Kocani Orkestar have more Eastern European-ness than you can shake a stick at. And the bosum buddies to Beirut have got the heart, soul and mind to power to force you into a dancing frenzy.
Writhing trumpets, slippy-sliddy accordions and leg-shaking beats are plastered all over songs like Maxutu, it's almost too "German market band" to handle. Kocani Orkestar has also got some major precision on their side.
Popular songs like Siki Siki Baba, weave between mounting French horns and lung-draining choruses. It was also featured on Borat. And you thought you wouldn't learn anything today.
If I said to you that you had to shoot a scene of a young boy running through the back streets of a village, the accompanying music you'd pick would be Kocani Orkestar, mark my words.
The Macedonian band's second album (L'Orient Est Rouge) packs such punches as title track L'Orient Est Rouge, a track full of joviality and energy, with an equally enticing title, I think you'll agree.
Their new album (The Ravished Bride) is out this month, with even more energetic and diverse sounds within it's gigabites. Sokeres has a slightly comical air about it. As if it should feature on a Peter Seller's Pink Panther film. It has that atmosphere that echoes that of a rather haphazard chase scene.
Listen to Siki, Siki Baba here.
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