Shukar - CD

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Funky brass band <span data-scayt_word="Cherkezi" data-scaytid="1">Cherkezi</span> from <span data-scayt_word="Skopje’s" data-scaytid="4">Skopje's</span> <span data-scayt_word="Gypsy-Mahala" data-scaytid="5">Gypsy-Mahala</span> is named after its patriarch <span data-scayt_word="Cherkezi" data-scaytid="2">Cherkezi</span> Rashid and boasts three generations of <span data-scayt_word="Rashids" data-scaytid="6">Rashids</span>. Add electric jazz guitarist Toni <span data-scayt_word="Kitanovski" data-scaytid="7">Kitanovski</span> - who returned from the US with <span data-scayt_word="Berklee’s" data-scaytid="8">Berklee's</span> Charles <span data-scayt_word="Mingus" data-scaytid="9">Mingus</span> Prize for Composition ' and you have one of the most exciting , joyful and charming bands around.<br /> The great Manu Chao was there looking for <span data-scayt_word="Cherkezi" data-scaytid="3">Cherkezi</span> to invite them to join him on the stage at his first performance in Macedonia. Emir <span data-scayt_word="Kusturica" data-scaytid="10">Kusturica</span> tried to convince them to take part in his movies and so did legions of producers, directors...<br /> Toni had heard their performance at a birthday party a few years earlier, freshly returned from many years of musical adventure in Boston where he graduated at famed <span data-scayt_word="Berklee" data-scaytid="11">Berklee</span> School of Music. Ideas were shaping in his mind since that day. <span data-scayt_word="Sudently" data-scaytid="12">Sudently</span>, at their first jam, joined by master drummer <span data-scayt_word="Alaksandar" data-scaytid="13">Alaksandar</span> <span data-scayt_word="Sekulovski" data-scaytid="14">Sekulovski</span>, Toni's left and right hand man in all projects, it all fit!<br /> New Orleans "Second Line " rhythm merged with <span data-scayt_word="gipsy" data-scaytid="15">gipsy</span> <span data-scayt_word="cocek" data-scaytid="16">cocek</span>. The outcome is a feverish, scarily high-class amalgam, combining the best from the <span data-scayt_word="Balkanic" data-scaytid="17">Balkanic</span> Orient with a timeless and world-savvy chic, all the while steadily propelled forward by Toni's funky guitar riffs. A most unusual and very grooving music experiment from the Balkans. <br />