review from Trey Spruance's 'Web of Mimicry'-
This is hands down the best party album on Earth. The music is:
a) faster than Napalm Death,
b) more uplifting than any Fellini movie,
c) as virtuosic as ANY brass playing ever heard anywhere,
d) as spirited and engaging as the Taraf de Haidouks,
e) impossible to follow, but perfectly coherant.
SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK SICK
No one walks away from this CD and forgets about it! It's feeling is CONTAGEOUS, it's impact is INSTANTANEOUS. Fanfare Ciocarlia do not fuck around. Coming from that wonderful Romany gypsy tradition - in the form of a military marching band of all things - FC are about as close as you can get to pure frenetic overload without being a grindcore band. They are so precise and controlled you'll wonder whether or not it's all done with mirrors. But really this is just a souped-up crash course in musical festivity, Romany style! Believe it or not, this kind of playing is just not all that uncommon in the Balkan states. Hey, don't let the instrumentation fool you, they are way faster and way tighter and way more insane than any of your favorite Death Metal bands.
― chaki (chaki), Friday, 22 November 2002 20:58 (twenty-three years ago)
sounds brilliant ... it's on my wishlist already.
I wonder if it could fit into one of my brass/dance sets. At the moment I'm collecting tracks which have a brass band / dance crossover vibe eg. Acid Brass, Goran Bregovich's "Underground" Soundtrack and some of the Nortec stuff like Bostich which use brass bass sounds. I also just got the Bollywood Brass Band's Rahmania album ... but I'm not sure if it fits yet.
Anyone else with similar recommendations ... it's gotta be brassy, dancy, funky and possibly integrating electronic beats and effects with smooth tubas.
― phil jones (interstar), Friday, 22 November 2002 22:09 (twenty-three years ago)
i remember seeing a video by Sven Vath on amp with him directing a small orchestra, but it was long time ago, i think the name of ths song is Fusion, if im remembering correctly it might fit in what youre doing
― Chupa-Cabras (vicc13), Saturday, 23 November 2002 15:27 (twenty-three years ago)
four years pass...
yes it does
out of all the balkan CDs I've stocked up on, this one is the fastest & craziest, whenever I play it out someone comes over to check to make sure I haven't pitched up the tempo. it's impossible.
later records great but smoother / slower, more stately, this one is the mad one
Chaki you have Goran Bregovic's 'Tales and Songs from Weddings and Funerals'? It's mostly not as fast, but it nails the same feeling.
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 1 March 2007 20:57 (nineteen years ago)
in my last post, by 'later' records I'm talking about later Cicoarlia records
fun to read Phil Jones' 2002 post asking for balkan techno in the wake of Villalobos' Fizheuer Zieheuer. there's got to be other tracks that's been working in that area (many good Nortec tracks & I like the Terrestre CD, though that is of course The Mexico) but I'm 100% into FZ
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 1 March 2007 21:56 (nineteen years ago)