If you’re planning a wedding, and looking for music that’s fresh, irresistible and completely unexpected, you might want to consider The Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar, a cutting-edge Gypsy brass band from southern Serbia. A new best-of compilation called Golden Horns puts the group’s wild, genre-bending flair on full display.
Golden Horns may sound at times like a work of brass-band punk rock, but it’s actually full of traditional songs like “Udri Mile,” filtered through the Orkestar’s rich imagination. The jazzy pump of “Dzumbus Funk” — that’s “Chaos Funk” in English — also showcases the group’s experimental vision.
Trumpeter Boban Markovic started out leading a local village band and soon found himself at the crest of a Balkan brass music wave in the 1990s. Original songs like “Khelipe E Cheasa” proved surprisingly successful on dance floors throughout Europe.
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