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Music CD details
'Gypsies in the Carpathian Basin'
Edited by Ferenc Kiss
(EDCD065)
Label - Etnofon, Hungary
Released 2004
Gypsies in the Carpathian Basin - The material was edited and the foreword was written by
Ferenc Kiss.
25 tracks with notes on the music and musicians.
Press release:
'The huge and geographically closed historic area specified in the title is now shared by Hungary,
Romania, Ukraine, Slovakia, Yugoslavia, Croatia and Slovenia. This album features the vocal and
instrumental folk music of the gypsy communities living in this territory. The majority of these
communities still reside in villages, some of them have transformed into urban communities, but a small
number of them still lead a nomad life. The recordings were made in the dwelling places of the
informants, in their original environment (field recordings), and the majority of them are unrepeatable
either because the performer has already died or has moved to an unknown place.
As the scientific classification of gypsy music on the basis of its genre, style and history has started only
recently, we attempted to show its diversity and variety by arranging the recordings of the album in
a way that vocal lyrical tunes and dance tunes, religious songs and songs of customs and instrumental
dance tunes follow each other. From this territory, this is the first compilation of gypsy music where one
can hear instrumental tunes as well. Referring to – and misinterpreting – the statements made by
Béla Bartók and Sándor Csenki, gypsy folklore research, for a long time, considered that only the vocally
performed tunes were part of the folk music of the gypsies living here.
Since then, during the collection and in-depth classification of the instrumental traditions of the Carpathian basin, it has become clear
that in most places (for example in Transylvania and the Transdanubian region), the repertory of
professional gypsy musicians features a lot of tunes that serve definitely the musical needs of gypsies.
Therefore these tunes constitute an organic part of the gypsy music culture.'
GBP 10.79
'Gypsies in the Carpathian Basin'
Edited by Ferenc Kiss
(EDCD065)
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A total of 25 Gypsy songs and dances. |
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Track 1 Dance tunes |
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Track 2 Gypsy dance |
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Duration (62'54") |
Our mp3 samples are approximately 30 seconds long and of low(ish) quality for a fast download (file size app 300KB) |
indicates an mp3 sound clip for that track.