It´s still a funny move. I think that the people who know you and your music know that the Kazakhstan is not the balkans and their music is not as good as the Balkan music :)
loking forward to your gig in the Copenhagen tomorrow :)
One Love

 

Of course !... the "most outrageous lie" thing was intended as a Borat-style joke...
Thanks for the appreciation
 

Why do you guys have a sang called "Red Bula of the Balkans" by the way?

Bula is the main character in millions of romanian jokes, a rather stupid but gold-hearted (gypsy?) boy a total lack of social skills, but never mean. Just like Borat as a kid. There's also his friend Strula (jewish?)..
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Intr-o zi, la scoala, învatatoarea ii intreaba pe Bula si pe Strul cu ce se ocupa parintii lor.Prima data il intreba pe Strul:

-"Ma, Strul, ce ii tatal tau?" la care Strul ii raspunde:
-"Gropar!"

Invatatoarea:
-"Nu se spune gropar, se spune functionar la pompele funebre."
Il intreaba pe Bula:
-"Tatal tau, ce-i?"
-"DJ la Mistic Club!"
-"Si ce-i aia?"
-"Clopotar si cantor la biserica!"



 

Bul means "ass" i rromani chib too , and "cur" in romanian.

Great music anyway. I probably dance my bul off.
 

Surely the 'biggest lie' is that all the footage of Kazakhstan was filmed in Romania.
 

Yep, it sure was Romania, I understood perfectly well what the inhabitants in the village said. Kazach is a turkish language, romanian is a romance.

Borats wife Oksana yelled "pizda matii" (literally "mother's cunt") to Borat, it is a very common romanian emphasation. She also told him to make a knot on his pecker if he was unfaithful to her, using the word "pula" (cock). Not that kind of romanian one learn at school, but since I laerned it from my wife, I understand it

The architecture, the concrete telephone pole and the horse-drawn Dacia was all typically Romania. It took me like 3 seconds grab it. 

Borat himself speaks hebrew argout - Baron Sacha Cohen is jewish- but at twice in the movie he says "dzien dobre" wich means "good day"  in polish and with slight variations in other slavic languages ("dobre dan" in bosnian for example).


 

I would likley never have known about "balkan" music or whatever this funky shit is if it werent for that movie. 
 

True that.
 

I think that all intelligent people around the world know that this is only a stupid joke. So I think that you don't have to worry about this movie. It's not reflecting that people from Kazakhstan is like Borat, is relly reflecting that many people in the United States are really uninformed about all the world situation, and they are really ignorants blinded by their media and government.
 

Hm. I haven't seen the movie (I don't really watch any movies at all) but I found this rather disconcerting:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-415871/Borat-film-tricked-poor-village-actors.html

Now, I realise that's a link to the Daily Mail, and so not exactly the best possible source, but still, it's worth thinking about.
 

yeah remember , it is the mail
 

Well, to be fair, I live in America, so I wasn't aware of the Daily Mail's poor reputation until after my post.
 

With this film, like with all of the characters that he plays, Cohen just wants to show how the images and clichees look that a lot of ignorant people in the States and in Western-Europe have of the countries in Eastern-Europe: it's almost incredible that so many people don't make a difference between for example bulgaria and romania. He knows how stupid these imaginations are and he don't wants to insult the people who live in these countries. It's a parody on the stupidity of many people of the occidental culture, but not a parody on the people of the eastern countries. I first misunderstood cohen too...