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The follow-up to the album, which defined the shape of electro/Balkan fusion, contains 16 new excursions around Gypsy music.
Gypsy musicians have always absorbed and transformed the many different styles of music that they encountered during their journeys. But what might happen if young western European or American musicians did the same thing to Balkan Gypsy music? If they absorbed some of its spirit and infused it into their own sonic world? Well, the answer lies in the album you're currently looking at.
Electric Gypsyland is a collection of reinterpretations/ re-inventions of tracks from three of the leading Balkan Gypsy bands (Crammed's mighty Taraf de Haïdouks, Koçani Orkestar and Mahala Raï Banda), made by notorious fusionists (Balkan Beat Box, Oi Va Voi, Smadj, Shantel), by several mainstays of the new Balkan club scene (DJ ClicK, Forty Thieves Orkestar, Gaetano Fabri, Russ Jones, Russendisko), and by more unexpected contributors coming from totally different musical areas (Tunng, Animal Collective, Nouvelle Vague, Cibelle, 43 Skidoo feat. Susheela Raman, Buscemi and ShrineSynchroSystem).
Also featured are many additional guest musicians (from Europe, Turkey, Africa), engaging in virtual jamming with the original players. While some of these pieces stay close enough to the originals and can be described as remixes, most are poetic re-inventions, works of pure imagination.
Also enclosed is a bonus CD including 12 of the best, original tracks by Taraf de Haïdouks, Koçani Orkestar, Mahala Raï Banda & Zelwer.
TRACKLIST
Disc: 1
1. Homecoming - Tunng & Taraf De Haidouks
2. Alone At My Wedding - Buscemi & Kocani Orkestar
3. Oi Bori Sujie - Animal Collective
4. Red Bula - Balkan Beat Box & Mahala Rai Banda
5. Romano Dance - DJ Click & Mahala Rai Banda
6. Mi Bori Sar Korani - Smadj & Kocani Orkestar
7. Duba Duba Si Hora - Shantel & Taraf De Haidouks
8. Rom And A Home - Oi-Va-Voi & Taraf De Haidouks
9. Maxutu - Cibelle & Kocani Orkestar
10. Man Who Drinks - Forty Thieves Orkestar & Mahala Rai Banda
See all 16 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Cudna Zena - Kocani Orkestar
2. Siki Siki Baba - Kocani Orkestar
3. L'Orient Est Rouge - Kocani Orkestar
4. Duba Duba Si Hora - Taraf De Haidouks
5. Terno Chelipe - Taraf De Haidouks
6. Cind Eram La '48 - Taraf De Haidouks
7. A La Turk - Taraf De Haidouks
8. Spoitoresa - Rai, Mahala Banda
9. Lest Sexy - Rai, Mahala Banda
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