TriBeCaStan - "Jovanka"
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"Jovanka" is taken from TriBeCaStan's new and third album, NEW DELI (Evergreene Music, 2012). It's TriBeCaStan's wacky, worldly version of a Bosnian, gypsy tango.

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From the WASHINGTON POST: "TriBeCaStan's members have played with everyone from James Brown to the Meat Puppets and Ornette Coleman, and it shows. The New York-based ensemble sounds like an international jazz and folk festival unto itself, fusing Balkan, Middle Eastern, Indian, Latin American and African musical elements to bold and dazzling effect."

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About TriBeCaStan:

There's no easy way to describe the distinctive sound of TriBeCaStan. Downtown-loft improv with the odd trace of Appalachian blues? Yep. Cinematic fusion jazz filtered through a North African lens? Ditto. Multiculti urban folk music steeped in Balkan, Cajun, klezmer, Gypsy and classical Indian flavors? Absolutely.

Whatever you call it, the final package is the result of an exuberant, and sometimes irreverent, collaborative effort. Co-founded by veteran ethno-enthusiast Jeff Greene and multi-instrumentalist John Kruth, TriBeCaStan has built its own mythology around a deceptively simple construct: just play music that you haven't heard yet. The group finds the futuristic in the ancient, borrowing from far-flung traditions to create sleek new hybrids and, in the restless spirit of Yusef Lateef, Don Cherry and Rahsaan Roland Kirk, flips the tables on your expectations.

Now TriBeCaStan celebrates its third album, New Deli, a lively bazaar of artfully mashed-up styles that includes banjo tango ("Jovanka"), Malian soukous-funk ("Freaks for the Festival," with Steve Turre on trombone), Moroccan trance ("The Mystery of Licorice McKechnie," with Bachir Attar from Master Musicians of Jajouka) and a mandolin-fueled nod to Ornette Coleman's youthful Change of the Century sound ("Two for Ornette").

So dig into the flesh-and-blood immediacy of worn wood, twisted metal, and buzzing reeds, and you'll be sure to get grooves that feed the hungry soul and get the room dancing!