Doch are an unusual success story - at an average age of 29, they've built a
solid touring base on the club and festival circuit in Australia and New
Zealand peddling the music of Eastern Europe. And if that wasn't unusual enough, they aren't, as one reviewer pointed out, necessarily 'culturally entitled' to play this style of music, which makes their complete resonance with it all the more spectacular. Sharing the formal training of the Queensland Conservatorium, the seven musicians who make up Doch have managed to bring 'gypsy' solidly into the mainstream without compromising the integrity of the music, breathing new life into the traditions with their meticulous arrangements and youthful exuberance. The Doch repertoire ranges from the cacophony of big-band wedding music to dance tunes in the oddest of time signatures, cabaret-style French chanson to rousing Serbian anthems, Russian tavern songs to the musical equivalent of a break-neck highway chases.
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The music of The Woohoo Revue is the essence of celebration, with tunes derived from a culture where a wedding can last for days. Formed in 2008, this local highly acclaimed modern gypsy band features members of The Counterfeit Gypsies and The Red Eyes. The sound is Balkan, Eastern European influenced, with furious traditional melodies, while the rhythm section takes the group out of the folk clubs and onto the big stage. Overall, the sound reflects the unique experience of a ?gypsy? band raised on Melbourne dance-floors with wild Balkan melodies carried by Latin, rock and big-band swing. The Woohoo Revue's debut CD is Dear Animals.
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