Posts Tagged ‘rakia’

[BURDEL DALI PRESENTS] BURDEL XMAS DALI ! ★ ☆ Red hot pants, jingle bells, rakia shots & antlers!! IT’S XMAS DALI THE GYPSY HOLIDAY DANCE PARTY! Close out 2011 with an Eastern European beer in your hand and a thrashing circle-dance with your trans-global comrades & total strangers. ★ ☆★ ☆★ ☆★ ☆★ ☆★ ★ [...]

Thursday night, the most potent global throw-down on coast errupts in the lower east side for your dancing/screaming/circle-dancing pleasure… DJ Mishto & Raphlex bring the immigrant anthems alongside live percussion & widespread affection via Chico Cristo & Crispeto… Vintage Yugoslavian, Russian battle cries, bubblegum chalga, filthy cumbia, high-decor bhangra, inebriated polka, electro-Arabic love songs… GYPSY [...]

Another week, another story to tell the grandkids… Lights, cameras, rakia, chalga, cumbia, battle cries, flower leis, bathroom lays, and everything in between – the burdel is open for business this Thursday at Mehanata… Immigant anthems by DJ Mishto & Raphlex, sick sexy percussion by Chico Cristo & Crispeto. Ask nicely and you can play [...]

The party’s become exponentially badass this summer with the addition to Cristhian and Cristobal (of Escarioka fame) to our party lineup. They’ve taken over our stage with DJ sets and live percussion that has blown the freaking roof off consistently. You can check out some recent moments in our promo video, and check them out [...]

Friends, lovers, and enemies… we are thrilled to present our first promotional video – filmed & edited by Mishka. This is the visual/audio manifestation of one amazing year – our friends, Burdel regulars, and the musicians wh0 inspire us are directly responsible and represented in the best way we could manage with the random footage [...]

We’ve had a few straight weeks of pure pleasantry – tribal dancers, confetti getting into Mishto’s laptop keyboard, great people who have been added to our phone directories for future folk-dancing/shot-taking, and inspiration to take this festive gathering to a new level. Spring Fest Weekend! Dhyana and Irina danced for us Thursday and Saturday, with [...]

This party is going to be totally bananas. You’d be foolish to miss it. [Burdel Dali Presents] Mardi Gras Carnival Party! ★ Next week the Burdel Dali Militia will dust off our dancing shoes two days early to celebrate Fat Tuesday in a fit of debauchery and excess. Come out, have a shot of rakia, [...]

Some of our favorite Mehanata regulars waxing nomadic at the Gypsy Tabor festival… Raphlex is photographing, Michelle is dancing, and Mishto is getting interviewed about Brooklyn wildlife. Watch out, it gets pretty deep. Click to watch. Our photos from the festival here…

September 11 – 13th was a weekend of live music, chaos and fire-dancing, falling fences, mosquitoes, homemade rakia, long skirts, thin-walled tents, witch-trees, glass-drinking, and cultural appreciation. It was worth the three hour journey of various vehicles, with dollar store pit-stops for plastic belts and lighter fluid, to finally have our terrified cab driver pull [...]