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Oi Va Voi. (2007) Laughter Through Tears is the second album released by London, England-based experimental band Oi Va Voi. Some of the tracks on the album were originally on the band's debut, Digital Folklore, one example is the Hungarian folk song "A Csitári" whose vocals were performed by a male singer in the older album, and by ...
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- 29 September 2003
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The story of the band's genesis started in the two cities of Oxford and London, with Jonathan Walton aka Lemez Lovas meeting Josephine Burton. The earliest line-up had Josephine as the singer and Jonathan on trumpet who in turn knew violinist Sophie Solomon. Both of them knew bassist Leo Bryant, clarinetist Steve Levi who had been studying at Oxfor...
Early years
The London scene of the late nineties was a melting pot of world music genres and scenes that were beginning to coalesce around dance music, propelled and facilitated in part by the early days of the internet and to a great extent by the efforts of DJ's and broadcasters such as Charlie Gillett and Gilles Peterson. In the early days of the internet it was radio shows such as The Sound of the World and WorldWidethat typified the outward looking perspective of the vibrant UK music scene of that...
Digital Folklore
Wanting to capture and record the music that the band had been developing, the band set out to record a self-funded debut. With recording and CD production costs still being high at this moment in time, the band were mentored by record producer, musician and WOMEX founder Ben Mandelson. The band applied to the Jewish Music Institute's Millennium Award Fund and received a grant to record and produce their first album, which was recorded at Livingstone Studio Wood Green and produced and enginee...
Laughter Through Tears
Laughter Through Tears is the second album released by London, England-based experimentalband Oi Va Voi. Already having built a long resume of festival live appearances across Europe with no formal release, the band were honing their live show to perfection, the result was to cause the band to get booking requests from world music festivals, rock festivals, solidly touring Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia and Poland. The band, still self-managing whilst on tour, suddenly got a song...
Current band members
1. Steve Levi (clarinet, vocals) 2. Josh Breslaw (drums, percussion, production) 3. David Orchant (trumpet) 4. Michael Vinaver (guitars, vocals) 5. Anna Phoebe(violin) 6. Moshik Kop (drums) 7. John Matts (guitar, vocals) 8. Elizabeth Leondaritis (bass, vocals) 9. Zohara Niddam (vocals) 10. Kalliopi Mitropoulou (violin, vocals)
Former band members
1. Nik Ammar (guitar, vocals, mandolin, charango, strumstick, percussion, lyricist, songwriter), left in 2012 to focus on his career writing music for TV, film and games. 2. Sophie Solomon (violin, viola, piano, accordion, melodica), a founding member of the band who left in 2006 to launch her solo career. 3. Lemez Lovas (trumpet, vocals, piano, songwriting, lyrics), songwriter and lyricist, a founding member of the band who left in 2007. 4. Leo Bryant (bassguitar, double bass) 5. Bridgette A...
Earl Zinger (a.k.a. Rob Gallagher) of Galliano featured on the Laughter Through TearsalbumKT Tunstall, though never an official member of the band, featured on the Laughter Through Tearsalbum and was a regular member of the live set-up. Her solo career then took off towards the end of 2...Uzbek musician Sevara Nazarkhan featured on the Laughter Through TearsalbumAlbums
1. Digital Folklore(2002) 2. Laughter Through Tears(2003) 3. Oi Va Voi(2007) 4. Travelling the Face of the Globe(2009) 5. Memory Drop(2018)
Singles
1. "7 Brothers" (2003) 2. "Refugee" (2004) 3. "Yesterday's Mistakes" (2004) 4. "Yuri" (2007) 5. "Every Time" (2009) 6. "Big Brother" (2018) 7. "Vanished World" (2018)
Oi Va Voi won an Edison award for Album of the Year 2004 NetherlandsOi Va Voi was nominated for the BBC Awards for World Music 2003in the Boundary Crossing category.- V2 Benelux // OI VA VOI Recordings
- London, England
- 2000–present
- Nik Ammar, Sophie Solomon, Lemez Lovas, Leo Bryant, Josephine Burton
20 lug 2023 · One of these life soundtracks, for me, was Oi Va Voi’s Laughter Through Tears. It’s 20 years since Oi Va Voi erupted on the music scene with their debut album, bringing the...
Oi Va Voi. Released 2003. Laughter Through Tears Tracklist. 1.
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