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MUNICIPALE BALCANICA NEW REVIEWS!!!
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Thursday, 31 May 2007
  "With a strong Balkanic sound, the Italian band Municipale Balcanica is made up of 10 talented musicians (along with frequent guests) who each bring their own unique experiences and traditions to their music. Their high-energy performances are legendary and the band tours extensively. “Foua” is the title track from their album and it will give you an idea of the joy and beautiful music created from a combination of passion and tradition." (BeatPick - UK)
 "They are particularly at home in Romania and in the bordering regions of the former Republic of Yugoslavia.With the films of the director Emir Kusturica, brass bands like the Kocani Orkestar or Fanfare Ciociarlia became fashionable and trendy. And the members of Municipale Balcanica race through their musical scores at a similarity neck-breaking and breath-taking pace as the musicians in these bands.However Municipale Balcanica comes from the other side of the Adriatic or, to be more exact, from Puglia in southern Italy. Following some very successful performances at home, orchestra came to Germany for the first time to Stuttgart in summer of 2005 and further performances followed. And everywere they go, their audiences are filled with pure delight and sheer exuberance, and perhaps for the very reason of wood and brass instrumentalists are capable of arousing so infinitely much mure pleasure and enthusiasm than is usually the case here in Germany with its very traditional brass music. German audiences are never presented with such furious fireworks of weird rythms and mixed harmonies as there - in the Balkans or, well, in Italy too." (10/03/2007 - Jazz Ahead – Germany)
"Municipale Balcanica are an off-the-wall Southern Italian Klezmer band. If you like klezmer then you are sure to like them. Hava Nagila is a traditional Jewish wedding song and you might just have heard it before...."(CCHITS)
"They mix Balkan, klezmer, and Italian styles and come up with a fairly distinctive sound (at least, I've never heard anything quite like it). Their first album, Fòua, has a nice recording of Hava Nagila."(Teruah-JewishMusic Usa)
"Hot rhytms from the Balkans mixed in...Italy with Gipsy, Mediteranean and Klezmer themes in the most surprising and fresh way by a band of 14 energetic musicians lead by "Il Maestro" Livio Minafra. Goran Bregovic fans will like it! (Jazz World Quest - Usa)
Italian band Municipale Balcanica draws its inspiration from Eastern European Gypsy and Klezmer music. Their sound is unconventional, zany at times. The group combines clarinet and brass with a powerful rhythm section and electric instruments. (World Music central - Usa)
"..proprio la lucida pazzia ha spinto la Municipale Balcanica verso orizzonti così longevi da apparire nuovi, alla riscoperta di tradizioni e costumi che il tempo sembrava aver sopito, ma che fanno parte del dna intrinseco della nostra cultura di cittadini del mondo. Fòua è quindi un ringraziamento, come si deduce anche dalle note di copertina, che l'ensemble vuol volgere ai Balcani ma soprattutto alla musica, vero trait d'union tra popoli e culture, anche distanti tra loro, che in fondo non sono così diversi."(30/03/2007 - Alberto Francavilla - Jazzitalia)
MITCD2009 - MUNICIPALE BALCANICA 'FOUA'
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