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Kultur Shock

688,694 plays (53,126 listeners)

Throw together a pair of Bosnians, a couple of Bulgarians, three Americans, and a bassist from Japan and you've got culture shock. Or at least Kultur Shock, the Seattle-based band who freely mix punk and metal with Balkan brass.

Balkan Beat Box

1,367,627 plays (102,009 listeners)

Balkan Beat Box is a world music group Original form New York duo consisting of ex-Gogol Bordello member Ori Kaplan and Tamir Muskat of Firewater and Big Lazy.

DeVotchKa

4,634,335 plays (199,452 listeners)

DeVotchKa is a four piece multi-instrumental and vocal ensemble that fuses Romani, Greek, Slavic, and Bolero, music with American punk and folk roots. They take their name from Anthony Burgess' Nadsat (the self created language of 'A Clockwork Orange's main character, Alex) word for "young girl," which is itself derived from the Russian word devochka(девочка) of the same meaning.

Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking…

1,432,380 plays (89,786 listeners)

The No Smoking band (Zabranjeno Pušenje in their original Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian language) was born in Sarajevo in 1981 and soon became the most significant musical expression of "New Primitivism", a cultural resistance movement created in the transition years of post-Tito Yugoslavia.

Fanfare Ciocărlia

979,856 plays (94,029 listeners)

Fanfara Ciocarlia is a brass band of Gypsy heritage that adeptly manages to straddle two very different worlds.

Jason Webley

483,006 plays (34,552 listeners)

Jason Webley is a Seattle-born singer-songwriter known for playing a mix of gypsy, folk, and punk. He has released five albums on his own label, Eleven Records. These feature Webley on the piano, guitar, accordion, and a number of other instruments, though when touring he only brings his guitar, accordion, and a vodka bottle containing coins from around the world, which he uses for percussion.

The World/Inferno Friendship Society

1,660,873 plays (48,048 listeners)

The World/Inferno Friendship Society is a cabaret punk band from Brooklyn, New York. Its style merges punk, klezmer, and gospel, while its collective membership features horns, piano, guitar, a number of percussionists, as well as a variety of other instruments such as accordion, xylophone and orchestra bells.

Romashka

53,891 plays (17,287 listeners)

Romashka plays Gypsy music from Russia, Romania, and beyond. Lithuanian-born singer Inna Barmash fronts a band of multifaceted American musicians and one half-Romanian-half-Japanese madcap accordionist, who bring years of Klezmer, jazz and rock experience to their Gypsy music journey. See Romashka's website at http://www.romashka.net for full info.