Artist Catalogue
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TONI KITANOVSKI & CHERKEZI ORKESTAR |
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Toni Kitanovski is the mastermind and artistic director of the band. He has appeared with extreme avantguardists such as Vinny Golia, jazz legends like Charlie Mariano and Greg Hopkins with an all star formation lead by Balkan jazz frontrunner Teodosi Spassov, and finally he appears with a whole gipsy wedding orchestra. The group has been working together for two years now. Their album entitled “Borderlands” is a result of the creative joining of forces of two seemingly different worlds, a gipsy wedding band on one side and highly educated contemporary musicians well versed in jazz, popular styles and classical music on the other. Youthful curiosity for widening musical horizons and shear love for music gives their sound exciting quality and constant freshness of ideas. This band music is best described as what the great Duke Ellington called “Music of the human kind”. It speaks to the music intellectual elite as well as to fun loving rock folks, to techno afectionados and little kids. It creates confusion in the listener’s mind sometimes and makes one wonder; whether he should cry or laugh. It makes you shake your body or at least tap you feet. It reminds you of a festival but also of moments when you needed to be alone…it does many things to you and they are all good! On top of it you have a chance to hear it the proper way – live. And if you don’t believe any of this, come down anyways, check it out and make your own mind. But make sure you put on your dancing shoes!
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