LIVE
07 June 2009, Meet the World Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria
LIVE
29 May 2009, Moods, Zuerich, Switzerland
LIVE
13 February 2009, La Maroquinerie, Paris, France
LIVE
30 October 2008, 013 Tilburg, Netherlands
LIVE
26 October 2008, Paard van Troje Den Haag, The Netherlands
7 November 2008, Hochschule f Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany
SHANTEL // DJ SESSIONS
SHANTEL & BUCOVINA CLUB ORKESTAR
After pioneering the concept of Balkan clubbing with his now-legendary Bucovina Club parties and albums, after working his DJ voodoo around the world (and driving crowds to ecstatic bliss), after setting very high standards for dancefloor-oriented Gypsy music with his own seminal tracks and with his remixes of tracks by Mahala Rai Banda, Taraf de Haidouks & more…
…Shantel has now moved on to the next step with the fab Disko Partizani! album, which lays the groundwork for a new brand of pop music. This is the sound of new Europe, centered in the middle of our old continent, but incorporating vibrant influences from the emerging new frontier which stretches all the way to Mitteleuropa, the South East, Greece, Turkey and beyond…
Disko Partizani! sees Shantel successfully synthesizing his experiences as a producer, musician and DJ to create catchy, energetic and festive pop songs, full of hooks and surprises. The album features great performances by a host of musicians from southeast Europe and by Shantel himself, who also appears on lead vocals, gracing several tracks with an unexpected, elegant deadpan delivery.
Essay Recordings (Shantel's label) and Crammed have joined forces for this very special album, which will come out in early September 2007.
Shantel will be extensively touring with the Disko Partizani project, accompanied by his Bucovina Club Orkestar, a full 8-piece band.
Shantel, who started out as a respected electronica producer (with two albums out on Studio K7), has taken to the music of Eastern Europe following a trip to Bucovina, in search of his family roots. His Bucovina Club albums have earned him several awards (including a BBC World Music Award).
Stop press: Shantel has written the original music for "The Edge Of Heaven", the new Fatih Akin movie which just won an award at the Cannes Film Festival.
HEYYYYY YOU ARE GREAT!!!! ALL OF YOU!!! BRAVO BRAVOOOOO!! IT WAS AN AMAZING LIVE YESTERDAY IN ATHENS!!! COME BACK SOON!!!! thank you thank you thank you!!! love, dance and kisses from athens!!!!