Artist description Five musicians, three of them with Slavic origins go through a traditional tsigane repertoire in a crazy, innovative way. Gypsy choruses mix with jazz, blues, rock and oriental rhythms and harmonies. It’s enough to wake the dead! ...spirit, warmth, and balkan melancholy, volcanic combo.

Music Style CENTRAL EUROPEAN MUSIC

Musical Influences TZIGANE, ORIENTAL MUSIC

Artist History Dragan Urlic, from Sarajevo flees his war torn country in 1994 and as soon as he arrives in France puts together his festive band. This Ex-Yugoslavian, Bosnian dragon has vampirized french souls with his « black violin, white violin”.“Aldranidjo”, his first album is autoproduced in 1998 : a cocktail of Eastern European tsiganes styles (Roumania, Macedonia, serbia, Bosnia, Hungary and Russia taken by the gypsies.

Group Members Dragan ULRIC

Instruments Violin, accousic guitars,

Albums ALDRANIDJO

Press Reviews The most abrasive of the Slav-Parisien bands stemming from Central Europe; a kind of musical tornado.. (Remi Kolpa-Kopoul / Nova)Loulou Djine creates original tsigane music, ideal for savouring live in concert... (Aden)Tsigane Balkan whirlpools... (Liberation)Lyrical at heart, mystical in the soul and fun for the body... (Nova)

Location Paris, ile de France - France

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