Del Ebro al Danubio, the most creative album of the Barcelona Gipsy balKan Orchestra (BGKO)

07 Sep 2016

Barcelona Gipsy balKan Orchestra (BGKO) presents their new album Del Ebro al Danubio. Formed by Sandra Sangiao, Mattia Schirosa, Ivan Kovacevic, Julien Chanal, Stelios Togias, Joaquín Sánchez Gil and Oleksandr Sora, the band surprises us again with a work where different influences and genres meet, as Balkan music, traditional Catalan, Italian, Greek, Russian, from Middle East… Produced and published by the label Satélite K , this 12 songs album will be released on September 9th, 2016.

Track List

1. Artiliana
2. Romniasa
3. Put Putuje
4. Sandansko horo
5. Ob Ebra do Dunava
6. Pau
7. El testament d’Amèlia
8. Vicolo Klezmer
9. Ciganocka
10.Shiro
11.The Land of Choice
12.Bint al Shalabiya

 

The first single and music video, Od Ebra do Dunava (in Serbian “From the Ebro to the Danube”), whose title names the album, is an audiovisual work with a high creative quality, made by the animation producer Jordan T. Caylor and the illustrator and designer Raúl Lucas. Through diverse scenes and historical and artistic elements, an unique visual atmosphere, full of collage and animation, shrouds us in:

Od Ebra do Dunava, as a song, reveals an evident musical and artistic maturity in BGKO, specially when it comes to connect the different influences and cultures that form the band’s DNA.  They also succeed in using a complete amalgam of languages in their lyrics (Hebrew, English, Catalan…), which give the final touch to both, their own compositions and also their traditional songs adaptations, through the expressive voice of Sandra.

Here you have the Od Ebra do Dunava lyrics in Serbian:

 

 

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