Balkan party music in Seattle

Posts by mikegordon

Draganin cocek

Posted by on Jul 3, 2018 in 2/4, Balkan Sheet Music | 0 comments

A fun little brass band dance instrumental. Add a vamp at the beginning if you like.

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Cudna jada od Mostara grada

Posted by on Jun 29, 2018 in 2/4, Balkan Sheet Music | 0 comments

A Bosnian sevdalinka song about the tribulations of young love. We play this for listening, not for a particular dance, though the first video shows a line of women doing a simple kolo.

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Hanuma

Posted by on Jun 26, 2018 in 4/4, Balkan Sheet Music | 0 comments

A Bosnian sevdalinka song about marrying a girl on her 16th birthday. We’ve played this as a tango and, with a maqsum beat, as a jeni jol.

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Nazad, nazad mome Kalino

Posted by on Jun 22, 2018 in 7/8, Balkan Sheet Music | 0 comments

Fatal Attraction in Bulgaria: The other woman refuses to take no for an answer. We play this as a lesnoto dance song in 7/8.

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Belmont

Posted by on Jun 19, 2018 in 2/4, Balkan Sheet Music | 0 comments

A hot dance instrumental written by Yuri Yunakov, a Bulgarian Rom virtuoso on alto sax and clarinet, who used to play with Ivo Papazov’s legendary Bulgarian wedding band and now lives in New York. We play it as a cocek.

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