ShazaLaKazoo (Belgrade/Berlin)
People often think of the Balkans as a crossroads. With their busy trade and cultural routes,
the Balkans have been linking the East with the West, the North with the South throughout the
centuries. Now can you imagine someone setting up a tent in the midst of that bustling
roundabout, in a place where all those roads converge in a swirling mix? Can you imagine, out
of the blue, a tent springing up in the middle of that crossroads, a wild and illegal wedding party
inside it, a jamming makeshift shelter which blocks the traffic and makes time stand still until
the break of dawn? Well, the loud and crazy music that would be played beneath such a tent
cover - this is the sound of the ShazaLaKazoo.
A fusion like a thorough merger of all those intersecting music routes above, the
ShazaLaKazoo sound is a cross-breed of electronic rhythms and basslines that might come from
anywhere in the West or the North, and melodies of vocals, trumpets, violins, and electronic
clarinet which could come from the East or the South. The sound of ShazaLaKazoo is a
crossroads in which western beats meet Balkan tunes, a place where Oriental and Latin
American percussion meet Greek vocals. This unique musical blend they simply call "the
Folkstep".

Milan Djuric - electronic wind instrument, samples, vocals
Uros Petkovic - violin, beats