Bajanski Bal love to dig through the huge treasure chest of eastern european folk songs, select the odd forgotten jewel, put it through the crusher, pick out a couple of the key ingredients, throw them into the turbo-shaker with a big portion of their own home-made spicy sauce and serve it up as a gourmet delicacy. A favourite raw material are the old „street songs“ from Odessa, the original melting pot of ukrainian, russian and jewish cultures.
Mix in a few original compositions and you get a sound-coctail made up of Slavic Folk, Gypsy jazz, Klezmer, Retropop and old soviet film-music. It conjures up images of the lost „socialist spirit“, naive love stories, tongue-in-the-cheek heroism und street-wiseguys. And it sounds full of an exuberant energy for partying and dancing, unaffected virtuosity, and honest vocal craft, all drenched in the traditional slavic melancholy.
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