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Oi Va Voi (UK)
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November 28, 20:00
Sixteen Tons 
 Over a singular career Oi Va Voi have made a point of transcending genre and defying trends. For more than 10 years now, the band has been making music that can easily fall under a number of diverse labels: "dance," "rock," "electronica," and "world music" can be applied to them, but none of these labels describes the sound of the band to the fullest.
Since 2000 when six young Londoners came together Oi Va Voi issued four albums and each and every one of them presented a unique mixture of genres, including jazz, hip-hop and electronic music. The band's music was impossible to characterize with only one genre, it lived its own life and surprised everyone who heard it for the first time. Furthermore, the band didn't use one language for their lyrics: they wrote in Hebrew, Yiddish, Bulgarian and Hungarian making their songs a truly multicultural carnival.
While Oi Va Voi's former album dates back to the previous decade, the band toured far and wide performing on European's best festivals (like Glastonbury and Sziget) and visiting Turkey and Israel. The group is known in Russia, of course: one of their best hits "Yuri" is dedicated to the first man in space Yuri Gagarin.
For their new album that came out this fall, founding members Josh Breslaw (drums) and Steve Levi (clarinet/vocals), along with Dave Orchant (trumpet), Michael Vinaver (guitars) and Anna Phoebe (violin), are joined by spellbinding vocalist Zohara.
Since the early days with KT Tunstall, through the last album with Rudimental’s Bridgette Amofah, Oi Va Voi have had a knack for sourcing great vocal collaborators. This record is no exception, featuring Zohara prominently on six songs.
“When we first heard her we sent her a track and she sent it straight back with a vocal that blew us away. So we sent her another track – and then another,” says Josh. The result is an album that brims with Oi Va Voi’s traditional strengths of blazing musicianship, insightful songcraft and meticulous production - and adds to that a more ambitious rhythmical texture, along with personal soul and political urgency in Levi’s lyrics and Zohara’s voice.
The new songs will get their first live outing in Russia alongside established favourites from Oi Va Voi’s catalogue when the band makes a visit to Moscow on November 28. Tickets
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