Lemez Lovas

About Me

Musician / Composer / Journalist / DJ
Music: Oi Va Voi , nominated three times BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards 2003/2004; New York Times Top Ten Albums of 2003. New album on V2 records OUT NOW!
DJ: Shtetl Superstar Sound System with YURIY GURZHY (Russendisko): the funkiest Jewish sounds from around the world
Live performance: SCORE live performance of a specially devised new electro-acoustic score for 'East and West', Sidney M. Goldin and Ivan Abramson's silent 1923 Yiddish movie, where streetwise New York flapper Mollie (Molly Picon) travels to her cousin's wedding in a traditional Polish shtetl with hilarious results. A piece of classic Yiddish kitsch lovingly ripped to shreds by Lemez Lovas (trumpet/keyboard/electronics) alongside Rohan Kriwaczek (accordion/violin/piano) and Moshikop (guitar/bass/drums).
Radio: BBC World Service , BBC World Russian Service - programmes on music, culture + politics in Central and Eastern Europe, former Soviet Union.
Writing: Songlines World Music magazine
'Hidden Truths: Music Censorship in Belarus under Lukashenka' out soon at Freemuse , the global campaign against music censorship.
Media Digress Media film packages and radio reports on hidden cultural and social stories in Israel / Palestine.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/30/2006
Influences: Goran Bregovic, Mickey Katz, Yusef Lateef, Hefner, Gilles Peterson, Leningrad, Isaak Babel, taamei hamikra (ask your bubby), Lajko Felix, Deacon Blue (Ok so you outed me now), Fine Young Cannibals, Cameo, Donald Byrd, Clifford Brown, Max Roach, John Coltrane, The Necks, Blackalicious, Brand Nubian, Tribe Called Quest, De La and lots early-mid 90s hip hop, Tamara Obrovac, Beshodrom, Elvis Ajdinovic Orkestar (the best gypsy trumpet band in Serbia no question), Luther Vandross, Mongo Santamaria, Petro Loukas Halkias, Radiohead, Alim Qasimov, Barry Sisters, Serge Gainsbourg, Nino Ferrer, Szaszcsavas Band, Balogh Kalman + Gypsy Cymbalom Orchestra, the sounds of Nachlaot as I wake up on Saturdays, Farid El Atrash, Oum Kulthoum, Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Fairuz, Aris San, NWA, Public Enemy, Keane's 1st single, MC Solaar early days, the Roots, Ergun Senlendirici & Gurup Jaguar, Haud 'Kesem haMizrah', Arabandi with Zohar Fresco, Amir Sha'asar and Taisir Elias, EastWest Ensemble, Eartha Kitt, Vace Zela, Dr Dre, Aphex Twin, Ghostface Killa, PJ Harvey, Dvorak, Vera Bila, Esma Redzepova, Klezmatics, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Enrico Macias, Maurice El Medioni, Russendisko, Georges Brassens, Hugh Masakela
Record Label: unsigned / V2 / Trikont / Freemuse
Type of Label: Indie