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Please note!
Most of our CDs have been imported from Europe or Asia. They are not all shrink-wrapped, and I am not going to con you by wrapping them here just to make you think they have been sterilized in America. I guarantee that the CDs and the contents are all brand new and in perfect condition. Whenever I can, I use recycled shipping materials. They may not look as pretty on the outside, but they save money and keep the trash dumps a little bit emptier.
Thanks- Cliff, cdRoots
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Gyspy Brass Legends (PAL-DVD) - Fanfare Ciocarlia
$16.99
(cdRoots# yy-fanfaredvd)
The Story of the Band' includes a one hour concert in Berlin, the one hour documentary film "Iag Bari" plus various other text and grpahic goodies
Revolve - La Cherga
$17.99
(cdRoots# hm-art2711)
These Balkan music innovators have a sound that mixes dub, Balkan brass, jazz, drum 'n' bass and electronic, broadened on this new recording to include funk and soul. Adisa Zvekic from Bosnia, the band's new front woman, is using her powerful voice to lead the band into a new era. As its title implies, the album deals with transformations and renewals, always rooted in the diversity of their home countries of Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia and Jamaica.
Gili Garabdi - Fanfare Ciocarlia
$18.99
(cdRoots# hm-atr0605)
When the enslavement of Romania's gypsies officially ended in 1864, tens of thousands fled the nation for new horizons. Several thousand landed in the United States, often settling in the black ghettoes of the Southern US states, where they continued to make music. Ioan, Fanfare Ciocarlia's oldest member and group historian, once answered when asked if jazz was a big influence on the group, Who´s to say our cousins who went to the US didn´t help invent jazz?' On Gili Garabdi (ancient secrets) this matter and other mysteries are explored by this most heralded of Gypsy bands.
Sounds from a Bygone Age Vol.3 - Dona Dumitru Siminica
$17.99
(cdRoots# hm-atr-1106)
He sang drinking songs, laments and love songs in the cafes and fancy restaurants of Bucharest, songs that offered consolation to the lonely, tended the wounds of the lovesick and prepared those newly infatuated for the end of their love. He had a strange, androgynous falsetto voice and was one of the most famous singers of the muzica lautareasca. These recordings feature some of Rumania's best: Marin Marangros (cymbalom), the Bebe brothers, Costica Serban (accordion), Grigore Ciuciuc (double bass) and Faramita Lambru (Maria Tanase's favorite accompanist). Many of these recordings are released outside Romania for the first time on this CD. There are no written documents, no interviews and no books about this extraordinary singer, but his recordings bring back the sound of old Bucharest.
Queens and Kings - Fanfare Ciocarlia
$17.99
(cdRoots# hm-atr-1207)
The Romanian Gypsy group returns, this time with a busload of guests from all over the Roma diaspora, including France, Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia, Bulgaria and Hungary.
Sounds from a Bygone Age, Vol.4 - Toni Iordache
$17.99
(cdRoots# hm-atr-1307)
At the age of four, Toni Iordache started learning the smaller portable version of the tzambal (cimbalom). Iordache was so gifted a musician he soon was sent on tours of European countries, the USA and Asia as a representative of Socialist Romania. Although Iordache was famous for his complex solos, he was also a gifted ensemble player, who enriched many melodies with oriental elements and sophisticate rhythms. For him the technique of playing the tzambal was not solely one of speed; his sensitive touch, immense skill and imaginative verve marked him as a master amongst Lautari. This album contains several Iordache instrumentals alongside recordings with the Lautari singers Gabi Lunca and Romica Puceanu.
Voice Letter - ErsatzMusika
$18.99
(cdRoots# hm-atr1407)
The musicians who make up this Berlin-based sextet spent their formative years in the Soviet sphere (Ukraine, Russia and Estonia). Several band members have already caused a sensation in the Moscow underground scene. They emigrated to Berlin at the beginning of the 1990s and have been busy enriching the eastern diaspora with their musical projects ever since. The multifaceted artist Irina Doubrovskaja founded ErsatzMusika in 2006, also contributing the songs and lyrics for their band's debut album. Despite keeping clear of the trendy scene of dub, urban folk, world, minimalism and balladeering, the group's Russian chanson proves strangely familiar to fans of these popular genres. The energetic line-up includes Irina Doubrovskaja on keyboards, accordion, and vocals; Leonid Soybelman on guitar; Mikhail Zhukov on percussion; Sergey Vorontsov on bass, guitar, and vocals
Sounds from a Bygone Age Vol.5 - Gabi Lunca
$18.99
(cdRoots# hm-atr1508)
Unlike her contemporaries who died prematurely (Romica Puceanu, Toni Iordache and Dona Dumitru Siminica), Gabi Lunca is a living legend from the golden age of Romanian Gypsy music. Lunca's career began in the mid-1950s. The last surviving diva of the Lautari scene, she turned 70 in 2008. With this latest volume in the Sounds From A Bygone Age series, you have the chance to rediscover her classic 1960 and '70s recordings from the Electrecord archives in Bucharest. Her unforgettable songs are the quiet, melancholy laments for a sweetheart, but also the joyful songs to lift the weight off your chest.
Radio Romanista - KAL
$18.99
(cdRoots# hm-atr2009)
Band leader Dragan Ristic says of their new project: "We went from being this tiny Belgrade band to touring Europe and the US, hearing DJs blast our music in clubs, playing festivals, getting to spread the word and music of the Roma. What you get here is our live sound. We spend a lot of time touring and playing clubs along the Danube, bars that put on live music. This has really shaped our sound, it's Rock'n'roma! I strongly believe this album leads a new wave of Gypsy music." Serbian rapper Marcelo cameos with the band on the first track.
Songs Unrecantable - ErsatzMusika
$special order-please e-mail me
(cdRoots# hm-atr2209)
In their second release, still fronted by the voice of artist and singer Irina Doubrovskaja, and people by a half dozen Soviet émigrés who escaped the turmoil of Russia following the end of Cold War for the artistic communes of East Berlin, ErsatzMusika are the ghost in the machine of 21st century music, a rootsy, Russian urban folk, edgy and ripe for this dark new age.
Ghetto Blasters - Mahala Rai Banda
$17.99
(cdRoots# hm-atr2509)
A Balkan equivalent of the Memphis Horns with a kicking rhythm section combines power and finesse, groove and virtuosity. The musicians from Clejani form a taraf that is hot as coals. Guest singers such Sorin Constantin, Jony Iliev and Dan Armeanca, the king of the manea add an extra spice.
Opa Hey! - Kottarashky
$18.99
(cdRoots# hm-atr2609)
Kottarashky is a 21st century digital master musician with his hands sunk deep in the past - vintage Balkan field recordings, classic jazz and blues, psychedelic sounds, club beats and extraordinary, archetypal Gypsy voices, guttural shouts and lyrical laments are all molded and thrown into new shapes. The songs of his debut album “Opa Hey!” sound like tales told by a people who have all the time in the world: time to contemplate, enjoy, engage and dream; to take pleasure in unexpected twists and turns; to be inspired by the details and vividness of marginal existence. Kottarashky is an architect by vocation, which perhaps explains the palpable sense of place in his music. Summer trips to small villages and the marginal regions of Bulgaria were key source of inspiration for the album, and his music samples a broad palette of sources and influences - enigmatic field recordings by artists unknown alongside Boris Kovac, Les Yeux Noir, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Jony Iliev and compelling Hungarian singer Mitsou. The resulting digital pick-and-mix hits you like a panoramic puzzle of sounds collected and put together from a night's walk through the streets of Sofia. It is an ethno-music born of a city lacking cultural identity that is torn between contemporary European globalism, Balkan provincialism and a living if largely forgotten folk tradition. It's a music inspired by that environment but also in reaction to it, a journey down roads less travelled, through the Bulgarian backwoods and back via the laptop to the 21st century. Listen!
Nekem-tenemmutogatol - Can't Make Me! - Besh o droM
$17.99
(cdRoots# hm-besh2)
Waltz Rromano - Earth-Wheel-Sky Band
$17.99
(cdRoots# hm-earth)
After almost 40 years on stage, Olah Vince, a musical legend in Novi Sad, is taking a big step forward with his group, Earth-Wheel-Sky-Band. The group's instrumentation is pretty basic for a gypsy band: guitar, violin, cimbalom, double bass, percussions, voice and no electronic gadgets or keyboards. In their musical world, expression is everything. Olah Vince, a Gypsy activist, is helping others, trying to establish Gypsy radio in Novi Sad, and much more. This band's last recording was a big hit here at cdRoots. This one lives up to expectations!
Play-Station - Motion Trio
$17.99
(cdRoots# hm-motion2)
The Polish 'infernal trio' returns with their second recording, an adventurous exploration of the analog accordion in the digital age. The musicianship is peerless, their ideas are on the edge, and the execution is remarkable.
Pictures from the Street - Motion Trio
$17.99
(cdRoots# hm-motion3)
The record label says: Innovative Polish accordion trio founded in 1996, has worked hard to change the image of their instrument. Their sound collages range somewhere between minimalism, jazz and rock. They create soundscapes that totally redefine the musical and expressive range of the accordion and bring its sound firmly into a modern context. Everything is strictly acoustic - neither samplers nor additional effects are used. In 2000, Motion Trio won first prize at the fourth annual Krzysztof Penderecki International Competition of Contemporary Music in Krakow
Sounds From a Bygone Age Vol.2 - Romica Puceanu
$18.99
(cdRoots# hm-puceanu)
Romica Puceanu and the Gore Brothers present music from a golden age in Gypsy music in Romania, recorded in the 1960s in Bucharest.
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