KOTTARASHKY AND THE RAIN DOGS (Bulgaria) are coming to Timișoara for the very first time, at TAIFAS 2025 Balkan Film and Culture Festival. The concert takes place on October 18, at 9:30 PM, at Fratelli.
Kottarashky is a 21st-century digital master musician with his hands sunk deep in the past. Bringing together vintage Balkan field recordings, classic jazz, blues, psychedelic sounds, and club beats alongside extraordinary, archetypal Gypsy voices, he molds these disparate sounds into a truly unique form of music that is clearly his own. Live Kottarashky fills his line-up of guitar, bass, and drums - with village musicians drawn from his hometown, creating ‘Kottarashky and the Rain Dogs”- an incarnation of his studio work which effortlessly brings to life his compositions and recordings for the live audience. Kottarashky’s debut CD was the brainchild of sound collector and interior designer Nikola Gruev from Sofia, Bulgaria. He experimented by combining his own field recordings with electronic beats and quickly had his first album together. After that, the band The Rain Dogs was born. “Opa Hey!” was followed by the groovy “Demoni”, “Cats, Dogs and Ghosts” and the brand new one "Doghouse". He fuses blues, jazz, trip hop, breakbeat, dub and more into a dazzling polyphonic concoction. By working with his excellent live musicians, Kottarashky has further evolved as a band during the pandemic and the tracks sound more soulful and urban without betraying their traditional roots. Kottarashky has never been a ‘Balkan Beats’ conformist, but instead journeys deeply into the Bulgarian cosmos looking for sonic threads to weave into his music, threads that are as eclectic as they are mysterious.
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