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Anyone who is familiar with the world music genre knows that some of the most beautiful music comes from the Balkans in southeastern Europe. Balkan music reflects the unique musical culture of the ...

Roma musicians in the Balkans are renowned for playing exuberant brass band tunes at weddings. Now the brash, electric keyboard-based party sound known as ‘tallava’ is making an impact outside the ...

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DJ Kobayashi musical styles varies from Gypsy/Balkan/Swing/Rock&Roll music, to chill-out/future dub/dub-step and broken beats. His influences as a DJ started from ...

Between globalFEST, Winter Jazz Fest and APAP Conference, there is a lot of interesting non-traditional-rock music going on in NYC in January. Additionally, there’s the 2015 edition of Brooklyn’s The ...

"There is a continental European phenomenon. When the Berlin Wall came down, such a big cultural influence came to Western Europe. When you travel from Frankfurt to Vienna, then to Bucharest, which is ...

Clarinet virtuoso Ismail Lumanovski has already broken new ground several times in his short career. Best known as the driving force behind the New York Gypsy All Stars, he’s the first Roma reed ...

A few bottles of Astika downed, a brass band furiously pumping out Balkanesque music and young New Yorkers are flinging themselves about with an abandon not seen since the days of pogo-ing. But ...