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Artist:	OMFO
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:	OMFO
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

Artist:	OMFO
Title:	Baghdub EP
Label:	ESSAY RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	AY 012EP

Featuring 4 tracks from OMFO's Omnipresence album (remixed for vinyl use) with a very special remix by Viennese super-heroes Makossa & Megablast. Years of travelling Central Asia far and wide -- making hundreds of recordings, delving into ancient musical cultures, learning to play strange and unfamiliar instruments -- have culminated in this experimental electro-acoustic masterpiece. An unprecedented combination of sound and instruments takes you on a journey through time and space.

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