Vialka

Here's a lovely band that should be on the coverpage of every decent music magazine immediately. A two piece progressive punk jazz gypsy folk fusion band, with unbelievable stage presence and fun factor. With a girl on drums and vocals, and a boy on electric guitar, the comparison with the you-know-who immediately sparks to the mind. Fortunately their music sounds not like the White Stripes at all, this is some kind of unique spazz art rock fusion, with Boros' great folk inspired melodies and Frecheville's frentic drumming and incredibly talented voice. I haven't seen the Tiger Lillies live, but I think they might have a similar live performance. The band is used to playing small venues, and their performance is really energetic and down to earth in a cabaret style, that includes mrs. Frecheville doing a strip even!. They are really modern day nomads, who travel around the world playing music over 300 days in a year, playing wherever they can find and transporting with public transport. They ended up here in Istanbul en route to China going to some remote places like Bishkek and Dusanbe!. I have been postponing this review since the concert day, because I had some crazy video footage of Marylise dancing, and playing drums on Umfall that I wanted to put on YouTube and link here. However they need some more work so I decided to post it right now. These songs are from their official page and they're .ogg files, you should download winamp or go and get an ogg codec.