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MARTIN LUBENOV
Sofia Mahala - Balkan Grooves
He is the new star shining on Vienna’s accordion sky. At the age of only 30 years, Martin Lubenov is already among the top Balkan accordionists. With breathtaking virtuosity and playful elegance he combines Balkan Roma music with shades of swing, modern jazz, tango nuevo, salsa and musette and, doing so, pays honour to it like Astor Piazzolla did to tango and Richard Galliano did to musette.
The Martin Lubenov Orkestar (MLO), founded in 2003, is recruited from renowned Bulgarian Roma musicians and representatives of the Vienna balkan jazz scene. With Lubenov the Roma songs’ unmistakable soul never topples over to kitsch and complaisance – using weird arrangements full of experimental jazzlines, powerful brass sounds, marrying salsa to Balkan brass in an unpretentious way, with Lubenov’s frisky tango and gypsy-swing quotations as well as Alexander Stojic's and Stefan Thaler's brilliant guitar-
and bass-backings and soli. Subtly light-footed and nevertheless melancholic, definitely very southern music – Martin Lubenov and his Orkestar have created something quite impossible: a completely new hybrid, which will carry away intellectuals, jazz fans, world-music-afficionados as well as popfreaks.
Line up MLO
Martin Lubenov – accordion
Petar Yankov – vocals, percussion
Krasimir Malakov
– clarinet
Aleksandar Stojic - guitar
Harald Tanschek
– drums
Stefan Thaler
– double bass
MP3 samples
 Kasalbaschki
choucheck (577kb)
Latino tschusch (813kb)
Jazzta Prasta
Lubenov's unorthodox balkan quartet fascinates through breathtaking
virtuosity, rich harmonies, unusual arrangements, the most
complex rhythms possible, respectless-playful improvisations
and vertiginous melody loopings… Without pompous objective,
JAZZTA PRASTA flavour their unconventional fusion of Bulgarian
folk and jazz not only with all kinds of ethnic quotations,
but they serve this mixture also with casual matter-of-factness
and tremendous vitality.
Line up Jazzta Prasta
Martin Lubenov – accordion
Vladimir Karparov – sax
Georg Breinschmid
– double bass
Harald Tanschek
– drums
MP3 samples
The
three Ducklings (776 KB)
Rettung (636 KB)
Discography
2005 Veselina. Jazzta Prasta Band. Connecting Cultures.
CC50026.
2004 Dui Droma/Two Roads. Martin Lubenov Orkestar. Connecting
Cultures. CC50018.
Awards
2005 Austrian World Music Award
2006 Prix Gus Viseur, category Jazz/World (France)
Press
"His playing is one long stream of delight ... a
mixture of razor-sharp performance and imaginative passion."
Songlines (UK), 2005
"… breathtakting virtuosity…. A wonderful album far from dull balkan romanticism."
Concerto, Vienna (A), 2004
"… the next contribution to the Viennese accordion miracle…."
Falter, Vienna (A), 2004
"Hot stuff – worth an extra star!"
Jazzthetik, Münster (D), 2004
"The most irridescent traditions of the Balkans meet in his unconventional play: Macedonian-Bulgarian folk music and music of the Roma living in the southern part of the Balkans, constantly developing, bursting with vivacity. Add to this musical base jazz, tango nuevo, Parisian musette, Serbian, Roumanian, Greek and Turkish music, breathtaking virtuosity and unusual arrangements: That’s Martin Lubenov."
Jazzzeit, Vienna (A), 2004
Website
http://www.martinlubenov.com
Booking Contact
Sabina Schebrak, sabina@cultureworks.at
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