Event Details
Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra and La Carrau
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall : Main Auditorium
Please Note: This is a past event.
Like the man himself – a Bosnian-born, secular Muslim Serb – and his wildly original, multi-award-winning movies (including Time of the Gypsies, Underground and Black Cat, White Cat), the music of Emir Kusturica and the No Smoking Orchestra is a heady, sometimes bewildering concatenation of contrasts. The New York Times’s description of Underground as simultaneously “a tragic political allegory and a furiously Rabelaisian frolic” evokes the analogous energies that vie and seethe among this 10-piece line-up – massive cult heroes across Europe and around the world – whose history dates back some 30 years, and whose white-hot sonic crucible fuses Slavic, Balkan, gypsy, Greek, German, Middle Eastern and Mexican elements, with an impact at once euphoric and cathartic.
Fast gaining Europe-wide renown as festival favourites, Catalan seven-piece La Carrau cross-match rumba, cumbia, rock and electronica with their native folk traditions, creating a powerful, innovative mix of songs and tunes.
Tickets: £23, £20, £18
Past Event
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Featuring:
Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra
