(ETHCD018)
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Argint Ensemble
'Peasant Taraf Music from Gorj'
This music is played by the members of the family Argint (Silver)
from the village of Pârâu de Pripor, in the ancient district of Gorj,
Romania. It contains dance music (sârba, hora de mână) and lyric
songs (doine and topical songs), sung and played on violin, viola,
guitar and double bass with a special sweetness, distinct to style of
the region.
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(ETHCD017)
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Brass Band from Lapusnicu Mare
'Songs and Dances with the Brass Band from Lapusnicu Mare - Banat'
This CD attests the music of the Banatian grandfathers and
great-grandfathers, but also the music of a more distant Romanian past
which is slowly sinking into darkness. Its protagonist is Ilie Chera
“Iucu” who at 78, when the recordings were made, was in pretty
good shape and boasted unrivaled tone, instrumentalist’s technique and
phrasing...
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(ETHCD016)
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This release is the first in a series from the Etrhophonie label
presenting a traditional urban music: Muzica Lautareasca. It is
considered by some Roma as having a unique and authentic Gypsy identity.
Andrei Mihalache, who is featured on these recordings, is one of
its last and best representatives. Together with his ensemble they play
and sing the music preferred by the lautari and their wives: lyric
songs, prisoner’ songs, wedding music and dance music.
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(ETHCD015)
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With 32 page booklet in Romanian and English, including photos etc. ...the
CD as a whole captures Vasile Soporan in various, but equally
characteristic, guises: as a musician plowman and lyricist, as a dancer,
as a village wedding master of ceremonies, and as a folk music
soloist."
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(EDC568)
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Sherban Lupu
'Sherban Lupu and the peasant Virtuosos of Romania'
'This CD contains the testimony of a touching experience: a very talented violinist, the product of elite classical education, generates an encounter – and a contest, if you wish – with various bands of Romanian folk instrument players...'
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(ISBN
973 596 204-7)
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Softback book. 250 pages plus 7 pages of colour photographs as well as numerous black
and white photos thoughout the text.
Romanian language, with English version of the Introductory study,
English synopsis of the “chats”.. The core of the book
is made up of a set of conversations on “Gypsy” matters held with
people from various regions of the country, most of them Roma,
professional musicians, or just people conversant with the music
performed by Gypsies.
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(ETHCD014)
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"This CD reconstructs and restitutes a segment of the music that
used to be performed at Jewish parties in the region of Botosani
(northern Moldavia, Romania) around the mid-20th century... the tunes
are the result of "musical archeology" that rules out major
errors, therefore they may be considered, without risk, as genuine.
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Ethnophonie
is a small folk label from Romania run by Speranta Radulescu.
They were these first to record the now famous ensemble the Taraf De
Haidouks, and these recordings feature members of this band. Read
an interview with Speranta Radulescu.
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(ETHCD012)
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CD size book accompanying an audio CD. Book is 140 pages with texts in
Romanian, English, Albanian, Aromanian and Greek. It contains numerous
photos and extensive analysis on the music and singers. Academic in
nature this book and CD release is a fascinating study into an ancient
culture in a little known village in South Albania.
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(ETHCD013)
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A collection of recordings of East European Brass bands from Moldavia.
Instruments include Trombone, Trumpet, Clarinet, Flugelhorn etc. With 24
page booklet in Romanian and English, including photos and information
on the music and musicians.
Vorona is a commune in Botosani county (in north-east of
the province of Moldavia) inhabited by 8500 people grouped in six
villages...
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(ETHCD010)
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20 page booklet in Romanian and English giving details on the music and
musicians. 'About 40 km south of the capital, on a by-way easy to
overlook, lies the village of Naipu. At the small tavern with four
tables in the Gypsy quarter – the abode of about one third of the
population –, a few old men hang around, spinning the yarn of
memories. The octogenarian dulcimer player Dulă tells his fellow
musicians about his "diary", where he wrote that in the past,
when their music was still in demand...'
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(ETHCD011)
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24 page booklet in Romanian and English giving details on the music and
musicians.
'Chioar and Codru are two small regions by the north-western border of
Romania, between Hungary (to the west), Ukraine (to the north),
Maramures and Transylvania (to the east and south respectively)...
... their peasant music is rather closer to that of central
Transylvania....'
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(ETHCD009)
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The wild sounds of folk music from that far corner of Europe known as
Moldavia. Music led by the violin and the ancient cobza (lute type
instrument). Collected, recorded and documented by Speranta Radulescu of
Ethnophonie maintaining all its originality and fiery passion.
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(ETHCD008)
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'Two categories of Gypsies live in the village of Gratia in the Danube
Plains: bear leaders/ursari, and musicians. The former settled here
after the war; they live on the outskirts, speak Romanesh, call
themselves Roma, and sing vocal music in the family, accompanied by
spoons, pebbles and makeshift drums. Their dominant musical genres are
the manea and turceasca - i.e. "the Turkish"...
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(ETHCD007)
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'All the pieces on this recording are instrumental: some in the serious,
classical Transylvanian formula of a string trio (ceteră–contră–gordon,
i.e. violin–adjusted viola–double bass); others in the more modern
formula in which the accordion and the cymbalum, with their specific
exuberance, join the strings...'
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(ETHCD006)
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The categories of Maramures party music are few, but each of them is
rich in distinct songs. The hori are occasional, widely accessible
lyrical songs sung individually or in groups, with or without instrument
accompaniment, at almost any age and on any occasion. The zicali
(instrumental pieces) are performed by ceterasi on fiddles, guitars and
drums.
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(ETHCD005)
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Emil Mihaiu, Urszui Kálmán,
and Pusztai Aladár Romanian and Hungarian Music from Central Transylvania
'Musique roumaine et magyare de Transylvanie centrale'
Transylvanian folk music in 3 parts: first from a Romanian viewpoint,
then Hungarian, and then aspects common to both.
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(ETHCD004)
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The lăutari of Clejani are perhaps the most inspired and
fervent of all folk musicians in Romania. The exuberant, musical style
of their native southern region has certainly stimulated them in this
respect.
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(ETHCD003)
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Epic songs, love songs and long songs, the Haidouks have
them all, and have been playing them for centuries. With 34 page booklet
with notes in English and French. Featuring some familiar Taraf De
Haidouks tunes.
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(ETHCD002)
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With 40 pages booklet in English and French, giving a
brief history of the Romanian Peasant Brass Band, notes on the
performances, repertoire, and traditions of the musicians of Zece
Prăjini.
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(ETHCD001)
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Songs and dances from different villages charting the
year and the various celebrations that life revolves around. Musicians
from various villages, all masters of their art and expertly recorded,
making for a splendid all round representation of living Romanian folk
music as it is today.
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