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Artist:
O.M.F.O.
Title:
Trans Balkan Express
Label:
ESSAY RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
AY 002CD
2002 release. With flutes and stringed instruments, Jamaican dub techniques, laptop producing, kosmonautic lyricism and electronic sound engineering,
Trans Balkan Express
mixes the musical spice of the Southeastern European provinces with the club culture of the West.
German Popov
, aka
Our Man From Odessa
(O.M.F.O.) travels from Amsterdam via Berlin to the hinterlands of the EU, the Karpates, the Black Sea, right into the front garden of Asia. The result is an album featuring music located somewhere in-between space and a Balkan wedding, happily ignoring musical boundaries of any kind.
Trans Balkan Express
is where modernism dances with tradition, and where the "old" Europe flows into the "new."
Artist:
O.M.F.O.
Title:
We Are The Shepherds
Label:
ESSAY RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
AY 012CD
O.M.F.O. --
Our Man From Odessa
-- is the master of crossover par excellence. Born in the port of Odessa (Ukraine),
German Popov
emigrated to Amsterdam in 1989. As an explorer, German Popov loves to travel around Central Asia making live recordings of everything from the traditional songs and melodies of the steppes to the modern restaurant bands of Tashkent with their tinny keyboard sound. So welcome to electronic Walachia, where folk meets
Kraftwerk
and where bizarre instruments and electronic sounds combine to create a whole new musical dimension. With his ideas and his musicians he bravely goes where no human ear has dared to go before. Futurism meets folklore imaginaire: ladies and gentlemen, we are floating in Eastern European space. His first album on the Essay Recordings label,
Trans Balkan Express
put him in the international spotlight and none other than
Borat
, (the controversial Kazakhstani journalist character invented and portrayed by British-Jewish comedian
Sacha Baron Cohen
) has chosen two tracks from the album -- "Money Boney" and "Magic Mamaliga" -- for the soundtrack to his latest film. Produced by
Atom TM
and O.M.F.O
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