Line up

• Aleksandar Stojić (guitar)
• Harald Tanschek (drums)
• Krasimir Malakov (sax, clarinet)
• Martin Lubenov (accordion)
• Petar Yankov (vocals, percussion)
• Stefan Thaler (double bass)

• country:
  Bulgaria
• style(s):
  Gypsy Jazz
• label:
  Connecting Cultures
• type:
  Band, Solist, Composer/Songwriter
• gender:
  male
• instrumentation:
  instrumental, vocal
• artist submitted by:
  CultureWorks

Undoubtedly Martin Lubenov is one of the most important and most innovative Balkan accordionists. With breathtaking virtuosity and playful elegance he combines Balkan Roma music with shades of swing, modern jazz, tango nuevo, salsa and musette and, doing so, pays honour to it like Astor Piazzolla did to tango and Richard Galliano did to musette. Subtly light-footed and nevertheless melancholic, definitely very southern music - a completely new hybrid which carries away intellectuals, jazz fans, world-music-afficionados as well as popfreaks.

"The king of Balkan swing" BBC 2007
"Hot stuff - worth an extra star" Jazzthetik 2005

Band Projects:
Martin Lubenov Orkestar (gypsy funk soul)
Martin Lubenov's Jazzta Prasta (balkan jazz)

Awards:
2005 Austrian World Music Award
2006 Prix Gus Viseur, category jazz/world

CDs:
Martin Lubenov Orkestar, Dui Droma
(Connecting Cultures CC 50018)
Jazzta Prasta Band, Veselina
(Connecting Cultures CC 50026)

Links

• Martin Lubenov website