With the support of RCINY, NIGHTLOSERS, a Transylvanian band that stretches the limits of American blues, R&B, Romanian folk and traditional Gypsy music, will perform at the 7th globalFEST in New York on January 10. The festival is presented by Joe's Pub at The Public Theater, Acidophilus and World Music Institute in association with The Bowery.
For seven years globalFEST has been the springboard festival for world music artists on the brink of North American national main stage success, performers known in one community but ready to cross into others, and the marquee stars of tomorrow. globalFEST 2010 showcases 12 artists from around the world on 3 stages: French Gypsy jazz with breakbeats, cumbia-fied downtempo Argentine club sounds, soul-stirring Colombian roots, new generation Louisiana fiddling, Africa unplugged, Irish traditional song, Senegalese roots reggae, Central Asian avant rock, Romanian hybrid blues, New York salsa upstarts, and a Gwo-ka master from Guadeloupe all under one roof at New York City's Webster Hall.
About Nightlosers Nightlosers is a Romanian blues-ethno-rock band renowned for their ability to find common roots between American blues, Irish country-rock and genuine Eastern European folk. Their sound is chameleonic - a measured blend of passion and irony – mastering sound devices from overdriven guitar to poplar leaf – with a good dose of Transylvanian temper.
Film director & musician Hanno Höfer created Nightlosers in the Transylvanian city of Cluj in 1994. Coincidentally, the band members, all Romanian born, have different ethnic roots – German, Hungarian, Gypsy.
The Nightlosers are known for their unusual tricks performed on violin and guitar. Their gigs often include a mix of Romanian gymnastics on other sound devices such as poplar leafs and ceramic waterbirds mixed with plum brandy to inspire what they call the "Groove Distillery". They can play their instruments behind their backs, around their necks or suspended in mid-air as if it were the most natural thing to do.
Press "On summer holiday in Transylvania, I expected the occasional brush with local folk music in one form or another. I certainly didn't expect to discover a band playing the most bizarre combination of blues, R&B and eastern European gypsy music I've ever encountered in all my days as a music critic. But that's what happened to me… One thing I know for sure: put them on at the next Meltdown series and [Nightlosers will] steal the show." - Keith Shadwick, The Independent
