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Taraf de Haidouks/Continuing Adventures

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holy cow. this package is a real treat. for $15 you get a full concert cd, plus a full FULL dvd, with them in concert, interviews with fans, documentary, and more.

and yes, they are jawdroppingly amazing. even moreso to actually get to watch them!

What a fabulous CD!! Listening to a Taraf cd is one thing, but to actually see them perform is a transcendental experience. The jaw-dropping virtuosity and presence of the Taraf make this cd truly enchanting and a must have for any gypsy music fan.

Highly Recommended.

This is everything a music DVD should be: it leaves you with a complete sense of where this band have come from (deepest, poorest rural Romania); a feeling for the individual band members after hearing them talk in their own words (the one band member trying to remember the names of his nine children brings a smile to your face); the jaw-dropping musicianship; their life on the road (lost-looking at first to being cocky by the London gig); etc,etc......... But above all, it is the jaw-dropping musicianship. Travelling around the world with Taraf (with the help of this DVD) is highly recommended. The only down side is the celebrity endorsement by the omipresent Brad Pitt (nice, but the rest of the DVD is so damned good, you don't need it).

Well shot and edited, and with a bonus live CD - near perfect.

This is a biased review, as I am a Taraf de Haidouks fan. Bulk of the DVD is a live concert in Union Chappel in London which is of course excellent, one cannot imagine this band giving a less than unbelievable performance. There are commentaries, mainly by Johny Depp, nice and enthusiastic, but after seeing them 20 times I found them unnecessary. Lots of good extras, a bit of background of Taraf members.Part of a concert (and rehearsal) in Bucharest, where the "Band Gypsies" CD was recorded. A must for a Taraf de Haidouks fan, and who heard them and is not? Great for astounding your musical and unmusical friends, as they definitely never seen or heard anything like it!

Filmed with all the charm and talent of your Uncle Barney's hand-held home movies.

White balance way off, the camera person seldom saw a reason to use a tripod, except theater performance shots...from balcony. Ugg.

Johnny Depp shot on $399 camcorder? Cool!

Waste of an opportunity to capture these guys with the kind of quality they deserve.

Great band and fun to see their faces to go with the voices I enjoy on cd.

They are still alive. Try again someone.