Balkanic! - 20 March @ El Sombrero, Carcavelos (Portugal)

[Portuguese]

Dia 20 de Março, o El Sombrero em Carcavelos, vai ser a pista de dança que acolhe mais um evento com carimbo R.I.O.T. .

Em jeito de after party Oficial do Festival 5 Elementos (a decorrer no Jardim Municipal de Oeiras de 19 a 21 de Março), BALKANIC! vai juntar 3 nomes do panorama gypsy groove português, numa altura em que a cena está a ganhar cada vez mais adeptos (e com uma lacuna enorme em termos de artistas e espectáculos).

El Gadzé - nome incontornável na cena balcânica, fã de longa data de todo o espírito cigano, vai apresentar um set cheio de novidades frescas e inovadoras. ( www.myspace.com/elgadzemusic )

Dobro Soundsystem - também conhecidos como o Trombonista e o Percussionista da maior banda gypsy fusion portuguesa (falamos claro de Kumpania Algazarra), vão mais uma vez passar a sua mensagem de folia, desta vez através da mesa de mistura.

Calibat - jovem Produtor a emergir na cena, criador do blog Balkan Beats Kollektiv, vai nos presentear com a sua primeira actuação ao vivo, através de um DJ set e de uma amostra das suas produções caseiras, entre as quais conta com colaborações de Iasko (Figli di Madre Ignota - Itália). (www.myspace.com/calibat )


Balkans, Gypsy Punk, Electro Swing, Brass Bands, Folkstep e NU Gypsy, são sonoridades presentes neste evento arrebatador.

Muita alegria, boa disposição, sorrisos encantadores e sopros de fazer voar perucas...esses são alguns dos ingredientes para a sessão BALKANIC!
Opaaa.....Siiiiiiiiguuurem-se!

BALKANIC! - Oficial Festival 5 Elementos After Party
20 Março [Sábado]
El Sombrero - Av. Marginal #23 Carcavelos
Log In: 5 Balkans c/ 2 Imp ou 1BB
[happy hour de cerveja das 23:59 até às 2:00]

[English]

Balkanic! Party @ El Sombrero, Carcavelos (Portugal) - 20 March

5 Balkans with 2 beers or 1 drink

With:

El Gadzé - www.myspace.com/elgadzemusic

Dobro Soundsystem (Kumpanhia Algazarra DJ Set)

Calibat - www.myspace.com/calibat

+ Info:

balkanbeatskoll.blogspot.com
www.myspace.com/rootsinsideoftechnology
www.oeiras100.org
www.5elementos.oeiras100.org

Balkan Beats Kollektiv (4) @ PDL Café - Ponta Delgada, Açores (5 September )

Balkan Beats Kollektiv presents DJ Comoustache @ PDL Café in Ponta Delgada!

Party starts @ 02:30h!

Address: Largo de São João - Ponta Delgada

MySpace: www.myspace.com/djcomoustache

www.pdlcafe.com

Ariano Folkfestival > 18-23 August (Italy)

More information: www.arianofolkfestival.it

Superstereo, Shazalakazoo, Soft and Decide and more @ Hungary (21 July)

Balkan Beats London - 19 June

MySpace: www.myspace.com/balkanbeatslondon

Santa Balkanera - Cinema, DJ's, Balkan Dancers - 20 June (Mexico)

MySpace: www.myspace.com/diskobalkan

Le Grand Cirque du Balkan - 25 April (Netherlands)

Date: 25 April
Time: 14h
Location: Cultural Freezone, Landbouwbelang Maastricht, Biesenwal 3
6211AD, The Netherlands
Entry: Voluntary Gift (you decide what you pay!) =)

A festival with Gipsy theater, Balkan music, Ska, Russen Hits, Expo, Documentaries and really nice food!!

Lineup:

Tabor

Amariszi

Play it Heart

La Caravanee

The Grassmoawers

Perestroika Sound System

Hapu en Sòj

Kumpania Algazarra - 2 April (Évora, Portugal)

Date: 2 April
Time: 23:30h
Location: Espaço Celeiros
Entry: 4€ (with 1 beer)

Kumpania Algazarra

Their music hit the streets on a special day, a day almost like all the others. It was in 2004. Like some sort of an anti-routine crew, inspired by the muses of festivity, in an exciting dialogue between music and liveliness, they created a framework for dancing and blissfulness. Their seeds, planted in the streets, flourished, as they started to perform on several 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.

Twisted Gypsy @ InSpiral (2 April) - Herbert Newbert , Native Horizon and DJ Kobayashi (UK)

Date: 2 April
Time: 20h
Location: InSpiral - 250 Camden High Street NW1 8QS
Entry: 3£

Native Horizon mixes flamenco, folk, African and Arabic influences into a melting pot of uplifting beats, breaks and delightfully catchy melodies. The four-piece live band is based around the beats, electronic trickery and live guitar of Herbert Newbert, tied together with the heart-thumping percussion section of Jon T and Sean P, and topped off rather nicely with the enchanting and powerful vocal talents and of Noa B.

DJ Kobayashi musical styles varies from Gypsy/Balkan/Swing/Rock&Roll music, to chill-out/future dub/dub-step and broken beats.
Today his main project is Gypsy Hill which is a collaboration between DJ Kobayashi and Herbert Newbert forming together an authentic Balkan/Gypsy/Swing/Medetirania music with a touch of electronic beats, scratching and uplifting bass lines. Their work includes remixes from different artist such as; Fanfare Ciocarlia, Besh o drom, Kocani Orkestar, Boom Pam and more… as well as their own original material.

Balkan Beats Party - 20 March (Lisbon)

Date: 20 March
Time: 22h
Location: Espaço Regueirão dos Anjos, Lisboa
Entry: 3€

Groovalizacion DJ - Cucurucho & António Pires

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

DJ Click live @ Babel Med Music - 28 March (Marseille, France)

Date: 28 March
Time: 00:30h
Location: Dock des Suds, 12 rue Urbain V, 13002 Marseille
Entry: 15€ (per day)

DJ Click will be playing live on Babel Med Music at Marseille on 28 March!

"In Dj set or lives, he interconnects different kind of world music (Oriental, Balkan, Flamenco, Klezmer, Gyspy or Indian) with electronic sounds. His solid performer reputation took him on the clubs and festivals global stages as the Transmusicales in Rennes, the Womex in Sevila, Exit Fest in Serbia, Roskilde in Denmark or Couleur Café in Belgium… and established him a club residency at the Divan du Monde in Paris, where he just booked the whole Pigalle Estival summer edition. "

MySpace: www.myspace.com/djclicknofridge

More info: www.dock-des-suds.org

Cafe Svetlana by Ahilea - CD Release Party - 14 March @ WIRR (Vienna)

Date: 14 March
Time: 22h
Location: WIRR 7 Burggasse 70
Vienna - Austria
Entry: 5€

Come to the release party of the new CD by Ahileia - Cafe Svetlana!

MySpace: www.myspace.com/exportimporttunes

Watcha Clan + DJ Gusztav + DJ Pizdabolkin - 3 April @ Simplon (Netherlands)

Date: 3 April
Time: 22h
Location: Simplon - Boterdiep 69
9712 LK Groningen
Tickets: 8€

Watcha Clan

Watcha Clan are a French quartet that fuses together influences as diverse as its members’ heritages. Drawing on North African, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, French, and modern electronic musical styles for inspiration, the Clan claim a nomadic ethic, calling no single style “home.” Since their inception at the turn of the century, Watcha Clan’s touring schedule and lifestyle have been as nomadic as their philosophy. Group members Matt (bass), Soupa Ju (electronic elements), Sista K (vocals), and Suprême Clem (keyboards) have spent significant time in Algeria, Cuba, India, Spain, and Hungary soaking up the local musical flavors.





Official website: www.watchaclan.com

DJ Gusztav

Although he does not like this type of an introduction, or even; he does not like an introduction at all. DJ Gusztav rather stays anonymous and therefor in his DJ career he used many pseudonyms. DJ Gusztav has his daily live strongly within the music industry as being the promoter of Hollands best known venue and also advising the programming of many big festivals around the country as well as being the DJ programmer of Holland’s main festival Lowlands.
DJ Gusztav is and was also known as DJ L-Ende, Kees van Hondt, Barrio and Wizard, in the past even as “Who Cares” .

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.

DJ Pizdabolkin

DJ Pizdabolkin is just somebody from Holland or more precisely Zoetermeer. He lived there almost his whole live and actually likes the boring place. I said almost, because He also lived in brussels and Cologne for a couple of months and for some loger time in Yuzhno Sakhalinsk (Russia) DJ Pizdabolkin started DJ-ing a long time ago on some regular alternative evenings here in Zoetermeer mainly in a club called the Boerderij

Besides DJ-ing alternative and pop music, he had a growing interest for the upcomming styles in world-music. Starting with an interest in the wave of Scandinavian bands some years ago. After meeting some very interesting people (DJ Wizard) the main focus became Celtic influenced music and the "medieval" bands from Germany

Go East VII - 14 March @ Casa Rosa (Rio de Janeiro)

Date: 14 March
Time: 23h
Location: Casa Rosa, Rua Alice 550 - Laranjeiras
Entry: R$ 15 - R$ 18

After a little break for carnival, GO EAST is back!

Trumpets, percussion, break beats... there's much more in common between the Brazilian carnival and the Balkan Beats than you might think!
GO EAST presents the special "A folia não acabou - The party isn't over!" bringing to the Balkan carnival rhythm, the irresistible beats from East Europe - although this time in an different place: Casa Rosa in Larajeiras.

Free Shots of rakija e vodka will be served and there will also be a Narguila Lounge – a special place for tasting the different flavors of imported tobacco!


Lineup:

Kalderash Soundsystem
Orquestra Voadora
DJ pincel

DJ Farrapo:

Giorgio Cencetti aka DJ Farrapo started his music career at the end of the 1980s as the keyboard player of local bands in Bologna where he is from. Touring all over Italy, he recorded two albums and several singles for independent labels including two EPs for Irma Records. In the meanwhile he graduated at the university of Bologna with a dissertation about the history of the Hammond organ and Soul Jazz.
In the mid 90s he starts to dj in different clubs from alternative (like Link - Bologna, Mercati generali - Catania, Cafe Leopold - Vienna) & mainstream circuits in famous discotheques like Kinky - Bologna, Rio Bo - Gallipoli and QI clubbing. His dj sets are very groove oriented but more & more he starts to spin eclectic and Brazilian music, world and electronic sounds & rhythms.
In those years he also worked frequently spinning at the exclusive parties of big international companies like Ducati, Mazda, La Perla, Baileys and events in the fields of fashion Pitti Immagine Uomo, Firenze, design and business such as MAX, Thonet, Frau, Italian Motor Show. He spin with djs like Rainer Truby, londons Paul Murphy of Afro Art Records, Belgiums Buscemi, Brazilian award winners Drumagick, Zero DB, Maga Bo, DJ Spider, and at the concerts of musicians like Rosalia De Souza, Fernanda Porto, Trio Mocoto, Arto Lindsay.

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Official blog: www.festagoeast.blogspot.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/goeastparty

Balkan Beatz Presents: Partizani Clandestino - 20 March @ Ekko (Utrecht, Netherlands)

Date: 20 March
Time: 23h
Location: EKKO Bemuurde Weerd WZ 3 - 3513 BH Utrecht
Entry: 6€

DJ Gustav

Although he does not like this type of an introduction, or even; he does not like an introduction at all. DJ Gusztav rather stays anonymous and therefor in his DJ career he used many pseudonyms. DJ Gusztav has his daily live strongly within the music industry as being the promoter of Hollands best known venue and also advising the programming of many big festivals around the country as well as being the DJ programmer of Holland’s main festival Lowlands.
DJ Gusztav is and was also known as DJ L-Ende, Kees van Hondt, Barrio and Wizard, in the past even as “Who Cares” .

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.

Dunkelbunt + Haris Pilton + DJ Tito - 14 March @ Menza Pri Koritu (Slovenia)

Date: 14 March
Time: 22h
Location: Klub Menza Pri Koritu Masarykova 24, 1000 Ljubljana
Tickets: 6€

Lienup:

DJ Tito
Haris Pilton

Dunkelbunt:

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!

Balkan Bohemia - 11 March (Cork, Ireland)

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

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

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!

Stranger than paradise (DJ Sacha Dieu, Malaka, Kobayashi & Mahnahmahna) - 14 Mar @ Dex Club (London)

Date: 14 March
Time: 22h
Location: Dex Club, 467-469 Brixton Road, London SW9 8HH
Tickets: 5£ (before midnight) 7£ (after)

Lineup:

DJ Mahnahmahna

DJ Sacha Dieu:

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

Recently I started to DJ in some Parties and I decided to continue to this direction, especially in London where the possibilities are huge and where the music is still an underground movement in expansion. Looking forward to see you at my nights in London! Play List: Fanfare Ciocarlia, Kocani Orchestar,Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra, Goran Bregovic, KAL, Esma, Slavic Soul Party, Gogol Bordelo, Balkan Beat Box, J.U.F., slonovski bal, Dj Shantel, Balkan Beats, Tony Hanna, Techno Roman Project,the Amesterdam klezmer band, Boban Marcovic, Magnifico, Dunkelbunt, BUSHMAN TECHNOLOGIE, Postolar Tripper, Let 3, Bolesna Braca, Besh'o'drom, o'djila, La Caravane Passe,Buscemi, Mitsoura, romano drom ... and many more!

Disco Partizanti - 12 Mar @ Klub Mandala (Warsaw)

Date: 12 March
Time: 21h
Location: Klub Mandala Warszawa ul. Emilii Plater 9/11
Tickets: Free

Music: Balkan Ragga, Gypsy Punk, Electro Tzigane, Hip Hop Klezmer...

MySpace: www.myspace.com/discopartizanti

Festival Du Son Dans les Feuilles - 7/8 March (Paris)

Date: 7/8 March
Time: 18h
Location: 19-21, Rue Boyer Paris 20º. M Ménilmontant / Gambetta Tickets: 12€/15€

Lineup

7 March:

Ziveliorkestar
Padam
Syl Nuvaanu
Michael Wookey
Le Ptit Bazar
Archi Seb + Juliette Dragon
David X

8 March:

Franck Monnet
Pusse
Le Mythe des grands singes
Gaelle Vignaux
L
Ronan Ronan

More Info: www.dusondanslesfeuilles.fr