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Press
LIRA 13/9-2008: "If this group earlier was "good to be Swedish" they shall not be embarassed to be compared with the best roma Balkan groups. Fast, rythmical and very tight." Ulf Torstensson
Eskilstuna-Kuriren 26/11-2004: "Full-fledged and decided perspiring party music which puts color to any party. I promise." Peter Bornemar
Dagens-Nyheter 6/10-2004: "one of Sweden´s more succesful but anyway quite unknown live concepts" Andreas Ekström
Värnamo-Nyheter 4/8-2004: "Anyone who lives his life without this CD I feel sorry for..." Dan Östberg
Piteå-Tidning 3/7-2004: "Süperstar offered an ensemble playing with lovely bombastisc brass arrangements." MAGNUS EDHOLM
Dala-Demokraten 7/2-2004: " You can feel Süperstar Orkestar all over your body" Lennart Götesson
Västerbottens-Kuriren 23/2-2004: "Süperstar Orkestar - a real party band" Jan Westerlund
Västerbottens-Folkblad 23/2-2004: "Those who left the room after Süperstars magic explosion didn´t miss anything." Carl Rehnberg
Västerbottens-Folkblad 21/2-2004: "With süperstar Orkestar on stage it´s party" Lars Böhlin
Västerbottens-Kuriren 20/2-2004: "music has to come from the soul" Jan Westerlund
Gävle-Dagblad at FaluFolkmusikFestival 21/7-2001: "one of the most powerful music I ever have experienced" Andreas Jakobsson
Falu-Kuriren i Hultsfred 13/7-2001: "People get happy from Süperstar Orkestar. That´s good." Göran Petterson - Different
Discography
Own Cd’s:
Süperstar orkestar 2001
Süper internazional 2004
Balkanized 2008
Participation:
Zana Talk to me 2006
Röd den vanligaste mannen i världen 2008
Balkan lines 2008
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Bio
Since the band started out in 1997 they have fulfilled most of a Swedish Balkan brass band´s dreams. They have been touring in Macedonia and Serbia, played at the famous Guca festival and with the brass bands of Sutka, the Roma suburb of Skopje, toured with Ferus Mustafov and played at most scenes in Sweden: Konserthuset, Södra Teatern, Fasching, Nefertiti, Jeriko...
They have also done some things they could never have dreamt of, like playing in Swedish national televison with the dance band Thorleifs and leading probably the largest Balkan band in the world consisting of 500 young musicians.
On their new record there are traces of a lot of recent projects. King Ferus Mustafov, one of the great masters of Roma music is featured on five tracks and Thorleif Torstensson has record an exclusive Balkan version of his greatest hit ¨Gråt Inga Tårar¨ that everyone should hear. Abba's ¨Voulez Vous¨ has filled many dance floors since the band started playing it a couple of years ago. On the record that tune and several others has been recorded with two drummers to increase the intensity and on some other tracks the master drummer Hakan Vreskala has laid out a rich texture of Turkish rhythms.
On ¨Balkanized¨ Süperstar Orkestar wants present a variety of styles from the Balkans and some from Sweden, always with that rough energy and swing that is typical for the Roma brass bands that have inspired them and driven them to keep developing musically through the years.
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