Transkapela / Klezmer Carpathian Music
Album: Klezmer Carpathian Music   Collection:World
Artist:Transkapela   Added:Jul 2007
Label:Arc Music Inc.  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2007-08-05 Pull Date: 2007-10-07 Charts: Reggae/World
Week Ending: Oct 7 Sep 23 Sep 16 Sep 2 Aug 26 Aug 19 Aug 12
Airplays: 1 1 1 2 2 2 2

Recent Airplay
1. May 01, 2010: Music Casserole
Wale Meritz'a
4. Sep 11, 2007: At the Cafe Bohemian
Nuta Bukowinska - Ow Mohura
2. Oct 02, 2007: At the Cafe Bohemian
Sirba-Friska
5. Aug 31, 2007: No Cover, No Minimum
Wale Meritz'a
3. Sep 18, 2007: At the Cafe Bohemian
Kolomyjka
6. Aug 28, 2007: At the Cafe Bohemian
Hora Kandel'a

Album Review
Decca
Reviewed 2007-07-30
This 4-piece band plays klezmer in the style of itinerant Carpathian musicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Folksy, earthy, very catchy. Very well played instrumentals, mostly strings: violin, trumpet, cello, perc, dulcimer, viola.

1. Starts slow, gets mid and becomes nicely toe-tapping.
*2. Voices in back, then two upbeat wedding dances.
*3. Upbeat, tinny, seems to be falling over itself.
4. Midtempo w/strings and percussion.
5. Solo fiddle then dulcimer then strings. Mid, then picks up.
*6. Trumpet starts mid, then an upbeat mélange. Bright.
7. Midtempo tango-esque w/a dark sort of beat to it.
*8. Bright, midtempo hora that gets lyrical.
9. Starts slow, rather dark. Becomes a mid/up medley.
10. Spoken intro to 3 gypsy folk dances. Mid then upbeat, then mid.
*11. Dulcimer carries this tinny, old-fashioned waltz. Very sweet.
12. Toe-tapping upbeat folk dance.
13. Short (38 seconds) w/a buzzing whistle & perc. Upbeat.
*14. Slow introduction picks up and becomes a fast dance.
15. Slow hora w/a pretty, nostalgic quality. Kind of sad.
16. 10+ minutes. Starts slow, picks up, gets almost jazzy.

Track Listing
1. Old-Time Sirba   9. Forshpil And Khusidlekh
2. Chasydzki Weselny   10. Taniec/Sztajerek Dziadka Jozka/Krakowiaczek/Foxtrot
3. Sirba-Friska   11. Wale Meritz'a
4. Zsidos Z Gyimes   12. Taniec Cygan
5. Livezile   13. Nuta Besarabska
6. Kolomyjka   14. Nuta Bukowinska - Ow Mohura
7. Stetl Tango   15. Hora Kandel'a
8. Hora Mare Din Bucovina   16. Honga Transkapela