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Parno Graszt

'This World Is Made For Me'

(PPR003)

Musicians:
József Oláh - vocals, guitar, tambura
Géza Balogh - vocals, guitar
János Jakocska - Vocals, guitar
Sándor Horváth - vocals, spoons
János Oláh - vocals, double bass
István Németh - churn, oral bass
Mária Balogh - vocals
Mária Váradi - vocals

Guests:
Péter Makó - taragot
Csaba Novák - double bass
László Palazsnik - viola
István Pál "Szalonna" - violin
Balázs Unger - cimbalom

Label - Podium Productions, Hungary
Released 2007

Authentic Gypsy music from Eastern Europe

From record label:
"Hungary’s astonishing Gypsy village band Parno Graszt's third album, This World Is Made For Me is arrived! Some of the new tracks will reveal a previously hidden character of their music: bitter, mourning 'hush' melodies sung on funerals as well as disenchanted, disillusioned love songs. Yet there's no doubt that most of the songs will get you for a rampant musical gallop on the back of a parno graszt (white horse) with a speed over 160 BPM !!! Shavale Romale, swing into the saddle and fasten your seatbelts!"


Paszab is a small village in eastern Hungary, and it is here against a background of high unemployment and racism that Parno Graszt play their extraordinary music. The music they play is an integral part of everyday life in their vibrant village community. 

The gypsy band Parno Graszt were recently featured in a BBC 4 TV programme in the UK. The programme shows the vibrant village culture that still exists today in Paszab today, a community of gypsies in Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg. That this culture is still alive today is due, in no small way, to the fact that some 50 years earlier a village elder saw that external influences were eroding this way of live. Despite having no real education he set about ensuring that the subtleties of their gypsy way of life - music, dance etc, were preserved for the future.

Parno Graszt means "White Horse". White as the symbol of purity and Horse as the symbol of freedom.

GBP 10.79

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Visit the Parno Graszt web site at:
www.ParnoGraszt.hu

Parno Graszt

'This World Is Made For Me'

(PPR003)

This symbol  indicates an mp3 sound clip for that track. Click on the symbol and wait for the clip to start. For more information click here. Tracks
1. Ha bemegyek a kocsmába,Ande te zhav ande kirchima, When I Go Down To The Pub
2. Szép lány, Shukar shej, Pretty Girl
3. Jaj Istenem, anyám, Jaj Devla, mamo, Oh My God, Mother
4. Jaj Istenem, mit csináljak, Ajaj Devla so te kero, Oh God, What Shall I Do
5. Ez a világ nekem való, Kadi luma mange laso, This World Is Made For Me
6. Jaj istenem, mit adtál, Aj Devlale so dan, Oh God, What Did You Give Me
7. Annyit ittam bánatomban, Kattyi phijom ande brigasa, Drunk Of Sorrow
8. A Muki fia, Le Mukisko shavo, Son Of Muki
9. Jaj de sáros ez az út, De chikaloj kado drom, Muddy Road
10. Szegény Sanyi milyen szép, Choro Sanyi de shukar, Poor But Hangdsome Sanyi
11. Az én lovamat, Mure grastes, My Horse
12. Megyek megyek, Gelem gelem, Wandering Around
13. Meghalok érte, Pala mero, Dying To Love Her
14. Elhagyott a feleségem, Mukhjas man is romnyi, My Wife Left Me
15. Menni menni, muszáj menni, Musaj si te zhav, Roaming, Roaming, Ever Roaming
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