling till the early hours. Come see us and raise our game, because the odds are on your side!
Ladies, bring your big layered skirts, head scarves and golden earrings. Gents wear a shirt with a leather waist coat or braces and a wacky hat and let those moustaches grow! Tickets are €10 and can be bought at PLUGD Records or on the door.
Balkan Bohemia: www.myspace.com/balkanbohemia
Lazik is a reflection of the beautiful cultural melting pot that Cork has become. We started out as a group of session musicians, where we discovered we couldn’t resist wandering off the didly-eye path of the standard Cork session repertoire. To our delight we discovered that other great and well-travelled musicians had a similar appetite for different signature ‘weird’ world music. Thus, in 2005 we all decided to come out of the session closet and Lazik was, is and will be! Our repertoire is varied, to say the l’east. Our love of suave melodies, crazy rhythms and wild dancing is the chore of our sound. Our journeys around the world collecting songs and tunes, and our various musical and cultural backgrounds provide us with a wealth of inspiration. Wild dance tunes with Scandinavian power and Bulgarian upbeat mix with Eastern rhythms; French chansons and Breton dances blend with Irish tunes and Greek, Turkish and Yiddish melodies.
We bring you a night of shimmering bellydance rhythms, rocking Scandinavian melodies and groovy Eastern European music. Besides haunting the hills of Cork with our groovy sounds we have toured The Netherlands, Belgium and France, rocked-up the Ennis Trad Fest 2006, shook the Cork Folk Fest 2006 and collaborated with the bellydancers of Rashenkoti for the Cork Ladyfest 2008 and Tribal Cure 2008. We have recently supported the French/Malian band Tinariwen in Cork Opera House and cast a dancing spell on the fabulous audience of The Festival of World Cultures 2008 in Dun Laoghaire. We’re in the process of recording our first album.
PassePartout Circus Compagnie is a diverse troupe of entertainers, dancers, clowns and jugglers.
As a group we have a background in performance arts, circus and dance. We have performed on an individual basis and collectively in the Parks,on the Streets, in the Pubs & Clubs, at the Festivals and in the midst of many Parades throughout Ireland, Europe and Australia.
Currently based in City & County Cork (Ireland), we run a weekly Circus Workshop and Practice Space in Kinsale (Monday nights, 7pm-8.30pm, Come along, All Welcome!!).
We are currently performing, offering and available for the following antics:
* Fire shows
* Walkabout characters including clowns, stilt walkers, jugglers, etc...
* Street shows
* Circus workshops; Juggling, hoola hoops, poi, staff, devil sticks, etc...
* Bellydance workshops
* Corporate events
* Or anything else weird or wonderful you have in mind or that we haven't mentioned!
The Berlin based company was founded by Asphalt Tango productions in cooperation with Piranha Music in the summer of 2002 to combine their long term experiences and know-how in developing new artists, into producing, releasing, publishing and distributing their music worldwide.
The Gypsy Queens & Kings (Various)
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Website: www.asphalt-tango.de
MySpace: www.myspace.com/asphalttangorecords
Sacha feels equally comfortable playing Hip Hop/Reggae/R&B mash ups at warehouse parties and Dance music at raves, as he is rinsing the party classics at weddings. Occasionally, he plays Electro at private views too.
But if you want to catch him at his most cheeky self, head to the "Stranger than paradise" monthly event, which he co-founded and where he is resident dj. This is the place to hear his explosive mix of Gypsy, Cumbia, Ska, Bollywood, Belly Dance, Rock and Roll, Punk, Rhythm and Blues, Swing and French goodies.
DJ Kobayashi:DJ Kobayashi musical styles varies from Gypsy/Balkan/Swing/Rock&Roll music, to chill-out/future dub/dub-step and broken beats.
His influences as a DJ started from a very young age following his dad (Reuven Erez). He then knew what he was meant to do and started forming his collection and style.
DJ Malaka
Date: 14 MarchTROYKA - Bristol based trio playing an original fast fusion of Balkan gypsy and Eastern European tunes with a flavour of Western Gypsy Swing. Our instruments are: harmonica, acoustic guitar, clarinet and darbuka - making our sound unique and guaranteed to get you to your dancing feet!
DJ Haninka - the mistress of the finest Czech tunes in town makes her debut on the decks tonight! Expect to hear the spectacular sounds of Neocekany dychanek amongst her collection.
DJ Penny Metal gets to indulge her love of all things Russian and eastern European - music, alcohol, graphics and big hats. It is the official home of Mad Tunes - anything from obscure tarantellas, polkas, ridiculous Romanian fiddle tunes, Russian chorals and Greek syrtakis aplenty. All polished off with a heavy dose of Russian schlager, surf and Ukrainian wedding tunes. Like any good Russian tune the night starts off slow(ish) and ends up really fast with cossack high kicks and somersaults and a healthy dose of vodka. All this to a background of Soviet posters and Russian cartoons!
Held on the 2nd Saturday of each month at The Cross Kings, 126 York Way, Kings Cross, London N1. Each month we have a band or a guest DJ.
01. Cafe Svetlana
02. Come On Bejbe
03. In Da Balkan Style
04. Kalabalak
05. Oldskulski
06. Coffee & Tulumba
07. Let Me Show You More & More
08. Monopolis
09. Dont Call Me Al
10. Dolsko Kolsko
11. Spiritus Tango
12. O Mangas
13. Autoput
14. Kolo Moser
15. Usti Usti
16. Out Of Town
17. Electro Carsija (Secret Bonus Track on Promo CD only)
MySpace: www.myspace.com/exportimporttunes
Record Label: www.essayrecordings.com
| La Cherga | WIEN @ SZENE (AT) | ||
| La Cherga | DORNBIRN @ SPIELBODEN (A) | ||
| La Cherga | COLOGNE @ GEBÄUDE 9 (DE) | ||
| La Cherga | AMSTERDAM @ MELKWEG (NL) | ||
| La Cherga | DUISBURG @ STEINBRUCH (DE) | ||
| La Cherga | HAMBURG @ FABRIK (DE) | ||
| La Cherga | BERLIN @ MARIA (DE) | ||
| La Cherga | KOPENHAGEN @ GLOBAL CPH (DK) | ||
| La Cherga | FOLLENSLEV @ KLUBHUS GIMLE (DK) | ||
| La Cherga | LEIPZIG @ NATO (DE) | ||
| La Cherga | CHEMNITZ @ WELTECHO (DE) | ||
| La Cherga | REGENSBURG @ ALTE MÄLZEREI (D) | ||
| La Cherga | MARTIGNY @ LE CAVES DU MANOIR | ||
| La Cherga | FRICK @ MECK A FRICK (CH) | ||
| La Cherga | THUN @ MOKKA (CH) | ||
| La Cherga | MARBURG @ KFZ (DE) | ||
| La Cherga | ULM @ ROXY (DE) | ||
| La Cherga | KARLSRUHE @ TOLLHAUS (DE) | ||
| La Cherga | FREIBURG @ E-WERK (DE) | ||
| La Cherga | GÖPPINGEN @ ODEON (DE) |
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