The sound of Café Svetlana (2009), the album from the Macedonian dj who lives in Austria, recognises the multi-ethnicity and culture of the Balkans.
But instead of flying the nationalistic flag, this is music to be savoured with a glass of sljivo, palinka, raki or tsuika, an open mind and respect for the musicians.
Every style comes into its own here: Greek rembetiko, Turkish and Macedonian belly-dancing, Serbian and Rumanian folk dances, Roma songs, Albanian-Epirotic clarinet sounds, thunderous brass and the mournful yet cliché-free lament of the fiddle. All with a touch of fresh beats and grooves, basslines and finely chiselled loops from the master of the mixing deck.
That's the sound: Nu Pop music from the Balkans to take you from the bar to the dancefloor and all the way (to the sofa) back home!!!
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And there is another great single I love so much: ('Devil's eyes (feat Bella Wagner)').
It seems to me it was composed for a Kusturica's Arizona Dream kind of movie...
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