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Mukka Live At 12 Bar Club for OnlineTV
It was March 9, 199 and Mukka, the Doyens of Doina, came to visit the 12 Bar Club to be broadcast over the Internet by OnlineTV.com
Mukka Live Concert
Mukka are the ultimate live band, whisking their audience on a whirlwind journey through deepest Transylvanian melancholy to joyful abandon, whipped up by frenetic Balkan instrumentals. We are offering an hour long set at the legendary 12 Bar Club where Rick Siegel had the OnlineTV.com broadcasting every night. The set is powerful and is the earliest known recordings of this amazing group as it was broadcast for the first time world wide.
If you can get a bunch of people, who’ve never met, to join hands and dance themselves crazy in a circle in London, you can do it anywhere. And Mukka have done it everywhere from Glastonbury Festival to the Queen’s Concert at Buckingham Palace.
Who are Mukka
Mukka after being discovered at 12 Bar and Rick Siegel played to crowds of 5000 supporting ‘The Beat’ at Glastonbury Festival and at the Trafalgar Square Romany Festival. They entertained the Sheikh of Al’ Ain in The United Arab Emirates, The Sultana Of Oman at her UK residence in Surrey, and at the Queen’s Jubilee Concerts at Buckingham Palace.
They have also appeared at The South Bank’s Purcell Room, The Barbican, Meltdown Festival, Coin St Romanian Festival, Spraoi in Waterford Ireland, Refugee Week, and Art Centres throughout the UK.
John Peel on Mukka
The late John Peel once described them as “the sensation of Glastonbury” and invited them to record a John Peel Session, opening up their music to a whole new audience.
Mukka’s third CD ‘Life, Life!’ combined Dana’s Transylvanian ballads with a strong contemporary feel and dancy rhythmic drive. Mukka have re-invented the Romanian doina, a traditional song form in free improvisational style, imbuing it with a fresh rhythmic backing which earned them a credit in Songlines magazine as “the doyens of doina.” The album was described as “high-voltage, eminently dance-able… clearly has ‘FUN’ stamped all over it….hey, this is a party!” A sample from Mukka’s first album ‘Skip Lizard’ features on the theme tune to the ‘Amazing Adrenalini Brothers’ cartoon series (ITV and Cartoon Network).
About the band Mukka
The band brings together eminent musicians from former Yugoslavia, Russia and Romania, with fresh UK talent from Scottish, Celtic and Jazz backgrounds, and features violins, accordion, flute, traditional percussion and a modern rhythm section. The result is a most exciting example of highly original music, which spans east and west and where new compositions sit alongside reworkings of traditional tunes sourced from all over the Balkans and the Middle East.
Mukka have toured France, Switzerland, The Middle East and Eastern Europe. Besides doing a John Peel session, they have played live on BBC London’s Charlie Gillett show, on BBC World Service’s ‘Outlook’ and ‘The Ticket’ and were interviewed on TV by Sacha Baron Cohen (aka Ali G).
Kate Hands
Kate Hands is a founder member of “Mukka”, the high-spirited European/British roots band that is a favourite at Summer festivals like Glastonbury. She has travelled Europe learning violin styles from gypsies and village musicians in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece and the British Isles and recorded with Indian percussionists in Chennai (Madras) in India. She also plays in “The Handsome Stringbenders” (Bluegrass/Rockabilly) and “Forty Thieves”, where she adds live violin to sampled dance beats.
Frank Biddulph
Frank Biddulph is an experienced violinist specialising in jazz and gypsy music, and a wide variety of traditional styles such as Eastern European, Irish and Arabic/Andalusian music. Regularly in demand for festivals in the UK and abroad such as Queen’s Golden Jubilee Concert at Buckingham Palace and London’s Millennium celebrations, and special events eg. Chelsea Flower Show and London Fashion Week.
Serguei Pachnine
Serguei Pachnine is a vocalist and a master of the button accordion. His huge and diverse repertoire ranges from traditional Russian dances to favourite European melodies, and from the most popular jazz standards to classics.
Since his appearance on London’s stages he has established a fine reputation in Britain for his work as a performer in concerts, hotels and corporate events, and his powerful singing voice and amiable sense of humour endear him to audiences everywhere.
Rastko Rasic
RASTKO – davul (tapan) Rastko Rasic was born in Belgrade, Serbia and as a boy first played the trumpet and later classical percussion. As he was growing up the range of music played in the family home was great: everything from classical and jazz to rock and punk to traditional Armenian and Serbian song.
Beatrice Parvin
Beatrice Parvin is a dancer, teacher and writer who grew up in Oxfordshire and was educated at Goldsmiths College. She studied North African dance then performed for several years in Europe and the Middle East with this very band Mukka. In 2015 she graduated from the MFA course in creative writing at Kingston University with distinction. Her fist novel was ‘Captain Swing and the Blacksmith’ which had a music accompaniment and is a raving success.
Mukka, Doyens of Doina, in a nutshell
Gypsy, Klezmer, Eastern European and Middle-Eastern music imbued with jazzy swing and punky energy… with lots of high-speed instrumentals featuring the twin-turboed fiddle assault of Frank Biddulph and Kate Hands.
Line-Up for this set:
Kate Hands – violin
Frank Biddulph – violin
Serge Pachnine – accordion
Jo Frazer – flute
Oliver Baldwin – bass
Rastko Rasic – drums
Beatrice Parvin – dancer
Mukka Video Stats:
Date: Mar 9, 1999
Video: Color NTSC
Format for Digital Download: MP4
Sound: Stereo
Run Time: 1:03min
Download File Size: 5Meg
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