Csokolom

Anti von Klewitz and her band Cs?kolom play music from the heart of Eastern Europe. The violinist absorbed the gypsy music from the Balkans and Hungary at an early age and explores the essence of the music in an exciting and original way - a new voice fusing styles and trends. With her spirited amalgam of gypsy-styled Hungarian, Balkan, klezmer and gypsy-swing music Anti awakens the slumbering Slavic soul of the listener - with passion, humor, a voice that grabs you and a virtuoso band that rocks.

With her spirited amalgam of gypsy-styled Hungarian, Balkan, klezmer and gypsy-swing music Anti awakens the slumbering Slavic soul of the listener - with passion, humor, a voice that grabs you and a virtuoso band that rocks.

Anti von Klewitz grows up with her violin in former Yugoslavia, and absorbs the local Gypsy music from Hungary and the Balkans. She starts a nomadic carreer with Hungarian musicians and plays on stages between Australia and France. In between she fineshes her classical education in Berlin, Germany and studies jazz under Coltrane bass player Reggie Workman. She plays violin in a Cuban-styled Charanga orchestra and dicovers the subtleties of salsa. Then she starts a band of her own: Cs?kolom . The Eastern European repetoire gets a boost by Anti's secret recipe: gypsy-swing, klezmer roots, a good portion of earthy blues feeling, a teaspoon of salsa and her voice - referred to as "Patti Smith of the Balkans". Cs?kolom is discovered in the US, enters the studio and gets worldwide acclaim.

from: www.csokolom.com