It doesn’t matter where people come from, everyone loves good songs!
Yuriy Gurzhy is a founding member and one of the frontmen of the Berlin band RotFront. Gypsy Music Network spoke with him about their new album “17 Deutsche Tänze”, the collaboration with Marla Blumenblatt and how a pop song in the Emigrantski Republik should sound like.
Whenever I hear a Moravian cimbalom group, my legs start twitching!
Jaro Milko is a guitarist and head of the group Jaro Milko & The Cubalkanics. As guitarist with the US cult band Firewater, he regularly toured the globe and is an in-demand studio and live musician as well. With Jaro Milko & The Cubalkanics, he is moving at the point where Balkan sounds and Cuban rhythms blend. That this is something that actually works well has already been impressively demonstrated on his debut work “Cigarros Explosivos”. We spoke with him about his Czech roots and how the songs in the band evolve.