01/09/2010
ANCONA - ITALY

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Boban Markovic tromba e voce
Marko Markovic tromba
Sasa Jemcic tromba
Miroslav Krstic tromba
Dragan Kocic tromba
Dragan Jovanovic flicorno tenore
Isidor Eminovic flicorno tenore
Goran Spasic flicorno tenore
Daniel Mirkovic flicorno tenore
Mustafa Salimovic tuba
Nedzad Zumberovic percussioni
Sasa Stanojevic percussioni
Aleksandar Stosic percussioni
MUSICFAN, LIVE REVIEW
they may well be the best brass band on the planet

Una brass band (che esiste da 17 anni) che ha coltivato l'idea di conquistare il mondo. Questi undici musicisti vivono a Vladicin Han nel sud della Serbia.

Fin da ragazzo Boban Markovic sognava di diventare un trombettista famoso e di viaggiare in tutto il mondo. I suoi avi lo avevano sicuramente già preceduto perché suo nonno, il leggendario Pavle in passato aveva suonato per i re di Serbia. Anche suo padre era un musicista e fu lui ad insegnare e a far amare al figlio la tromba che divenne per Boban un accessorio inseparabile nella sua vita quotidiana. La tradizione inoltre è anche rafforzata dalla sua data di nascita: il 6 di maggio è il Djurdjevdan, la leggendaria festa degli zingari!

Da più di dieci anni l'Orchestra è il gruppo più popolare della Serbia. Questa popolarità è in primo luogo dovuta ai premi vinti a Guca, ("Golden Trumpet", "First Trumpet" e "The Best Orchestra") e che il più importante festival della Serbia.

Questi successi hanno portato la band a prendere parte come compositori ai film di Kusturica ("Underground", "Arizona Dream") assieme a Goran Bregovic. Boban ha prodotto altre colonne sonore di film con Ljubisa Samardzical, ed ha lavorato con altri famosi musicisti quali il violinista Felix Laiko. Su Boban Markovic sono stati prodotti due film biografici per la televisione ungherese: "Boban Markovic all'Accademia della musica" e "Un ritratto di Boban Markovic".

  • Devla (Piranha Musik)
  • Go Marko Go (Piranha Musik)
  • The Promise (Piranha Musik)
  • Boban i Marko (Piranha Musik)
  • Live in Belgrade (Piranha Musik)
  • Bistra Reka (X Produkcio / B92)
  • Hani Rumba (ITMM)
  • Zlatna Truba (‘Golden Trumpet’) (PGP-RTS)
  • Srce Cigansko (‘Heart of Gypsy’) (X Produkcio)
  • Millenium (X Produkcio)
  • Oltre ai 13 album già pubblicati, l’Orchestra di Boban e Marko Markovic ha collaborato e registrato nei seguenti progetti:
    - I film di Emir Kusturica: ‘Underground’ & ‘Arizona Dream’
    -La compilation ‘Unblocked’ (Music from the Eastern Europe) Elipsis Arts negli USA.
    -"Srbija: Sounds Global" vol. 1, 2 and 3 (B92) 2000/2002/2005.
    “Golden Brass Summit” Anthology of 40 years in Guca. (Network Medien), i primi 4 pezzi.
    -“Rromano Suno” Vol. 1 and 2 Gypsy music from the Balkans (B92) 2003/2006.
    -“Gucha! The Distant trumpet” colonna Sonora del film (2006).
    - Il documentario "Competition," in qualità di protagonisti.

  • FROOTS - "No wonder that over the years this band has walked away with every available prize"
  • SONGLINES - "Supremely rich, varied and inventive Serbian brass from a true musical thinker.It really is the best band in the land."
  • ROOTSWORLD - "Strutting vitality.menacing.soaring.fundament rocking.outlandish.impossible virtuosity."
  • JAZZ REVIEW - "Delightfully disorienting, scintillatingly surreal, like an aural mirage of something strange and beautiful. You think there's nothing "new" and/or unusual to listen to "out there"? Guess again."
  • ALL ABOUT JAZZ - "The music ended with the crowd and band collapsing from near exhaustion in a sweaty "It's been a long time since I had one this good" bliss."
  • THE NEW YORK TIMES - "There was a worthy ringer on the bill: the Boban Markovic Orkestar from Serbia. Its songs were pure propulsion: drumbeats as relentless as a machine and horn arrangements that could sound like a silver-toned chorale, a soul horn section or a choreographed brawl. Solos sprinted through the melee. It was dance music that was almost brutal in his gleeful efficiency."
  • ROOTSWORLD - North American football marching bands at every level could learn a thing or three from Markovic and company. One could go on, as this is music whose endurance is both epic and assured. Consider son Marko's cameo trumpet appearance on "Roditeljska Sreca," whose melancholy audacity offers resonant aural evidence that the Markovic musical legacy is in good hands, putting a new generation of horn players on planetary notice. "Now dat's a trumpet!
  • RADIO MULTIKULTI - Simultaneously bombastic and bitter-sweet, the brass band steamroller through arrangements of Serbian gypsy music along with a few oddities thrown in for good measure - like their rousing rendition of 'Hava Naguila'.
  • PASSION-MUSIC.CO.UK - Berlin Boban Markovic has won the prestigious Serbian Dragacevo Festival, and his remarkable instrumental knowledge has added new dimensions to Serbian brass band history.
  • JAZZ REVIEW - "It's loud, rhythmic, uproarious, in-your-face party music - imagine a highly-caffeinated edition of Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy vacationing in the thin-air mountains of Peru with a Mexican Mariachi band playing Gipsy folk tunes."
  • GLOBAL RHYTHM - "This record is dangerous in the way the spring is dangerous: its exuberance owerwhelms the listener and demands:"You must change your life or end it."
  • HERALD TIMES - "Some music is for the heed, some is for the feet and some is for the heart. The Boban Markovic Orkestar plays music for the whole body"
  • NOW TORONTO - "The Word Funky is not often associated with traditional Serbian Roma music. At least, not until trumpeter Boban Markovic assembled his badass brass band and began hooking up a storm."
  • ROOTS WORLD, USA - "Able to leap tall buildings with a single bound, the Markovic Orkestar has moments of pure possession, but an ear for the extraordinary remains ever grounded in tight arrangement and superb musicianship."