Rough Guide to the Music of Balkan Gypsies

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 15, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: World Music Network
• ASIN: B000A5EMKE
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #79,497 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #66 in Music > World Music > Europe > Eastern Europe > Gypsy

Track Listings

1. Mahalageasca - Mahala Rai Banda

2. Cintec De Dragoste Si Joc - Taraf De Haidouks

3. Mundo Cocek - Boban Markovic Orkestar

4. Lenorije Chaje - Ivo Papasov

5. Di, Murgule, Di - Nikolae Simion

6. Opa Cupa - Saban Bajramovic

7. Lume, Lume - Fanfare Ciocarlia

8. Pranvera - Vangelis Vasiliou

9. Romano Oro - Esma Redzepova

10. To Tsantiraki - Eleni Vitali

11. Espresso - Taraf De Metropulitana

12. Felix Kolo - Boban Markovic Orkestar

13. Kadife - Omar Faruk Tekbilek

14. Taraf - Shukar Collective

15. Sofyisky Kjuchek - Ibro Lolov

16. Rom - Nikos Kypourgos

17. Tsiganka Sam Mala - Vera Petrovic

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A musical people on the move, July 6, 2008

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N. Freidin "Melomane" (Huntington, WV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rough Guide to the Music of Balkan Gypsies (Audio CD)

Here you have a medley of gypsy ('romany') music from the Balkans, which includes Romania, Bulgaria, the modern states carved out of the old Yugoslavia, and Albania, Greece, and also Turkey.

Although 'touched up' a bit with orchestration, etc.., you get the energetic sound of a vibrant people's musical tradition, a culture unwilling to bow to assimilation, let alone extermination. Persecuted from Russia to Ireland, and in recent memory, the target of genocide, from the German fascists in the 1930s and early 40s, to their modern counterparts in eastern Europe since the collapse of the Soviet empire, in the 1990s and since, the gypsies have survived. And they remain resilient.

This compilation, in great sound, full of life, full of emotion, from joyous to melancholic, is a fitting record to a musical traditon which influenced so profoundly the music of eastern Europe, absorbing and adding to the traditional music of their locality, be it Christian, Jewish, or Islamic.