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LUBO & KABA HORO

with guests the York University Balkan Music Ensemble
with Irene Markoff

kabahoro.com
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“There’s no mistaking that Lubo Alexandrov and his band, Kaba Horo, belong to an endangered species: musicians who, when playing together, don’t really sound like anyone else”
~The Gazette (Montreal)

Small World Music presents the 100% Gypsy groove explosion with Juno Award winners LUBO AND KABA.

A caffeinated mix of energetic, wild Balkan Gypsy songs and grooves, Lubo Alexandrov and his band Kaba Horo (meaning "raw dance"), is collusion between Bulgarian Gypsy and New World musicians. While their roots are in Balkan gypsy village wedding music, the versatile band also covers a wide spectrum taking it into the ghetto of urban funk, rock and jazz. Their passionate, go-for-the throat spirit and energy is a knock out experience ranging from contagious dance floor demands, delving into the cauldron of boiling hot, fast and complex sounds, to the more emotional evocations of Middle Eastern styles.

Their first CD was released in 2006 on the German based ENJA label and won the 2007 JUNO for best world music album in Canada. Their second CD, to be released in the first half of 2008, features world famous guest artists such clarinettist Serkan Cagri (Turkey) and singers Neno Iliev (Bulgaria) and Brenna MacCrimmon (Turkey/Canada), among others.

This truly global band has performed at many festivals including: Balkan Fever Festival - London / 1st Balkan Trafic Festival – Brussels / Zacatecas International Festival – Mexico / Zinco Jazz Club – Mexico City / Montreal International Jazz Festival / Vancouver International Jazz Festival / SunFest – London, Canada / Winnipeg Folk Festival / Toronto Global Grooves and more. They are a mix of Bulgarian Gypsy and Montreal-based musicians with lead vocals by Deyan Mitev, Lubo on fast paced pickings on fretless/fretted guitars and vocals, virtuoso Nedyalko Nedyalkov playing on kaval and zurna, Emil Iliev performs high speed accordion fingering while saxophonist Eric Hove provides the sharp improvising embellishments with all of it backed by Georgi Stankov’s funky bass and the rhythmic pulses of drummer Martin Auguste.

LUBO ALEXANDROV was first taught Bulgarian folk music by his grandfather – Atanas Ganchev, a very well known kaval player in Bulgaria. As a teenager he developed a fascination with jazz music and began studying under Alexander Petkov, a renowned Bulgarian jazz musician and composer. In Montreal, he continued studying jazz guitar and composition with Roddy Elias and improvisation with Remi Bolduc at Concordia University. He studied Turkish music with oud Master Ismail Fencioglu and fretless guitar with the world renowned Erkan Ogur. Having performed in major cities all over the world, he is also involved in Montreal group Ganesh Anandan and with Vlada Tomova's Balkan Tales in New York.

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