BOBAN I MARKO MARKOVIC, DEVLA (PIRANHA MUSIK)
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JERRY LEAKE
JOAQUIN DIAZ
JOEL RUBIN
JORGE STRUNZ
JOSEF KOUMBAS
JOYFUL NOISE (I GRADE RECORDS)
JUST A BAND
KAMI THOMPSON
KARTICK & GOTAM
KHALED
KHING ZIN & SHWE SHWE KHAING
KITKA'S CAUCASIAN CONNECTIONS PROJECT PERFORMANCES AND WORKSHOPS
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MOHAMMED ALIDU AND THE BIZUNG FAMILY
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MY NAME IS KHAN
NAWAL
NAZARENES
NO STRANGER HERE (EARTHSYNC)
OCCIDENTAL BROTHERS ON TOUR
OCCIDENTAL GYPSY
OREKA TX
ORQUESTRA CONTEMPORÂNEA DE OLINDA
PABLO SANCHEZ
PEDRO MORAES
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SARAH AROESTE
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SHYE BEN-TZUR
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WOMEXIMIZER
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ZIETI
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Probablement le meilleur, en tout cas le plus connu des “Gypsy Brass Band”, Boban & Marko Markovic Orkestar, originaires de Vladicin Han, au sud de la Serbie, nous fait le plaisir de sortir un autre album prochainement. Le band, composé de 12 musiciens chevronnés pour la plupart de lignée Gitane Romani, ont remportés plusieurs prix au fil des années, entre autres au fameux Guča Trumpet Festival qui attire des foules de plus de 600,000 personnes annuellement.

En plus de produire une douzaine d’albums déjà, on a pu les entendre dans les films Underground et Arizona Dream d’Emir Kusturica Ils ont voyagé en tournée dans plus d’un trentaine de pays incluant le Québec où nous avons eu la chance de les voir à Montréal l’automne dernier. J’y étais avec quelques amis et c’était une soirée festive absolument délirante, à l’image de la musique de ces gitans modernes.

Depuis 2002, Marko, le fils de Boban, qui étais alors agé de 14 ans seulement, est actif de façon régulière et il est maintenant le principal soliste et arrangeur de la bande. Il a aussi collaboré énormément avec Shantel sur son disque Disko Partizani et a participé à plusieurs shows avec le Bucovina Orkestar de Berlin.

Devla, leur dernier effort, est la preuve que la troupe, tout en restant fidèle à ses origines, sait renouveler son répertoire en variant les rythmes et en s’urbanisant un peu. Toujours aussi dansant, les morceaux sont parfois un peu plus lent que ce à quoi ils nous ont habitués par le passé. Quoique certaines chansons sont quand même extremement rapides. On varie aussi les instruments en utilisant à l’occasion de la flûte en plus des incontournables cuivres. (voir le morceau en sample)

L’album sera lancé le 10 novembre prochain. Je soulignerai l’évenement lorsque ça sera fait, en attendant, faites-vous les dents sur l’excellent Khelipe Cheasa.

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Clad in a suave white suit, it’s not impossible to imagine why urban legends credit gypsy trumpet king Boban Marković with getting his homeland out of a recent jam: Marković’s spit-fire precision is rumored to have so seduced Bill Clinton that the saxophone playing president called off the further NATO bombing of Serbia.

True or not, one thing is clear: Marković and his son, prized protégé Marko, are the bomb in Balkan brass dance music, harnessing the absolute flexibility of Miles Davis and the cool funk of Herb Alpert in the ultimate expression of their Southern Serbian Rroma roots. Their latest album as the Boban and Marko Marković Orkestar, Devla: Blown Away to Dancefloor Heaven (Piranha Musik, November 10, 2009), flies effortlessly between echoes of the Ottoman Empire and down-and-dirty grooves that would make P-Funk’s jaws drop.

Boban’s decades of experience are now fired by Marko’s youthful vibe—an energy sustained by marathon practice sessions and a lifetime spent with dad on stage. As a kid, Marko put in ten hours a day at home with his horn, a practice that drove Boban so crazy he finally insisted his son stand and deliver with the Orkestar. The determined, then fourteen-year-old Marko played so perfectly, he soon became a fixture in the group.

But Marko has done more than merely play along. Together, Boban and Marko Marković are expanding the idioms of gypsy brass, as Marko scats (“Devla”), raps in Serbian and English (“Benim Gecem”), and even flirts with flamenco (“Kazi Baba”). All while keeping true to tradition: the lightning-fast melodies, driving rhythms, and exuberant transcendence of the greatest Balkan brass bands.

Of course, to get to dancefloor heaven, you need some help from the Balkans’ gypsy saints, the singers who have made and remade the centuries-old traditions now wildly popular worldwide. There are veteran singers like Rade Krstić (“Udre Mila”) who Marković lured out of his decades-long retirement, or Ljubiša Stojanović (“Kum Boemčina”) dubbed “Louis” for his Balkan-flavored renditions of Louis Armstrong tunes and his love of jazz. There are rising stars like Bulgaria’s Sofi Marinova (“Soske Sul Na avea”) and hidden gems like Mustafa Šabanović (“Maruska”), a little-known idol of the Serbian gypsy scene. Devla showcases the melismatic and dramatic vocal stylings of these singers, adored at home but little known in the West; the best the Balkans have to offer.

English review written by FlipSwitch

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