Customer Reviews

Can't Make Me

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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]

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.

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!

I have a lot of Balkans/Gypsy and this is among the best. If you like Ferus Mustafov, Ibro Lolov, Yuri Yunakov or Jony Iliev this should please you. It's much racier than some of the other Hungarian Gypsy albums I've heard. Their other album, "Macho Embroidery" is also good. It goes in a more jazzy direction.

From the minute you put it in the player this CD erupts into a rollicking flow of sound. It's fast and seems to get faster until about halfway through the CD where they've got some rap/hip-hop stuff and where there is a twice repeated expletive, but it's in Hungarian so who cares. After that the speed picks up again until it seems almost frenetic in places.

This is a band and not just your traditional Hungarian music. They mix a bunch of different styles and instruments, even using a little tongue clicking for percussion. It's a creative, snappy style, but most of the songs are very repetitive. Lots of brass in the mix, so the songs sound very similar in style.

Overall a great CD for when you want to get up and move to something energizing.

This is the most exciting music imaginable! I can't wait 'til they come to the States. Combination of the best in gypsy music -- meaning already highly rhythmic and danceable - with a rock-n-roll and hip-hop approach that kills.