For over a dozen years now, Orkestar Kriminal has created daring arrangements of old underworld ballads in 12 different languages, telling the tales of impoverished peoples the world over, driven to a life of crime. With their unique instrumentation and a refreshing gender-mashup in their musicianship, Orkestar Kriminal has arranged some of the world’s long-forgotten criminal ballads with all the fervour and gusto that they could muster.
After continuous touring and a multitude of festival performances, the biggest criminal punks in world music released "Originali", their first ever all-originals album produced by Grammy award-winning Producer-Engineer: Mark Lawson, on the German label CPL-Music. "Originali" is a slammer, hitting the #1 spot on the Earshot “National International” campus charts.
These bittersweet melodies are delightfully infectious, so for Orkestar Kriminal, there is no turning back. Drenched in expression, celebrated and improvised, this is "cabaret noir" at its finest!
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