After the Last Balkan Tan go and Ballads at the End of Time comes World after History Fishing for sounds from the Pannonian plains of former Yugoslavia all the way to Argentina, via Italy and Austria, where he once lived, Boris Kovac and his band of musicians deliver multiethnic potpourri of waltzes, tangos, laments and love songs. Even Kovac says he can't trace the origin of his creations. Call the hybrid music - Balkan village meets strained politics and urban angst - a cultural reconstruction. Accordion, violin, bass and drums plus guitar and clarinet, played by Serbs, Hungarians and Macedonians, produces music that flirts with sentimentalism, joyous but melancholic, familiar yet strange.