Balkan Bump - Desert Drip '2023

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Balkan Bump is the global electronic music project orchestrated by trumpet
player, producer and ethnomusicologist Will Magid.

Balkan Bump’s music fuses heavy electronic production with global music
influences including traditional Balkan brass melodies, Middle Eastern sounds
and American hip hop. The Balkan Bump live show highlights Magid’s
expertise as an orchestrator, ranging in size from a solo performer to a
12-piece band featuring a menagerie of global instruments including sitar, saz,
oud, clarinet and trumpet. The live performance’s popularity has brought
the project to global renown with performances at the world’s biggest
music stages including Coachella, Bonnaroo and Lightning In A Bottle, as well as
beloved jazz, blues and world music festivals including Harvest Music Festival
and CA WorldFest, and numerous appearances at Colorado’s famed Red Rocks
Amphitheatre. 

Balkan Bump debuted with the single “Aymo” alongside famed Slovenian
producer Gramatik and American hip hop royalty Talib Kweli. Gramatik quickly
championed the new project, unveiling Balkan Bump's live show on his Re:Coil
Tour and releasing Balkan Bump’s debut EP on his Lowtemp label imprint.
Since then the Balkan Bump project has gone on to collaborate with global and
live music projects Beats Antique and Moon Hooch; international electronic music
superstars CloZee, Fakear, & Manic Focus; and American hip hop icon The Gift Of
Gab (Blackalicious). Balkan Bump has been featured in Billboard Magazine,
NPR’s The World, The San Francisco Chronicle and Magnetic Magazine. In
2020 Magid curated a series of global music mixes for Los Angeles-based Dublab
Radio under the Balkan Bump alias.

As a solo artist, Will Magid has collaborated and performed with artists
including Bonobo, Erykah Badu, Pretty Lights, and soul music legend Solomon
Burke. He has led numerous jazz and global music outfits including his eponymous
soul-funk band’s seminal Alligator Spacewalk album in 2016, and the 2017
neoclassical exploration Lunar Conquest Suite. His music has been featured in
campaigns for global brands including Warner Brothers, Uber, Porsche, HP, Vogue,
GoPro and Ubisoft. Magid graduated from The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
with a degree in Ethnomusicology.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Balkan Bump - In a Milky Way (3:13)
1.02 - Balkan Bump - Prayer Song (4:05)
1.03 - Balkan Bump - Rabat (4:36)
1.04 - Balkan Bump - Dirty Bump (3:25)
1.05 - Balkan Bump - Epirotika (5:29)
1.06 - Balkan Bump - Mamantra (4:28)
1.07 - Balkan Bump - Sleepless (4:22)
1.08 - Balkan Bump - Desert Drip (3:48)

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