FREE DOWNLOAD (or "pay-what-you-want"):
http://masalasound.bandcamp.com (10 track version)
http://shazalakazoo.bandcamp.com (5 track version)

Also available at virtually every streaming service 
(if it's not there yet - it will arrive soon)

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ABOUT THE ALBUM:

"ShazaMasaLaKazoo" is the title of an album prepared jointly by ethno-electronic bands Masala Soundsystem (Poland) and ShazaLaKazoo (Serbia). It will be released on 22.11.22 - and it came to life as a part of an international art project arranged by Planet Foundation (Fundacja Planet) and the Bialystok Cultural Centre (Białostocki Ośrodek Kultury). The album will be published digitally in the form of a "public good" - available for free listening and/or free downloading through the websites of its creators and through popular streaming services. At the same time, it will be released in a limited series in physical form (CD) by the Bialystok Cultural Centre. Also in this form, however, it will not be available for sale - but it will be available free of charge through various forms of "giveaway" ;)

"ShazaMasaLaKazoo" is a crazy post-apocalyptic bus ride, where somewhen in the future modern/traditional folk artists go from Belgrade (via Sutomore) to Bialystok - and back. It's a futuristic soundtrack to a Polish-Serbian countryside wedding (in Atomice), taking place in 3033 and set above the atomic bomb crater - but the former battlefields are already overgrown with crops, and in the skies the sun is shining once again. Traditional instruments and melodies intertwine with futuristic electronics, and the range of inspiration extends from folk music of various world regions to the pop-culture of the 20th century. The soundscape of the album seems to land somewhere between "Slavic Mad Max" and "Cyberpunk Badlands: Podlasie". Meanwhile, the lyrical layer is a universal and critical commentary on timeless situations, attitudes and problems - which periodically push us to the brink of various kinds of annihilation.

"pay-what-you-want" DL

ShazaLaKazoo z Masala Soundsystem - Sutumore-Byalistok (by Bus)

KONTAKT:
masalasoundsystem@gmail.com

Masala Soundsystem is a Warsaw-based collective founded in 2002. It spectacularly collides the world of traditional instruments and melodies from around the world with modern drum loops, deep bass and socially conscious street poetry (in Polish and English). Masala's music crosses the genre boundaries, reaching for punk fury, dancey electronics, hip-hop expression, dub depth or ethnic mysticism - depending on the needs of the given tune. The band consists of virtuosos in their fields, coming from seemingly distant musical worlds - such as folk and ethnic music, hip-hop and modern electronica. However, their joint artistic activity turns out to play in perfect harmony, and combines into a fascinating whole. The result of Masala's activity is 10+ LPs and EPs, a number of singles and over 1000 concerts, events and radio broadcasts - including performances at the largest and most prestigious festivals in Poland, as well as several dozen of performances abroad: from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, through Germany, France and Sweden, to South Korea, India and Afghanistan.