Tako Lako is a Balkan band from Copenhagen, Denmark, whom is about to release their first album. The style is very fluid, mixing up classic balkan lyrics and songs with modern day instruments and lends from both rock, punk and r'n'b in what is one of the most charismatic live acts on the danish balkan and punk scene. http://www.myspace.com/takolako http://takolako.mymusic.dk/ http://takolako.dk/
Who are this renegade clan of topsy-turvy, raggle-taggle suffragettes with such an insuppressible penchant for chaos, colours, caterwalling, cacophony, timphany, tea, dandelion and dancing?! Could it be!? The LONG FINGER BANDITS, who, armed with their artillery of guitar, trumpets, dangerously contagious drums, lovely voices, hats, puppets, face-paints and flags, leak and drip and smear cheeky droplets of gypsy, rock, folk, punk, jazz, bossanova and spit. Everywhere!
Brown Bird is an American acoustic band. Pulling from the influences of the blues, outlaw country, roots rock, early American folk, Gypsy and Eastern European music, Brown Bird offers harmonized voices, haunting lyrics and diverse rhythm and instrumentation, which surges in waves that often swell into high-spirited, foot-stomping madness. Brown Bird began in 2003, and has since toured extensively, including a European stint supporting RI-based band The Low Anthem. The band went through several line-up changes before settling on it's current form as a duo:
John Jorgenson (born 6 July 1956, in Madison, Wisconsin) is an American musician. Although best known for his guitar work with bands such as the Desert Rose Band and The Hellecasters, Jorgenson is also proficient in the mandolin, mandocello, Dobro, pedal steel, piano, upright bass, clarinet, bassoon and saxophone.
17 Hippies are a band from Berlin, Germany, playing largely on acoustic instruments. Leader Christopher Blenkinsop is originally from Manila, Philippines. Their music is a confection of various folk influences, and is performed with considerable style and energy. They are probably best known for the soundtrack to the 2002 German film Halbe Treppe, released in English as Grill Point. The band was founded 1995 in Berlin by Christopher Blenkinsop (bouzouki, ukulele & vocals)...
Denmarks second capital Aarhus harboured their first two short playing EPs (released exclusively on 10 vinyl by Auditory Designs) and was a well-kept secret amongst DJs and nu jazz connoisseurs. By now the city once again lays ground to their fables from the World Seas. Analogik has settled as a quartet and invited additional guests for this first full cycle. Due to the foursomes different backgrounds, their music isnt easily categorised.
taraful haiducilor (a.k.a. Taraf de Haïdouks) are a troupe of Romanian Gypsy musicians, from the town of Clejani, the most prominent such group in Romania in the post-Communist Era. "Haiduc" or "haiduk" is a word of Balkan origin which means something like "outlaw"; in Romanian it has a rustic or archaic connotation. Most of those who know the band in the Western world know them by way of French-speaking areas, where they are known as "Taraf de Haïdouks", since French lacks a genitive case. They are known in their native Romania as "taraful haiducilor".
The Savoy Ballroom are a three piece based in York they have unique mix of folk and swing that creates a sound unlike anything you have heard before. They pride themselves on their luscious three part harmonies accompanied dizzying instrumentation... if you want any info drop them a line thesavoyballroom@yahoo.com