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Balkan Gypsy music meets indie rock + electronica + folk + pop + dub etc
Follow this link to buy the album:
(Electric Gypsyland 2 contains two CDs: one with 16 remakes/recreations by Tunng, Animal Collective, Nouvelle Vague, Balkan Beat Box, Oi Va Voi, Cibelle, Shantel, Gaetano Fabri, Smadj, Buscemi etc... and the other containing 12 of the best, original tracks by Taraf de Haidouks, Kocani Orkestar, Mahala Rai Banda and Zelwer).
The entire double-album can be also downloaded here:
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... as for "Electric Gypsyland 1", which features reworkings by Señor Coconut, Mercan Dede, Arto Lindsay, Bigga Bush, Shantel, DJ Dolores, Juryman, Gaetano Fabri...
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Gypsy musicians have always absorbed and transformed the many different styles of music that they encountered during their journeys. But what might happen if young western European or American musicians did the same thing to Balkan Gypsy music? If they absorbed some of its spirit and infused it into their own sonic world? Well, the answer lies in Electric Gypsyland 2, a collection of reinterpretations/ re-inventions of tracks from three of the leading Balkan Gypsy bands (Crammed's mighty Taraf de Haïdouks, Koçani Orkestar and Mahala Raï Banda), made by notorious fusionists (Balkan Beat Box, Oi Va Voi, Smadj, Shantel), by several mainstays of the new Balkan club scene (DJ ClicK, Forty Thieves Orkestar, Gaetano Fabri, Russ Jones, Russendisko), and by more unexpected contributors coming from totally different musical areas (Tunng, Animal Collective, Nouvelle Vague, Cibelle, 43 Skidoo feat. Susheela Raman, Buscemi and ShrineSynchroSystem). Also featured are many additional guest musicians (from Europe, Turkey, Africa), engaging in virtual jamming with the original players. While some of these pieces stay close enough to the originals and can be described as remixes, most are poetic re-inventions, works of pure imagination
Every Wednesday evening at 21h30 you can hear on "Votre Accent Est Charmant Mademoiselle". A selection of french songs sung by Japanese, English, Italian, Indian...
Hello ! We are proud to present you our new video of our track « Balkanitsa » on our myspace.
We look for dates in all France and Europe from November.
Coming dates : 02/10 : Le Pince Oreille @ Poitiers 03/10 : Le Pince Oreille @ Poitiers 08/10 : L’intermédiaire @ Marseille 09/10 : Le Sixième Continent @ Lyon 14/10 : Le Central Park @ Charleville-Mézières 15/10 : Le Bulex @ Bruxelles (Option) 17/10 : Moulins de Brainans with Shrink Orchestra @ Brainans (39) 31/10 : Le Phare with Shantel & Bucovina Club @ Toulouse 10/11 : Boom Balkanika at Café Rex with Divano Dromensa @ Toulouse 21/11 : Dj pushit : Soirée Flamenco with Tony Elcarbonilla @ Oust (09) 01/02 au 15/02 : Tournée Bretagne (cherche dates) 15/02 au 30/02 : Tournée Nord France, Belgique et Luxembourg (cherche dates) 21/01 : Kumpania birthday (3 years) at Le Cap @ Toulouse
The Beautiful and powerful new modern Gypsy music you and your equally inspired and talented music friends have givin us has inspired me to create my own new nintendofied gypsy dance song i just uploaded to my page "Hitler Died on the Dance Floor" sung in English and Romani
Nous sommes contents de vous annoncer que nous passerons le weekend dans votre plat pays.
Jeudi 10 septembre au JeudiBars (Bulex) 10, rue Claessens à Brussel Vendredi 11 septembre à MJ Waterloo 18, rue T. Delbar à Waterloo avec Patates Rats et The Fistons Et Samedi 12 septembre au Harby Farm Festival avec encore Patates Rats entre autres Chemin du harby à Anseroeul Hainaut
"...it’s like Kid Strange and Urban Blitz from the Doctors of Madness at their most morose played Overhang Party, or a mogadon’d Peter Hammill jamming with Van Der Graaf’s Graham Smith. Elsewhere, the singular desolation is most reminiscent of the most down down moments of Nico’s THE MARBLE INDEX or even of Jesse Colin Young’s The Youngbloods at their most mercurial. But the Scrapes are still so original their music ultimately don’t sound like nobody but themselves." Julian Cope
THE SCRAPES NEW BLOG! http://www.planetofthescrapes.blogspot.com
Also catch us LIVE Thursday the 6th of August at Browning St Studios, West End! http://www.myspace.com/planetofthescrapes
Àlo boco likum, DÀ!! Dernier Vrai-Faux Mariage de l'année au cabaret sauvage. C'est ce vendredi 12. Alors, c'est ta dernière occaz' avant un moment ;) Avec La Caravane Passe & la Clik de Plèchti, on marie Sacha & Mona dans la pure tradition du village, avec tous les plus grands notables (sorciers, barmaid, danseurs, accrobate, fiesta muzika & vodka !!!) vendredi 29 mai au Cabaret Sauvage Le Vrai-Faux Mariage ed La Caravane Passe Parc de La Villette - 59, bd MacDonald (face au Zenith) Location, points de vente habituel infoline : 01 42 09 01 09 La Caravane Passe - "Sacha Mona", le clip value="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=44378854,t=1,mt=video,searchID=2ab044d0-8abd-49a6-901b- 337da05a6563,primarycolor=,secondarycolor="/> Sacha Mona / La Caravane Passe
Opening night: Tuesday 9th june 2009 - 9pm / 11.30pm
Forget about the gym workout: come dancing!! (and save on the gym subscription and the dating site subscription too...)
Thank goodness we will be opened on the 9th for the first edition of Swing Mon Amour so you'll have something nice to do on a tuesday night. It's very cheap (in terms of money not quality obviously), and you'll get great acts every week that will make you sweat and get plenty of excercice. I'm talking resident Dj El Nino from Black Cotton Club & Lady Luck, and Gentleman Tim & the Contenders a great 1950's swing R&B Chicago blues band. You'll dance all night, guaranted!
Styles : Blues - Chicago Blues - West coast Blues - 20's 30's - Gypsy swing - Big Band - Swing - R&B - Jump Jive - Rockabilly - Rock&Roll - Western Hillbilly - and many more... ,,
Salut ! Notre nouvel album "Catastrophe" sort prochainement ! Jazz manouche, Tsigane, jazz moderne et plus ! Des extraits et des videos sur notre profil... :) ou sur notre site : http://www.lapalinka.com
Dear Friends,<br />Our new Album ASPHALT PIRATE RADIO will be released in may.<br />You can listen to some of the new songs in our player now.<br />Best wishes!
Track “Putiri” from my new album “Arenaria” is this week on the player of Radio Basile. To listen just click on “Putiri“ on the player of www.myspace.com/radiobasile Enjoy Listening!
I belief in artgeneering...the artist is only a medium,connected to the spirits around him-translating vibes into symbolic shapes to reinitialize the ancient wayof using language... the way of light and color... without the disguise of words,right through the passage of our eyes... to reach hearts and souls without taking the intelectual loop way... natural formulas in an unnatural world...pure and uncensored... awakening the visiual awareness, the centre of our inner universe... to let it shine in the way it has allways been before these annoying times, that keep us away from our natural mission... to stay connected with our great mother earth and her deep spirit of freedom and peace... we have to regain our nearly lost nativeness, to stop this wheel of opression and iniquity that haunts our world and our hearts...it's time for the rainbow warriors :-)
Helllo,this is PranaBoy from Cologne... ...hope,you enjoyed my new page. For more infos about cosmyc art, please visit one of my sites:
01/02/2009 Taraf De Haïdouks @ VK, schoolstraat 76 rue l'ecole, 1080 Brussels + DJ Gaetano Fabri
Doors 20h entrance 17€ / 20€
The Taraf de Haïdouks - the name literally translates as "band of honourable brigands" - are a bunch of extraordinary and colourful characters, who have managed to convince the audiences of the biggest World Music festivals. "Their wild energy is the essence of gypsy music ... their set seemed like the bubbling source of 20th century rhythm ... they spun out cadences that recalled bebop, salsa, and the polyrhythms of Zimbabwe and Nigeria" (The New York Times), "the band that's wowing London" (The Evening Standard, 7 June 2001) through their rhythmically complex songs with grace, easy camaraderie and sense of mischief wins over everybody in concerts.
Along with these ambitious compositions one will rediscover with great pleasure the fantastic atmosphere of a Taraf de Haïdouks live performance in a collection of previously-unrecorded pieces featuring the various singers and soloists in top form and particularly galvanized by the importance of the event. These were indeed the band's first ever concerts in the Romanian capital; after ten years of international success the Taraf were still not recognized in their own country (maybe because they were perceived as Gypsies rather than as musicians).
Dear friend
I am sending you this to let you know that my first release on the web through myspace and audigist is now accomplished.
Now you can visit my page at: www.myspace.com/chakradar to listen and download my music.
Thank you for the support and friendship.
Peace and love
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