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Various Artists
Rough Guide to the Music of Balkan Gypsies
Genres: International Music, Pop

Track Listings (17) - Disc #1
1. Mahalageasca - Mahala
2. Cintec de Dragoste Si Joc - Costica
3. Mundo Cocek - Traditional
4. Lenorije Chaje - Traditional
5. Di, Murgule, Di - Traditional
6. Opa Cupa - Bajramovic, Saban
7. Lume, Lume - Traditional
8. Pranvera - Traditional
9. Romano Oro
10. To Tsantiraki - Traditional
11. Espresso - Bilteanu, A.
12. Félix Kolo - Lajkó, Félix
13. Kadife - Traditional
14. Taraf - Handrabur, Dan
15. Sofyisky Kjuchek - Lolov, Ibro
16. Rom - Kypourgos, Nikos
17. Tsiganka Sam Mala - Traditional

CD Details

All Artists: Various Artists
Title: Rough Guide to the Music of Balkan Gypsies
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: World Music Network
Original Release Date: 1/1/2005
Re-Release Date: 8/15/2005
Genres: International Music, Pop
Styles: Europe, Eastern Europe
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 605633115925

Synopsis

Album Description

The Gypsy Road stretches from Rajasthan, India to Andalucia, Spain and beyond, but it is the Balkan countries of Eastern Europe that are home to the largest Rom populations. Often scape-goated and caught in the middle of the twentieth century's worst injustices, from Belgrade to Bucharest to Skopje the Rom have had a profound impact on Balkan culture and music. Throughout the region, Gypsy music is Balkan music, transcending borders and ethnicities: energetic brass bands, violin and cimbolom virtuosos and captivating voices, The Rough Guide To The Music Of Balkan Gypsies has it all.

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CD Reviews

A musical people on the move

N. Freidin | Huntington, WV | 07/06/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Here you have a medley of gypsy ('romany') music from the Balkans, which includes Romania, Bulgaria, the modern states carved out of the old Yugoslavia, and Albania, Greece, and also Turkey.

Although 'touched up' a bit with orchestration, etc.., you get the energetic sound of a vibrant people's musical tradition, a culture unwilling to bow to assimilation, let alone extermination. Persecuted from Russia to Ireland, and in recent memory, the target of genocide, from the German fascists in the 1930s and early 40s, to their modern counterparts in eastern Europe since the collapse of the Soviet empire, in the 1990s and since, the gypsies have survived. And they remain resilient.

This compilation, in great sound, full of life, full of emotion, from joyous to melancholic, is a fitting record to a musical traditon which influenced so profoundly the music of eastern Europe, absorbing and adding to the traditional music of their locality, be it Christian, Jewish, or Islamic."