Krzysztof Dobrek - accordion
Aliosha Biz - violin
Luis Ribeiro - percussion
Achim Tang - double-bass

Musette and Latin American styles such as salsa, tango and bossa nova, jazz, gypsy swing, classical influences, music of the Balkans, the orient, of the gypsies and eastern European Jews as well as Slavic folk music are the ingredients of this mixture of styles. To brand it "fusion"or "crossover" would be hackneyed. Perhaps Dobrek Bistro will enter the annals of musical history as its own genre: too playful, head-on and improvised to count as chamber music, while paying too much respect to traditional forms to be considered as jazz - and with too many influences from modern classical and classical jazz movements merely to count as ethnic chamber music.

The secrets of its kitchen are best discerned by its Maître de cuisine, Krzysztof Dobrek, himself. “Our Salsa sounds gypsy-like, the Tango Viennese, the jazz Yiddish, and the mussette has a Russian touch.”Yes; and one could add that the musical provinces sound like the big wide world, and that the big wide world does not deny its cultural roots: at Dobrek Bistro.

www.dobrek-bistro.com