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Boris Kovac and Ladaaba Orchest 

'Ballads at the End of Time -
La Danza Apocalypsá - Part Two'

Musicians:
Boris Kovac - saxophone
Milos Matic- double bass, tamburitza
Olah Vince - guitar
Istvan Cik - drums, percussion
Goran Penic - accordion
Bogdan Rankovic - clarinet, bass clarinet

Guests:
Nenad Vrbaski - violin
Vanja Jakovljevic - guitar
Ramiz - darabuka
Coyote (a dog!) - voice

From label:
'Boris Kovac, born in 1955, is a composer, instrumentalist and multimedia artist from Novi Sad, capital of the multiethnic region Vojvodina in the Pannonian Plains. Formerly, this area was known as legendary cross point for all sorts of migrants from the Mediterranean to the Baltic. Till now Pannonia is characterized by the juxtaposition of Catholicism, Islam and Slavic Orthodoxy. Boris writes music for chamber groups that he rehearses and leads. Many of his projects are to some extent connected with theatre. In 1982 the composer created the Ritual Nova Ensemble, an ever-changing, flexible group made up of musicians as well as visual artists, dancers and performers, acting as sole composer and director. Since 1989 he has been the leader of the "Chamber Theatre of Music OGLEDALO" from Novi Sad.'

... [his] music language is far more impure and contaminated. It reveals the composer's Serbian, Hungarian and Rumanian roots and discloses similarities with the darker side of Rock In Opposition (bands such as France's Art Zoyd and Belgium's Univers Zero, which, paradoxically, were the less "rock" of the groups involved), as well as with the Third Ear Band, combined with the manifest influence of Béla Bartók and Balkan folk music. As Boris Kovac stated :
"Music is the last consolation between heaven and earth".'

Joining Boris and Orchest is guitarist Olah Vince from one of the leading Gypsy ensembles in Vojvodina Earth-Wheel-Sky Band

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Boris Kovac and Ladaaba Orchest 

'Ballads at the End of Time
- La Danza Apocalypsá - Part Two'