4:00pm | Muammer Ketencoğlu, Brenna MacCrimmon, Sumru Ağryürüyen, Cevdet Erek “Grabile Ya, Nane Mori” from Ayde Mori (Kalan www.kalan.com 2001) —Music from Macedonia recreated lovingly by a Canadian singing with a Turkish group - "music from the former Turkish empire". This show is about how music from one country can inspire musicians from another. This CD is available from www.tulumba.comBuy it! |
4:06pm | Sondorgo & Ferus Mustafov “Lilino oro” from Söndörgö & Ferus Mustafov in concert (Sondisc 2008) —One of the most famous Macedonian Rom musicians playing with a Hungarian band that usually specializes in music from the Slavic minority of Hungary.Buy it! |
4:12pm | Muammer Ketencoğlu, Brenna MacCrimmon, Sumru Ağryürüyen, Cevdet Erek “Çobankat” from Ayde Mori (Kalan www.kalan.com 2001) —More from this Turkish group, this time playing a famous Albanian song.Buy it! |
4:21pm | Zengő ens. “Kettős, a Marcié” from Kettős*Partners (do-là 1995) —Hungarian <-->Scottish. The first transition is so smooth you can't tell when it happens.Buy it! |
4:25pm | Mozaik “Romanian Horă / Black Jack Grove” from Live from the Powerhouse (Compass Records www.compassrecords.com 2004) —Romanian morphing into American Contra. Played here by the all-star cast of Andy Irvine, Bruce Molsky, Nikola Parov, Conal Lunny and Rens van der Zalm.Buy it! |
4:31pm | De Dannan “Two Jewish Reels Shepherds Dream-Onga Bucharesti” from Ballroom (Green Linnet 1987) —and now an Irish band playing 2 Romanian/Klezmer tunes.Buy it! |
4:40pm | Ånon Egeland, Magnus Gustafsson, Mats Olofsson “Englische [D 26]” from Höök!: Musik ur Svenska handskrifter från 1600- och 1700-talen (Drone 1995) —the first of 3 tunes from 17th and 18th century manuscripts from the southern Sweden. Good tunes sometimes take on lives of their own...Buy it! |
4:41pm | Ånon Egeland, Magnus Gustafsson, Mats Olofsson “The Love” from Höök!: Musik ur Svenska handskrifter från 1600- och 1700-talen (Drone 1995)Buy it! |
4:43pm | Ånon Egeland, Magnus Gustafsson, Mats Olofsson “Englische [D 25]” from Höök!: Musik ur Svenska handskrifter från 1600- och 1700-talen (Drone 1995)Buy it! |
4:45pm | Orkiestra Dni Naszych “Shenny Grow” from Odkrycia (ZAiKS) —OK, this may not be so serious. this is a Polish folk-rock group who sound like they learned this by ear...Buy it! |
4:50pm | Marta Sebestyen “Gold, Silver Or Love” from Kismet (Ryko/Rhino rhino.com 2006) —a Bosnian song, but played in in a sort of "World Music" arrangement.Buy it! |
4:57pm | Marta Sebestyen “Devoiko Mome” from Kismet (Ryko/Rhino rhino.com 2006) —A well-known Bulgarian song in Paidushko rhythm, here given an almost "New Age" treatment. This is not unusual for this artist - she began treating Hungarian material in an Avant-Garde fashion with collaborator Karoly Cserepes over 30 years ago.Buy it! |
5:04pm | Mozaik “Suleman's Kopanitsa” from Live from the Powerhouse (Compass Records www.compassrecords.com 2004) —Mozaik again, with a completely danceable Kopanitsa (Gankino - 11/8 divided 2+2+3+2+2), but played with Irish instrumentationBuy it! |
5:09pm | Maria Farantouri “Kouari Kouvaraki (from a tribute to FG Lorca)” from Tu Feggariou Ta Pathi (Lyra www.lyra.com 2009) —an "art song" composed as a KalamatianoBuy it! |
5:12pm | Elena Ledda “Σαράντα Παλικάρια” from Tutti Baci (Lyra www.lyra.com 2006) —a Greek song sung by a Sardinian Italian singer. This CD is interesting for interactions between the Greek and Sardinian singers and instrumentalists - see the next cut.Buy it! |
5:18pm | Elena Ledda, Savina Giannatou “Por Que Llora Blanca Nina” from Tutti Baci (Lyra www.lyra.com 2006) —a Sephardic Jewish song, sung by Sardinian and Greek singersBuy it! |
5:25pm | Xenos “Sao Roma” from My Mother Said (self-released 1993) —an Australian band with 2 Albanian Roma players and a DigeridooBuy it! |
5:36pm | The Balkan Noyz Boyz “Pamela's Ruchenitsa” from Boyz Will Be Boyz ((self produced) 1991) —This fun CD, with amusing liner notes, was originally put out as a tape, but became a collector's item and is now available in CD format from cdbaby.comBuy it! |
5:40pm | The Balkan Noyz Boyz “Katerino Mome” from Boyz Will Be Boyz ((self produced) 1991) —Tatiana Sarbinska's classic, given the west coast treatment. Their notes: "the songs asks 'what sort of mother gave birth to you, and how wild were you as a girl' - We think you'll find the answer amusing."Buy it! |
5:47pm | Baksheesh Boys “Jovano, Jovanke” from Baksheesh Boys ((self) 2003) —this band can play in either strict style or with some really unusual arrangements.Buy it! |
5:51pm | Baksheesh Boys “Sofke, Mori, Sofke” from Baksheesh Boys ((self) 2003) —another Macedonian song in "updated izvoren" style...Buy it! |
5:51pm | The Transsylvanians “Ki Ki Ki” from Igen! (Westpark 2004) —Hungarian Roma music done by a Hungarian/German groupBuy it! |
5:59pm | The Transsylvanians “Sukar” from Igen! (Westpark 2004) —we will have to play ther rest of this another time...Buy it! |
Like everything else, times are approximate.
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