CD / DVD - package Fanfare Ciocarlia "Live" - including a CD with the recordings of the Fanfare April concert 2004 at Kulturbrauerei in Berlin and in addition to it the DVD "Gypsy Brass Legends - The Story of the Band" released in 2004 already.
Release date:
Germany 25th September 2009
UK 21st September 2009
France 24th September 2009
Thanks to Asphalt Tango Records for the preview! Great album!
New CD from Mahala Rai Banda out in Autumn 2009 on Asphalt Tango Records! Romania's hottest young Gypsy band return with new sound & direction! Mahala Rai Banda's resurrection guarantees a musical feast for 2009 / 2010!
ITB BookAward 2009 for German version of Garth Cartwrights BOOK "Princes amongst Men * Balkanblues und Blaskapellen" (Hannibal Verlag) and the COMPILATION "Princes Amongst Men" (Asphalt Tango Records)
"Sudahan put a clarinet to his lips at the wedding of Elvis Huna in Skopje and blew a ferocious wail, summoning the spirit of Shutka, thecity of Gypsies. Dzansever’s a phantom, singing only for Turkish and Gypsy weddings, her voice conveying deep Balkan blues. Sofi Marinova’s charming, a devastating singer. Boban rules Serbia’s Guca brass band festival. There he sent thousands of youths into ecstasy with his eerie, charged notes.
Ederlezi – the holy day for Balkan Gypsies – in Kyustendil mahala, south west Bulgaria. A night never to forget. Jony & Boril Iliev’s band played and the ghetto rose in a wave of joy. Esma enters a room – any room - and is acknowledged as the Queen. Saban, choking on a cigarette, remains the Lizard King. Ekrem and Naat: stoic trumpet masters. Ferus leers. Fulgerica frowns. Kal’s Dragan Ristic’s a smooth operator. In Zece Prajini, Fanfare Ciocarlia’s ‘invisible’ village, geese and pigs clutter up the main road and brass echoes across the valley. Taraf de Haidouks translates as Band of Outlaws. Very apt. Eight wild, relentless months… from Spring to Winter… a Balkan exodus... I got the bear and the bear got me. Some dream of running away to join the circus. Mine was to ride with the Gypsies.”- Garth Cartwright
The CD "Princes amongst Men" (Asphalt Tango Records) provides the soundtrack of this wild journey. Featured artists on the album include Saban Bajramovic, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Ferus Mustafov, Dzansever, Taraf de Haidouks, Boban Markovic and more.
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.
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
Have you ever imagined Roy Paci, Frank London & Boban Markovic Orkestar on the same stage? Well that's possible now!
"This is a "Trumpet Triumph" featuring the hottest trumpets in the world music.
They are the volcanic Sicilian trumpeter Roy Paci, the eclectic klezmer musician Frank London (Grammy Award winner in 2007) and the King of the Balkans, Boban Markovic, together with his court, the Orkestar.
The greatest classics of tradition from Sicily, Jewish melodies carved in history and Serbian upbeat dances are combined, sweeping the feet away. The arrangements are made in a spirit of pure inspiration by the trio, and made unique in the hands of the Markovic Orkester.
The result? Driving brass and killer rhythms, non-stop noise, frenzied dances, with three trumpets unlike anything else. The verve of Roy, the class of Frank, the power of Boban, all packed onto one stage. Roy Paci bounces from Aretuska’s ska to Manu Chao’s patchanka, all the way to Banda Ionica’s popular marches; Frank London with his klezmer music, spanning its new wave with The Klezmatics and its noisy side with Frank London Klezmer Brass All Stars. And then Boban Marcovic, together with his son Marko, adding his true musical genius, giving everything into the hands of his fanfara, his unique Orkester.
This is a Trumpet Triumph. Truly, a unique experience of the instrument; its power, its inspiration and its fun!"
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