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Friends!

Your friendly neighborhood Hat Dance (the Caspian one) is proud to announce that we have finished our debute CD, 'we say no talk', copyleft 2008 Fishbowl Studios.

We were also lucky enough to get a beautiful spread about us in the March issue of Oor magazine, alongside Fanfare Ciocarlia and Gogol Bordello; and
to be on AT5 for 6 minutes :)

The release party, consisting of a mini folk music festival, ridiculous acrobatics, fire dancers and more will take place on March 29 on the squatted terrain known as Circus Nomadome.

There will be no DJ sets, just live acoustic music (amplified ofcourse).
When the amplified music is legally required to stop the music will continue well into the night with just instruments. if you play in an acoustic band or just play an instrument you are invited and required to play.

The other confirmed acts are Branko Galoic Band, Raromski, and Amsterdam street musicians.

About the CD:

There has been a lot of speculation about our new CD.
Will it be shiny?
Will there be a prize inside?
Will it make the children cry?

Unfortunately there is also a lot of speculation in the Amsterdam housing market.
Will you have a roof this winter?
Will the nice man who bought your house in 1990 for 100,000 guilders try to sell it this year for 1 million euros?

We are proud to say that all the recording took place in two amsterdam squats, engineered by a misbehaved but generally well-mannered guitar player named valentino; and that all mixing, production, artwork, propaganda,
distribution, booking and tour management has been done entirely by us, with help from our friends.

Don't I already have this CD?

Nope.
What you might have is the pre-release from last year. This release contains those songs, remixed, plus 6 more, including 2 originals; and an expanded 16-page booklet.

What's in it for me?

It's always 'me me me' with you!
Well ok.
If you still have the pre- release you can trade it for the new CD and pay just 5 euros.
Please no scratched cds or messed up inlays.

And, if you can help us pull off this event, you can go for free.
Here's the 'help from our friends' part.
Please email back to this address if you are interested.

What we need is:

- Help with acrobatics (ropes etc.);
- People to take tickets, maybe serve or make food, run
- around and deliver messages and do miscellaneous
- things;
- A chick with a walkie-talkie, not necessarily functional.
- A tall young man in a uniform with a flashlight or a stick,
- not necessarily functional.

How can a stick not be functional?

I don't know. This interview is over.

About the bands:

Raromski is a Balkan/Gypsy/Swing band consisting of accordion, clarinet, violin, tapan, and a charismatic singer. Their album On Air was released in September 2007.

Croatian Branko Galoic composes, plays, and sings music influenced by Balkan traditional and Gypsy music mixed with blues and pop, with guitar, saxophone, trombone, tuba, and drums.
His album 'Above The Roofs' is already out in Croatia, the Netherlands, Bosnia, England, France, Germany, Spain,
Italy, the Czech Republic, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Japan, and has been voted jazz CD of the week by the Independent.

The Street Musicians are found everywhere throughout Amsterdam, playing incredible Balkan and Gypsy music to an audience of only passers-by.
We have taken it upon ourselves to gather them and invite them to our humble party to play for a real audience. yes, that's you.

Our fast songs have gotten faster, our slow songs have gotten slower.
Our good songs have gotten better, and our bad songs have gotten ... faster.

Sluit dit scherm.