From electronic Romani club music & balkan traditions, Don Kipper weave together influences from their wide travels and the UK's capital city.
Led by the formidable Greek-Serbian singer Dunja Botic and driven by an explosive rhythm section Don Kipper create a powerful sound drawing from modern electronic Romani club music and bone-deep rural folk traditions. Together, their unique sound has become both a blazing homage to the folk cultures they love, and a fresh take on global dance music.
From their beginning in 2013 Don Kipper have always been propelled by the deeply rooted music traditions of the Balkans and Mediterranean, today, they are super-charging these traditions with their own original songs, steeping their music in heavy Electronic grooves, elastic Disco Basslines and splashes of Psychedelic Synth Funk.
Their latest album pushes all these musical elements to the limit to meet the moment, a collection of politically charged, fiery original songs, a message wrapped in powerful sounds both ancient and futuristic, at once rooted in music that has moved people for generations, yet reaching for something glitteringly modern.
“So tight it sounds like one divine entity is playing the band” - Max Reinhardt, Late Junction, BBC Radio 3
“Sure to send shivers down your spine” - Songlines
"The true sound of our capital" - WOMAD
"Unstoppable" **** - The Evening Standard
"The sound of North-East London, indeed." - The Financial Times
“Urban grooves guaranteed to detonate any club dance floor” - The Australian
NOT TO BE MISSED
NTBM (Not-To-Be-Missed) is an original international jazz collective led by Tjoe Man Cheung, a Hong Kong native guitarist and composer, and formed by emerging musicians from around the world. The group aspires to compose original jazz and perform globally.
Tjoe unites Eastern and Western musicians on the stage to facilitate cultural exchange. The fusion of cultures result in interesting improvisation and experimental music conversation on the stage, which indeed epitomises the essence of jazz. From Asia to Europe, NTBM brings groovy urban jazz music that creates by string instrument, brass instrument and percussion presented by dynamic line-ups.
DJ CONRAD OLENDE
