Äl Jawala

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Äl Jawala
General information
origin Freiburg , Germany
Genre (s) Balkan beats , dancehall , crossover
founding 2000
Website www.jawala.de
Current occupation
Steffi Schimmer
Alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
Krischan Lukanov
Markus Schumacher
Drums, percussion, keyboard, didgeridoo
Daniel Pellegrini
Ben Krahl (since 2016)
former members
Electric bass
 Daniel Verdier (2004-2016)
Äl Jawala 2011
Äl Jawala live in the Kuppel , Basel, 2012

Äl Jawala [ æl dʒa'væla ], from Arabic, meaning "the travelers", "the wanderers", "traveling people", is a Freiburg quintet whose music style ranges between Balkan soul, dance beat and modern klezmer .

history

Äl Jawala began their career in 2000 as a quartet (still without bass). In the first few years they toured mainly as street musicians. With the Bucovina Club of Balkan pop -DJ Shantel they gave concerts in 2005 and entered 2007 with the No Smoking Orchestra of Emir Kusturica on.

The group toured with numerous concerts on streets and festivals through Central and Eastern Europe (Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria to Bulgaria), for example played in 2005 and 2006 at the Stufstockfestival in Vama Veche in Romania.

Äl Jawala was awarded the City of Emmendingen's Culture Prize and the Jury Prize and Audience Prize at the Creole Festival for World Music.

Discography

  • Urbanâtya (2002)
  • BalkanBigBeatz - Live (2004)
  • Live At Jazzhaus Freiburg (2005)
  • Lost In Manele (2008, appearance at Tollhaus Karlsruhe in January 2007)
  • Asphalt Pirate Radio (2009)
  • The Asphalt Pirate Remixes (2011) download release
  • The Ride (2011)
  • Blast Your Ghetto Remixes (2012)
  • LIVE (October 2013 on ENJA Records)
  • Voodoo Rag / Satellite (Single / EP, 2014)
  • Road To Eldorado (Single / EP, 2015)
  • Hypnophonic (2016)
  • Lovers (2018)

Web links

Commons : Äl Jawala (musical group)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b band information at fudder.de ( memento from January 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on July 14, 2009)
  2. ↑ a b c Short review of the EP Road To Eldorado , record hodgepodge of February 4, 2015 on Popshot.over-blog.de, accessed on February 5, 2015