Eastern Blok / Folk Tales
Album: Folk Tales   Collection:World
Artist:Eastern Blok   Added:Nov 2007
Label:Self-Release  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2007-11-11 Pull Date: 2008-01-13 Charts: Reggae/World
Week Ending: Jan 13 Dec 16 Dec 9 Dec 2 Nov 25 Nov 18
Airplays: 1 2 1 1 1 3

Recent Airplay
1. Oct 12, 2021: Cafe Nakhil (rebroadcast from Mar 28, 2019)
Balkan Healer, Tango Pajdusko
4. Dec 14, 2007: No Cover, No Minimum
Tricycle
2. Mar 28, 2019: Cafe Nakhil
Balkan Healer, Tango Pajdusko
5. Dec 11, 2007: At the Cafe Bohemian
Balkan Healer
3. Jan 08, 2008: At the Cafe Bohemian
Sapik
6. Dec 04, 2007: At the Cafe Bohemian
Balkan Healer

Album Review
Decca
Reviewed 2007-11-11
Eastern European folk tunes played as jazz. A tight and compelling combination, led by Croatian jazz guitarist Goran Ivanovic. He’s joined by sax, clarinet, flute, bouzouki, bass, and perc. The playing is really wonderful and he’s one hell of a talented guitarist. For fans of both world music and jazz.

*1. Mid/upbeat klezmer-infused folk jam. Intricate & delicious.
2. Starts slow & dramatic. Picks up to a mid/up bellydance wiggle.
*3. Upbeat Balkan jazz jam. Gypsys meet Dervishes in Chicago.
4. Lyrical, delicate and cinematic w/sweeping melodies & sadness.
5. Sephardic-y strings/perc. Mid becomes crazy-fast jazz folk dance.
6. Slow, w/blocks of sounds. Spare & dramatic.
*7. Light mid/downbeat meander w/great solos & a small club sound.
8. Slow clarinet/perc drone. Builds gradually but retains spareness.
*9. Mostly midtempo w/insistent perc & strings at counterpoint. Cool!

Track Listing
1. Tango Pajdusko   5. Kopanitsa
2. Songs From The Black Sea   6. The Moon In The Labyrinth
3. Balkan Healer   7. Sapik
4. Sorrow's Secret   8. Wisdom Of The Sands
  9. Tricycle