Can't Make Me [Import]

Besh O Drom | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 8, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Asphalt Tango Ger.
• ASIN: B000084T6R
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #355,467 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exotic, Bold, Brassy Balkan Music, January 31, 2007

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Erika Borsos "pepper flower" (Gulf Coast of FL, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Can't Make Me (Audio CD)

This free-spirited band will knock your socks off, and the reverberations, starting at your feet, just *could* knock a glass out of your hand ... every track on this CD is phenomenal, superb Balkan music. The entire CD is filled with traditional music from Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia, Romania (Moldavia), Greece, Lebanon, Egypt, and even Afghanistan. The title of the CD "nekemnem-mutogatol" in Hungarian can be translated literally as, "you can't show me anything", meaning "you can't make me" do it your way, that is, you can't make me follow the rules, play by the book, follow a set pattern ...

This band shows you just what an independent musical sound is, created by a tad rebellious, i.e. experimental, musicians who stretch their instruments to the max ... Track#1 gets you hooked, by the rhythm and melody, you are well onto your way to oblivion, no resistance to the improvisations and beat. It synchronizes with your spirit, via melodies and rhythms played on such instruments as, the alto sax, guitar, trombone, tenor sax, and unpronounceable traditional percussive instruments ...

#5 "Berezeto" is another favorite which starts with an entrancing wind instrument and later transports you with brass instruments - you savor each and every note, your feelings are slowly wound and captured entwined with each instrument. Listening to this CD is blissful, soulful experience. Besh o droM has shown they play extremely exciting, exalted, exotic music - just what I expect from the
Balkans! Erika Borsos [pepper flower]

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!, August 26, 2003

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El Comanche (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Can't Make Me (Audio CD)

These guys are insane!!!!!!! I can't say enough about this CD. If you are into balkan/gypsy stuff it doesn't get better than this. Just buy it. The musicianship is outrageous and it is infectiously fun. I can't remember the last time I was this blown away buy a band.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Warning! Warning!, September 20, 2005

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Natasha Gerson "Natasha Gerson" (Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Can't Make Me (Audio CD)

If you like the Fanfare Ciocarlia, you'll like Besh O Drom. The same manical energy, like Markovitz'orchestra on speed or something, but musically muuuuuch better. Warning: Impossible not to get cheerful! Impossible not to dance! Impossible not to shift problems to the great tomorrow that never comes when you listen to Besh O Drom!