Alice in WonderBand is a duo performing world music from the Balkans with body music and body percussion. Their performance is vibrating and rhythmic, powerful and energetic, a crossroads of dance, stage movement and music, a deep, primordial experience that takes the audience on a journey through Balkans as well as to the depths of the being. This journey they finish as a singing and clapping community, feeling rooted, grounded and inspired.
Description of the band (long, 120-400 words in English)
Alice in WonderBand is a duo of perfumers making world music and odd beats from Balkans with body music and body percussion. They are performing on stage in theaters and concerts and are a couple in life, as well, for 25 years, living in nature in the outskirts of National park Fruska gora near Sremski Karlovci. Ana’s and Marko’s unique lifestyle brings their music in connection with the body and nature. Their performance is vibrating and rhythmic, powerful and energetic, a crossroads of dance, stage movement and music, a deep, primordial experience that takes the audience on a journey through Balkans as well as to the depths of the being. This journey they finish together with the performer, as a singing and clapping community, feeling rooted, grounded and inspired.
Description of the album RikaTaka, New Balkan Rhythm from Alice in WonderBand is a union of different genres, acoustic and electronic music, tradition and contemporary artist expression. Rooted in Balkan music tradition and irregular rhythms it makes Western heart skip a beat and synchronize it to more primordial sounds of body music. Songs from Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Moldavia, Greece, Turkey, Kosovo, even Hungary offer a wide palette of sounds and rhythms. |