Baltic Balkan - Party Like The Last Time in Your Life! 
Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, was always the meltdown of the Baltic, Jewish,  Polish, Tatar, Karaite, German and Gypsy cultures. The homeland of Jascha Hefeitz, where every traditionalist backyard was still listening to the klezmer music wind coming from the East and the South, it is also a starting point for the Baltic Balkan project. This musical and performance artist endeavor was inspired by listening to original Yugoslav punk rock, as well as countless musical festivals in Europe and movies with a true Balkan (and Baltic) spirits. Three men and a dog appeared on Baltic clubbing scene in the year 2008.  The Baltic Balkan took Lithuanian audience by storm, as everyone was longing for true fire in dance and drinking. The Baltic Balkan performances visited clubs and concert halls in major Baltic cities, as well as  festivals. The Baltic Balkan has hosted three series of incredibly successful Balkan parties – “Baltic Balkan Bang”, “Caravan” and the recent “Balkanaktis”.

After gaining the experience of playing alongside such an acts as „Fanfara Ciocarlia” (Romania), „Dubioza Kolektiv”(Bosnia), „Slobodan Salijevic Orkestar”(Serbia), „Colectiff Istambul” (Turkey), „Balkan Khans” (Bulgaria), „Romengo” and „Söndörgö” (Hungary), „Gypsy Hill“ (UK), Jaakko Laitinen & Väärä Raha, Dalindeo (Finland), „Tibble Transibirisska“, „Süperstar Orkestar“ (Sweden), „El Remolón“, „La Yegros“(Argentina), „Barcelona Gipsy Balkan Orchestra“ (Spain), Inculto (LT), and DJs – Shantel, Robert Soko, Dunkelbunt, Dj Click, Gaetano Fabri, Gypsy Sound System, Tactical Groove Orbit, Dj Little Tune, Gypsy Box, Dj Grounchoo, Captain Cumbia, Malalata, DJ AK, La Bolschevita, Belaj Kru Sound, Dj SebCat, Funklore, Boris Viande, Warsaw Balkan Madness, Dj Pontell, Papa BO, ZhamoZha, SuperStereo and Mondo Cane. The Baltic Balkan company lead their way to the free world. They have set the nights on fire in Liepaja, Vespils, Riga, Tallinn, Krakow, Lodz, Gdansk, Warsaw, Prag, Brno, Bratislava, Žilin, Wiesbaden, Nurnberg, Frankfurt, Berlin, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Ås, Oslo, Leksand, Stockholm, Paris, Amiens, Grenoble, Lion, Brussels, Gent, Antwerpen, Fribourg, Geneve, Segovia, Sevilla, Barcelona, London and Prishtina. The crew was invited to open the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland, "Laba Daba" in Latvia, “GoEast” Film Festival in Wiesbaden, Germany, “Nuit Blanche” Amiens Festival in France, “Balkan Fever Helsinki” in Finland, "Rumpus" and “Boomtown Fair 2018/2019” in UK, gala party “Prishtina Film Festival” in Kosovo and have performed at “Volt 2011” and "Sziget 2013" in Hungary alongside their heroes "Mahalai Rai Banda", "Parno Graszt", Kusturica "The No Smoking Orchestra", "Balkanik 2017" in Bucharest with Fanfare Ciocârlia feat. Adrian Raso & Devi's Tale, Kolektif Istanbul, Yasmine Hamdan, "Lyon Gypsy Festival 2019" in France and 2023 with Balkan Beats Tokio in Japan.

Discography:
Debut album "Katapulta" EP released in August 3, 2012 on Maasto Records, Finland is a unique collaboration between two driving forces in the Vilnius alternative world music scene; the fire-setting balkan / gypsy / klezmer DJ unit Baltic Balkan, and the minimal post brass outfit Banda Dzeta. 
In 2015 started a collaboration with French DJs, MCs and producers - Dj Click, MC Kasper (Monkey Theorem), Boris Viande and Tactical Groove Orbit. Resulting in nice tours and fresh remixes. Also features a collab with Fanfara Transilvania (Ro) and a Dubioza Kolektiv (BiH) remix.
In 2016 released second EP "Balkantinnitus"  on Vlad Ghetto Folk Label, Paris. 
Klezmer inspired EP "Litvish" 2017, released also on Vlad Ghetto Folk Label, Paris.
In 2019 in coloboration with Swedish band Tibble Transibirisska and most popular Hip Hop band in LT singer Kastetas released remake of song "Hop Hop Digiday".
In 2023 was released The New (first LP) Baltic Balkan album “Bazaar“.
The New Baltic Balkan album “Bazaar“ can be described like a 2 year long journey from North Africa to Lithuania. Crossing the Gibraltar and recording the song „Lento“with the majestic Spanish singer Sandra Carrillo, enriching the song with Spanish rhythms and passion.
Next stop a wedding in the Balkans which results in a major 2 day hangover. After that is Berlin, the club Panke, where the band collaborates with a local Lithuanian MC Liežuvis and create the song „Lietus“. Quick trip back to Lithuania to record the summer hit Bum Pam.
Not staying too long at home it is off to the land of the raising sun – Japan. Where our travelling Lithuanian gypsies meet the band „Otoji + Ray“ from the local „Balkan Beats“ movement. They collaborate together in the track “Jebel tariq“, which our Japanese friends include in their current repertoire.
Back at home, the records are crowned by the collaboration with musician/actor Mantas Zemleckas, from the Lithuanian band „Kamanių Šilelis“ on the Jew harp and mandolin.
Bazzar is an album that will take you on a journey you to distant lands and experiences.

The composer, singer and flutist Tamara Obrovac from the Croatian city of Pula is one of the most impressive artists on the Croatian music scene. Her ethnically inspired contemporary Mediterranean jazz is influenced by the particular musical and dialectal traditions of her homeland, the Croatian coastal region of Istria.
She writes lyrics in local dialects, of Slavic and Romanic origin, and sings in other ancient and endangered Istrian dialects.
In addition to her international concert activities, she composes music for theatre and film, and she has received many awards for her work, including 8 Croatian national discographic awards Porin (Croatian Grammy).

Her main bands, the international Transhistria Ensemble (Histria is an ancient name for Istra), and her Quartet incorporates elements of jazz, Istrian and Mediterranean music, and many elements of modern music skilfully and naturally, and her utterly original and autochthonous music goes beyond time and geographical boundaries, thus becoming a universal artistic message which establishes Tamara Obrovac as an exceptional artist who has created her own unique musical expression."

“She tornadoes through the stage leaving in her wake an ever increasing number of fans...”
—  Birgit Gabler, Concerto magazine 

"...Obrovac indigenous music found attentive ears in the audience. Her charismatic voice and moves captured quickly the audience..."
—  Mehdi El Mouden, All About Jazz 

"With her brilliant performance she has presented the best of the Mediterranean; the melancholy of fado, the lightness of tarantella and the lyrics in Croatian have melted with the fury of the accordion player Fausto Beccalossi so organically that the following concert of Richard Galliano Piazzolla Forever Septet seemed nothing but perfectly boring."
—  Josef Engels, Jazzthing 

"Cansoneita" ("A Small Song") performed by Obrovac with the Transhistria Ensemble, is a floating, beguiling track, with spacious drumming, tuneful accordion and a delicious lead vocal by Obrovac. 
(BBC Radio 3 World music Awards nominees compilation review)
—  John L Walters, The Guardian 

"She is an audience-captivating phenomenon. With her trio she brought a different kind of energy and soon had the crowd pleading for more. Obrovac has a phenomenal stylistic range and has the temerity to want to take her trio into any number of moods."
—  Sebastian Scotney, London Jazz News 

“Musical Document from Eternity of Universe" - In the interpretations included in this album ("Madirosa"), Tamara artlessly and logically unites a serious approach and joke, tradition and modernity, classical music and ethno, formal demands and freedom, melody and improvisation, regional and middle-European.”
—  Davor Hrvoj, CD review

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