Goran to perform at the New York Guitar Festival - December 29, 2007
03 FEB 2008 Sun
Goran Ivanovic + Fareed Haque
Live at the Apple Store
It’s true that Goran Ivanovic was born of a Serbian father and a Bosnian Croat mother...and that Fareed Haque was born of a Pakistani father and a Chilean mother...but that’s just the beginning of their musical lineage. Ivanovic studied at Salzburg’s Mozarteum with Eliot Fisk and Joaquin Clerch. Haque has performed with Sting, the classical violinist Kennedy, Cassandra Wilson, Kurt Elling, Edgar Meyer, and Paquito D’Rivera. Strains of classical, pop, jazz, Latin, blues, and world music simmer in the haunting laments and propulsive dances of their “Macedonian blues for two guitars.”
APPLE STORE, 3PM
103 Prince Street, Soho
FREE, (212) 226-3126
apple.com
Royce Kallerud, Associate Professor of English, Truman State University on EASTERN BLOK - December 14, 2007
Eastern Blok's campus performance/lectures on the History of Balkan Music provide students with real insight into the connections between folk traditions and the creative process. This is an intellectually and artistically stimulating program that is at the same time immensely entertaining. Most of all, though, the event succeeds because the band possesses a truly distinctive musical vision and supports that vision with superb musicianship.
Goran Ivanovic at the renowned Wall To Wall Guitar Festival - October 18, 2007
The 2007 Wall to Wall Guitar Festival organized by the Krannert Center featured over 40 guitarists and scores of their musical collaborators, all under one roof in a three day guitar bizarre. There was an invigorating mix of unbelievable legends and eclectic innovators, uncommon collaborations, and an undeniable energy pulsing from wall to wall. Among the performers were Goran Ivanovic and Fareed Haque, John McLaughlin, Los Lobos, Rahim AlHaj etc.
http://www.wall2wallguitar.net/gallery/2007/pages/15.htm
Feature in CS Magazine - October 9, 2007
We are featured in the October issue of CS Magazine. Pick up a copy if you are in the Chicago area and let us know what you think!
Chicago Public Radio - October 5, 2007
2 Million Listeners... - September 26, 2007
Propculture.com Review! - August 20, 2007
Eastern Blok reviewed in The Bi-College News - August 11, 2007
A review by Justin Dainer-Best and Jacob Carroll after our concert at Haverford College:
"...Their music is mostly of the Eastern European klezmer sort, with a generous topping of Middle Eastern influences, haunting, jazz-like, and consistently enjoyable. The band’s bassist, who played both the acoustic and the electric bass, trading bow for pick with ease, swayed excitedly to the music. The drummer, hands flying and eyes slightly mad, kept the beat flowing behind them.
Eastern Blok alternated between playing composed music and improvisation, a line that was very hard to draw because their improvisation was so well-done..."
http://www.biconews.com/article/view/5948
Check us out in Alarm Magazine! - July 30, 2007
We're reviewed on Resident Media Pundit! - May 7, 2007
We're featured on Radio Muse! - March 22, 2007
To our awesome fans... - March 5, 2007
A big THANK YOU to everyone who came out to the Fundraiser last weekend. We cannot thank our supporters enough, and it was a huge success!
See you on the tour...we next leave Wednesday.
Fundraiser! - February 28, 2007
Join Eastern Blok this Saturday, March 3rd, as they perform at a fundraising concert for their upcoming album!
EASTERN BLOK at the MAJIC festival announced in the REVUE MAGAZINE - 2007
"The MAJIC (Musical Arts for Justice in the Community) Concert Series in Grand Rapids will be blessed by the beloved Eastern Blok from Chicago. The facial expressions of drummer Michael Caskey alone are worth the $10 suggested donation. Supreme musicianship is exhibited in each of Eastern Blok's members..."
Please read more at:
http://revuemagazine.net/03%20-%20features.html
Eastern Blok on Death Valley Radio - November 12, 2006