New Music From Boban Markovic Orkestar on Calabash Music

Go Marko Go! Brass Madness

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:25:02 -0600

Promise fulfilled! Boban Markovic, the "King of Balkan Brass" is joined on this original PIRANHA release by his son Marko, upon his coming of age, for a dual reign supreme. Like father, like son, Marko is driving off in new directions, furthering the Orkestar's reputation as innovators with their free appropriation of latin, jazz, funk and other international influences into the time-honoured traditional framework which remains at the big beating heart of the music

Live in Belgrade

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:25:02 -0600

Imagine twelve shining instruments blasting away, lead by a trumpet as rapturous as it is melancholic. Imagine the Balkanic fusion of the love of life with its inescapable sadness. Imagine Boban Marcovic, judged "best trumpet on Earth" at the legendary Guca festival in central Serbia, playing live in Belgrade. Now stop imagining - this is the real thing.

Millennium

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:25:02 -0600

This CD, as seen from the title, mirrors Boban?s Millennium: the hit songs, numbers fine-tuned during the year, followed by typical Serbian music such as ?Zaidi? and the ?Oj, Borije?. Released in 200 on X-Produkcio, Hungary.

Bistra Reka

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:25:02 -0600

Srce Cigansko

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:25:02 -0600

Recorded and released on X-Produkcio, Hungary, in 2000.

Boban I Marko Balkan Brass Fest

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:25:02 -0600

The Promise

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:25:02 -0600

Boban Markovic, the King of Gypsy brass bands, returns with a new album of original material accompanied by his son Marko, a 17-year old trumpet-blowing prodigy.