Nazzine Presents THE DESTROYERS 19 // 04 // 13

Oh Yes!!! It's gonna be a cracker!!! 14 people on the Penelope's stage. The Destroyers at their most intimate!!! Megafolk Balkan Brass in your face Sheffield!!!!!

Early bird tickets at £9. More on the door. Book early!!!

New Destroyers CD available for download from the link below.

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/hole-in-the-universe/id504927032

Mama Matrix at Penelope's this week !!!

This is happening this week. We know that Mama Matrix are going to rock the club down!! Coming back to Sheffield this weekend. This is the 3rd time we've put them on and they have not let us down yet!! Great Balkano Punky and Ska vibes with huge slashings of folky stuff. Big on the Tuba and violin creating many levels of enjoyment. As we know, we like things that build up into crazy frenzy!! This will happen we know it is true. You know that you will not be able to stand still and you will dance to dramatic happenings. Bring it on we say!!!

Our DJs will bring you many nice things to shake your body to. DJs say they will bring celebration to happening times. Giving you tunes from old times that put many smiles on enthusiastic faces. 

If something has been lost then our DJs will have historical knowledge of being 'in the old times'. Bringing it back to what it has meaning of being.  

You can rest assured that there will be a big helping of Gypsy Punk. 'It is guaranteed' - they say and not just a catchword to put on a poster. 

It is not a name to just hide behind - One old DJ has been a punk most of his life and has been a Romanichal of the British Romanies all his goddam life. Not having a baro shero about being a kushtie chavvie - just stating facts of life for interests of presenting the true ethos behind Nazdrove Fanzine. But we will explain more in future happenings. 

The other young DJ, a tikno of considerable talents is also of kushtie dicking Romanichals. Showing you that Naz Zine presents itself with fine components of having great connections to the music that we play. Gypsy Blood in our veins, Kaulo ratti  and Punk Rock historical points making for bulging pockets of celebration. We win but not in self congratulatory pat on back stance. We can't help that we were lucky. 

We will also bring you much Russian and Eastern European ska. We know you love it and sometimes we feel when we see it on poster and turn up and it is hardly played and we feel a little sad at this mishappening. The DJs say it will be of maximum force and played to help you move your feet. We put it on our poster and we play it and not hide behind false pretence and rumour. 

We are also making great promise of bringing you some fine Gypsy Brass, a sprinkling of GypHop and some baro, baro Balkan beats. You come to dance, Yes?

and more //Taraf // Gogol // Boban// Bregovic// VVV// and more

With final instalment of saying, we bring you some food for partaking in another sensory pleasure. The Naz Zine Kollective has always taken pride in bringing food to the Nazdrove Table so to speak. We plan to have a cake on the night of this fun return. 

Kumpania Tzigane Festival, Toulouse 2007

Kumpania Tzigane Festival, Toulouse June 2007

We were traveling through the Languedoc region of France the other summer and decided to check out this festival. After much driving around the Toulouse ring roads without much of a clue where we were going we spotted across the fields the hallmarks of a festival - marquees and a random assortment of vans, and made towards it. What we found down a little lane was the most splendid squatted buildings - "Terre Blanque".  We pulled up our van into the parking spot for the "Living in a White Van" tribe and set out to check out the place before the festival kicked off. 

We managed to find out that Terra Blanque is a long running community of radical artists and activists. What they had done with the buildings was amazing - some of them even had Gaudi - esque facades grafted onto the buildings. It just shows what you can achieve with a squatted space if you can hang on to it longer than a month! Around the land was an amazing assortment of live in vehicles and even a boat. The field out the back was where the festival was to take place with an outdoor stage, bar (also serving food for a few euros) and a large marquee. The assembling crowd was a happy mix of alternative types and mums and dads from Toulouse.

As the sun went down the bands took to the stage. Out of the three bands the stand out one for us was the first band - Traio Romano (Gypsies from Trannsylvania living in France - check out their myspace), playing Gypsy Jazz accompanied by an amazing woman dancer. Their children also kept trying to be naughty and climb onto the stage only to be told off by the band! Late into the night the beats kicked off in the marquee as Kumpania Tzigane DJ's took to the decks joined from time to time by the younger members of Traio Romano to do some impromtu vocals, and later in the night the older blokes in the band gave it a go as well. Finally by dawn we dragged ourselves, tired, danced out and mosquito bitten, back to the van for some kip.

Kumpania Tzigane are a long running collective promoting gyspy, balkan and klezmer culture, who do loads of other events as well as their annual festival -  check them out on at www.myspace/kumpaniatzigani

Top 5 Tunes - Yuriy Gurzhy - Nazzine No.1

The Nazdrove music files

File contents: Russendisko Top 5 

Date: Dec. 2008

Name: Yuriy Gurzhy

Occupation: Russendisko

Last known location: Berlin

Last known URL: www.myspace.com/yuriygurzhy

                www.myspace.com/russendiskoberlin

RotFront - Sovietoblaster

From the forthcoming "Emigrantski Raggamuffin"-LP. 

After 5 years of the band's existence we finally knew we were ready... in April 2008 we went to the Phlexton Studio with Kraans De Lutin, who produced our first album.

"Sovietoblaster" is a story of a DJ who goes to the Eastern Europe searching for the old records on the flea-markets, taking a train from Vladivostok to Moscow, getting drunk for 7 days and nights in the dining car, spinning there the vinyls he just bought, and falling in love  with the Dancing Queen from Kiev, Ukraine.   

Emigrantski Raggamuffin Power meets German finest reggae-dub producer inna Vodka Hits Nonstop-Stylee!  

www.myspace.com/rotfrontberlin

Konsonans Retro - Freilachs Nr. 5

The funkiest brass band from the Eastern Europe today! Forget all the sad and dull klezmer served to you recently, dig this - a family band from Kodyma, Ukraine - they learned their repertoire straight from their fathers who used to play in the mixed jewish-ukrainian-moldovan wedding bands before the World War II - these guys stay faithfull to those original tunes and arrangements. This is the unpolished, authentic roots music at its best! Featured on the newest Russendisko compilation "Ukraine Do Amerika".

www.myspace.com/konsonansretro 

Perkalaba - Boogay

Raw power from the Carpathian mountains - crazy hutzuls with a tsimbl and a horn section playing their very personal take on reggae and ska, doing so with the intencity of The Stooges - and, seeing their singer in action, I bet Iggy Pop would be wondering where to get the same drugs.Both their albums are strongly recommended - absolutely essential listening! 

www.myspace.com/perkalaba

GOLEM - Train Across Ukraine

New Golem record (to be released on JDub in February 2009) is hot! Playing at the weddings every weekend, this band from New York knows how to rock without electric guitars or computer beats. The bands sound is tighter than ever, and the album features mainly Golem's own songs and less coverversions. The highlights include a klezmer analogue of "Je T'Aime.. Moi Non Plus" (sung in Yiddish), and the title song "Train Across Ukraine", among others.

www.myspace.com/golemrocks 

Poimannye Muravyedy - Marlboro

Imagine Molotov would come not from Mexico, but from Russia - that's the fastest way to describe how the band with one of the most exotic names in the world ("Poymanie Muraviedi" means "The Trapped Anteaters") sounds. Musically it's latinocore with a shot of russian melancholy, lyrically 80% is about sex, 10% about revolution, and the rest 10 about sex and revolution.One of their revolutionary strategies is giving away their album as MP3s from their official website.Go and download it NOW! And feel free to donate, the bank details in Russian can be found on the same page.

www.myspace.com/poimannyemuravyedy