New Music From Boris Kovac on Calabash Music

World After History

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:53:11 -0600

With La Campanella, Boris Kovac, composer, instrumentalist and multimedia artist from the Vojvodina part of Yugoslavia, spins off his critically acclaimed La Danza Apocalypsa Balcanica project. La Campanella's Pannonian-Mediterranean round-trip creates sentimental spaces, interrelated by the threads of nostalgia, joy, tristesa, romantic enthusiasm and melancholy: "I cant't change or stop history – I just could say: History is over – for a moment – for the time of music we play on this album."

Last Balkan Tango

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:53:11 -0600

Boris Kovac & Ladaaba Orchest- Ballads at the End of Time

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:53:11 -0600

At first sight, the band’s name looks a little bit like the Dadaist answer to Lambada. But in fact the orchestra is named after the driven fantasies of bandleader, composer and multimedia-artist Boris Kovac when confronted with the grim reality of living and working in the war-ridden territory of the Balkan states. Written out in full the orchestra’s name actually means La Danza Apocalyptica Balcanica, a perfect match to their music: An eccentric cycle of dances like tango, waltz, calypso or rumba, played in the style of a syphilitic salon-orchestra, switching rapidly between the atmosphere of a decadent café in 1920s Vienna and the Titanic half an hour after every drink came with ice.
A furious ride across the musical languages of the Balkan with only one thought in mind: Dance! Right here and right now, for it could be your last!