Gypsy Fever returns to Auckland
13.11.07
The first Gypsy Fever party last month was a huge success with a capacity audience at the Whammy jumping for joy to the exhilarating sounds of the Jews Brothers and Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band. A fantastic night was had by all.
Due to popular demand we're doing having another bash - lineup as follows:
The Mamaku Project
The Mamaku Project weaves French bohemian roots, Pacifica Dub and scents of the Middle East into a fine Jazz-Dub concoction. Created in the breathtaking wilderness of West-coast Aotearoa, this one-of-a-kind multi-lingual poetry rides infectious earthy grooves sprinkled with circus gypsy flavours.
The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band (Pictured)
Hailing from the slums and ghettos of Auckland (the Prague of the South), The Benka Boradovsky Bordello band is a highly theatrical musical group specialising in music of Eastern European, Gypsy and Jewish flavour, along with some Western European influences. With music ranging from old to new, originals to standards, vocal to instrumental; they are remarkable in their ability to get everyone up and dancing, regardless of age, musical taste, or level of drunkenness. Benka's globetrotting voice sings in a wide variety of languages, with lyrics in Russian, Greek, Serbian, Romani, Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish, English and more. While developing a furiously expanding following in Auckland, the band has prepared itself to encroach on more distant surroundings. If references are necessary, they sound like Tom Waits, Shane McGowan and Franz Kafka drunk too much vodka and thought they were in 1950's Yugoslavia.
DJ Balkanetic
Balkanetic has been shaking dance-floors at festivals, clubs and parties for the last year or so with a highly uplifting infectious blend of Balkan beats, klezmer and gypsy music. To round off the evening in fine style Balkanetic will be delivering a scintillating set of his favourite East European/Gypsyfloor tunes.
9pm Saturday 17th November
Gypsy Fever 2!
feat. The Mamaku Project
The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band
DJ Balkanetic
$15 doorsales only
