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news from Gipsy.cz crews

Gipsy.cz remixed Gogol BordelloDuring a concert Gipsy.cz on Sziget Festival in Budapest (HU), Eugen Hutz visited a stage and there was a two-songs jam-session. And that was a next step to a co-operation between these two artists. Indies Scope Records has a license on the album Gogol Bordello for the Czech Republic and Slovakia. There will ... more »

Gipsy.cz video - Jednou (Once) and other new clips

Gipsy.cz have prepared a new video to the song “Jednou”. It was shot at the beginning of July in 2007 and its author is again the young and promising director SHAKIR HAFOUDH who has already worked with Gipsy.cz on the highly successful video to Romano Hip Hop. The visual as well as the musical part of the clip deals with racial problems ... more »

INDIES SCOPE 2007 - second half of year

 Autumn releases:ZVA 12 – 28 Band – Za fúzy ma poťahaj (MAM410-2) (www.zva12-28band.sk)Prouza – V otrhaném domě & Ve dne v noci (MAM414-2) (www.prouza.eu)Reynkarnace (MAM415-2) (www.hukl.cz) Hradišťan & Jiří Pavlica – Chvění – suita dialogů (MAM411-2) (www.hradistan.cz)Unity – Unity (MAM412-2) (www.unity.cz)Taliesyn – Jižní Amnézie (MAM413-2) ... more »

Awards - world music magazine FolkWorld

The online folk and world music magazine FolkWorld (www.folkworld.de, www.folkworld.eu) is celebrating its 10th anniversary this autumn. FolkWorld's editors, staff and regular contributors have taken to the difficult task to find out about the greatest and best-loved European folk, roots and world music artists of the last decade. They chose ... more »

TOP LABEL

On 27 August we got a message that pleased us immensely. The subject was:  WOMEX / World Music Chards Europe TOP LABEL AWARDSIndies Records celebrated partial success in the field of European world music. The teams of organizers of world music Womex exhibition and World Music Charts European  prepare the chart of Top World Music Label every ... more »

Tara Fuki cello duet’s remarkable achievement

Tara Fuki are the first musicians from the Czech Republic to play at Womex 2007 (www.womex.com), the most important world music trade fare worldwide, taking place in Sevilla, Spain, in October. Tara Fuki, who released their third album this year, called Auris, were among the forty performers chosen by an expert jury from more than 600 other ... more »

2nd year of Colourscope 2007

The festival of Indies Scope Records will take place for the second time close to their home town of Brno, in South Moravia. On Saturday 9 June the Colourscope 2007 will take place in the courtyard of the Kuřim castle. Musicians publishing their albums with Indies Records and also finalists of the competition for world music bands from the ... more »

Czech Hip Hop Star Gipsy.cz recieves MTV support ahead of live slots at this years Pulse Festival, Glastonbury and Besti

Building on the success of his London appearances last year and an exploding European profile, Gipsy.cz’s new single “Romano Hip Hop” has made the MTV World Chart Express Top 10. The show will premiere on MTV European on Saturday 2nd June at 9.00CET and is repeated on Sunday at 1900CET and again on Friday at 1700CET. Gipsy.cz’s live campaign ... more »

Interview with Jarda Svoboda - Traband (22 April 2007):

1. Traband left its style called “dechno“ (brass sound) and it calls its new sound “home music“. What the fans should imagine it is? The name “home music“ is not so much the definition of a style as rather the expression of opposition to what is called today the “world music“. All the music, which patches together carelessly everything it ... more »

Gipsy.cz going

The Romany band Gipsy.cz from the Czech Republic combines an explosive mixture of hip-hop, Romany traditional music and pop. After the launch of its debut album Romano Hip Hop last year, the band reached the top of Czech music competitions. At the moment, Gipsy.cz is awaiting the announcement of Angel awards of the Academy of Popular Music ... more »