Looking for a guaranteed smash hit for your next world music dance party?
Look no further than Acide Balkanique, the second album by Bucharest-based multi-instrumentalist Sașa-Liviu Stoianovici and electronics wizard Alin Zãbrãuțeanu, a duo who do their genre-melding under the moniker Balkan Taksim. Acide Balkanique is a collection of eight trippy tracks slathered in psych-rock reverb and dark ambient space effects, pulsing with techno energy and carrying melancholic melodies drawn from Carpathian/Balkan folk music.
The all-instrumental ‘ORHIDEJA’ (Orchid) blossoms with a traditional desert-style beat rendered on frame drums in support of a Farfisa-sounding organ, fuzzy electro-saz and…
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