Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Kolbasti

Recently I accidentally discovered this:



It is kolbasti and according to my Turkish friends it is a style of music and dance originating from the Laz communities in the Trabzon area. I am desperate to learn more, so please do post a comment if you have any information about it. Musically it fits with other keyboard-fetishizing styles in the region (from the slower Albanian tallava to the Syrian take on dabke, as popularized by Omar Souleyman's "Leh Jani").

The dance seems to omnivorously appropriate global elements from the C-Walk to Chechen sufi stomping.

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

wow !
bad ass turkish b-boys !

2:10 PM  

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