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Sandy Lopicic Orkestar
Balkea (Network)
A tragic, abandoned sonority powers the Sandy Lopicic Orkestar, a muscular 15-member multiethnic brass band arisen from the wreckage of the Balkans, also integrating the Klezmer strains of the German band Deishovida. Three soulful female singers front the band, hailing respectively (and improbably, if we are to believe the region's ethnic cleansers) from Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo..." Michael Stone, from the RootsWorld review of their previous recording, Border Confusion
The band, consisting of a five-man brass section, drums, violin, hurdy-gurdy, accordion and three fantastic female vocalists, sways it audiences with a well-defined big-band sound, jazzy solos, and virtuoso arrangements in smaller line-ups. And above all this hover the "magic voices" (taz) and filigree harmonies of the three singers, one from Serbia, one from Bosnia and one from Kosovo, "each of whom adds her own particular touch, in terms of charisma and timbre: full of joie de vivre and soul, fragile and melancholic, elegant and erotic" (Badische Zeitung).
Balkea (Network)
A tragic, abandoned sonority powers the Sandy Lopicic Orkestar, a muscular 15-member multiethnic brass band arisen from the wreckage of the Balkans, also integrating the Klezmer strains of the German band Deishovida. Three soulful female singers front the band, hailing respectively (and improbably, if we are to believe the region's ethnic cleansers) from Bosnia, Serbia and Kosovo..." Michael Stone, from the RootsWorld review of their previous recording, Border Confusion
The band, consisting of a five-man brass section, drums, violin, hurdy-gurdy, accordion and three fantastic female vocalists, sways it audiences with a well-defined big-band sound, jazzy solos, and virtuoso arrangements in smaller line-ups. And above all this hover the "magic voices" (taz) and filigree harmonies of the three singers, one from Serbia, one from Bosnia and one from Kosovo, "each of whom adds her own particular touch, in terms of charisma and timbre: full of joie de vivre and soul, fragile and melancholic, elegant and erotic" (Badische Zeitung).
