Brass

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Brass

Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars (by Arjen Veldt)
  • style(s):
    • Brass
    • World
  • label:Piranha Records

Brass bands have been on the Piranha agenda from practically day one – or rather, day two:

HeimatKlänge festival’s opening season in 1988 already featured the “King of Klezmer Trumpet” Frank London – together with both of his ensembles, Les Miserables Brass Band and The Klezmatics.

Relinquishing Les Miserables’ particular emphasis on brass music for The Klematics’ broader spectrum of acoustic colours when that band caught on as it did, London later came back to distinct brass sound with his Klezmer Brass Allstars under a variety of focuses: Di Shikere Kapelye – digging for the Eastern European roots of klezmer; Carnival Conspiracy – klezmer melting together with pop, New York-style; and Brotherhood of Brass – featuring Egypt’s Hasaballa Brass Band (who later went on to release The Drummers of the Nile in Town with fellow Piranha Records recording artist Mahmoud Fadl on the label, too).

Take a listen to our Brass playlist!



Selected by BalkanBeats DJ Robert Soko!

And that still leaves us the Balkan brass – represented at Piranha Records by the great Fanfare Ciocarlia, Boban & Marko Markovic as well as Fanfare Tirana and its Albanian Wedding explosion! Visit our Gypsy & Balkan category for more.

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