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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
* typisches Wiener Schimpfwort für
Menschen südosteuropäischer Herkunft
Folker!
Akkordeonist Martin Lubenov beweist, dass man sein als sperrig verschrienes
Instrument wendig einsetzen kann und entlockt dem "Asthmatischem
Wurm" höllisch schnelle Töne, an denen selbst Teufelsgeiger
Paganini seine wahre Freude hätte.
Frank Schuster, Juni 2003
Concerto
... Martin Lubenov, ein wahres Geschenk für die Wiener World-Music-Szene.
Richard Schuberth, 6/2002
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