“… this guy, Lelo Nika, is the greatest accordion player who has ever lived. This guy, …. he’s the greatest virtuoso who has ever lived. He is a gipsy, he’s from Belgrad, who grew up in Copenhagen... one day, i was playing in Copenhagen and he came in and wanted to play something for me. And we sat in a dressing room, a small dressing room, and he started a sad play, and i never in my life heard anybody playing like this. So we said “OK, we make a little project” - it was incredible, with the band as special guest, incredible, … this guy plays Paganini, you know... i never heard something similar in my life!”
- Joe Zawinul
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ARTISTS
Lelo Nika (accordion); Niklas Sivelov (piano); John Sund (guitar); Makiko Hirabayashi (keyboards); Anders Pedersen, Martin Andersen, Peter Nilsson (drums); Ayi Solomon (percussion); Tommy Andersson, Andrezej Krejnuk, Moussa Diallo (bass); Manuela Nika (violin); Anders Banke (saxophone); Bibescu (clarinet); Tommy Andersson (bass, cello, programming) |