Jaro Milko & The Cubalkanics

Jaro Milko & The Cubalkanics is the solo project by guitarist Jaro Milko. The band from Basel was founded in the end of 2010 and brings together renowned musicians from the Balkan-­‐, Reggae-­‐, Latin-­‐ and Jazzscene in Switzerland. Eastern european Gypsy music meets Cumbia and Musica Cubana, Instrumentals interspersed with songs. This rootsbased music awakens the wanderlust, the Latin rhythms of the drums/percussion duo-­‐monster shoots merciless on the hips. A trashy organ is droping all inhibitions, a crazy gone trombone pumps Slivovitz into the veins. The singing sounds wistful and the unmistakable guitar of Jaro Milko shapes the sound of the quintet. Since 2008, Jaro Milko is the guitarist of the international group Firewater (US/TR/Il/UK) and tours in the EU and USA. He played with Erik Sanko (Lounge Lizards, Skeleton Key), Jennifer Charles and Oren Bloedow (Elysian Fileds), Johnny Kalsi (The Dhol Foundation, Afro Celt Sound System), Ori Kaplan and Adam Scheflan (Balkan Beat Box), Jean Marc Butty (PJ Harvey, John Parish, Venus), Yoni Halevy (The Apple), Reut Regev (Frank London's Klezmer Brass All Stars), Jazz Singh (Drum Line Entertainment), Brian Drye (Slavic Soul Party) and Haggai Fershtmann (The Monotonix, Asav Avidan). In 2003 he joined the rock group Carma Star. Since 2001, he’s a former member of the Balkan troop Prekmurski Kavbojci, where he found his eastern vein again and discovered the admiration for Django Reinhardt. Influenced by John Zorn's Naked City, he started the Avantguard group Strange Fruit in 1999. He then also founded Wolfsquinten, his own experimental Orientaljazz trio with Michi Stulz (Lisette Spinnler, Stefan Rusconi) and Stephan Brunner (Tight Finks). In addition to these bands, he plays in several projects in various genres such as Balkan, Manouche, World, Jazz, Medieval, Avantguard, Pop, Rock and Surf. Oriental-Tropical