Kiwi Invasion III

w/ The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band, An Emerald City & DJ Balkanetic
Lovelite
Simplonstraße 38
Freidrichshain, Berlin 10245

The third and last Kiwi Invasion gig in Berlin for a while as the Kiwis amass and begin their migration south for the winter.

Hailing from the slums and ghettos of Auckland (the Prague of the South), The Benka Boradovsky Bordello Band bring their unique brand of highly theatrically East-European Apocalyptic Debauchery to those in need, wherever they may be. Expect spontaneous combustion in the audience, clothes thrown off in frivolous rampage, macabre stories, legs turning into snakes, much musical and physical inebriation, and dancing, dancing, dancing… When Balkan, Punk, Cabaret and Swing combine, nuclear meltdowns of worlds begin.

An Emerald City album review…

“For my money this band is the most interesting, musically ambitious and creative I have seen in this country in many years. They possess that rarity in New Zealand music, an aesthetic sensibility — and it manifests itself in instrumental music which exotic, evocative, rides intelligent dynamics and is endlessly evolving. The instrumentation is based around rock (guitars, keyboards, rhythm section) but into that they pull Persian lute, sitar, violin . . . It makes for an album that almost seems to grow in your hearing, to take on a life of its own. It is quasi-psychedelic, improvised world music at one level, but sounds like nothing else in New Zealand’s musical landscape.”GRAHAM REID, ELSEWHERE

DJ Balkanetic plays Balkan/gypsyfloor/middle eastern/global musical delights for your ears and dancing feet.