All About Jazz Italia on Dui Droma
An excellent album which combines tradition with jazz and improvisation in an intelligent and delicate way.
Nero Pollastri, August 2005

Songlines (UK) on Dui Droma
His playing is one long stream of delight … a mixture of razor-sharp performance and imaginative passion.
Kim Burton, January 2005

Martin is a musician who defies the common notion of the accordion’s musical inferiority. He possesses brilliant technique, taste, finesse, and is deeply rooted in the Bulgarian folk music. He combines this with the jazz idiom seamlessly….I think Otto Lechner and Martin Lubenov increase the small company of Astor Piazzola, Dino Saluzi and few other great accordionists.
Milcho Leviev on Martin Lubenov, January 2005

Etudes Tziganes (F) zur CD Dui Droma
Martin Lubenov has developped his own, very original and personal style – virtuous and groovy at the same time. In short, Roma music of the new generation, innovative and open to outside influences.
Francis Couvreux, November 2004

Jazzthetik
Martin Lubenov Orkestar. Dui Droma – Two Roads
Hot stuff – worth an extra star!
Adrian Wolfen, July 2004

Jazzzeit
Balkan Jazz
The most iridescent traditions of the Balkans meet in his unconventional play: Macedonian-Bulgarian folk music and music of the Roma living in the southern part of the Balkans, constantly developing, bursting with vivacity. Add to this musical base jazz, tango nuevo, Parisian musette, Serbian, Roumanian, Greek and Turkish music, breathtaking virtuosity and unusual arrangements: That’s Martin Lubenov.
Manfred Horak, May 2004

Augustin
Vienna is the best city for Tschuschen*
Martin Lubenov and his playfully innovative Balkans accordion „served“ as an accompanist in almost every Viennese band remotely concerned with Eatern European and Balkans music. Now with his own orkestar, he claims the crown that is rightfully his.
Robert Sommer, Nr. 137, April 2004
*abusive name used by the Viennese for people from southeast-european countries

Concerto
Das Martin Lubenov Orkestar
The Orkestar’s musicians, spurred on by their leader, arranger and composer, have a perfect command of Roma, Bulgarian, Turkish and other Balkans folk just as well as of recent developments in Balkans jazz, mainstream pop and international dance music styles from Buenos Aires to Bollywood. These “New Kids on the Block” with their vigorous youth and breathtaking virtuosity embody a new generation of Balkans-Crossover, and a new way of representing Roma culture: self-confident, intelligent, cosmopolitan and, after all, close to the roots.
Richard Schuberth, 2/2004

Splendid
… designed to introduce the accordion as an instrument of breadth and power to an audience that might otherwise giggle incredulously at such a suggestion. Each measure's firm, drum-pushed downstroke launches accordionist Martin Lubenov into fresh paroxysms of passion and sound.
Brett McCallon, 14.11.03

Concerto
... Martin Lubenov, a real gift for Vienna’s world music scene.
Richard Schuberth, 6/2002