Balkan brass battle: blow your own trumpet

If you've not noticed the craze for spiced-up Balkan brass bands, where have you been? Now the two leading outfits are in battleIt has the air of a boxing match with a rowdy and expectant crowd. On the left, one trumpeter appears, on the right, another. They eye each other up and as you are distracted by the musical phrases they are swapping, an army of musicians appears behind each of them. It's the night after the Eurovision Song Contest, but you feel it's a much more fiercely fought competiti...

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