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Boban Markovic & Shantel - Bucovina Dub
Boban Marković (Бобан Марковић) is a Serbian Romani trumpet player and brass ensemble leader from Vladicin Han, frequently recognized as the greatest trumpet player to emerge from the Balkans. He and his brass band have received world acclaim and won numerous awards.
Boban Marković Orchestra has been the leading Balkan Brass Band in Serbia over the last 17 years. They are from Vladicin Han, Southern Serbia, which is obviously heard in their music. They have won several of the most important prizes ("Golden Trumpet", "First Trumpet" and "The Best Orchestra") at the "Brass bands meeting and competition" in Guča, the Guča trumpet festival, called "Dragačevski Sabor", which has been held every August in Central Serbia, since 1961. Every year "Sabor" gathers 20 of the best bands from all parts of Serbia, as well as some 300,000 people in the audience. Winning there means more jobs for the bands, but also is so prestigious, that no one misses the festival and all the bands play for free.
Boban Marković Orkestar won the "Best Orchestra" prize at 40th "Sabor" in Guca, August 2000. They won the "Best concert 2000." prize for their concert with Lajko Felix. In Guča, at "Dragačevski Sabor 2001" Boban Marković won "The First Trumpet", what is officially the best prize there and the most wanted among the musicians. It was the first time ever that any musician there got all five marks "10" from all of the jury members. Since winning, he has decided to stop competing.
Boban Marković Brass Band also contributed a song to "Unblocked" ("Music from the Eastern Europe"), a compilation on Elipsis Arts in USA. The orkestar is featured on two tracks on "Srbija: Sounds Global," a series of compilations released in 2000 by Radio B92, and on the opening track of "Srbija: Sounds Global 2," which was released November 2002 by B92.
They performed music for two movies of Emir Kusturica: "Arizona Dream" and "Underground" as well as in a few other movies in Yugoslavia. They are the main characters of the award winning documentary film "Competition" and more recently featured in "Guča", a documentary about the Serbian trumpet festival.
They have played festivals and concerts in Greece, Switzerland, Belgium, USA, Canada, Romania, Holland, Hungary, Great Britain, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Poland, Italy, Austria, Monaco, Germany, France, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Israel, Spain, Slovenia, Slovakia, Croatia, Czech Republic and many wedding parties everywhere.
At Pepsi Sziget, they played at "World Music stage" at front of 15,000 crowd. The British britpop group Oasis was supposed to start at the same time, but as a good portion of the audience was at the Boban Markovic Orkester concert, Oasis waited 30 minutes for the band to finish. At the same time Network Records, released the double CD "Golden Brass Summit" -- Anthology of 40 years in Guča, for which Boban Marković Orkestar opens the album with 4 tracks.
The regular brass band sound is improved with another 2 percussionists. Since October 1999 they have also been performing with the young violin player Lajko Felix a programme arranged by Lajko Felix and Boban Marković. Lately, the band have opened up to more collaborations, one with Austrian duet Attwenger and the other with Frank London's Klezmer Brass All Stars Di Shikere Kapelye. Together they formed the Brotherhood of Brass.Tags: Boban Markovic Shantel Bucovina Dub gypsy balkan brass music serbian serbia guca gucha Borat Kazakhstan fanfare bucovina |
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