“This is music which works so well with alcohol and vodka… it speaks directly to the basic emotions. It’s like wedding and funeral music” – Ori Kaplan (Balkan Beat Box)
Eastblok Music: Interview with Armin Siebert
Searching for the last remnants of vinyl culture in the Balkan music scene, iCrates came across Eastblok Music. Based in Berlin, a city which knows all about the collision of East and West,…
Ethno-Musicology: The Music of Béla Bartók
There’s nothing new about mining Balkan states for musical inspiration. Combing his way through the Balkan states and getting as far east as Turkey, the classical composer Béla Bartók found his verve recording…
Lerchengesang by Noucha Doina Mit Bela Sanders Orchester
The immitated Chant of the Lark ,or “Lerchengesang” in German, is a traditional romanian improvisational theme which any gifted musician will call their own as it leaves plenty of room for interpretation. This…
Karma Vinyl Music Shop, Zagreb
It may not have the glamour of the Croatian coast to coax tourists to its cobbled streets, but Zagreb has always been central to the alternative and underground music scene in the Balkan…
Interview: Balkan Beat Box
Spread between New York, Vienna and Tel Aviv and just back from an extensive tour of South America, the Balkan Beat Box boys can be difficult to track down. Drawing on influences as…
The Vinyl-Only Sessions #06: Slobodan AKA DJ Brka
Session #06: Slobodan AKA DJ Brka takes us deep into the World of the Cosmic Balkan Approach of the 1970tes. Session #06: Slobodan AKA DJ Brka -The Balkans Approach Mix From some new…
Novi talas – New Wave and (Post-)Punk in Former Yugoslavia
While their Western contemporaries like Wire, Gang of Four, Talking Heads and Devo were stirring things up on their side of the Iron Curtain, the New Wave and Punk bands from what was…
Balkanton 5571
This Week i dug up a little Balkan Gem EP on the former Bulgarian state-owned Balkanton Label. As i think of a hurricane when somebody mentions the word cirrylic > in other words…
