Get Your Dancing Shoes Ready for Saca La Mois DJ!!

A party without dancing is like… borscht without beetroot.  We like our borscht with plenty of delicious beetroot! Melbourne’s Saca La Mois DJ!! is bringing the music to our launch party, you bring your shoes and your moves.

DJ Moses Iten at German Film Festival 2015 Photo courtesy Goethe Institut Australien edit

After touring Australia and the world, New Zealand, Europe, USA and Mexico to name a few, SACA LA MOIS DJ!! (a.k.a. Moses Iten) is stopping in the Australian heart of Eastern Europe, at the EuRaw Stories launch.

Saca La Mois DJ!! is also a producer with CUMBIA COSMONAUTS, and together with Christoph H. Mueller (Gotan Project) is part of the THE SWISS CONSPIRACY.

His mixes have been commissioned by national radio in Australia (ABC RN), Germany (Funkhaus Europa), Austria (FM4). Every Tuesday Moses hosts ‘Space Is The Place’ on Melbourne’s PBS 106.7 FM, where he selects quality grooves from his vast crates of vinyl and digital releases – shedding light on countless regional styles and sub genres from all over the globe, exposing Melbourne to unreleased and undefined new sounds sourced straight from producers and labels around the world.

Catch Saca La Mois Dj!! after the screening on the launch night.

Saray Iluminado at EuRaw Stories Launch

We’re pretty excited to announce that Melbourne-based band SARAY Iluminado will be gracing us with their tunes on our launch night.

Led by Bosnian-Australian composer, singer and pianist Nela Trifkovic, SARAY Iluminado plays traditional Bosnian and Herzegovinian music – Sevdah and Sephardic Jewish music from the Balkans.

saray3The ensemble also includes: Australia’s leading klezmer and Sephardic violinist Ernie Gruner, and multi instrumentalists Kelly Dowall and William Thompson, both passionate virtuosi of Balkan, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean music. Kelly masters the Turkish ney flute, various frame drums and clarinet, while William plays the Turkish oud, the European lute and sings with Nela.

The band favours intimate tavern-style musical gatherings, where they share folkloric stories and songs of love and grief, hope and despair.

In only 2 years  of existence, SARAY Iluminado has become a much loved festival act and received a professional mentoring grant from VCA, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and Arts Victoria. The grant will enable them to record their first full length album, “Nightingales in the rose garden”, and continue their development.

Read more about SARAY Iluminado on their website at www.sarayiluminado.com

Come and see SARAY Iluminado play at our launch this coming Saturday.