L U N A T A L K with Eva Moon

The Power of Levitation

June 24, 2009 on 8:07 am | | In Backstage Pass, General Musing, Music

It would be hard to overstate the influence and popularity of Goran Bregovic in Eastern European music of the last three decades. For anyone from that little piece of troubled real estate, the opening strains of one of his songs has the power of levitation. Bodies rise from chair to floor to table top, voice rise from murmurs to drunken brays, glasses rise and crash tinkling to the floor and crunching underfoot.

I remember one night when we were playing at a club. An inebriated Serb pulled a wad of bills out of his pockets and gave it to us to play just one song again. $72! We played it three times.

Last night, Bregovic, traveling with his Weddings and Funerals Band played in Seattle for the first time. We were among a tiny minority of Americans in a sea of rapturous ex-pats. What a great night. Gravity lost its grip on us too and we rose and danced, hands to the sky.

Of course I had to choose a song about the moon!

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