Customer Reviews

World Library: Romania

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I was *not* disappointed. I can listen to this CD for hours: raw instruments and natural voices playing unfamiliar rhythms and tunes with "other worldy" sounds: evocative of a more natural life! It contains a vast expanse of village music, from throughout different regions of Romania. The music is "authentic" in that it is "folk music": i.e., songs & instruments played by villagers & sung by villagers... Nothing against learning via lessons --- however, let's face it: when you sing and play from the heart, it is quite different than reading notes in a book and repeating patterns ... This is a collector's item!!! I was enormously *pleased* it was reissued for our listening pleasure. (BTW, if you want to play along with clarinet or sax - go listen to Greek music. Lots of room for improvsiation there ...) Erika Borsos (erikab93)

Don't let the word "Primitive" fool you....the instruments may be "primitive", but the performances are most certainly not.

Clearly has great historic value, good quality recording!

I played this CD right after picking up my saxophone, which I hadn't done in a few years. The first track and I got along fine; in fact we sounded the same: unschooled, rough.

This CD would be great for a scholar of music interested in eastern European folk music.

Me? I listened to it straight through, once. The liner notes were a great insight in to the background of the songs and musicians. I won't give it a second listen though.