WAITER, SOME BALKAN BREAKZ PLEASE

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The one and only Shazalakazoo are returning to Slovenija, to suply us with a fresh dosage of Balkan Breakz.
This time they will serve their breakbeat, drum'n'bass and other electronic rhythms, blended with Balkan and beyond melodies, twice. First they will make us dance all night long at Trnest and a couple of they longer they will stir the boring and monotonous Slovene seaside with the performance at freshly openned Glow Supper Club.
Multitalented production duo Milan Djurić and Uroš Petković were quite busy this summer. They started off with a German tour, stopped in Holand, performed at various festivals (third appearance at Exit festival among others), and are now doing a little Habsburg tour, which started in Croatia and then takes them to Vienna, Ljubljana and Portorož.
In the meantime they are also working on their material, which will hopefully soon see the light of day in a shape of an album. All of the potential publishers, don't be shy...
As for everybody else; if you think you can move your feet to the rhythm of their beat, show up on one of the previously mentioned venues and enjoy. Let's dance!

Thursday, 21.8.2008 TRNFEST, 22:30
Sunday, 24.8.2008 GLOW SUPPER CLUB, 22:o0

PARIS MOSCOW CONNECTION @ ZLATI ZOB

Guess who of the pair is the DJ. You are nor sure? Well, then it's best you come and check out the new guest - DJ Oblomov - behind the turntables at our regular Friday night at Zlati zob (with a test drive on Tuesday).
Oblomov's style reflects the spirit of the ancient axis Paris-Moscow, the creative tension between bourgeoisie and proletariat. Enjoy Russian elegance!

A Votre Santé!

Tuesday & Friday, 19. & 22.8. ZLATI ZOB (Zaloška 69, Ljubljana), 21:00

GJ REPORT: PRIVAT ORIENTAL

Another edition of Oriental party is behind us. It was more privat Oriental this time, since the bad weather scared a lot of people off. But the intention was to enjoy the music and dance, and that goal was achieved!
Tanja & Lili openned the dancefloor with a lovely mother/daughter duet, Anja charmed us with oriental elegance, Maja warmed us up with some hot čoček, and tribalishious Aysha, Daša & Zina left us speachless with their sharp moves, unbeliavable isolations and muscle control, all wraped up in a beautiful tribal drum.
The audience was impressed and the bravest joined the girls on the dancefloor. Thanks to all of you! You sure spiced up the rainy and gloomy Friday evening!

PS: Apart from the photos in the slideshow below, you can also check out the pictures at Bloganje po orientalsko.



Photo by Tjasulja

GJ PRESENTS: ZLATI ZOB GOES ORIENTAL

With grooves from Egypt to Arabia, provided by lovely miss Didipoka, with moves from Balkan round dances to almost unbelievable isolations of tribalicious girls...
After a successful premiere in May, we decided to make the Oriental party a permanent affair. So the dancers get a chance to use their moves outside the dancehschools, to let go, forget about the choreographies and just relax and dance...
Dancing is one of the great pleasures of life, using dance as a way to go into trance takes back 40 000 years to our shamanic and aboriginal ancestors. Since before time we have listened to the beat of our harts, then we began to move like the animals we worshiped. Now your feet firmly planted begin to deeply breathe. Feel the power of your breath moving in and out and you'll find yourself in trance. It is time for as all to dance again!

Friday, 15.8. ZLATI ZOB (Zaloška 69, Ljubljana), 21:00

GJ PRESENTS: GLOBALUNA...

...is a very nice music show on radio Študent, keeping people up to date with the world music news and sounds. It's creator, Mario Batelič will be the guest behind the turntables tonight. He will serve us some Gipsy goulash with Bosnian lepinja, accompanied by Cuban mojito and some Arabic coffe for recuperation.
You know what we are talking about? Irrespective of the answer, see you at Zlati zob tonight!


Friday, 8.8. ZLATI ZOB (Zaloška 69, Ljubljana), 21:00

GIPSY JUNGLE GOES SLOVENE

It was about time! Gipsy Jungle team finally organised and made the next step. Since we are from Slovenija (not Slovakia), we decided to offer our news, announces, reports to all of the 2.028.630 (yes, just a bit more than two millions) potential Slovenian readers in their/our mother tongue as well. Soooo, a couple of days ago slo.gipsyjungle.com was born. For all the readers, who would prefer the site in Slovene - it is know just a klick () away....
Uživajte v branju/Enjoy the reading!!!

GJ REPORT: CIGANIZATION OF TRIESTE

A Gipsy Jungle expedition visited Trieste a week ago, to see Shantel and Bucovina Club in concert again. And it was something special! Maybe becouse we haven't seen them for quite some time, maybe becouse of the charming outdoor setting of the concert on the beach (if one ignored the cranes on the construciton site near the venue), maybe becouse the the guys played in front of the full house for the first time in Italy, or maybe becouse of the constant trubles with electricity, which even went off in the middle of the concert.
The concert started with a big delay, but when it finnaly started, it was one big shot of energy from beginning to the end. And the audience, among which was a lot of Slovenians from both side of the border, rewarded it big time. Youngsters and old ladies were dancing, jumping, singing along all evening long.
One of the most likeble things about the band is, despite the constant touring, the guys and the charming and energetic singer Vesna Petković, are still having lots of fun.
And the performance, which of course includeded all of our favourite songs, was completely different than the recordings on the album. They added some ska and some reggae into the songs, played it faster, added a solo which just wasn't there before...
During Disko partizani the trubles with power repeated. In the middle of the refrain, just when Shantel and Vesna were singing ciganizacija, ciganizacijaaa, the instruments went quiet, the light went off. But the crowd just continued to sing and dance. Some 30 seconds later, when the current went on again, it was like a little explosion of positive energy and music. And it stayed like that until the very end!

Photos by DJ Stoner

GJ REPORT: JE SUOIS TZIGANE

Lots of musical freshness, quick mouthness and full measure of humour - that sums up two concerts of excellent roma group Kal, held in Ljubljana at the beginning of this week.
Visitors, who did not know this gruop of seven well, were surprised for sure. It is certainly not a typical gipsy brass band who would only play traditional gipsy hits. Not that they don't play any of them, but they spice it up Kal style and mix with jazz, tango, even rock'n'roll rhythms.
The singer Dragan Ristić is the leader of this merry gang, but he is not the only one who glittered with his vocal inserts. The percusionist Aleksandar Radojićić and the others also prooved themself, not only in singing but also in joke-telling.
During the concert, which was - for some people unnecessary - played in two parts, we heard songs like James Rom (secret agent 007 parody), Romosom, hit song Mozzarela, featured on many compilations, as well as some new songs, like Liza and Prater.
While the first concert took place at the completely full garden of ethno club Zlati zob, organisers decided to bring it in the second night, to avoid the often visits by the police.
It was actually a baptism of the hall, which in not really finished yet, but at least the very (non) tolerant neighbours could sleep in peace.
Despite the improvised scene, Tuesdays concert was a real delight. Not as many people showed up, but that just gave the concert a touch of intimacy. The sound was better and the band was satisfied to be able to play the concert in full (on Monday the police interrupted it before).
The group is already touring in Sweden right now, and is very busy with the new album,which is supposed to see the light of day in October. A month later, we will hopefuly see them in Ljubljana again.

Photo by Tjasulja

GJ REPORT: I AM ROM, JAMES ROM

Men in Black invaded Zlati zob yesterday evening. Gipsy group Kal made sure the party was best since this ethno club openned and the terrace of Zlati zob was almost to small for everybody who wanted to see maestros in action.
The band seemed on speed from the moment they showed up on stage, and at first bashful audience soon followed, so lots of dancing, clapping hands and singing was going on, and the energy was explosive!
The concert unfortunatelly ended a bit earlier than planned - for that we get to thank nice and tolerant neighbours, who were calling the police every five minutes, even though the whole thing was supposed to end at eleven p.m. anyway?! Obviously some people enjoy the sleepy, boring metropolis more than eventfull, urban city...
The band itself was almost more dissapointed about the unfortunate course of events than the audience and the organisers are doing everything, that today this kind on incidents wouldn't happen.
Yes, you read it right! There is another concert at the same place and the same time going on today! And since the guys still have some aces up their sleeves, it would be a shame missing it! See you there!

PS: We are preparing a detailed report about the concert itself and will publish it tomorrow...


Video by Buča (thank you girl!)


Tuesday, 29.7. ZLATI ZOB (Zaloška 69, Ljubljana), 20:30