Joro-Boro was born in Bulgaria.
He established himself as the resident DJ in the Bulgarian Bar (Mehanata), in New York City. There he "oversaw the birth of a scene that, on any given night, might see young European jet-setters dancing next to hip-hoppers dancing next to drag queens and people in traditional Bulgarian dress." (Summerstage) "The fast-forward multifarious collective from the 'Eastern Bloc' and beyond, spearheaded by Joro-Boro and Eugene Hutz of Gogol Bordello, pluralistically exhale out of a trans-cultural osmosis of East meets West, romantically fusing the abundant expressions of a relevant past into a shifting matrix of the now-sound of today's wayward cultural bents. That is, an unorthodox real-deal identity stamp to destroy and forge through all barriers that are politikal, social, and musical." (Other Music)
Joro-Boro has hosted the premiere parties for Divan (Palinka Pictures) and Holy Land (Cavu Pictures), co-produced the 'New York GypsyMania' compilation CD and the New York Gypsy Festival and recently became subject of the documentary Body Without Organs. He has shared stage with Philip Glass, Balkan Beat Box, Tinariwen, Frank London, Golem!, Fermin Muguruza, Slavic Soul Party!, Hungry March Band, Ozomatli, Babylon Circus, Filastine, and Luminescent Orchestrii among others. In 2007 he left his residency at the Bulgarian Bar, is currently collaborating with performance artist Jill Sigman/Thinkdance and is working on an album. He also hosts Radio Nomadi Mundial (RNM) on Thursdays: a weekly online radio broadcast from New York via London at WirelessFM. In 2008 Radio Nomadi Mundial begins its Montage Sessions - Strategic Alchemy of the Metropolis Subconscious, where each broadcast is a laboratory presenting exprerience rather than representing music. Listeners are invited to submit their own soundsamples as source material. RNM is to "world music" what Molotov Cocktail is to Rakia.
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1. "We have long put our faith in an energetic concept of motion: there is an external point of support, which implies that the body is the origin of its own movement. Running, setting one's weight in motion, etc. involves effort, resistance, with a starting point, a leverage. But we observe that the motion nowadays defines itself less and less on the basis of the use of a fulcrum. All new sports - surfing, wind-surfing, delta-wing flying [...] - are of the type 'meshing into an existing wave'. That means no longer having a source of effort as the starting point, but a way of coming into a trajectory. The way you allow yourself to be swept up in the motion of a big wave or of a rising column of air, 'arriving between' instead of being the origin of the effort, that is fundamental" (emphasis added) |
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