CD review: Boris Kovac & Ladaaba Orchestra, "Ballads at the End of Time -- Part Two"
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San Diego Union Tribune, CD review: Boris Kovac & Ladaaba Orchestra, "Ballads at the End of Time -- Part Two" >>
BY George Varga
There is a haunting beauty throughout the second album by Yugoslavian composer and band leader Boris Kovac and his six-man group, Ladaaba Orchest. Hailing from the Serbian province of Vojvodina, Kovac brings a bittersweet edge to waltzes, cha-chas, Transylvanian dirges, Balkan cabaret ballads, gypsy laments and more.
Many of these songs are as stark as they are melancholic, as befits the music of a Serbian, Hungarian and Macedonian band whose name is an acronym for La Danza Apocalypsa Balcanica (roughly: the Apocalyptic Balkan Dance). But Kovac's songs are also infused with a sense of nostalgia that conveys his belief that "music is the last consolation between heaven and Earth." 05/29/03
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