PUBLISHED: Jul 27, 2009
DESCRIPTION:
Performers : 17 Hippies
Album : IFNI
Song: IFNI
Label : Buda
Genre : World
Release date : 2004
They are no hippies, they are rarely 17 (between 13 and 20 musicians depending on the gig),
their musical background ranges from rock-pop to classical and jazz, they sing and play
accordion, trombone, trumpet, violin, cello, clarinet, mandolin, ukulele, banjo, guitar and
double bass. Their style is a quintessence of many genres: Bavarian zwiefacher, Russian songs,
Polish waltzes, Swiss zweutletscht, Jewish freylaks, Anglo American popsongs, Corsican dances,
Scottish flings, Bulgarian oros, French chansons, Hungarian melodies, Latin-American tunes,
North American ragtimes and many more. "