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The Balanescu Quartet

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07.03.2014 Melbourne (AUS)

09.&10.03.2014 Adelaide (AUS)

12.03.2014 Sydney (AUS)

Fanfare Ciocărlia

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25.04.2014 Zaragoza (ES)

26.04.2014 Barcelona (ES)

29.04.2014 Madrid (ES)

30.04.2014 Murcia (ES)

01.05.2014 Villarrobledo (ES)

02.05.2014 Santiago de Compostela (ES)

06.05.2014 Bremen (D)

07.05.2014 Hannover (D)

08.05.2014 Cologne (D)

Mahala Rai Banda

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29.04.2014 Koblenz (D)

30.04.2014 Wiesbaden (D)

02.05.2014 Brussels (BE)

03.05.2014 Mühlheim (D)

05.05.2014 Wageningen/Groningen (NL)

06.05.2014 Halle (D)

07.05.2014 Erlangen (D)

08.05.2014 Kassel (D)

09.05.2014 Dortmund (D)

10.05.2014 Sindelfingen (D)

Balkan Brass Battle

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09.05.2014 Dortmund (D)

KAL

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02.05.2014 Brussels (BE)

29.-31.05.2014 Praha (CZ)

Cigdem Aslan

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19.03.2014 Istanbul (TR)

14.05.2014 Berlin (D)

15.05.2014 Warsaw (PL)

07.06.2014 London (UK)

Oana Catalina Chitu

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06.06.2014 London (UK)

05.07.2014 Ulm (D)

CD-ATR 4614
LP-ATR 4714

Release:
4th April 2014
"Cigarros Explosivos!"

Jaro Milko & The Cubalkanics

If music is a drug, Jaro Milko & The Cubalkanics are loaded. Inebriated Balkan rave-ups share the stage with psychedelic Peruvian chichas. Stoned sambas and sunbaked rebetikas slide seemlessly into slinky montunos. Overdriven cumbias simply make your ass want to move. And through it all, Milko's fuzzed-out surf guitar shimmers and slices as sharp and cool as a Cuban machete blade. Like Kodachrome snapshots from a lost holiday, the 13 tracks of "Cigarros Explosivos!" conjure scenes of desert sands and deserted beaches, young lust and love gone wrong, barrio blowouts and rowdy cantinas. It's a trip you will want to relive.

CD-ATR 4414
LP-ATR 4514

Release:
17th January 2014
"Devil's Tale"

Adrian Raso and Fanfare Ciocărlia

The eastern force field of Balkan brass meets Gypsy Jazz guitar, Romania's Fanfare Ciocarlia join up with Canadian guitarist Adrian Raso. Could a string musician find a way into Fanfare's fierce Balkan brass blast? Could the legends of brass music adapt their horns to the fluid eloquence of a jazz guitarist? The answer, as heard on this album, is one of brilliant defiance. The Romanians and the Canadian have created a sound that rips and swings and roars.

CD-ATR 4313

Release:
27th Sept 2013

Çiğdem Aslan
"Mortissa"

Çigdem Aslan (pronounced Cheedem) is a rising star in the revival of rebetiko, the bitter-sweet, devil-may-care songs of an exiled underclass, sung in hash dens and 'Café Amans' of Athens, Piraeus and Istanbul from the 1920. ‘Mortissa’ (a strong independent woman) is an album of smyrneika/rebetiko songs in Greek and Turkish. Although there have been many recordings of rebetiko over the years, Çigdem Aslan presents a fresh take, an immigrant herself from her homeland, a person from a minority ethnic group, a female singer in a usually male genre.

02/2014 - Prestigious German Record Critics’ Award publishes „Quarterly Critics' Choice“

Warm congratulations to Cigdem Aslan! Her debut album "Mortissa" was awarded by the prestigious German Record Critics' Award (Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik)! Actually this is the sixth award for our label granted by this renowned independent jury! Former winners are the albums Balkan Brass Battle, Pictures from the Street, Fake no more, Sounds from a Bygone Age Vol. 2 (Romica Puceanu) & Vol. 5 (Gabi Lunca)!

02/2014 - NPR Tiny Desk Concert with Fanfare Ciocarlia!

Fanfare Ciocarlia blew in the offices of NPR's All Songs Considered in Washington DC and shook the rafters. Enjoy the latest Tiny Desk Concert featuring the brass legends from Romania!