Swing of Sahara

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Swing of Saharas second album, Balk n Roll, will take you away.

Out now on Swedens hottest label, Heptown.



On their new album, Balk n Roll, Copenhagens freshest ethno-non-centric combo, Swing of Sahara, serves up a sizzling smorgasbord of tasty tunes blasting from a late-night joint on the corner of the Balkans and the barrio.



Balk n Roll was recorded in the dust of the road and the musk of the studio.

The line between genius and madness is a fine one, to be sure listen, as the band bends and blurs and bludgeons it to bits.

Robert Göthe runs the Swedish record label Heptown Records. In spring 2002, he was walking down Istedgade in Copenhagen when he found himself among a crowd of revelers getting down to a Swing of Sahara set at an Enghave Plads café.

Unable to resist the bands swing-for-the-fences attitude, Robert offered them a record deal on the spot. The first Swing of Sahara album, Nothing Toulouse, hit the streets in 2003.



Swing of Sahara was formed in the mid-1990s when Andreas Ugorskij and Peter Dobronyi got together to play Gypsy jazz classics. As new band members have joined in, other musical styles have been absorbed, including punk, surf, Latin and Balkan, sending them bursting out of the caravanserai. Over the years, the band has played more than 200 concerts. Balk n Roll abundantly demonstrates their impressive musical range.