09/12/06
Just back from our UK tour and our Serbian adventures. Still in recovery from both of them. Our UK tour was a success, we met many new people that we fell in love with, we might have to marry all of them. Great to see all the old friends also. Next year we are going to make it for the entire Fringe festival, this year was not nearly enough time. The highlands showed us beautiful heather in full bloom, delicious whisky and many houses packed with dancing bodies, so lovely. First time to Leeds in England, which we found to have a great experimental and avant-garde scene. Then Bath England to the famous pub "The Bell" which is ever so smokey and packed with smiling and dancing people. The start of the trip was camping with fabulous folks from all over that were musicians and in theatre, we made instant friends and played lovely music together.

Most all the Serbian stories are the same. Stay up all nite dancing till we fell
down listening to the best brass music we've ever heard wake up and do
it all over again. Had a large group with us from New York and New Orleans and progressively got larger with French and Germans and Polish friends we met. Drank slivovitz from the moment we got up till the moment we went down and
occasionally we ate large quantities of meat.
We'll soon have pictures up on our website from our travels.

We are pictured in the New York Times article for the rise of Gypsy music scene in NYC. Go under Franz's picture to see more pictures.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/02/arts/music/02gyps.html

The Luminescent Orchestrii is featured on the CD compilation with an amazing line-up of NYC Balkan Underground bands. It's everyone we love...
Balkan Beat Box, Dolomites, Gogol Bordello, Guignol, Hungry March Band, J.U.F., Luminescent Orchestrii, Romashka, Shaat’nez, Slavic Soul Party!, Yuri Yunakov, Zagnut Cirkus Orkestar

You can purchase it from the Bulagarian Bar Website

http://mehanata.com/

Go to the coming events window and you'll find it there.

We are downloadable on BBC radio Scotland. Sxip Hosted 20 music acts at the Living Room this June. It's an amazing line up. Every Tues. at 20:00 you can listen in Scotland or if you are anywhere else you can download it here

www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/radioscotland/view/show.shtml?celtic_connection
Go to listen now the radio link. Then you'll get a list of programs to listen to ... it's called The New York Sessions.

Nina Roberts who has been following the Balkan scene has written an article, that mentions the Luminescent Orchestrii.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14932-1600898,00.html