When. Tuesday 6th November
Where: The Gibson Club
In association with: MTV Music Week
SHANTEL & BUCOVINA CLUB ORKESTAR
I first came across Shantel in May of this year, when I was lucky enough to spend a fabulous weekend with a couple of friends, in Istanbul. His tunes came on, and the dance floor of Reina nightclub went berserk! Hugely popular in Turkey, where he is a pop icon, he didn't fail to impress then or now.
10-best-clubs-bars-Istanbul-Reina
Shantel is an exceptional artist with a global reach. He has won
international awards for several of his albums, which cover a broad
range of styles, and has fired up the atmosphere at hundreds of gigs,
festivals and parties with his uniquely eclectic sound. His Bucovina,
Disko Partizani, Disko Boy and Citizen of Planet Paprika have made this
German phenomenon (Vogue) famous throughout Europe and beyond, inspiring countless artists
from Finland to Buenos Aires and former Yugoslavia (where he is
regularly featured on MTV Balkanika).
This gig was almost too much fun for a Tuesday night...
I've never seen quite so many people bouncing, laughing and clapping in one smallish space. In fact the only thing missing in the venue was a bouncy castle! Ok, so the songs do sound a little bit repetitive but the energy kept me swaying all night long.
Each and every tune was greeted by screaming and cheering from the audience and should I ever own an island, (one can dream) Shantel would be as essential to it as aquamarine waters, white sand and rum.
My favourite moments: every time Stefan Hantel (aka Shantel) gave his guitar some love= awesome! Plus the utter madness of the rather eccentric drummer!
Shantel and his Bucovina Club Orkestar have played their way to
well-deserved legendary status. The tightest line-up from the heart of
Europe takes its work seriously:
"You want anarchy and romance? You
want to be catapulted out of the here and now with all its problems and
worries? So do we – and we’re happy to take you with us to a new
dimension. We come from different horizons, from different countries. We
have learned a lot on our travels and we’d like to give some of that
back.“
There is probably no other German artist who can enthrall
audiences everywhere, from Greece to Glastonbury, the way Shantel can.
Yet he does not see himself as some kind of prophet of multiculturalism.
Nor does he have any aims of creating hippy-dippy, save-the-world
music. Every performance, night after night, bears that out.
Shantel
sees himself as a cosmopolitan, a searcher, always on the lookout for
new discoveries and new emotions that he can channel into his own
personal music mix. He is the herald of central European creolisation.
And his impact is lasting. Initially dismissed by the press as a mere
flash in the pan, his music has spread through the internet (with
millions of hits on YouTube) to such an extent that there can no longer
be any talk of a wave, or a trend, but of a whole new attitude to life.
find out where Shantel and his Bucovina Club orchestra are next via:
http://www.bucovina.de/
I first came across Shantel in May of this year, when I was lucky enough to spend a fabulous weekend with a couple of friends, in Istanbul. His tunes came on, and the dance floor of Reina nightclub went berserk! Hugely popular in Turkey, where he is a pop icon, he didn't fail to impress then or now.
10-best-clubs-bars-Istanbul-Reina
Shantel is an exceptional artist with a global reach. He has won international awards for several of his albums, which cover a broad range of styles, and has fired up the atmosphere at hundreds of gigs, festivals and parties with his uniquely eclectic sound. His Bucovina, Disko Partizani, Disko Boy and Citizen of Planet Paprika have made this German phenomenon (Vogue) famous throughout Europe and beyond, inspiring countless artists from Finland to Buenos Aires and former Yugoslavia (where he is regularly featured on MTV Balkanika).
This gig was almost too much fun for a Tuesday night...
I've never seen quite so many people bouncing, laughing and clapping in one smallish space. In fact the only thing missing in the venue was a bouncy castle! Ok, so the songs do sound a little bit repetitive but the energy kept me swaying all night long.
Each and every tune was greeted by screaming and cheering from the audience and should I ever own an island, (one can dream) Shantel would be as essential to it as aquamarine waters, white sand and rum.
My favourite moments: every time Stefan Hantel (aka Shantel) gave his guitar some love= awesome! Plus the utter madness of the rather eccentric drummer!
Shantel and his Bucovina Club Orkestar have played their way to well-deserved legendary status. The tightest line-up from the heart of Europe takes its work seriously:
"You want anarchy and romance? You want to be catapulted out of the here and now with all its problems and worries? So do we – and we’re happy to take you with us to a new dimension. We come from different horizons, from different countries. We have learned a lot on our travels and we’d like to give some of that back.“
There is probably no other German artist who can enthrall audiences everywhere, from Greece to Glastonbury, the way Shantel can. Yet he does not see himself as some kind of prophet of multiculturalism. Nor does he have any aims of creating hippy-dippy, save-the-world music. Every performance, night after night, bears that out.
Shantel sees himself as a cosmopolitan, a searcher, always on the lookout for new discoveries and new emotions that he can channel into his own personal music mix. He is the herald of central European creolisation. And his impact is lasting. Initially dismissed by the press as a mere flash in the pan, his music has spread through the internet (with millions of hits on YouTube) to such an extent that there can no longer be any talk of a wave, or a trend, but of a whole new attitude to life.
find out where Shantel and his Bucovina Club orchestra are next via:
http://www.bucovina.de/
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