Kal is an urban Roma band from one of Belgrade’s suburbs. Their music style was labeled Rock’n’Roma by the Western music critics; which probably best describes their music. Since 2006 when they first started playing, they have had more than 400 concerts abroad. They performed at many significant festivals in Serbia, as well as across Europe and internationally (Roskilde in Denmark, Fusion Festival in Berlin, Pepsi Sziget Festival in Budapest, and EXIT in Serbia), and made quite a career. In 2006 and 2008 they toured the USA, playing at some of the most prominent clubs such as Joe’s Pub in New York, where names like Leonard Cohen, David Byrne, Richard Thompson, Dolly Parton, Sinead O’Connor, Norah Jones, Youssou N’Dour and David Gilmore played. During their 2008 USA tour, they played 45 concerts and met the famous New York music attraction Gogol Bordello, establishing cooperation with them.

The producer of both of their albums was Mike Nielsen, known for his work with some of the biggest names in the music industry: Underworld, The Cure, Jamiroquai, Snow Patrol, etc. Both of the band’s albums ranked number one on the prestigious World Music Chart Europe, leaving bands like Gotan Project, Natasha Atlas and Ojos de Brujo behind them. They won third place in the annual award of the same Chart in 2006, which no band from Serbia had ever done.

In Serbia, they worked with Rambo Amadeus on songs Dikh Tu Kava and Komedija which received the Davorin Popović Аward for best video in former Yugoslavia in 2007. On their last album, the song Krasnokalipsa is a collaboration with the rapper Marcello. Their videos are marked with recognizable aesthetics, and today they are aired on all domestic TV stations, especially on MTV Adria, a representative of utmost quality when it comes to music televisions.

Kal is the only band from the Balkans selected among 1,000 bands to perform at one of the most significant Fairs of World Music – WOMEX, held in Spain in 2006.

Band members include Dragan Ristić (guitar, lead vocal), Aleksandra Veljković (vocal), Dušan Gnjidić (drums), Marko Ćurčić (bass), Rade Arsenović (accordion), Bojan Vasić (violin).

Vinicio Capossela is a phantasmagorical singer-songwriter, poet, writer, but also illusionist, showman, and band-builder. He debuted in 1990 with the album All’una e trentacinque circa under the aegis of Renzo Fantini, winning Targa Tenco Opera Prima, an award he would receive three more times in the following years. After the first pre-biographical albums – the telluric Ballo di San Vito with Marc Ribot and Evan Lurie, the explosive Live in Volvo with the Balkan brass band Kocani Orkestar – from the pataphysical Canzoni a Manovella (2000) on, he shifted his attention to more universal themes, often inspired by classical literature, from Melville to Céline, Dante and Homer. Works such as Ovunque Proteggi, Da Solo and Marinai, Profeti e Balene have been staged as total works of art. In 2004 he wrote the book Non si muore tutte le mattine, which gave rise to a shadow play performance and the Radiocapitolazioni broadcast by Radio 3. He dedicated his most recent works to Greece and rebetiko, ’more than music, a way of life’: the album Rebetiko Gymnastas, a documentary made with the filmmaker Andrea Segre and the book Tefteri, published by Saggiatore and translated into Greek and Spanish. In 2013, he also started a new project with Banda della Posta, an elderly but still wild bunch of frontier serenaders, between Buena Vista Social Club and The Pogues, whom Capossela produced and toured with in Italy and abroad. The years 2015 and 2016 were very important for Vinicio: his new book Il Paese dei Coppoloni, the documentary film Nel Paese dei Coppoloni and his new studio album Le Canzoni della Cupa, were the crown of his 25 year-long career. Both works are the result of a deep elaboration about Irpinia (from Hyrpus, ancient name of the wolf), the Land of the Fathers, neglected by History, but full of legends, fairy-tales and fabulous music.