Shukar Collective / Urban Gypsy
Album: Urban Gypsy   Collection:World
Artist:Shukar Collective   Added:May 2005
Label:Riverboat Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2005-06-13 Pull Date: 2005-08-15 Charts: Reggae/World
Week Ending: Aug 14 Aug 7 Jul 31 Jul 24 Jul 17 Jul 10 Jul 3 Jun 26
Airplays: 3 2 2 3 2 7 3 4

Recent Airplay
1. Jul 28, 2013: New World Disorder
Verbal Fight
4. Jul 31, 2010: New World Disorder
Malademna
2. Nov 25, 2010: Killer Yellow Blue
Taraf
5. Jul 24, 2010: New World Disorder
Verbal Fight
3. Sep 11, 2010: New World Disorder
Malademna
6. Apr 17, 2010: New World Disorder
Verbal Fight

Album Review
Don Farrell
Reviewed 2005-06-13
Roots/Ursari music. (bear-taming music)/ HipHop/Electronica from Romania. Nice new sound. Great raspy male vocals in Romanian.
1: 3: 10 mid tempo drum with spoken word/conversation/rap in Romanian
***2: 4:36 lament & cool scat style with drum and bass. 10 second gap at end
***3: 4:35 cool scat style Hip Hop/Electronica/drum and bass with minimal hammered dulcimer
4: 4: 04 raspy male vocal, with effects, mid tempo.
***5: 3:25 scat style vocal, minimal hammered dulcimer, cool sound
6: 3:22 raspy male vocal, a lament
***7: 6:10 raspy male vocal, a lament cool background rhythm, abrupt end.
***8: 5:03 nice fast percussion, techno, scat style vocals, cool sound
***9: 4:32 raspy male vocal, cool percussion
**10: 4:34 scratchy noise intro, scat style, raspy male vocal Hip Hop/Electronica/drum and bass
***11: 4:08 cool percussion/chill /Electronica ,vocal echoes, cool sound.
12: 3:40 chill, Electronica/drum and bass, minimal vocals.
***13: 5: 05 BIG LOW frequency sounds, raspy male vocal
****14: 4:00 scat vocal , nice percussion
**15: 3: 44 mid to fast, scat style, lament vocal. D Farrell 06/2005

Track Listing
1. Calling Tamango   8. Shub
2. The Wind   9. Mamo
3. Malademna   10. Hahaha
4. Gipsy Blooz   11. Disperiae Romanes
5. Taraf   12. Do Baba
6. Oh, Mother   13. Lautarium
7. Bar Boot   14. Verbal Fight
  15. Wander