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Product description Fusion entre musiques folkloriques bulgare, turque, jazz et rock/Yuri Yunakov, saxophone - Strahil Vankov, accordéon - Catherine Foster, clarinette - Seido Salifoski, batterie et tarabuka - Brad Schoeppach, guitare - Krasimir Koumanov, basse Amazon.com This was the first album by New York-based Bulgarian saxophonist Yuri Yunakov and it hums. Its stripped-down sound is driving, its musicianship super, and the resulting music is as vibrant as anything in or from the Balkans. Bulgarian "wedding music" is a style, not a place it gets played. It mixes a local Bulgarian sensibility with rock, funk, and, in Yunakov's case, some pretty edgy jazz. He rolls it out with a band of fat bass, accordion, clarinet, kit drums, and percussion in a groove that is incessant. Melodic surprises abound, the soloing by all the musicians is deft, and the overall sound is a musical party just looking for dancers. --Louis Gibson