Tales & Songs From Wedding and Funerals [Import]

Goran Bregovic | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 26, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Mercury Import
• ASIN: B000068PGX
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #104,806 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #47 in Music > Imports > International

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BREGOVIC GORAN TALES AND SONGS FROM WEDDINGS & FUNERALS

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Beat Sets the Heart on Fire, August 24, 2006

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Rhymin Simon (Stamford, CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tales & Songs From Wedding and Funerals (Audio CD)

Goran Bregovic and his unique ensemble will have you jumping out of your seat, smiling and dancing around the room, just as the audience did at Avery Fisher Hall this summer (2006) when Bregovic made his U.S. debut. "Tales And Songs From Weddings and Funerals" has a beat you'll want to keep playing.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just.... Beatiful, August 28, 2004

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Leandro (Lomas de Zamora, Arg) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tales & Songs From Wedding and Funerals (Audio CD)

I've only heard the soundtracks of Emir Kusturicas movies... but I got to say when I hear the song ''Aven Ivenda'' I feel like crying a river... it's just beatiful... how do they feel the songs... just beatiful.. amazing... all the cd is amazing.... great... unexplicable....

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars In the style Bregovic has become famous for, but somehow dull and lifeless, March 29, 2009

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Christopher Culver - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tales & Songs From Wedding and Funerals (Audio CD)

Goran Bregovic's score for the Kusturica film UNDERGROUND made for one of the best movie soundtracks of all time. I was thrilled by Bregovic's mix of brass ensemble, Roma and Shopski Bulgarian singers, and complex Balkan rhythms. Desiring to hear more of his work, I got his 2002 album TALES AND SONGS FROM WEDDINGS AND FUNERALS. Unfortunately, this proved a disappointment. Many of the songs feature the same elements as in UNDERGROUND. The opening track "Hop Hop Hop", for example, has some old geezer singing in Romani against a backdrop of brass. "Sex" and "Cocktail Molotov" are similar. But somehow all the passion is gone, and instead of being energizing these are just ho-hum at best and grating at worst. In between the vocals, we find instrumentals that rarely rise above the most vacuous of film music.

I'm now unsure if I want to seek out more of Goran Bregovic's music. Is it all like this besides that brilliant Kusturica soundtrack of 1995?