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What a great concert performed by Goran Bregović and his Wedding and Funeral Orchestra on last saturday in the México City Theatre.

Just a few people stayed in their seats, most of the public was singing and dancing in the corridors of the hall. Goran is a great musician, and a great entertainer; he and the vocalist and drummer Alen were smiling the entire concert, and all the band was playing continuously.

They opened with a scherzo, in which the public hears some notes from one brass instrument in the back, and then a second one joins. When you can see the musicians, they are playing while walking to the scenery.

This was the program for the night:

• TDV (The scherzo)
• Uvertira (Karmen)
• Gas-gas (Karmen)
• Ausencia (Underground)
• Maki maki (Tales and songs from weddings and funerals)
• Borino oro (Time of the gypsies)
• Mashala (Karmen)
• Svadba (Karmen; I though this song’s name was Bijav)
• So nevo si (Tales and songs from weddings and funerals)
• Wedding cocek (Underground)
• Sex (Tales and songs from weddings and funerals; the program states this song, but I didn’t hear it)
• Ne siam kurve tuke sijam prostitutke (Karmen)
• Aven Ivenda (Tales and songs from weddings and funerals)
• Koferi (Karmen)
• Ringe ringe raja (Underground; in the program this song was named “Twist”)
• Prawo do Lewego (Originally he sings this song in duet with the polish singer Kaya)
• In the deathcar (Arizona dream; this is a very nice adaptation in which Goran sings, Alen follows with a rythmic low percussion and Bokan Stankovic -I think- plays trumpet, replacing the mandolins from Iggy-Pop’s version)
• Ederlezi (Time of the gypsies)
• Mesecina (Underground)

Then all the band left the scene, but came back after the public didn’t stop asking for more. They closed with Kalasnjikov; here’s a video taken by someone who went to the first concert, the one performed on friday 18 (saturday concert was very similar):

It was impossible for me to take pictures or video (there was a guy asking everybody to shut off their cameras and cellphones), but I used my camera to record some songs.

Enjoy them!

• Mesecina
• Cajesukarije cocek

UPDATE: I’ve just added a post about this trip to Mexico City on my family blog.