We’ve already had a fair share of Turbo Folk on this site and I am starting to be afraid you will think I have some sort of strange obsession with it. And I do. But – I am not the only one.
Ghetto kolo (via Avram):
Sinan Of A Down:
Update: not so much a Turbo Folk per se, but still a fascinating moment for me, a Youtube channel I discovered on BiznisBlog – a guy singing while having a break from work:
So what’s so fascinating about it, you would say? I don’t know, but I am pretty sure that new technologies like youtube are going to bring some sort of revolution in folk music genre as much as Radiohead did it with it’s new way of selling songs. Think about it – by uploading himself on youtube, Suljo reached an audience of over ten thousand people so far, more than some folk singers reach in a lifetime, bypassing the folk record companies and having to pay thousands of euros to record an album – and he is already a star. This is nothing new for US and western Europe, but it’s still a fresh thing in the Balkans.
And he is not “alone”:http://youtube.com/watch?v=PZjpzsrlOQ0.
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Suljo taped this somewhere with good acoustics — the tiles make it look like it was in a bathroom. We all sound good in the bathroom, don’t we?
Man I’d love to watch but one of my colleagues (not the boss) threw a fit the other day after I watched some Youtube at work. No I’m not joking.
I sound good in bathroom, but not this good
(the tiles, ceramics that is, are actually Suljo’s real job, now that you mention it)
Bganon, maybe you should try singing at work during the breaks like Suljo, see if that helps
Viktor I’d be happy to sing like Suljo but probably wont be finding out how he sings until I get ADSL installed!
As for my dear colleague I told her the next time she want to throw a fit in my office I wont maintain a dignified silence (dignified silence anybody?) but will reply with interest.