Darko Rundek&Cargo Orkestar

The project initially stemmed from Darko Rundek’s songs which are intrinsically poetic and rich in images. They also incorporate a musical tradition with a potential for accepting diverse influences, first the Balkans, Central Europe and the Mediterranean, then reggae, South American, eastern, electronic, African…The melting-pot of musicians with very different backgrounds, with their own strong individuality and respective skills, has enabled an expansion and deepening of this potential towards a musically open blend, a cross-cultural Corto-Maltesian journey, with flexibility and freedom for instant creative expression, improvisation, play, fun… Also, the introduction of electronics via loops and different sound treatments brings a modern, urban touch, in the same way as the simultaneously projected video strengthens the visual aspect and the translations enable Rundek’s poetry to be available to an international audience.The show retains its informal and open feel just as much in small concert-halls as in large stadiums.