Mostar Sevdah Reunion’s latest album is riding high on the music charts, and for good reason
published : 28 Feb 2023 at 07:04
One of the Balkan’s best-known bands is Mostar Sevdah Reunion, whose 12th studio album Lady Sings The Balkan Blues (Snail Records, Bosnia and Herzegovina) is currently riding high on the World Music charts. The band is something of a Bosnian institution, carrying the torch for updated versions of folk music, in this case, sevdalinka music of Bosnian Muslims.
Sevdah has a distinctive melancholic feel to it, and it is often compared to the blues — the title of the album, for instance, is a reference to Billie Holiday’s classic 1956 song…
