Oi Va Voi
OI VA VOI burst into life back in 2000, the six members of the group drawing on disparate musical experiences. Trumpeter Lemez Lovas started out DJing leftfield jazz, Latin and hip hop, drummer Josh Breslaw had hit the fatback beat in hip hop and rock outfits and Sophie Solomon played out as a drum n bass DJ as well as gaining praises from Nigel Kennedy among others for her talent as a violinist.
Then last year the group received two nominations in the BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards, the only artists to be nominated for both the Boundary Crossing and Listeners' Award categories; and all this from a band that then had no official CD release to their name.
Then when a proper release did happen, it's easy to see how Oi Va Voi's album`LAUGHTER THROUGH TEARS' made it on NY Time's top ten album of the years list. Sometimes music even this good likes to slip under our radar.
Download :: Oi Va Voi - Refugee.mp3
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Saturday, September 17, 2005
