― D Aziz (esquire1983), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― udu wudu (udu wudu), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)
From a review of this band in the Guardian:
"Michelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen is still ringing in your ears? Their music, said a critic, both mocks and milks the Balkan, Jewish and Gypsy traditions and their lyrics reached the depths of pathos to the point of despair and madness. And more. Here's a taste - clearly the 9pm watershed doesn't apply to Radio Scotland 'fodder me is not just for animals, human flesh is not just for cannibals. I'll feast on your body if you'll feast on mine. Blood is thicker and redder than wine.'"
Note how they seem to have got the lyric wrong in this, er, passage.
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 07:09 (twenty-one years ago)
especially "Radio Pascani": http://www.piranha.de/records/english/all_1254.htm
'world wide wedding' but the first one is faster and wilder. have yet to buy the third one.
Goran Bregovic's 'Tales and Songs from Weddings and Funerals' was one of my favorite records this entire year and probably next too. It's glorious, happy, beautiful music.
that tamizdat site looks great.
― (Jon L), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)
Also in my collection but more earthy in feel is the excellent 'Honourable Brigands, Magic Horses and Evil Eye' by the Romanian Gypsy band Taraf De Haidouks. I'd also endorse the recommendation of Marta Sebestyen and Muzsikas.
I like Bulgarian music but don't own very much. I do have the choir albums of Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares which are classics in their way. Most of the Balkan music I own comes from Greece and I'm not sure if that's of interest to you although it's closely related to other Balkan music (the amazing time signature thing) and rather different from music that comes from further north and further east.
― Amarga (Amarga), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)
I've been listening to tonnes of Pelageya again recently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKUTNoLeGyo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVRgQLZdLPM
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Saturday, 10 May 2014 07:32 (eleven years ago)
saw this Fyodorov Volkov Kurashov Starostin quartet on Russian tv in 2001. Pretty awesome!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da56VfNL_8s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhzq0mM75sc
― lazyitis, Saturday, 10 May 2014 19:32 (eleven years ago)
been really into 1920s/30s-era Polish/Ukrainian fiddle bands lately. Hardcore polks and mazurkas. The real dynamic folk dance music shit.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHoUDOSdb6A
― ian, Sunday, 11 May 2014 04:46 (eleven years ago)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHoUDOSdb6A
The 2003 Nina Matvienko / Ancient Music Ensemble of Konstantine Checheni album is stunning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91IwUR0R9JQ
Picked up a bunch of Matvienko stuff in Kyiv and she's always terrific.
― Wristy Hurlington (ShariVari), Monday, 10 November 2014 19:59 (ten years ago)