Saluzzo: Goran Bregović in concert in July

Renowned Bosnian musician and composer, internationally acclaimed Goran Bregović guest at "Ocitt'amo Festival" in Saluzzo.

July 24th will be the highlight of a Festival that celebrates tradition and land, and their history. Goran Bregovic Is the perfect guest for this event whose goal is to bring alive ancient notes of the valleys in a contemporary way and to meet them with international rhythms.

Goran and the Wedding & Funeral Band will perform their great hits in a concert with overwhelming rhythms, mixing the sound of a Tzigan fanfare with those of an electric guitar, in a crackling mix that blends jazz, tangos and folk rhythms, Turkish notes and Bulgarian polyphonies, Orthodox Church male singers and modern rock beats, which have made Bregovic concerts among the most engaging in the international scene.

Echoes from Jewish and Gypsy weddings, chants from Orthodox and Catholic Church, Muslim invocations.   His music comes from that terrible frontier where for centuries Catholics, Orthodox Christians and Muslims made war and lived together.

Born in Sarajevo of a Serbian mother and a Croatian father, Goran Bregovic - after a few years of (very unenthusiastic) music studies at the conservatory (violin) - forms his first group “The White Button” at the age of sixteen.  Composer and guitar player, he admits his immoderate love for rock n'roll. Studies of philosophy and sociology would most certainly have landed him teacher of Marxist thought, had the gigantic success of his first record not decided otherwise.  Follow fifteen years with his group "The White Button", marked by marathon-tours and endless sessions of autographing in which Goran plays youth idol in Eastern countries until he's sick and tired of it.  

At the end of the eighties Bregovic takes time away from this permanent hustle-bustle to compose music for Kusturica’s "Times of the Gypsies", and to make his childhood dream come true: to live in a small house on an island in the Adriatic.  The War in Yugoslavia shatters this, and many other dreams, and Goran has to abandon everything to find exile in Paris… starting point for roaming the world with his music that made him a honorary citizen of Buenos Aires, Tirana and Athens and honorary Doctor of Music from Sheffield University, UK.

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