Archive for September, 2009

Spanish Fly: deleon Play Ladino in Denver
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labelmates Balkan Beat Box and Golem, have all challenged listeners with multilingual songs overlaid with distinctly non-American folk arrangements.

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Village Voice
This Week's Voice: Yeah Yeah Yeahs and ESG, Ghostface Killah's
Village Voice
Richard Gehr talks with Slavic Soul Party, the Balkan pride of Park Slope. Eugene Holley Jr. gets an earful from Meshell Ndegeocello about her love of Sade,

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A Hawk And A Hacksaw and Damon And Naomi
A.V. Club Denver/Boulder
The outfit racked up authenticity points with 2006's The Way The Wind Blows, which was recorded in part in a small Romanian village with Balkan group

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Business Gazette
Out of the house and into October festivals
Business Gazette
The third annual event begins quietly enough with volunteers selling Balkan mezze (appetizers) and grilled foods under a large tent from 4 to 6 pm

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Sexy time for Balkan folk
Brisbane Times
But it brought a thigh-slapping, caterwauling Brisbane audience to its feet last night as world music kings Paprika Balkanicus ripped their way through a

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Why Tuesday Belongs to Slavic Soul Party
Village Voice
Blasting jazzy Balkan funk with a hard second-line kick, Slavic Soul Party took its sweet time arriving at a place where they could finally sound like

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Breaking boundaries in dance
JoongAng Daily
It is built around a highly physical movement style and is set to the rhythms of the klezmer-infused Balkan Beat Box. Closing the festival is Compagnia

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Luminescent Orchestrii
RootsWorld
Fans of the Warsaw Village Band, Gogol Bordello and Balkan Beat Box will find a lot to love here. The disc kicks off with a thrashy rendition of a

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Exclaim!
Caballo and the Mothafu Kings Global Propaganda
Exclaim!
His ragga-heavy, politically charged rhymes travel across borders on the back of dub-y bass lines while bouncing along to Balkan beats and Cumbia riddims.

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Important new work from Ramsey Lewis
Chicago Tribune
and "Time Capsules" (Balkan Samba), with Levy and the group Acoustic Express. Concert is 7:30 pm Sunday in Nichols Concert Hall at the Music Institute

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