PREVIEW: Ring Ring Festival, Belgrade, Yugoslavia May 10 - 16 2001, www.cyberrex.org [05-05-2001]  |  Heather The Ring Ring festival in Belgrade boasts the discerning musical predilections of a place normally associated with bombs and not basses. Defying financial, circumstantial, political and all kinds of other odds to bring outstanding music to the halls of Belgrade is obviously an incredible undertaking in a land so torn by strife piggybacked by financial hardship, social upset, and of course unfriendly Nato bombings. The festival's artistic director Bojan Djordjevic has worked for years with notorious pirate/post-pirate radio network Free B-92, and is a walking resourcebook on world and Balkan music, and also has his fingers in many pies concerning distribution, publishing CDs and music, and above all booking and concert promotions. This year, Ring Ring hosts international talent including Peter Brotzmann (DE), Iva Bittova (CZ), Taraf de Haidouks (RU) as well as local wizards Blank Disc and Ognjen i Prijatelji. See the festival's homepage for more information and line-ups from previous Ring Ring festivals, and stay tuned to Tamizdat for a heart-warming Ring Ring festival review coming soon to Tamizdat! RING RING 2001 May 10 PETER BROTZMANN/MICHAEL WERTMULLER (Germany/Switzerland) KISS ERZSI KISS ZENE (Hungary) May 11 BLANK DISC (Yugoslavia) DANGEREUX ZHOMS (Canada) May 12 IVA BITTOVA (Czech Republic) METAMKINE (France) May 13 DIANE LABROSSE/PIERRE TANGUAY (CANADA) KAFFE MATTHEWS (Great Britain) LARS HOLLMER UTSIKTER (Sweden/Belgium/Germany) tbc May 14 CARLO ACTIS DATO QUARTET (Italy) METAMORPHOSIS (Austria/Slovakia) May 15 OGNJEN I PRIJATELJI (Yugoslavia/Switzerland) TARAF DE HAIDOUKS (Rumania) May 16 BARUTANA DJIVAN GASPARYAN (Armenia) tbc ....from Ring Ring's website, an invitation to you: "Alternative, avantgarde, druga godba, another music, musique actuelle, new music, druga nova muzika. So many labels for something so simple and exciting. Magic of discovery and joy for best musicians from here are sharing scene with worldwide known musicians of new music. World music, chamber music, alternative rock, improvisation, jazz, noise, new instruments, new meetings. Two world premieras and four Balkan premieras! All at one venue. "Cinema REX" is meant to be the place where contemporary tendencies in art are meeting and being fulfilled, so, this is the right place for such festival. Few hundreds of them through the year all over the world. One more on the list is just the first step for us. Welcome!
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