LJILJANA BUTTLER



One of the great re-discovered voices of Eastern Europe. Deep, dark and distinctive…The Mother of Gypsy Soul.” (Songlines) A star in 1980s Yugoslavia where she had been singing gypsy music since the age of 12, Ljiljana ‘disappeared’ when she moved to Germanywhere she worked as a cleaner. Hers is a Buena Vista story of the reappearance of a lost legend. "...Ljiljana Buttler's debut CD is delicious: Ljiljana's deep, almost masculine, voice picks out words and tosses them into the air with effortless grace. And the instrumental backing by Mostar Sevdah Reunion and legendary trumpet virtuoso Boban Markovic is inspired: the musicians spoon out the notes with a tangilble, almost erotic, delicacy while Ljiljana sails above them, her voice caressing the listener." (Garth Carthwright, FRoots Magazine, UK January/February 2003)