Mojmir Novakovic i Kries free download

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As many of you I'm sure know Mojmir Novakovic i Kries will appear in Balkan Fever London festival soon for their first UK appearance.

24th June at The Spitz, near Liverpool Street together with brass band Cherkezi and Toni Kitanovski from Skopje. You can get tickets on www.wegottickets.com/event/10946 - direct link.
25th June at Islington Carling Academy together with gypsy band Kal from Belgrade. tickets from www.ticketweb.co.uk

I understand that www.balkanuk.co.uk has got a free (and legal!) download from Kries' CD Ivo i Mara. You have to register and go to the Muzika section.

Hope to see you at the concerts. Full details on www.kazum.co.uk

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Some audio clips:

www.kries.info/audio/GEA_Kries_128_kbps.mp3

photo album:

foto.muzika.hr/thumbnails.php?album=11


Together with some of his college friends, at the beginning of 90's Mojmir Novaković started a band Legen (www.legen.org) and in 1995. he initiated Ethnoambient (www.ethnoambient.net) festival dedicated to tradition based music from Croatia and all around the World. This festival is still successfully introducing different cultures to each other celebrating beauty of cultural diversity.
In 2002 members of Legen, who toured for 10 years all around the World, decided to take a break from each other and Mojmir formed a new group of musicians which got a name Kries (Bonfire in archaic form of Croatian language).
In the first year of this band's existence, they made music for Konjanik (Horseman), movie by well known Croatian director Branko Ivanda and soon followed their first album «Ivo i Mara» (Kopito 2004) which got excellent reviews in international media. In 2005 they were awarded by Croatian Music Award Porin for Konjanik oms in the category The best original music for theatre, movie and TV.

Mojmir Novaković i KRIES base their creation on traditional lyrics, Slavic mythology, "dinaric" rhythm and Mediterranean traditional instruments with electronics being integral part of it.

They believe that ancient scripts and traditional chants offer numerous keys for discovering good quality of life and that it is up to each of us to find them and learn to apply those valuable teachings into here and now.
www.kries.info