Zegar Zivi (Zegar Lives) - Zegar Zivi
- 18.99
Powerful acapella group vocals, often using the wild beating-against-drone technique of groktenje, diple playing, goat-calling and church-bell ringing from a group of amazingly resilient Serbian singers who've moved back to their village of Žegar in the rocky hill-country of Dalmatia in Croatia – a region war-shattered in the 1990s and still depopulated, but beautiful and now peaceful - to rebuild their homes and pick up the threads of their lives and rich musical traditions. The album's title, and the group's name, means Žegar Lives.Recorded in Žegar in May 2007, produced by Andrew Cronshaw in collaboration with Svetlana Spajić. The digipak contains a 60 page booklet with many photos and extensive notes including the background story to the recordings (in English). Listen
Princes Amongst Men - VA
- 19.99
New Zealand writer Garth Cartwright's 2005 book of the same name explored the music and the culture of the Roma communities surviving in the Balkan countries of Serbia, Macedonia, Romania and Bulgaria. Tracking down much of the music mentioned in the book (which "reads like a road movie," in the opinion of Mojo) had been difficult - until now. Here is a generous sampler that illuminates the genius of Gypsy music in the Balkans. This who-is-who of Roma musicians includes Taraf de Haidouks, Boban Markovi?, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Toni Iordache, Ko?ani Orkestar, and the inimitable Esma Redžepova, along with a host of unfamiliar voices awaiting discovery. (Most tracks have been previously released)
Sea of Reeds - Accordion Tribe
- 17.99
Bratko Bibic, Lars Hollmer, Maria Kalaniemi, Guy Klucevsek and Otto Lechner bring their accordions together in new compositions for anything from solo to quintet arrangments that defy categories and regional influence. Recorded inHollmer's famous 'Chicken House' studio in Uppsala, Sweden.5 Accordions, No Waiting! Highly recommended.
Go Marko Go! Brass Madness - Boban I Marko Markovic Orkestar
- 18.99
Markovic is again joined by his son Marko, now come of age. Like father, like son - Marko is moving in new directions, while furthering the Orkestar's reputation as innovators with their free appropriation of Latin, jazz, funk and other grooves into the Balkan framework which remains at the big beating heart of the music.
folk music of Yugoslavia - Topic World Series
- 19.99
Visiting the Yugoslav republics of Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Serbia and Macedonia, the collector Wolf Dietrich recorded these fascinating vocal solos and duets and tunes played on bagpipes, fiddles, flutes and clarinets. The raw part-singing of amateur village performers is of particular beauty.
Damari - you... within and out of time - Boris Kovac - Ritual Nova
- 18.99
Boris Kovač and the Ritual Nova Ensemble in works performed in the emerging Serbia from 1999 to 2001
Mirror of the Voice - Boris Kovac
- 18.99
Unpublished works by Boris Kovač, what the artist calls The Three Stages of a Creative Journey. He says 'In my creative development I distinguish three essential stages, those of House, Way and Being. On the one hand, these stages correspond to certain periods in life and thus position themselves into life`s linear temporal flow, right from the firs up to the third; but on the other hand, these stages are in many a respect simultaneous, they initiate and illuminate one another, so that it is only their interrelationship that makes dramatical structure of that creative "journey" possible. Every stage possesses its own integrity, but only when related to the other ones, actually, to the whole.'
The Mask - Boris Kovac
- 18.99
Theater works by Serbian composer Boris Kovač in a wide range of styles and perfomances, edited and published by the artist.
East Off Europe: Closing the Circle - Boris Kovac
- 17.99
With the Ritual Nova Ensemble, composer/saxophonist Kovac once again explores the world of genre-less music.
Anamnesis - Ecumenical Mysteries - Boris Kovac
- 17.99
The Serbian composer's 1998 work is dedicated to mystics N. Berdjiaev and G. I. Gurdjieff and performed by the Ritual Nova Ensemble.
Vol 5: Yugoslavia - World Library of Folk and Primitive Music
- 24.99
Waltz Rromano - Earth-Wheel-Sky Band
- 17.99
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!
Golden Brass Summit - Fanfares en Delire (2 CD set) - Various Balkan Brass bands
- 36.99
Celebrating 40 years of the Guca Brass Festival
Kal - Kal
- 18.99
Kal is a contemporary Gypsy band from the suburbs of Belgrade. They have a rock attitude punched up with urban beats, but rooted in the Balkans. In their wit, imagination and ability to throw disparate sounds together they mark themselves as both part of Balkan Gypsy tradition and 21st Century lifestyle.The Ristic brothers - Dushan and Dragan - confront the prejudices and cliches the Roma face. Bhangra rhythms appear, a violin dances around a two-step rhythm played on double bass, Hawaiian steel guitar drifts over a waltz, an accordion feeds a tango, all fueled but voices with an eastern European rappers touch. Recorded at Dragan's home studio this album shifts Gypsy soul into cyberspace. To help achieve this Kal asked DJ/engineer/mixologist Mike Nielsen to mix, arrange, find beats and produce the album. The results are surprisingly authentic while being utterly modern... a touch challenge to meet, but this CD gets it right a lot of the time.
The Promise: The King of Balkan Brass - Boban Markovic Orkestar
- 17.99
Boban Markovic, his orchestra, and once again, his trumpeter son Marko move from Vladicin Han in Serbia's deep sout through the various Balkans and the Gypsy roots that have been their mainstay. Ancient meets the post-modern in a decidedly different recording produced by Ben Mandelson and Rob Keyloch.
World after History - Boris Kovac and La Campanella
- 17.99
With La Campanella, Boris Kovac, composer, instrumentalist and multimedia artist from the Vojvodina part of Yugoslavia, spins off his critically acclaimed La Danza Apocalypsa Balcanica project. La Campanella's Pannonian-Mediterranean round-trip creates sentimental spaces, interrelated by the threads of nostalgia, joy, tristesa, romantic enthusiasm and melancholy. 'I can't change or stop history. I just could say, 'History is over – for a moment – for the time of music we play on this album.'' - BK
Balkea - Sandy Lopicic Orkestar
- 17.99
It has taken three years for this multi-cultural big-band to follow up their widely celebrated debut CD Border Confusion. In that time, the Sandy Lopicic Orkestar has received numerous awards, given countless concerts and been lauded by critics and audiences alike. In addition to numerous compositions of their own, Balkea includes exciting renderings of great traditional Balkan music. And it again crosses borders, playing about with themes from Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia, Albania and Turkey.
Outer Circles - Victoria Jordanova
- 15.99
An astonishing talent, more than just a harp player. Her music is haunting and heartbreaking. The tones are surreal, eerie, barely discernable as a known instrument at times. The main piece, 'Outer Circles' is a about the 9/11 tragedy. Dark, brooding, yet with a strange and shimmering beauty illuminating hope underneath it all. The second work mixes things like church bells with harp and electronics. These ancient-modern instruments meet to create depth and warmth. A unique, earthy yet other-worldly experience.
Masks - Alexander Sopchek
- 16.99
In the lineage of Sun Ra, Fela and other unclassifiable artists, a musician from Beograd creates his own sonic universe, rooted in the rhythms of Africa and branching out into future jazz. 7 tracks, no pigeonholes.
Boban I Marko - Balkan Brass fest - Boban Markovic Orkestar
- 17.99
Undoubtedly one of the best Balkan Gypsy brass bands, famed for their contribution to the soundtrack of Emir Kusturica’s Underground. This album features 15-year-old Marko Markovic - son of the bandleader and, true to Gypsy tradition, a young man deeply attached to his instrument ever since he took his first breath.
En passent med aksent - Vlada Kanic
- 13.99
Born in Belgrade and now living in Norway, songwriter and singer Kanic has made truly local music: he has taken his songs of war and peace in the Balkans and presented them to a Norwegian audience, in his adopted language. It's a bold move for an immigrant, but the songs carry a potency and the music accompanying them is superb. The Norwegian press has responded positively and so have audiences. Balkan music fans will find plenty to love in the musical accompaniment, too, with it's great sonic mix from a band of accordions, bass, guitars, cimbalom, violins and more.
Millennium - Boban Markovic Orkestar
- 16.99
the 2000 release by the Balkan brass band king
Ballads At The End Of Time / La Danza Apocalypsa Balcanica – Part Two - Boris Kovac and Ladaaba Orchest
- 17.99
Just imagine: The morning after the apocalypse … Are we still alive? We wonder. It would appear so. There´s no end to this world … There´s no rest for the soul … There´s no past … There´s no future … Now is eternal …'
The Last Balkan Tango: An Apocalyptic Dance Party - Boris Kovac and Ladaaba Orchest
- 17.99
Contempory music from a dark wellspring of Balkan folk roots, offered by this composer/saxophonist and an orchestra of accordion, reeds, bass and more.
Brotherhood of Brass - Frank London's Klezmer Brass Allstars
- 17.99
feat. Boban Markovic Orkestar and Hasaballa Brass Band
Border Confusion - Sandy Lopicic Orchestar
- 16.99
The Sandy Lopicic Orkestar consists of 15 musicians from different middle and south-east european countries and began its existence during a theatre performance...What keeps this orchestra together is love for music from the former Yugoslavia, to show people how rich the cultural heritage of the Balkans is.
Live in Belgrade: The best trumpet of Guca - Boban Markovic Orkestar
- 17.99
LIVE, the quintessestial Balkan brass band hits it hard and fast, and prove why they are one of the most noted of the genre.
Parathechtika - Alkistis Protopsalti and Goran Bregovic
- out of stock
A brilliant group of musicians work out on the music of Goran Bregovic sung by Alkistis Protopsalti in this epic 1991 recording.
Srce Cigansko, with Felix Lajko and Gabor Molnar - Boban Markovic Orkestar
- out of stock
Some of the greats of Gypsy brass music join forces again.
Kragujevac nell'Emilia - Violini Di Santa Vittoria
- temp out of stock-17.99
Musicians from Kragujevac, Serbia and the legendary Violini di Santa Victoria come together under the direction of the Arabic violinist Ouassini (of the Orchestra Arab-Andalusian of Tangeri) and Serbian musician Alexandra Milojevic create an unusual combination and clash of cultures.
Profana Liturgija - phenomenology of the soul - Boris Kovac - Ritual Nova
- temp out of stock-18.99
Boris Kovač and the Ritual Nova Ensemble performed these works in Bukovac, Panonia, Serbia (the Yugoslavia) in 1990 and 91. The artist writes 'Music is the last relief between earth and sky. Deus sive natura. Petrol is more expensive today than yesterday. I live in a country called Yugoslavia and sometimes remember my father. Children are singing in the street... The neighbour is drunk...'
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