I loved it. Especially the energy that came through live concert. Very popular Balkan interpreters like Shantel, Goran brings this lively street music to unfamiliar audience with skill. This music is the part of so many people’s daily lives who don’t really care about playbacks and pretend conducting. They just live it.

I particularly liked the Georgian like vocals coming through the male vocals. I felt finally like I was at a Georgian table music gathering. His Serbian roots shined. The Bulgarian vocals through the women singing is also used by Balkan BeatBox, Shantel, even Tuvans. It was so delicious. And the brass and the clarinet was the touch of the Turkish influence coming through the Bosnian, Albanian filter. And Goran in the middle with his OK guitar playing and playbacks back put it together.

On top of that please join me admiring the wonderful gypsy voice, that showed the burden/joy which gypsies themselves went through pleasing all these different cultures, gluing them through centuries. His voice had hints of Rajasthan vocals, Punjabi modern sounds from London’s underground, sad twist like the river of the Nile and beaten up sorrow of flamenco dance floors. Which makes me want to see Cigala cconcert coming up so badly.

I adore Goran a whole lot more now than two days ago. For giving us all a gimps of what brings joy to a little girl dancing in her mom’s kitchen a late afternoon hearing the off-beat rhythm coming through the radio. In fact there was a ten year old blond girl of Ann Arbor dancing in the aisles, channeling her.

Thank you so much for making such a joyful event a reality.