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MOSTAR SEVDAH REUNION
Café Sevdah
Mostar Sevdah Reunion is an exquisite group of artists sharing the same passion.
Some might say that they live for Sevdah and that could be
the only cause of their existence. To decode and to represent
this over 400 year old traditional music from Bosnia and Herzegovina
is a difficult task to cope with. Despite all obstacles, MSR
kept going.
The story begins in 1993 when Dragi Sestic, producer and former
of the band, recorded an audiocassette with a couple of tracks
that was distributed in limited edition among their friends.
Those were the times of war in the Balkans and the reason
for recording was just a getaway episode to forget for one
single moment all the atrocities and suffering. Then, they
gave the promise that "the whole world will know about
Sevdah" - one day when war would come to an end. They
fulfilled the promise and recorded their first album “Mostar
Sevdah Reunion“ in 1998. Since that day they have been
fascinating their audiences wherever they go.
Diversity in musical backgrounds and individual virtuosity
in a collective that never performed two identical gigs in
a row make them unique on the World Music scene. Working and
recording with Saban Bajramovic "A Gypsy Legend"
, Ljiljana Buttler "The Mother of Gypsy Soul", Esma
Redzepova "The Queen of Gypsies", Boban Markovic
, Naat Veliov and Amira they intend to show the variety of
Balkan music an to give due respect to the finest and uncompromised
authors of genuine Gypsy music.
Discography
Mostar Sevdah Reunion, Café Sevdah, 2007, LC 12490
Ljiljana Buttler & Mostar Sevdah Reunion, The Legends
of Life, 2005, SR-66006
Mostar Sevdah Reunion, A Secret Gate, 2003, SR-66002
Liljana Buttler & Mostar Sevdah Reunion, The Mother of
Gypsy Soul, 2002, SR-66001
Press
“This Balkan answer to the blues is transformed and updated by being
matched against contemporary blues and jazz influences...
...A subtle and intriguing band.”
The Guardian (UK), 2007
"...Ljiljana Buttler's debut CD is delicious: Ljiljana's
deep, almost masculine, voice picks out words and tosses them
into the air with effortless grace. And the instrumental backing
by Mostar Sevdah Reunion and legendary trumpet virtuoso Boban
Markovic is inspired: the musicians spoon out the notes with
a tangible, almost erotic, delicacy while Ljiljana sails above
them, her voice caressing the listener."
FRoots Magazine, UK 2003
"...a master piece in every aspects."
Roots Town Music, Belgium
Website
www.myspace.com/mostarsevdahreunion
Booking contact
Sabina Schebrak, sabina@cultureworks.at
Booking for Austria and Central Europe
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