DISKOTEKA BALKANSKA

In the organizer's words:

DJs. Yuriy Gurzhy, Karacho Rabaukin

Balkan Beats, Eastern Ska, Polka Punk, Romani Sounds, Klezmer, Swing, Ukrainian Songs

The universal cultural worker YURIY GURZHY will be gracing us on the turntables in January. He works tirelessly on behalf of Ukrainian and Jewish (music) culture in particular. Starting out as a musician, producer and DJ, he is now also an author, columnist (Ukrainian war diary), theater maker and publisher of numerous music compilations celebrating the music of Ukraine and Eastern Europe. His band Rotfront is currently dormant, but new band projects such as Fokstroty with the famous Kharkiv musician and author Serhij Zhadan are calling Yuriy back to the stages of this country. Collaborations with Shantel, Amsterdam Klezmer Band, Orchestre International du Vetex, Uros Petkovic (Shazalakazoo), Frank London, Daniel Kahn and Marina Frenk or Lemez Lovas (OiVaVoi) and Wladimir Kaminer, among others, testify to his musical passions and good networking in the (Eastern) European music scene.

And he will share this passion with us and draw us onto the dance floor. He celebrates the music scene of his native country with us, walks the paths of the rich history of klezmer, and always mixes a dash of reggae and offbeats into the Eastern European folklore. And he also has Ukrainian, more electronic music with him: Chornobayivka Beat & Bavovna Electro.

https://yuriygurzhy.mystrikingly.com/
https://soundcloud.com/yuriy-gurzhy