Very bad news for us, the Mexican fans.

From Bregović’s official website:

Our mexican tour has sadly been cancelled – the presenters facing a 40% devaluation of the peso could not make ends meet this time. Better luck in November 2009 we hope!

Both pictures taken on live performances.

The definitive date has not been set, but I know about some concerts taking place between the 20th and the 30th of March.

I presume they will come for the Festival de México en el Centro Histórico, in México City.

Updated: Tour in México has been cancelled. Read here.

Goran Bregović just released his new album: Alkohol: Sljivovica & Champagne; that’s two albums in one.

The Alkohol project was originally set to be released in 3 albums, but that idea changed later and now we have the first two parts, with a third one planned for March 2009.

Back in April, when Bregović came to México, in the middle of his concert he said something like this:

I’d like to sing a little traditional old song that I like to sing when I drink. It’s one old drinking song from First World War, from artillery. So, I know you have lots of drinking songs, but we can learn others.

Then he sang (and the band played) Jeremija (I used to think the name of that song was Artilleria).

During that visit he also said in an interview to a news reporter that he doesn’t drink (much), and his family has a history of problems related to alcoholism, but music in his country is best played while drinking.

According to Bregović’s website, Alkohol was recorded live in Guca in 2007:

Guca is a small town in Serbia of maybe 20.000 inhabitants that holds an annual contest of brass bands in August and swells to 150.000 people who under tents drink, eat grilled meat and sour-kraut the Serbian way and drink and listen to the music and drink again for three days…. which explains the title.

You can buy the album here from Yu4You. Also, Amazon France is listing it with a delivery date for January 2009. I think Amazon US may be listing it by January too.

If you can’t wait, there’s some rar in RapidShare, but don’t forget to buy the original when it’s available in your preferred music store.

Služio sam stari kadar, artiljerija….

Veni Markovsky wrote a very emotive story about Goran Bregović’s concerts in New York City; you can read it here, and if you can read bulgarian (not my case) here is another one.

He also has some pictures of both concerts on his Flickr stream.

These are the first public appearances of Goran since the accident and surgery he suffered last month. Good to know he is in good shape.