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.

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**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