Traband is one of the many exciting, adventurous bands that emerged in the post-communist Czech Republic in the '90s. The members of Traband are quite knowledgeable of traditional Czech music, but they are not purists by any means. Instead, they have combined Czech music with a wide variety of other styles, and their work has grown increasingly experimental, far-reaching, and expansive along the way. Traband's outlook is quite multicultural; the group's stylistic influences range from klezmer and East European Jewish wedding music to Balkan and Macedonian music to punk, altern...