Tag Archives: South/Eastern European Traditions

Although Rupa & the Apr Fishes are located in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, CA, their music is a specifically locale-free design of pan-culturalism, with lead singer and songwriter Rupa Marya singing not merely in British but also in France, Spanish, Hindi, as well as the Roma language from the Gypsies. …

Dave Apollon was created in Kiev, Russia, in 1897. Originally students from the violin, he became familiar with the mandolin via an outdated bowl-backed model his dad had resting about the home. By the early age of 14, he was executing on the device in theaters throughout Kiev, but a …

Boris Malkovsky is a composer, pianist, and bayan (key accordion) player located in Israel. He released the amazing Time Petah-Tiqva recording on John Zorn’s Tzadik imprint in 2007. The piece, which mixes Jewish traditional styles and jazz improvisation with Gypsy and traditional motifs, was originally commissioned from the Tel Aviv …

A choir comprising two dozen feminine singers from over the country, the Bulgarian Voices–Angelite were generally unknown towards the world most importantly before the fall of communism, however in the years because the Iron Drape was lifted the ensemble toured the world often over, enchanting viewers using their singular mixture …

Guitarist, composer and modern-day troubadour Moro was created in Bodega Bay, CA; there he started playing music at age group six, composing his first music that same yr. By 12, Moro was carrying out professionally; he ultimately spent some 14 years traveling the earth just like the minstrels of yore, …

Stuff Smith was among the big three of pre-bop violinists along with Joe Venuti and Stephane Grappelli. A lot of his followers stated that he could outswing most of his rivals, and certainly Stuff was a significant force around the bandstand. Smith, who cited Louis Armstrong as his primary influence, …

The exotic rhythms of Bulgarian music are combined with improvisations of jazz through the piano and keyboard playing of Milcho Leviev. An associate of Don Ellis’ music group in the 1970s and a well-traveled sideman for Billy Cobham, Artwork Pepper and Al Jarreau and head of jazz-rock music group, Free …

Among the initial klezmer revival rings in the Midwest, the Chicago-based Maxwell Road Klezmer Band continues to be playing their mixture of Yiddish pop music, dance music, and Jewish folk tunes since 1983. Called after Chicago’s occupied marketplace, Maxwell Road Klezmer Music group injects horn-driven energy in to the music …

Traband is among the many exciting, adventurous rings that emerged in the post-communist Czech Republic in the ’90s. The associates of Traband are very experienced of traditional Czech music, however they aren’t purists at all. Instead, they possess mixed Czech music with a multitude of other designs, and their function …

Poland’s post-communist music picture from the 1990s and 21st hundred years has included from bubblegum Europop to loss of life metal and dark metallic to jazz to traditional Polish folk. The music from the Warsaw Town Band is modern Polish folk-rock; they may be definately not purists with regards to …