| Various Artists / Rough Guide Hungary |
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| Album: | Rough Guide Hungary | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Aug 2012 | |
| Label: | World Music Network | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2012-12-15 | Pull Date: | 2013-02-17 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | Feb 17 | Feb 10 | Feb 3 | Jan 27 | Jan 13 | Jan 6 | Dec 30 | Dec 23 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Oct 10, 2013: | All Things Go Kelushka | 4. | Feb 09, 2013: | Music Casserole Csípd | |
| 2. | Mar 02, 2013: | New World Disorder Kelushka | 5. | Feb 02, 2013: | New World Disorder Csángó Boogie | |
| 3. | Feb 16, 2013: | New World Disorderette Kelushka | 6. | Feb 02, 2013: | Music Casserole Csak Egyszer Voltam Boldog |
| Album Review |
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| Sadie O. Reviewed 2012-12-14 | ||
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Rough Guide to Hungary Reviewed by Sadie O., 12/13/12 Mostly very strongly tied to the Roma musical tradition in Central/Eastern Europe, very folky, often traditional and acoustic instruments. CD 1: 1. 5:01 **stately café gavotte with violins. Turns into a mad romp for the last minute. 2. 2:25 **pretty female a capella, very Eastern European. 3. 4:20 ****high speed violin sawing and walking bass, turns into a proper boogie – very nice! Gypsy funk… 4. 4:20 **piano arpeggios, very fraught and redolent of cigarette smoke and regret. Goes all hyper for last minute and a half. 5. 5:11 **super high speed plinky strings, folk dance. Lots of Opa! Clarinet and accordion solos. Project specifically intended to preserve Roma music. 6. 3:13 **lovely and expressive female harmonies, very, very wistful and slow. 7. 2:54 **upbeat and bouncy strings, midtempo Gypsy/Klezmer. Male vocals. 8. 5:35 **plinky unplugged ethnofolk, upbeat female vocals and chorus. Goes into very uptempo and skippy flute and fiddle frenzy. Ends in a merry little march. 9. 3:14 ***sweet Gypsy jazz café with female vocals. Swingy and nice. 10. 2:57 **pretty, mellow hurdy-gurdy music with some well-mannered horns and strings, choral vocals. 11. 2:30 ***completely manic fiddle-based romp with nonsense female vocals. 12. 4:01 **pretty, plinky strings and flute, extremely lovely female vocals. A bit redolent of some Celtic trad. 13. 2:44 ****uptempo and upbeat, mostly male vocals, seriously party music, Gypsy style. Fun insidental vocals, almost beatboxing… 14. 3:20 **high speed fiddle dance from the new generation of folk musicians. Very nice clarinet solo. 15. 4:29 ****whistling and guitar intro, turns into a fantastic circus march from a dreamscape… 16. 3:31 *very sparse horns and female vocals, mellow as all heck. Pretty, but it’s kinda putting me to sleep… 17. 3:15 *****awesome springy instruments and manic vocals. Although based in Roma music, it’s completely modern and crazy fun! CD 2 (Tárkány-Müvek): Traditional Hungarian meets avante-garde and café jazz. Involves the Cimbalom, which is sort of large and complex dulcimer. 1. 3:17 ***very fast, bouncy plinky Gypsy café jazz instrumental. Halfway along, it gets a swing bounce and licorice stick. 2. 2:48 **minor chord, and pretty female vocals with a very Eastern European style. Slow, no percussion, but a fair amount of tension… 3. 5:01 *pretty solo clarinet intro, then minor key jazzy piano, female vocals, high and pretty. Noodly jazz clarinet outro. 4. 4:56 **upbeat minor (diminished, even) chord jazzy something, light and pretty female vocals. Gets uptempo and swingy with quite a clarinet solo. 5. 4:32 *terribly sad-sounding vocals and tinkly piano. Gets a bit of mild Gene Krupa drum, uptempo but minor-key. 6. 2:35 **quite dramatic (but rather soft) piano arpeggios and sad vocals. Avante-garde and a bit dischordant. 7. 3:11 ***happy, plinky, upbeat and uptempo, rather like a polka w/ a klezmer/café fee/. Pleasant, apart from the Gitano smoke. 8. 4:34 ***upbeat jazzy bopper. Reminds me of “Those Were the Days, My Friend”… 9. 11:58 *very sparse and slow piano and flute intro. Makes me sad, and I’m already sad enough… Builds slowly, lots of solos and improv. Vocals only in last minute and a half. SAD. 10. 5:08 ***midtempo café jazz with upright bass, high, light vocals. Hungary’s answer to Edith Piaf? Goes all fast and bouncy right at the end. 11. 6:32 *extremely soft and slow chords, sweet vocals. Almost unbearably mellow clarinet solo. SUDDENLY goes all uptempo bouncy with accordion. | ||
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