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"Chronique Mondomix"

La Panika fait l’effet de ce charbon ardent qui rallumait le feu des locomotives a vapeur arretees sur la route. La poesie et l’energie qui enfument le chemin invitent au voyage et a l’allegresse, laissant comme seules traces les contours de braise d’une danse d’exil.
- MONDOMIX /N-27 mars-avril 08


"Trad Magazine"

“LA PANIKA, a unique and incredibly gypsy breath!”
- Trad Magazine / n-118 mars/avril 08


"Disques : La Panika"

Ecouter “afan Toufan”, c’est voyager, ailleurs et au fin fond de ses emotions tant les melodies de cette musique-la se jouent de l’allegresse et de la melancolie, avec une commodite etonnante. Ce disque est magnifique, tout simplement, indispensable donc.
- Lille metropole info 11/02/08


"Magazine accordeons & accordeonistes"

“Le groupe nous entraine dans un voyage musical ou l’espace musical melodique reste le fruit de l’echange, du partage et du melange ethnique.”

“C’est un long et palpitant voyage musical sur les terres tziganes au travers de la richesse et du traditionnel et mysterieux univers des Balkans.”

“La Panika est une fanfare saupoudree d’excellents morceaux instrumentaux bien distribues. »
- Magazine accordeons & accordeonistes N-74 avril 08


"Chronique La Panika"

Tout s’enchaine comme dans un mariage ou un bal tsigane. Un petit coup de Panika et les angoisses disparaissent, la vie devient dansante, le ciel bleuit, les nuages s’envolent et le soleil revient.
- Le Presto mars 2008


"Site internet / Sziget 2007"

" La Panika : this French-Bulgarian Gypsy brass band was doubtless the best concert of all Sziget! " - JIKAN


Discography

- "Afan Toufan " (Fev 2008) at L'AUTRE DISTRIBUTION (13 tracks)

- On International Radio (Track 12 "Seliamed/radio edit)
Radio EPRA network, World Music Charts (26 countries), Ferarock network (FR), Radio Campus network (FR), Radio Urgent, La premiere, VRT (BEL)...

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LA PANIKA is a part of fifteen formations of the Compagnie du Tire-Laine, one of the French symbolic collectives where become entangled gypsy musics, klezmers and the other swings gipsies, like Taraf Dekale, La Caravane electro or Swing Gadje.

Brass band but not just that, La Panika is the fruit of one thousand meetings, one thousand tumults, one thousand madnesses, one thousand events... Benito BLANCQUAERT, leader and amazing saxophonist of the formation, meets in 1996 the charismatic gypsy accordionist Arnaud VAN LANCKER (Nono), founder of the Compagnie du Tire-Laine. The projects fuse. He plays with the musicians of the Taraf Borzo, notably together with Jamp LIETAR, highly skilled trumpeter with whom he dashes into an unforgettable tour during which he crosses the Grand Bulgarian Master clarinettist Yvo PAPASOV or still Mladen MALAKOV.

In 2001, Benito discovers in the Ghent streets the accordionist Pesho ELMAZOV a gypsy of Bulgaria, and it is the artistic love at first sight. Meetings which sealed the fate of Panika, that of the Pesho ELMAZOV, Jamp LIETAR and Benito BLANCQUAERT is naturally a part of it. It is the beginning of a brotherly friendship. The soul of La PANIKA was born, a brass band " bulgarian-french-belgium ".

More recently, Apaz DEMIR SEVGILIM (clarinets & singing) and Mitko CHAKAROV (trumpet), two outstanding musicians, direct descendants of the lineage of musicians' big gypsies families which immortalize for centuries, generation after generation, their directory in the region of Shumen in Bulgaria, bring to LA PANIKA this unique and incredibly gypsy breath!

With the success of their first album “Afan Toufan”, released in February 2008, LA PANIKA became an inescapable brass band of the gypsy musics of the Balkans, strongly influenced by the roms musics of the Black Sea. The group counts at the moment more than 300 wanderings and concerts, and so confirms its European dimension.
LA PANIKA was chosen as one of the best band of Sziget Festival 07 (Hungary) !