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Chantel with the concert 2027 starts on February 13 to 14 in Germany. Tickets for Chantel's Bucovina concert are already on pre-sale at Kontramarka.de.
If you've been to a Chantel concert at least once, you know there's nothing to explain. The first bars and the hall starts to move by itself. Balkan brass over electronic bass, gypsy melodies in a club context, the feeling of a carnival without reason or boundaries. Shantel and Bucovina Club Soundsystem concerts are a physical experience that cannot be reproduced in headphones.
Stefan Hantel is a Frankfurt native, and his connection to German nightlife culture is deeper than meets the eye. In the late 1990s, he opened a club in the red quarter of Frankfurt am Main and started putting on music that no one in Germany had heard at the time: Balkan trumpets, Romanian folklore, Turkish rhythms - all on top of club bass. A trip to Chernivtsi, the city of his ancestors in Bukovina, suggested the idea. Thus was born the project and then the name - Bucovina Club.
Shantel's concert in 2027 is a direct continuation of the same philosophy. Balkan Beats, electro, brass music and gypsy grooves in one set - simultaneously referring to Eastern Europe and sounding absolutely modern. This dance music has been on the dancefloors of Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne and Munich for a long time.
Chantel's Balkan brass is not a decoration or a folkloric reference. It's a structural element that carries energy where the bass line doesn't reach. German audiences, brought up on Berlin techno and festival culture, feel this contrast especially keenly: a familiar club framework, but a completely different temperature. At a Chantel Bukovina concert, the audience doesn't watch - they participate.
That's why Stefan Hantel's performance gathers not only fans of world music, but also club regulars who hear live brass over electronic beat for the first time - and can't stop.
In twenty years, the Bucovina Club has grown from a Frankfurt party into an international brand. The hit "Disko Partizani" (2007) was on the summer charts in Austria and Turkey, the remix of Mahala Rai Banda was included in the soundtrack of "Borat", and Chantel himself won the BBC World Music Award.
That said, he's never closed himself off to a niche. Young listeners who discover Balkan beats through streaming, at a live concert get a fundamentally different experience - a voluminous, bodily, unplayable online. Shantel Bukovina's concert is just such a chance.
Chamber venues, where the distance from the stage to the front row is at arm's length - this is the format in which Bucovina Club Soundsystem works best.
For a full schedule of concerts for audiences of all genres, visit Kontramarka.de. There you'll also find current events in Hamburg and a detailed program for those who are keeping track of what else to see in Berlin this winter.
The venues are small and tickets go fast - so you should buy in advance.
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