MUSIC FROM EASTERN EUROPE

A new record label, EASTBLOK MUSIC, has been set up in Berlin. EASTBLOK MUSIC is solely devoted to music and artists from Eastern Europe. Apart from the release of music, EASTBLOK MUSIC offers expertise in organizing concerts, procuring Eastern European artists for performances as well as contacting labels, artists’ managements and media in Eastern Europe. Both label founders Alexander Kasparov and Armin Siebert have many years of experience in the Eastern European as well as the Western European music businesses.

Alexander Kasparov originates from Moscow and has also worked for many years in Warsaw, London and Berlin. On choosing Berlin as the label’s base, Kasparov says: ‘For Eastern Europeans Berlin is the place of choice when they come to Western Europe. And now we have here a vivid scene of various Eastern European cultures. Berlin is about to become the central capital of Europe. A true melting pot of East and West.”