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18:45 Choir Hazreti Hamza (BiH – Hall M)<br />
Video: http://youtu.be/nuCE64lhAu4<br />
http://youtu.be/XAw<strong>of</strong>S5naL4<br />
19:45 Orchestre International du Vetex (OIV) (BE – Horta Hall)<br />
Web: http://www.vetex.org<br />
Video: http://youtu.be/z0rKKYdrOYo<br />
20:30 Koprulu <strong>of</strong> Berat (AL – Hall M)<br />
The choir, named after the mosque in Sarajevo where its<br />
members used to meet, was established during the war in the<br />
former Yugoslavia. It specialises in the Ilahije i Kaside, religious<br />
songs <strong>of</strong> the Bosnian Sufi Muslims, but its repertoire also includes<br />
sevdah and pop music. It is known as one <strong>of</strong> the pioneers <strong>of</strong><br />
Muslim New Age (a mix <strong>of</strong> religious music and new-age elements)<br />
and performs all over the world. The 15-strong choir will perform a<br />
programme <strong>of</strong> "heavenly" Sufi songs.<br />
What started as a local brass band now travels the world and has<br />
even played in Sarajevo and Belgrade. The Orchestre<br />
International du Vetex brings together musicians from Flanders,<br />
Wallonia, and northern France, as well as a few unguided missiles<br />
from elsewhere. On their recent double album, Total Tajine, they<br />
draw once again on the same sources: red-hot party music from<br />
the <strong>Balkan</strong>s mixed with tarantella, reggae, Afro-beat, and cumbia.<br />
Tajine to get your teeth into!<br />
The singers, musicians, and dancers <strong>of</strong> Koprulu <strong>of</strong> Berat carry on<br />
the traditions <strong>of</strong> the Berat region in southern Albania, an important<br />
centre for Albanian folklore. Koprulu will treat <strong>Balkan</strong> <strong>Trafik</strong> to the<br />
traditional party music <strong>of</strong> this region's Roma community.<br />
© 2012 Strange Milena - SOFAM Belgium<br />
21:30 Ivo Papasov "<strong>Balkan</strong> <strong>Trafik</strong> Klarinet Project" (TR/MK/GR/AL/RO/HU – Henry Le Bœuf Hall)<br />
FESTIVAL CREATION 100% BALKAN TRAFIK<br />
The Bulgarian clarinet virtuoso Ivo Papasov is the uncrowned king<br />
<strong>of</strong> "wedding band music", an exuberant mix <strong>of</strong> <strong>Balkan</strong> folk and<br />
contemporary elements. Specially for his 60 th birthday, the Miles<br />
Davis <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Balkan</strong>s has put together a group <strong>of</strong> musicians, fans<br />
one and all: the percussionist Okay Temiz, the saxophone marvel<br />
"King" Ferus Mustafov, the accordionist Roberto de Brasov, the<br />
Hungarian cimbalom virtuoso Kálmán Balogh, and Josif Shukallari<br />
(the master <strong>of</strong> the plaintive Albanian clarinet). The complex<br />
rhythms <strong>of</strong> Bulgarian folk music fuse with jazzy improvisation<br />
thanks to Papasov's lyrical timbre, which leaves nobody unmoved.<br />
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