Electro. Dance. Math. Rock. We are electrodancemathrock. Three-piece music makers from Brighton. We make electronic math rock that you can dance to. Music is a primal instinct that resides within us all. It liberates us and it unites us. It is not conformity. It is not competition. It is not an outlet for repressed vitriol and it is not elitist beard-stroking observationism of conveyor belt culture. It is one of the greatest things we have.
Rapskallion are an Australian group and describe their music as 'gypsy infused sea shanties with a twist of romance'.
More information available, including festival dates, on their My Space Profile.
The Baghdaddies have, quite aptly, been described as "an eclectic mish-mash of musical merriment, an ideal accompaniment to dancing, drinking, partying and shopping." (baghdaddies.com) Since forming in 1996, this 5-piece band based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne have trod the boards of many a village hall, street, and festival stage everywhere from the 'Toon' itself to Poland, Switzerland, and Threlkeld.
The band was formed in 2001 by Toma Feterman, who has ancestors of Polish, Rumanian and Jewish Russian origins. A self taught multi-instrumentalist, Toma sings as well as playing the banjo and the trumpet. After initially performing music that covers a wide range from punk to French “chanson”, he decides to gather a group to perform music from Eastern Europe - a way of returning to his roots. At the beginning, the musicians were friends that played traditional songs.
The No Smoking band (Zabranjeno Pušenje in their original Serbian or Croatian language) was born in Sarajevo in 1981 and soon became the most significant musical expression of "New Primitivism", a cultural resistance movement created in the transition years of post-Tito Yugoslavia. After two years of live performances in small Sarajevo concert halls, in 1984 the No Smoking (which musical critics have defined as a Rock band) recorded their first album, "Das ist Walter".
She'koyokh are a Klezmer Ensemble from London (U.K.) who formed at the School of African and Oriental Studies. More info at: http://www.shekoyokh.co.uk/
Fatima Spar und die Freedom Fries consist of Nihal Şentürk (Fatima Spar - vocals), Andrej Prozorov (sax), Alexander Wladigeroff (trumpet), Erwin Schober (drums), Franz Grützner (trombone), and Philipp Moosbrugger (bass). They were formed in 2004 - an Austrian folk brass band with a Turkish singer that integrates jazz and many musical styles mainly from southeastern Europe. www.freedomfries.at
Typsy Gypsy is a member of the unparalleled Balkan Hot Step Soundsystem. He is from Belgium. His MySpace URL http://www.myspace.com/djtypsygypsy contains several mixtapes ready to rock your speakers!
Since forming in 2000, Mikelangelo And The Black Sea Gentlemen have been gathering accolades for their superlative, part fairy-tale, part cabaret, part cautionary huckstering live performance. Playing a number of festivals worldwide – including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival – they’ve honed their approach and reeled in punters with an ear for the more curiously strait-laced (in a completely Victorian, bodices-and-waistcoats kind of way) side of the gypsy-folk spectrum