Chavo

Chavo is a London-based band, initially formed as a Balkan recital outfit playing acoustic music to seated audiences. Very quickly, the audiences began to stand up, and the show times moved from 3 pm to 3 am. Sweating it out on the oom-pah music circuit became the norm, and after many years, Chavo felt a desire for change. They waved goodbye to the traditional material (often sung in Roma or Serbian) and crafted an album of original songs in their home tongue – English. A change in lineup and instrumentation also followed as they caught up with the technology of the 1970s. What appears to have distilled from this epic journey is both imaginative and intriguing. A percussion-heavy, mandolin-infused, vintage keys indie band with seductive female BVs, pounding bass lines, four-on-the-floor dance rhythms, and harmonic discord – a firm footing in the west with a nod to the east.