| Acquaragia Drom / Mister Romano |
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| Album: | Mister Romano | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Acquaragia Drom | Added: | Aug 2004 | |
| Label: | Finisterre | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2004-10-11 | Pull Date: | 2004-12-13 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | Dec 12 | Dec 5 | Nov 28 | Nov 21 | Nov 14 | Nov 7 | Oct 31 | Oct 24 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Nov 02, 2015: | Everything A to Z week 18 Tammurriata Del Camafro | 4. | Dec 10, 2004: | No Cover, No Minimum - Favorites of 2004, Part 2 Traden Roma | |
| 2. | May 16, 2009: | Music Casserole Valzer Roulotte | 5. | Dec 07, 2004: | At the Cafe Bohemian Ripabottoni Brun Brun | |
| 3. | Mar 27, 2008: | World Beat Marcetta Funerea | 6. | Nov 30, 2004: | At the Cafe Bohemian Mister Romano |
| Album Review |
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| Decca Reviewed 2004-10-04 | ||
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I’m going to run away and join their circus. This is wacky, wonderful fun, thinly disguised as great Italian Gypsy music. One minute you’re eating peanuts and dancing with the fat lady, the next minute the clown is making you cry. Don’t ask me to explain, just listen and play this, dammit. Wonderful vocals, an extremely talented band and lots of passion. A mix of Gypsy Swing and Italian folk with a whisper of darkness to even the happiest of tunes that makes this fascinating and sometimes unsettling. One of my favorite CDs of the year. *1. Lively. Children’s chorus, strings, vox, it’s wild. 2. Beautiful fem vox, midtempo w/longing & emotion. *3. Dark but bouncy w/great interludes of brass & vox. 4. Hyper-fast w/a frantic, almost surreal speed & energy. *5. A bit of swing, a hint of tarantella…like Django meets Fellini. 6. Wailing male vox/accordion/clarinet. Dark, downtempo, cool. 7. Uptempo w/great strings & warm, bouncy fem vox. *8. Slightly manic, great vox/per/strings. *9. Slow at first, then picks up, then slow. A bit of Klezmer. 10. Fast & bouncy dance w/big chorus & lots of energy. Fun. *11. Uptempo mix of vocals, swinging clarinet, perc, strings. 12. Basically a continuation of 11 though somehow it’s darker. *13. Mouth harp, perc, vox. Wicked-scary fast. 14. Slow a capella. Sad, haunting, very powerful. 10/2004 | ||
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