Most of the music is original, written by the band members themselves, who all without exception contribute musically to an ever-growing melting-pot of infectious Balkan/Gypsy/Klezmer cross-over grooves. AKZ wants to breathe new life into the Eastern-European Balkan, Klezmer and Gypsy music tradition. Passionate performances!
Cameron's voice had everything that is gypsy and this is evident in his early work with Paco de Lucía where his voice is a shattering cry, a gypsy echo without limits and unreachable depth.
Swirls of gypsy jazz viola and funky percussive cello and bass. Ljova's a fantastic composer, arranger, and performer. Check this glorious and emotional classical Eastern-European avant-garde jazzy stuff!
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Chamber-jam music for the "remix generation". As if by alchemy, Eastern-European and Gypsy melodies, Latin rhythms, Jazz-inspired improvisations, and deeply rooted Classical forms. Ljova is a film composer, arranger, and violist.
Algerian singer Akim el Sikameya, with his syncretic blend of arab-mediterranean-gypsy-jazz-rai-flamenco-klezmer-ska, is sure to surprise you with his very high voice and his mission to fight against fundamentalism - and for a common Mediterranean culture - with his art.
Roma music is highly varied among the diverse communities of the Roma (aka Gypsies). By far the most popular form of Roma music among outsiders is flamenco, which developed in the Spanish Roma community. In all the places Roma live, in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and northwest India, they are known as musicians.
Taraful Haiducilor (a.k.a. Taraf de Haïdouks) are a troupe of Romanian Gypsy musicians, from the town of Clejani, the most prominent such group in Romania in the post-Communist Era.