Shantel

After pioneering the concept of Balkan clubbing with his now-legendary Bucovina Club parties and albums, Shantel moved on to the next level and released Disko Partizani! in 2007, which lays the foundations for an innovative new brand of pop music. This is the sound of new Europe, centered in the middle of our old continent, but incorporating vibrant influences from the emerging new frontier which stretches all the way to Mitteleuropa, the south east, Greece, Turkey and beyond…

"Disko Partizani!" caught on immediately, with club & radio favourites such as its anthemic title track (a singalong hit across Europe with a video that’s become a YouTube sensation, 3 million views and counting!) as well as follow-up smash “Disko Boy”. Shantel and his mighty Bucovina Club Orkestar went on to play over 250 shows across Europe, turning clubs, concert halls and festivals into temporary autonomous zones of pure, delirious fun.

With "Planet Paprika", the awaited follow-up to "Disko Partizani!", Shantel raises the temperature level by a serious handful of degrees...