Customer Reviews

Gypsy Groove

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I work at a bookstore and we get a lot of free promotional copies. The other day I picked this cd up and was blown away! We played it in store and when the first song came on, people were dancing and tapping their toes in the aisles. These rustic songs take you to another world and are upbeat and fun. I want to own many more putumayo cds thanks to gypsy groove. This is a wonderful collection of songs and I recommend this cd to anybody who enjoys world music, or music in general.

I have been listening to the sample clips of this CD, and ordered it from amazon within 2 minutes! This music is simply intoxicating!...its a clever and highly creative arrangement of music,by some of the most musically gifted people on the planet.

This collection is fantastico. It gets me toes jumpin' all the day. If you like the gypsy thing and want to get the house down - buy it.

Buy it. It's different the first time that you listento it, but after 2 or 3 times is when all the details are appreciated and is possible to enjoy the intensity of the music....

For an old guy like me this stuff helps get the blood pumping. A very well put together album with all good listenable tunes, no duds.

i love it, play it, it makes me get happy
and like to share it with others
makes you want to get up and dance just mooove arounnnnddddd
cc

Outstanding collection of ethno-pop with Eastern European roots. Diverse, easy to listen to and very danceable. If you're looking for something different that's not off the globe this is the disk for you.

This CD has a lot of very positive, intelligently written reviews, and it's kind of hard for me to imagine that they're about the CD I bought, which is the oddest and least interesting take on Roma music I've ever heard. Roma musicians have always tended to take on some aspects of local music, and it's possible that's the case here (a couple of the cuts have some distant - very distant - similarity to klezmer music). Yet what the whole CD lacks is the vibrant energy and drive that characterizes all the Roma music I've heard before this limp, disorganized attempt. I suppose this CD can claim to be less "commercial" than some. It's probably representative of some regional Roma music, and there's some virtue to be found in that. As is often the case with things that are off the beaten path, however, there's sometimes a reason why the path went elsewhere.

Great music. A lot of fun. The kids groove along. Great for party atmosphere with a twist.

This "so called" Gypsy music is a modern interpretation/improvisation of the most famous Gypsy's songs/music. I love traditional, old- fashion Gypsy music in true Romani language, but the languages that are features in this CD are Czech, French, Russian, Arabic, etc.. and only some are in Romani. That's not what I expected and this CD is not for me. I would rather listen to Shakira or European pop instead, but not this "so called" Gypsy Groove.