Description

"Shantel was born Stefan Hantel in Frankfurt but his mother came from Bucovina, the province split between northern Romania and Ukraine, and he took the music in with his mother's milk and turned it into a craze with his Bucovina Night parties.
On this album, the self-styled king of Balkan pop has a go at doing it himself, backing his own voice and guitar with contributions from a whole orchestra's worth of gipsy virtuosi and Euro-oddballs, from Serbian trumpeters to Israeli surf-guitarists and a German reggae diva. "