Bucarest

• Camaron
• Goran Bregovic
• Esma Redzepova
• Taraf de Haidouks
• Mustafa Kandirali
• Kokani Orkestar
• Bratsch
• Loyko
• Yiorgos Mangas
• Blehorkestar Bakija Bakic
• Pedro Bacan
• Istanbul Oriental Ensemble
• Musicians of the Nile
• and many more…

Good King Bahran Djour of Persia was moved by the laments of his most impoverished subjects. They called for music, and wished to celebrate like the rich. Bahran Djour asked his father-in-law, King Shankal of Kanauj, who lived in the high valley of the Ganges, to send 12000 musicians. When they arrived, the King provided them with a means of living off the fat of the land, giving each a donkey, a cow and a thousand bushels of wheat. After a year had passed, they appeared before him, starving. They had simply eaten the cows and the wheat. Annoyed, the king advised them to fit their instruments with strings of silk, mount their donkeys and take to the road - and henceforth earn their living from the music.

Started as a project between Francesco Paladino and Pier Luigi Andreoni, The Doubling Riders quickly grew into a collection of sounds that ranged between new age, folk, electronic music and balls to the wall experimentation. "Garama" was originally released on Il Museo Immaginario in 1991. The Doubling Riders make trippy music, their compositions oscillate between a soundtrack to a meditation session and a blissful look at a potentially never-ending painting. This is a wonderfully evocative album of old school , synth infused ethno-ambiance of the highest caliber. A concept album of sorts, it references the ancient Saharan kingdom of the Garamantes, who lived in what is now central Libya. Eerie, melodic, mysterious…