I caught these guys at the HotHouse last week after Doug called me to check them out. Doug also plays with local live hip hop band Organic Mind Unit, whose Verbal Kent recently dropped a solo album “What Box?” Goran is a talented Serbian guitar player, and the set consisted of what sounded like Balkan folk songs used as the basis for broad improvisation and experimental arrangements. It worked well, and while it’d be a stretch to consider the music klezmer influenced, once could compare this stripped down ensemble to their more raucous cousins the Slavic Soul Party, though they are nowhere as traditional a lineup as say, Boban Markovic’s Brass Band. Rosenberg is a gifted player, and I look forward to his development
