We are very pleased and honored by the visit of Boban Markovic - the undisputed King of Balkan Brass - in our office. It was our pleasure to give Boban a guided tour through our various departments and to join us for a relaxed sit-in with coffee and tea about the latest news from the Boban i Marko Markovic Orchestar.
Check out our website for the upcoming European tourdates and watch in April 2012 for a new "Best of Boban i Markovic Orchestar"-Album titled "Golden Horns" and selected and sequenced by DJ Robert Soko of BalkanBeats.
Pictue:
Anna Pötzsch (Director of Media & Communications of WOMEX) with Boban Markovic and Bettina Schasse de Araujo (General Director of Piranha Musik.
"The new Boban i Marko Markovic album "Golden Horns" is a boisterous best of selection gleaned from their physical and digital sales, youtube views, radioplays, sync and other licensing hits. Without doubt it's an essential part of my repertoire for balkanbeats dance floors worldwide." (Robert Soko).
C3 Festival
CLUB CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL
BERLIN / ESSEN / GDANSK
Berlin: Berghain und RADIALSYSTEM V, 23. - 26. November 2011
Essen: Welterbe Zollverein, 24. - 26. November 2011
Gdansk (Danzig): St. John's Center, 01. - 03. Dezember 2011
The Club Contemporary Classical Festival is kicking
off tomorrow in Germany and Poland.
The C3 Festival, a "labor of love" put together
by Classical:Next Director Jennifer Dautermann,
presents new music which falls into the grey zone
between the genres of contemporary classical and
electronic club music, from tighly-structured
techno through to free-flowing ambient.
An international program ranging from
the avantgarde to the downright funky will be
presented from 23 November through 3 December in
unique locations in Berlin, Germany (Berghain...
Become friend with us on Facebook and post your best Balkan picture on our Facebook wall. The Top 5 with the most 'Likes' win our brand-new CD 'Brass Noir - On the Trans-Balkan Highway'. Winner #1 wins a Brass Noir CD, a signed vinyl by Robert Soko and 2 tickets for the famous BalkanBeats party in Berlin on the 12th of November.
Deadline is the 11.11.2011 on 11:11 am.
Brass Noir presents some of the most renowned artists of the Balkan, seleced by DJ Robert Soko the inventor of the popular BalkanBeat Party, featuring Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar,...
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multicult.fm brings fresh wind into the Berlin-Brandenburg airwaves. On the occasion of its fm broadcasting debut, the young radio invites you to a foray through Berlin, the gateway to Eastern Europe, the metropolis of the...
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Poland was the only country behind the Iron Curtain with an active reggae scene in the early Eighties. Later dub and electronica were added. At the same time there is a deeply-rooted folklore in Poland, which is important as...
Re-importing the culture: It's a sunny spring day as I sit drinking coffee in the health resort Bansko in Bulgaria's mountain range. The CD shop around the corner sells only Western crap. But in front of me hanging on the wall is a »BALKAN BEATS« poster. Who and...
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Compilation with typical music from the Baltic States <p> Booklet in German only! <p> Featuring: Vic Anselmo, Kriipis Tulo and many more!
Compilation with typical music from Israel: <p> Booklet in German only! <p> Featuring: Habanot Nechama, Balkan Beat Box and many more!
Compilation with typical Colombian music. <p> Booklet in German only! <p> Featuring: Con las Unas, Systema Solar, La Manigua and many more.
Compilation with typical East African music. <p> Booklet in German only! <p> Featuring: Makadem, Mzungu Kichaa, Nawal and many more.
Although the majority of the South African population belong to various black ethnic groups, cultural influences and musical styles from colonization can be clearly recognized. Back in the 1950's, jazz music made its way to South Africa. When combined with...
A spectre is haunting Europe…swing is not dead. It doesn't even smell. Freshly powdered, dressed in a stylish electro suit, for the umpteenth time it rises again from the declared dead and swirls cheekily with its feather boa across the capitals' dance floors. In...
A spectre is haunting Europe…swing is not dead. It doesn't even smell. Freshly powdered, dressed in a stylish electro suit, for the umpteenth time it rises again from the declared dead and swirls cheekily with its feather boa across the capitals' dance floors. In...
When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Ukraine started to breathe the fresh air of independence again. At that time, during the early 90's, a group of students set up the band Aktus, which quickly made itself a name in the underground Kyiv music scene. Aktus turned...
Positive vibrations - that's the key to Markscheider's work. This is fuelled by Latin ska, cumbia jazz, reggae, rumba or afrobeat as well as Russian folk melodies and Russian vocals. The brass section pumps while the Hawaii guitar opens the Buena Vista Russian...
The Balkans groove? Yes, indeed. What started almost twenty years ago with the first releases of mostly Romanian gypsy ensembles, dug up and recorded by Western field researchers behind the just fallen Iron Curtain, has now turned into a global club movement....
