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BalkanBeats - A Night in Berlin - $18.99
(cdRoots# hm-pir2338)
Robert Soko has been throwing parties in Berlin since 1993. He was the first to coin the term BalkanBeats to try and define his mix of music from the Balkans. BalkanBeats are Serbian Gypsy brass and folk melodies reinterpreted, given electronic beats and blended with western styles such as ska and rock. In the recent past the phenomenon has caught on in other cities around the world where Balkan immigrants live. BalkanBeats parties rave all the way from Frankfurt and Vienna to New York and Melbourne. Robert grew up in Zenica, central Bosnia, listening to western music: rock and roll, punk and ska. In 1990 he left Bosnia for Berlin. He took a job as a taxi driver and started hanging out at the Arcanoa, a punk bar in Berlin's immigrant quarter Kreuzberg with his ex-pat friends. The Arcanoa became their second home. Soko put on his first parties there, playing his Yugo music for fifty German marks and beer for free. He celebrated socialist holidays: Tito's birthday, Day of Women. May First. The parties were a mix of irony and nostalgia and Soko was surprised to see how many people came, as nostalgia for Yugoslav socialism was not the 'in thing' in those days of growing Balkan nationalism. And yet the parties grew. Then something happened. After years of listening and playing western-derived rock, punk and ska, Soko found himself returning to his ethnic Balkan music roots, the roots he had rejected as a youth in Bosnia. This was largely due to two figures, Goran Bregovic and Emir Kusturica. Bregovic who revamped Balkan Gypsy melodies, making Balkan music palatable for a western audience, and Kusturica, for whose Gypsy inspired films Bregovic did the soundtracks. And Soko played new/old Balkan music. And people loved it. Women grooved to it. Guys pogoed to it. It was a sensation. The press took notice. From the Arcanoa, Soko moved onwards and upwards, first to the Mudd Club, then to the Lido, all the while spreading the party fever to other cities around Europe, to New York, L.A., South Africa and Brazil. The enhanced CD features a Slideshow, which takes the viewer through a BalkanBeats night in Berlin with music by Fanfare Ciocarlia. Listen tp Markovic Orchestar | Listen to dunklebunt

Kottarashky - Opa Hey! - $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!

Fanfare Ciocarlia - Gyspy Brass Legends (PAL-DVD) - $16.99
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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

Fanfare Ciocarlia - Queens and Kings - $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.

Fanfare Ciocarlia - Gili Garabdi - $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.

Fanfare Ciocarlia - Baro Biao - $17.99
(cdRoots# hm-fanfare-baro)
The Romanian Gypsy brass band

Fanfare Ciocarlia - Iag Bari - $17.99
(cdRoots# hm-fanfare-iag)
the 2001 release from the greatest of the Gypsy brass bands.

Fanfare Ciocarlia - Radio Pascani - $17.99
(cdRoots# hm-fanfare-radio)
The Romanian Gypsy brass band

Angelite - Balkan Passions - $17.99
(cdRoots# jaro-angelite-passions)
The Bulgarian choir explores a wealth of sounds old and new, joined by a unique cast of guest musicians including Okay Temiz, Sezen Akzu, Maria Farantouri and Fanfare Ciocarlia