See all 6 formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. Gypsy brass band on tour. Loping and bumping along, but we don't have a flat because we are on a tractor. They also could score a Fellini music video with some of their break-neck tempo changes, from full tilt to a goofy loping gait and back again. He became known as the Michael Jackson of Romanian pop but retreated from the limelight to explore jazz, reggae and folklore, as opposed to the "fakelore" gypsy music sanctioned during the Ceausescu regime. It sets me dreaming: we are driving through Yugoslavia, isn't it? Now you can't con me here: "Hora evreiasca" is based (uncredited) on the Pink Panther theme of Henry Mancini. Fanfare Ciocârlia is a popular twelve-piece Romani Balkan brass band from the northeastern Romanian village of Zece PrÄjini. Also I have high standards for gypsy brass, measuring everything up to the Koçani Orkestar from Macedonia. There's also percussion: a couple of basic drummers (snare and bass), and odd guest vocals. This is at a third remove as it's a cover of the Bollywood Brass version of A.R. This is an exhilarating tour of inventiveness, from gospel to Raymond Scott (the frenetic "Sarba") and back via Skopje. The audience spares neither their hands nor their feet...". Koçani also adapts Turkish muslim pop music as well as other arabic styles. This two LP set throws down 90 minutes of intense churning grooves, with those fine moments when they stop on a zloty and the silence pulsates for a split second before they launch back in with all horns blaring. The label that brought you the Chicha revival of psychedelic Peruvian pop throws another awesome set onto your virtual turntable. It's the brass equivalent of punk rock and goes full tilt for the first 6 minutes before slowing down to a song with a melody, "Balkan caravan," (which even has words in English) and a sing-along "na na na" chorus. There are little villages in Romania where you cannot move for mud or slush, where the rain falls horizontally and the chill bites to your bones and no one expects to get out alive. Download Gypsy Rechenicha song on Gaana.com and listen The Balkan Brass Band Box Gypsy ⦠A customs agent once stopped Buddy Hackett and pointed to his trumpet case. The playing is tight and precise at first then gradually loosens into a more elastic notion of perfection as the energetic ceramic drums drive the tempo and the horns strive for approximate unity on the choruses. The official site for Band of Gypsies clothing. The band are midway through a hundred city tour of the USA and have gone from strength to strength; not only are they the best brass band in all of Serbia (having won the golden trumpet enough times to be disqualified from competing further), they may well be the best brass band on the planet. There is a ragged quality to the music which makes it seem hasty at times but the soloing is exceptional. I don't think they needed to add a synthesizer but they try on many new hats here, from New Orleans to funk. There's many sounds present and they go out on a wild Bubumara medley. Band of Gypsys 2 jest wydanym poÅmiertnie albumem koncertowym Jimiego Hendrixa.Mimo tytuÅu sugerujÄ cego niejako kolejny album grupy Band of Gypsys znajdujÄ siÄ tu również nagrania z wystÄpów The Jimi Hendrix Experience podczas ich amerykaÅskiego tournée w 1970 roku. The liner notes describe the various quaint wedding customs: At dawn on the second day, everyone jumps in the river; the women get drunk, men paint their faces with lipstick, rip off each other's shirts and start a bonfire, etc. To their funky Balkan brass beat they have added flamenco guitar and Macedonian accordion, as well as the pop sensibilities of homeboys KAL. Some user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. Condition: Very Good. Fanfara Transilvania to najsÅynniejszy baÅkaÅsko-cygaÅskich brass band z Transylvanii, historycznego [â¦] There are some old melodies which reminded me of Nino Rota film scores so there's a lot of latent dreamwork in these grooves. These off-the-grid youngsters also do covers so are about as versatile as any wedding band on the planet. 20; it will be a "Best of," plus they are on tour, with a rare incursion into the USA in April. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up. The Ottoman Empire? I've heard other gypsy bands, including Taraf des Haiduks, perform Ellington (& Tizol)'s standard "Caravan" & there seems more than a passing connection to their indigenous rhythms, so there may be something to the liner notes' claim that gypsy musicians who came to the US in 1864 settled in black ghettos in the South where they added their music to the local mix that eventually became jazz. Dig it. "Moldavian mood" has another wonderful trumpet lead and chorus over a rollercoaster of a backline on all the other horns. Sep. 10, 2004 Updated: Jan. 26, 2012 11:02 a.m. Facebook Twitter Email. Simply put, their fingers are too calloused from manual labour to play stringed instruments. John Lee Hooker's influence is manifest on the vocals of "Old Bazar Groove"! Much of it is available on YouTube. 5.0 out of 5 stars 1 rating. It's not enough to be a gypsy brass band, you have to transcend niche markets, so it's great to hear Fanfare Ciocarlia rise to the challenge and give us ska and jazz along with a resounding blast of rampaging Romanian brass for their fourth CD release. Gypsy was an American progressive rock band from Minnesota, formed as The Underbeats (1962â1968). Their tuba player sometimes feels like he has been blowing up air mattresses for 24 hours straight (back in the late 60s when I hitch-hiked through Eastern Europe everyone was craving Lilo air beds)! Their big break came when they were featured in the film TIME OF THE GYPSIES, and GYPSY MAMBO (on Yeni Dunya Muzik, a Turkish label) is their third recording, combining Turkish dance and pop music, as well as Serbian and Romany gypsy airs. As London says, the loudest unamplified band you've heard: they don't need no steenking drum machines! Track three asks the musical question: How fast can you play the trumpet? Struggling to be atop the gypsy playlist is Boban Markovic and his Orkestar LIVE IN BELGRADE, on the top-notch Piranha label. It is the young Herb Alpert. You too may be exhausted from listening to 45 minutes of this intense blast of wild music and need to lay down, but you will notice that on their travels they have absorbed some great ideas. $1.09. The top pop singers, Dan Armeanca and Jony Iliev show up, as do Esma Redzepova, Mitsou, Ljiljana Butler and other gypsy singers, but it's the arrangements and horn solos I find engaging. 6:58. He looks imposing. Their vocals,the perfect harmony and progressive rock sound grabbed me as a kid and has never let go. The occasional guest vocalists are excited, the band pumps away with tireless energy and you hear funk, rap and flamenco colouring their Rroma roots. Balkan brass music has returned from the brink of extinction, largely due to this annual festival, which now has tens of thousands of attendees. To crown the proceedings there's a farewell march in honour of Ivancea, and then a raucous outro rip-up of "Born to be Wild!" "Is that a musical instrument?" 320kbps MP3 + 320kbps M4A. This is gypsy brass at its most incendiary. Boban leads the pack with his flugelhorn and occasional vocals; there are three other flugelhorns, a sax and four tenor horns (which look like supersized trumpets), a helicon for bass, and a snare drummer and bass drum. On "Ring Ring," Boban holds a long high note while the rest go oompah-doom oompah-doom and the sax wails some "call to prayer"-like descant: It's truly immense. Borderline prog / mainstream rock band from Leicester, UK. The joint tracks give you a chance to hear the mettle of each line-up as an ensemble but also with their respective soloists. Whatever, these guys slayed us with their message of musical might. He grew up in the gypsy brass band world, son of another trumpeter, while listening to jazz, funk, Turkish music and movie soundtracks also. I read in the news recently about five gypsies being murdered in Romania in ethnic strife, so they have a long road ahead to social acceptance, and the films show you the conditions they live in. I guess it has to do with the amount of slivovitz you consume during the performance but of course as you get faster you get sloppier, and inevitably the audience lose count as one by one they pass out. For this disc the invited singers who front the group present different aspects of gypsy tradition; not that the Markovic Orkestar needs any help. Then the romping tubas pump it up as they go into the first version of "Alili," my pick to click from this set. Try counting or clapping along for insight into the way the tunes are structured. Do you have the artwork for this album? A truly satisfying hour of arabo-turkic-romany boogie. Listen Now with Amazon Music : A Gypsy Brass Band "Please retry" Amazon Music Unlimited: Price New from Used from MP3 Music, June 1, 1994 "Please retry" $9.49 . Highlights of this side include "Foxtrot" with their late clarinetist Ioan Ivancea (who died in 2006 and has not been replaced). Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. Why leave anyway? 1 verified booking. I was chuffed, even though I was thwarted in my attempt to find someone else's thoughts to bounce off, but suffice it to say, I think this is as good as their last outing, better perhaps. But why brass? Boban prods his son, Marko, to the fore for this outing, but there is continuity and the album delivers for those needing a fix of extreme Balkan Brass. Within a couple of numbers the Duchess and I had retreated to the side where we weren't quite in the line of fire, but tucked behind the four drummers who were flagellating their skins. In "Macedonian Nightcrawler" you can detect the influence of John Barry, composer of the James Bond theme, as well as the walking bass on tuba that is a staple of brass bands from all over, even the great Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy. When the festival began in 1961, folk dusted off their ethnic costumes that had been in mothballs since the Second World War and soon the aromas of boiling cabbage, spit-roasted meat, and hot schnapps were filling the air. Their formula is neat: A solo instrument, trumpet or clarinet states the melody; one of them yells "Tzingari (Gypsies)!" However you take it, this is a great version. But no label has taken me up and offered to issue it. Kocani Orkestar - A Gypsy Brass Band - Kocani Orkestar CD ISVG The Fast Free. The compiler went through 1500 tracks, many of them in deteriorating condition, to find the best for this compilation. It's the youngster's doing, and it bodes well for the future of this group to break out of their category and be recognised for their musical skill in any context. he asked. Traditional Macedonian brass bands -- which were founded when the large military bands were banned in the mid-nineteenth century and subsequently fragmented into smaller ensembles -- play in unison with each instrument taking a turn at improvising on the melody. Hailing from Koçani, Macedonia, the Koçani Orkestar performs traditional Rroma brass band music for parties and rituals such as weddings, circumcisions and funerals. Brass band music is one of my guilty pleasures but I didn't dig the last album from this unodecatet (if that's what you call an 11-piece band). Asphalt Tango has assembled an incredible library of historic and contemporary gypsy music, and everyone should be well stocked up on it. There was a line along the block of 200 people who didn't have tickets and the place was packed when I arrived at showtime. The band travelled all over Europe, from Bulgaria to France, to jam with gypsies of the diaspora and add many nuances to their sound. The Serbs in attendance outnumbered the folk-dance types who had seen the Kostunica movie featuring the band, and a smattering of out-of-synch deadheads and a well-known World Beat Weenie, still trying to recapture the glow of his former glory as a radio personality! The Serbian-gypsy fun continues with a riotous track called "Disco Dzumbus" which lives up to its name! Gypsy Rege by Marko Markovic Brass Band, released 26 May 2017 1. I started out front and center as the band blasted into "Otpisani," the opening cut on their LIVE IN BELGRADE album on Piranha. Most of the selections are traditional. Track 7, "Golden days," sounds familiar, and so does "Lume Lume," which comes from folklore, and makes you start wondering if you were a gypsy in another life. Add artwork, Do you know any background info about this album? These two giants of Balkan brass are out touring together and here they trade tracks and sometimes both converge on the same song, such as the "James Bond theme," "Devla" and "Disco Dzumbus." Here is the raw material from whence some of those great tracks arose, starting with "Siki, siki baba." "Cokolada (Chocolate)" is another high-energy romp with suggestions of early Ellington as much as Loony Tunes' Carl Stalling breaks, but the English lyrics are disappointing; sometimes it's better not to know how banal the words are: "Give some sugar to me and make my party sweeter: gipsy party recipe!" With frogging and a big shako with a feather. Why is that, then, that hardly anyone can name Gypsy these days? Pretty grim. The penultimate 11-minute melody goes through the roof. The German Network label has put out their own monster double-CD set short-titled GOLDEN BRASS SUMMIT, subtitled "Fanfares en délire" and also known as 40 YEARS OF GUCA: AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE BIGGEST BRASS FESTIVAL IN THE WORLD. Kocani were all over the great ELECTRIC GYPSYLAND compilation but those were remixes. Record Label: Long Distance. I wasn't prepared for what I saw: a whole tower built of human skulls -- a legacy of a visit by the Ottoman Turks. The album ends with a bass-heavy remix of "Alili" which has more echo and a girl humming along. Acoustic Band from Toronto, ON. Fiery Balkan brass, throbbing funk grooves, Roma (Gypsy) accordion wizardry, and virtuoso jazz chops make Slavic Soul Party! One theme, "Besh o Drom," which means "Keep on walking" was used by Rota for his score for "The Godfather" so you will immediately start humming along. Dzambo Agusevi, the leader, explores the various regional styles of the former Yugoslavia with a mix of disco and traditional Gypsy brass hoedowns. There's a guest muted trumpet player, Costel Vasilescu, adding a velvety tone to two tracks in contrast to the crisp staccato of the ensemble. Armeanca, who has sung with the band before, kicks things off with "Kan marau la," possibly the strongest track on here. The 'cocek' dance is fiery, whereas the 'kolo' flutters across the meadow like a ribbon. We are riffling through the parallax of endless furrowed fields, like a rotoscope. The joint "James Bond" theme is my favourite cut on here to put it diplomatically. "Bobanova saga (Boban's fairytale)" adds a sonic wash for background "mood." The band has undergone a complete change of personnel since their debut, with leader Naat Veliov and his brothers gone and Ismael Saliev, on alto sax and vocals, now heading the ensemble. Only a couple of nights earlier I had gone to a birthday party for a Croatian friend where we all wore paper neckties, in honour of the "cravat" given to the world by Croatian mercenaries in the 17th century. These have been omitted from the compilation as Ilija Stankovic says he's had enough of them! Formerly known as Legay (a 1960s psychedelic pop band) this Gypsy played a mixture of styles largely inspired by American West Coast and Southern rock. The package also contains two full-length films about the group; one of them is concert footage of the live album, recorded in Berlin in 2004; the other a German documentary IAG BARI (Brass on Fire) about getting together to record their third album. Europe and Asia collide at the Carpathians or thereabouts and myths as well as music are thrown skyward by this natural & cultural upheaval. A couple of years back, Boban turned the band over to his son, Marko, but instead of retiring remains front and centre, prodding on the youngster in this latest sortie from the Balkan brass superstars. It was really joyous. Price: US $37.32. They do slow down after about 40 minutes but there's always a sense of urgency under the drummer's nervous ticking, even in the mellower moments, like "Afrika Paprika" which has echo on the horns and even an acoustic jazz pianist arpeggiating distantly in the background. Another stand-out track is "Hurichestra" which is a whirlwind of soloing in one of those gypsy time signatures, like 13/8. That was funny. In the final analysis I'd say Markovic is more brassy, with straight-ahead horns on the brink of the Apocalypse, while Ciocarlia manage to bring wistfulness and lyricism to their set without losing the edge. '' intrigued me as a Crescent City rave up time favorite band to party down to their leader clarinetist Ivancea. 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