balkan

L’Attirail takes Balkan folk & klezmer into new & cinematic territories with their 2007 album Kara Deniz, and continues to do so on their recently released “Wilderness”. And it’s exactly their progressive tone and soundtrackist mentality that sets them apart from traditional Eastern European folklore/ klezmer bands.

We’ve already mentioned this year’s most exciting lineup on Leaf where A Hawk and a Hacksaw meet with the Hun Hangar Ensemble lead by Béla Ágostone master of Hungarian folk music & jazz and a multi instrumentalist playing Hungarian bagpipes, clarinet, alto saxophone, taragoto, viola.

Once again we’re behind schedule in releasing our shows online. Here’s #19 done by yours truly, it’s a journey from electronic to mechanic to african & brasil jazz and ends with ethnic music from Balkans and Turkey. There’s some funny overdubs by grindcore heads Gut, I can’t play grindcore on the show but no one gets hurt with some samples.

A few days ago something incredible happened to us, the prominent collective mp3blog Motel de Moka tagged us as one of the 5 blogs that made them think with a meme originated by The Thinking Blog. It’s our first ever tag and it makes us proud to be tagged specifically by this meme that’s about our favourite organ. Yeah the gray matter up there!.

Welcome to the wooorld of tomorrooww!! I wonder if it would be something like a Futurama episode if Matthew Herbert actually met Duke Ellington. Recently i stumbled upon both the 80 Drums exotica and the quite fine Marsalis version of “Caravan”, a Duke Ellington classic and probably one of the most covered songs from the classical jazz era.