4:00pm | Elemer Balogh “Nóta, Csárdás, és Csípd meg, bogar” from Virtuoso Cymbalo and Clarinet Solos (Qualiton (LP)) —this is the uncle of Kalman Balogh, a cimbalom player who works with many of the current Hungarian bands. These pieces are in the old "café style"Buy it! |
4:07pm | Apollónia KOVÁCS & Lajos BOROSS and his Gypsy Band “Cigányleány, viragszál/ Nem Szeretem én a babot/ Adjon isten szereket” from Hej, Deládé, Deládé gypsy songs (Hungaroton) —listen to guys in the background doing "mouth music" - only the Roma did this in this styleBuy it! |
4:14pm | Janosne Bogdan "Bodo" “(song)” from Hungarian Gypsy Folksongs (Quintana)Buy it! |
4:16pm | Kalyi Jag “Rolled song from Szatmár” from Gypsy Folk Songs from Hungary (Hungaroton 1990) —originally recorded in 1887 as an LPBuy it! |
4:19pm | Kalyi Jag “Rolled song from Szekszárd” from Gypsy Folk Songs from Hungary (Hungaroton 1990)Buy it! |
4:27pm | Kalyi Jag “Kalo Pirano” from Cigányszerelem (Kalyi) —"black lover"Buy it! |
4:29pm | Romanyi Rota “Ásél láké” from "O Cérháriko" (Etnofon 1994)Buy it! |
4:32pm | Romanyi Rota “Sziman khere dujseja (I have 2 daughters at home)” from Báro Drom Szász (Etnofon 2009)Buy it! |
4:40pm | Ando Drom “Mori gázsbi” from Ando Drom (WMD 1995) —note the finger napping and milk jug as the only "instrumentation" for this rolled song - quite purist, compared with their later workBuy it! |
4:45pm | Ando Drom “Na Kamel Ma” from Phari Mamo (Network 1997)Buy it! |
4:55pm | Besh O Drom “Pergetö” from Can't Make Me! (Asphalt Tango Records 2005)Buy it! |
5:04pm | Szászcsávás band “scat Csárdás and Szokö/with instruments” from Live in Chicago ((self)) —these guys come from a village in Transylvania that originally had Romanians, Hungarians, Germans and Roma living there. These are the dances the Roma do for themselves.Buy it! |
5:10pm | Kálmán Balogh and the Gipsy Cimbalom Band “Gypsy Colors” from Gypsy Jazz (Rounder 1999)Buy it! |
5:17pm | Kalyi Jag “Rumelaj” from Gypsy Folk Songs from Hungary (Hungaroton 1990) —"Balkan Style"Buy it! |
5:22pm | Ferus Mustafov “Vesel Čoček” from (45 rpm disc) (RTB) —this is a very early Yugoslav recording - probably from the early 1960sBuy it! |
5:25pm | Ferus Mustafov “Enverov Čoček” from (45 rpm disc) (RTB) —these two tracks are music for slow solo dances preferred by the RomaBuy it! |
5:28pm | Ilmi Jašarov “Selsko Rûchenitsa” from (45 rpm disc) (Beogradisk) —another solo dance, this one enjoyed by both Roma and non-Roma. Like the Bulgarian version, it is in fast 7/8Buy it! |
5:36pm | Esma Redzepova “Čaje Šukarije” from Songs of a Macedonian Gypsy (Monitor 1994) —the signature song of this most famous singer. an early recordingBuy it! |
5:39pm | Usnija Jašarova “Džulo, džulo” from Songs of a Macedonian Gypsy (Monitor 1994)Buy it! |
5:44pm | Usnija Redzepova “Sedam Dana” from 30 Godina Sa Trubom (PGP - RTS 2009) —this is Usnija Jasarova, who changed her name before her recording career took offBuy it! |
5:52pm | Ferus Mustafov “Romska Gajda” from Macedonian Wedding Soul Cooking (Globe Style 1995)Buy it! |
Like everything else, times are approximate.
Spinitron and this station are not liable for errors or omissions.
