BALKAN FEVER LONDON featuring KRIES and TONI KITANOVSKI & CHERKEZI

BALKAN FEVER LONDON featuring KRIES and TONI KITANOVSKI & CHERKEZIDate: 24 June 2006
Time: doors 7.30pm, live from 9pm
Venue: The Spitz, E1, 109 Commercial Street, E1 nearest Underground Liverpool Street

A SCORCHING DOUBLE BILL.



MOJMIR NOVAKOVIC I KRIES (Croatia)

“Out of small instruments – the lijerica (knee violin), bagpipes, a small percussion kit and a really subtle but effective use of beats and samples – came forth a huge, driving, mesmerising, passionate sound fronted by the deep, stentorian vocals which emanate from the towering, skeletal presence of Novakovic… Easily one of the best live sets I’ve seen in this year.” Ian Anderson , fRoots


Charismatic Croatian vocalist Mojmir Novaković came to fame with iconic ethno-rock band Legen. With his new group Kries (‘bonfire’) he has created a dynamic Ur-Croatian-Early Middle Ages-shamanic-dancefloor music that harks back to a time when ethnic identities between Venice, Istria, Dalmatia, Pannonia and Bosnia were less rigidly fixed.

TONI KITANOVSKI & CHERKEZI (Macedonia)

Funky Macedonian brass band Cherkezi from Skopje’s Gypsy-Mahala is named after its patriarch Cherkezi Rashid and boasts three generations of Rashids. Add electric jazz guitarist Toni Kitanovski - who returned from the US with Berklee’s Charles Mingus Prize for Composition - and you have a potent, feverish, scarily high-class amalgam of Balkan Orient and world-savvy chic.

Toni Kitanovski (guitar), Cherkezi Rashid (trumpet), Asan Rashid (trumpet), Ali Rashid (sax), Vilhen Mamudov (tuba), Sefer Ismailov (tupan), Aleksandar Sekulovski (drums).

PLUS BALKAN MUSIC DJ till late.

TICKETS: £12 (+ any booking fee) in advance. Available from The Spitz 020 7392 9032 or ONLINE from WeGotTickets: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/10946

The Spitz is at 109 Commercial Street E1 (no booking fee for personal callers)

VENUE: "An absolute jewel of a venue" Time Out “One of London ’s coolest venues.” Metro The Spitz is an intimate place to hear great music. It's in Spitalfields Market, not far from Liverpool Street. Doors open 7.30pm and live music starts around 9.00pm. The venue is open until 1am. There are limited seats for those who come early. The venue is not huge so BOOK EARLY to avoid disappointment.

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