Last Balkan Tango [Import]

Boris Kovac | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 11, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Piranha Germany
• ASIN: B00005OW6X
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #369,988 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Last Balkan Tango

2. Begin-Ing

3. Octoberburrekfest

4. Balkatino

5. Slow for Julia

6. Begin for Julia

7. Rumbatto

8. The Last Waltz in Budapest

9. What Life Offers

10. Tango Apocalypso

11. Shadows of Reminiscence

12. Ending

13. Orient Express

Customer Reviews

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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Moving., March 16, 2002

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Charles-Antoine Caron (Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Last Balkan Tango (Audio CD)

Boris Kovac & Ladaaba Orchest are from Yugoslavia. Ladaaba stands for La Danza Apocalypsa Balcanica.

The songs, as a whole, have a feeling of last moment, a feeling of something important terminating. This is the music of the last party. On "Begin-ing", we are asked "to imagine there is only one starry night left till the end of the world... What would we do?" Really, I don't know. What would I do? What would you do? Something did terminate but not everything. The last song takes us on a new journey to a vague destination. Maybe for the better, maybe for the worse, but all is not terminated.

These Balkan tangos are, I don't know how to say it otherwise, they are important. They got here just in time. They have tastes of tango, gypsy music, avant-garde jazz and rumba. There is a good measure of energy and hope, along with the bittersweet sadness.

It has been a long time since I bought a CD with that much integrity and sense of completness.