| Various Artists / Rough Guide Balkan Gypsies |
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| Album: | Rough Guide Balkan Gypsies | Collection: | World | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Jul 2005 | |
| Label: | World Music Network | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2005-09-04 | Pull Date: | 2005-11-06 | Charts: | Reggae/World |
| Week Ending: | Nov 6 | Oct 30 | Oct 16 | Oct 2 | Sep 25 | Sep 18 | Sep 11 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Sep 01, 2011: | Diaspora Mix Espresso | 4. | Oct 10, 2005: | Asymtotic Freedom Lenorije Chaje | |
| 2. | Oct 31, 2005: | Asymptotic Freedom Mahalageasca | 5. | Sep 30, 2005: | No Cover, No Minimum Cintec De Dragoste Si Joc | |
| 3. | Oct 24, 2005: | Asymptotic Freedom Mundo Cocek | 6. | Sep 27, 2005: | At the Cafe Bohemian Espresso |
| Album Review |
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| Don Farrell Reviewed 2005-09-23 | ||
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Virtuoso violins to energetic brass bands: transcending borders. a few facts: A small town hosts a "brassapalooza' with 300,000 brass heads attending. There were 30,000 musicians in the Romanian Army, people were thrown into labor camps for playing Rom or Turkish music in Bulgaria when the government was socialist. 1: 4: 06 violins, accordions and a fast driving brass section 2: 6:00 mid to fast wailing male vocal, bass,violins,accordions and cimbalom (a hammered dulcimer) @ 4:00 picks up the pace *3: 3:11 10 piece Brass band/jazz/funk 4: 5: 16 fast tempo, female vocal, Bulgarian wedding music 5: 3:06 6/8 Romanian dance given a jazz lift, mid tempo fem vocal. 6: 3:43 male vocal *7: 2:52 slow to mid male vocal, brass rhythm fem chorus, more brass. 8: 3:54 slow to mid male vocal Greek, Albanian, Italian sound fused into Rom song *9: 2:31 fast female wailing vocal, very nice voice 10: 2:18 mid to fast female vocal, clarinet, plucked strings 11: 3:37 slow intro. then fast fiddles and horns, instrumental **12: 6:57 violin duet with brass band, slow intro then fast fast. 13: 5: 47 wailing male vocal, fast horns 14: 3:24 scat style vocal, minimal hammered dulcimer, cool sound, fast. 15: 3:47 low & slow intro, then fast accordion, military band modified to wedding tune. 16: 1:19 slow , haunting female vocal film score for movie ROM 17: 3:51 slow jazzy intro, female vocal fast gypsy style. D Farrell 08/2005 | ||
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