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"Its probably stating the obvious but for all sorts of reasons, the music from the Balkans can be found all over the globe in various adaptations but this latest compilation on Green Queen Music is a healthy thermometer, London is the place for Balkan Fever London: mind the brass!"
Compiled by the leading promoter of Balkan music in the UK, DJ and fiddle player, Seb Merrick, here is an
array of music that you could easily come across in South and North
Americas, West and Eastern Europe and beyond. The fact that his is the
current popular form hails from about 20 years ago with the music of Goran
Bregović in the films of Emir Kusturica and then with the uprising
of moustache villain Gogol
Bordello and Balkan
Beat Box who took made the infectious roots music vibrant and
danceable again.
And perhaps even more impressive, the UK Balkan tradition does not
confine itself to any traditional music rules and is a multi-cultural
and varied as any other underground music scene (especially these days).
So whether your Balkan Fever is in Acton or Walthamstow, your likely
to be able to find vibrant live performances somewhere in town that can,
in Sebs words can absolutely hold its own in both the wider and/or
more traditional arenas.
This 13 track compilation by new and experienced bands are not
limited to just London but also from all around the UK like hot spots in
Brighton, Edinburgh, Aberystwyth, Sheffield, Bristol, Nottingham,
Birmingham and Manchester.
With that in mind, this new wave are not purists, its as likely to
be ska, world, hip-hop. Latin, jazz, brass band influenced and
remodelled most likely with a smile on their/your face; after all this
is proper party music.
