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Sample Track 1:
"Riff Cloud" from This Train is Now
Sample Track 2:
"Tsamika Tarragona" from This Train Is Now
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The Balkan Brass music scene is also alive in the United States, primarily in the New York City area. Raya Brass Band is a smaller brass group from Brooklyn where Greg Squared’s saxophone instead of trumpets plays a leading role. Their third album This Train is Now is out this month. Tuba player Don Godwin describes the band’s composition process. “We’ll have a gig in the street, say, and be waiting around for the organizers. So we’ll start messing around. Someone will have a phone and we’ll record it. We’ll be under a bridge or on the corner, some arbitrary spot, and an off-the-cuff idea will become the jumping off point for a whole track.”

Raya Brass Band is deeply inspired by the brass bands of Serbia and Macedonia. Their repertory includes lively recreations of traditional tunes and improvisatory pieces.

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