Beni Sape Sibiu

The most accessible album. Features a stunning cover of Django Reinhardt’s "Minor Swing" but played in 7/8 time (Bulgarian rhythm). It sounds impossible to dance to, yet the audience always finds a way.

"I am not a museum piece," he said in a recent interview for Songlines Magazine . "My grandfather played for weddings in the mud. I play for festivals on the moon. The music must live. If it doesn't swing, it is dead." beni sape sibiu

In 2022, he was invited to play with the . The show was called "From the Campfire to the Concert Hall." For the first half, the orchestra played Brahms. For the second half, Beni walked out in traditional Roma garb (black vest, wide trousers, a fedora) and deconstructed Brahms’ Hungarian Dances back into the folk music Brahms had stolen them from. It was a radical act of reclamation. The most accessible album