Balkan Khans - Balkan Taka Dina Ta (live at Sziget Festival 2013)

Balkan Khans - "Balkan Taka Dina Ta" (by Nikolai Ivanov, arrangement Balkan Khans) Live at Sziget Festival 2013 ROMA SATOR (Gipsy Tent), 1Oth of August 2013 Venci Takev - violin Nikolai Ivanov - keyboards, voice, compositions Skiller - beat box Kolio Ivanov - tupan, bagpipe The "BALKAN KHANS" had their first gigs as one of the live experiments at the "BALKAN SCIENTISTS" parties in Sofia - a unique meeting point in the town where musicians with strong personalities coming from very different backgrounds, ethnicities and generations join their forces. That is how it became possible for the 68 years old gypsy violin virtuoso Venci Takev to share one stage with the 26 years old Bulgaria's beat box phenomena (and world champion of 2012) Skiller, the multi-instrumentalist and global fusion composer Nikolai Ivanov to meet the gypsy gaida (bagpipe) and tupan master Kolio Ivanov who rearly leaves his native little town of Straldja...