[FA Worldmusic] BORAT

[Mark Gorney]

Yes, and it's club dross. I passed on being involved with it.

Speaking of Cohens, re Borat as most of us know the character's from
Kazakhstan but as I guess they couldn't film there they shot in Romania,
almost 1,000 miles away. I know it's cheap as hell to film there but if I
were the producer I would have at least tried to insist on Russia or
Uzbekistan, at least that way there would be some similarity for the
locations and the music. In addition to Borat's singing numbers the
soundtrack uses Kocani Orkestar and Mahala Rai Banda - ? Am I boring,
humorless or missing some point if I point out that Balkan brass bands have
little or nothing to do with Kazakh music? Nonetheless, Borat promises to be
one of the greatest comedic films of all time.

> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 09:24:19 -0600
> From: Ian Menzies <ian at menziesmixedmedia.com>
> Subject: [FA Worldmusic] BORAT
> To: "'Paul Harding'" <racecar at bitstream.net>, fa-worldmusic at folk.org
>
> You may have heard of the UK electro world act Zohar (had a release on Ark
> 21 a while back). The leader of the group is none other than Erron Baron
> Cohen - Sasha's brother!
>
> Ian