| Various Artists / Balkans Without Bordes |
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| Album: | Balkans Without Bordes | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | 09/1999 | |
| Label: | Omnium Recordings | |||
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 14, 2018: | Popping and Hopping demo Geamparalele Tsambalul, Esma | 3. | Dec 09, 2003: | At the Cafe Bohemian Anapse to Tsigaro | |
| 2. | Dec 28, 2013: | Music Casserole Anapse To Tsigaro (Live) | ||||
| Album Review |
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| Don Farrell Reviewed 2005-04-28 | ||
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Collection of lots of COOL GROUPS from Europe & USA doing Balkan flavored tunes for Doctors Without Borders. Check out liner notes and http://www.omnium.com/balkans/contributors.html for more info on the groups. ***1: 2:28 fast vocal and cool fast plucked strings and other instruments by CHARMING HOSTESS *2: 2:29 fem vocals, mid tempo upbeat traditional sounding Balkan tune. ***3: 2:07 fast Polish tune by BRAVE COMBO **4: 3:00 Albanian surf tune. ***5:3:53 gypsy tune, mid to faster, male vocals, cool sound **6: 3:19 Albanian love song, fast male vocal, cool vocal and ~1:40 neat guitar noodling featured. 7: 3:07 great group name, mid to faster tempo Serbo-Bulgarian instrumental. ***8: 3:36 fast bouzouki sample loops over techno breakbeats, GREAT dance number. ***9: 1:00 Bulgarian tune played in one minute. ***10: 2:05 Romanian dance tune based on 7/16 featuring a cimbalom ( sounds like a hammered dulcimer???) ****11: 4:41 house version of a Macedonian saber dance. more review >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------------>>> **12: 3:39 slow, mellow song from theatre piece in English. **13: 4:45 Greek folk song about Greeks forced out of Turkey, mellow mid tempo fem. voc. with organ and percussion. ***4: 3:19 fast perc and fiddle, whistles, Great fast folk dance tune. ****15: 2:41 mid tempo almost a drone sound, mouth harp twang, from GARMARNA a Swedish folk *16: 6:50 low slow orch. warm up sound, fem singing??yelling?? ~4min volume increases, last min. a cool instrumental. ****17: 3:31 fem voc. and cool cool brass band. ***18: 2:52 wailing fem. voc in a trad. Macedonian folk song. neat accordion??? ***19: 2:21 fast fiddle and male vocal from Serbia. ***20: 4:39 UPBEAT Greek tune, fem voc. ***21: 5:19 fast instrumental tunes from BOILED IN LEAD. D Farrell 09/99 | ||
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