Kottarashky

Kottarashky ,September 1979 is a musician and composer who fuses authentic recordings taken in his native Bulgaria, with electronic music, hip hop, jazz and many other music genres. He personally defines his style as Balkan psychedelic, but the critics consider him as a phenomenon in the balkan beat wave due to his original approach in creating music. In November 2009 the German label Asphalt Tango Records released Kottarashkys debut album Opa Hey. A few months later he founded the band Kottarashky amp The Rain Dogs. In 2012 they released together his second album Demoni under the same label.

Nikola Gruev was born onSeptember 1979 in Sofia, Bulgaria, in an artistic family. He studied architecture in his home city. After his graduation in 2003, Nikola started working in an architectural bureau. His experiments with digital music date back to his student years. Back then he was experimenting in his bedroom at home that was turned into a mini studio . His specific style started getting shape a few years later, when he decided to integrate into his pieces samples from terrain recordings that he did during his trips throughout Bulgaria. That was how the piece Opa Hey was born. Nikola quit his job and concentrated almost all his energy on creating music, making his living as a freelance architect. After putting some of his tracks online in social networks, his compositions were noticed by Henry Ernst, founder of the Berlin based label Asphalt Tango Records. In a few months Nikola Gruev signed a contract with the company. OnNovember 2009 it released his debut album Opa Hey

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