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Romica Puceanu and the Gore Brothers

'Sounds From A Bygone Age Vol. 2'

(CDATR1006)

Musicians:
Romica Puceanu - vocals
Aurel Gore - violin
Victor Gore - accordion and vocals
Marin Marangros - cymbalom
Grigore Ciuciu - double bass
Maslina Vetoi - cobzy
Costel Vasilescu - trumpet
unknown - violin

Label - Asphalt Tango Records, Germany
Released 2006

Classic Romica Puceanu recordings originally on the Electrecord label.

From record label:
"The grande dame of the 'cantece de mahala', Romica Puceanu, was born in Bucharest in 1926 and at the tender age of 14 had already begun to sing in local cafés in the Floreasca and Herestrau quarters on the outskirts of Bucharest. 'Romica Puceanu had an inexhaustible repertoire of these songs', the accordion player and singer Victor Gore recalls in the summer of 2005. The singer recorded her first album in 1964 with the Taraful Fratii Gore - Aurel and Victor Gore's band in Electrecord's Tomis Studio. And it was the Gore Brothers who discovered the the young lady with the powerful voice in their own family and helped her on. They arranged gigs for their cousin at weddings in the quarter where the Gore and Puceanu families lived. There Romica Puceanu sang melodies with stirring words, in which she described the everyday life, longings and sufferings of the simple folk. Above all however she was a soulful performer of the songs from the poor suburbs, which merged Turkish "cifte-telli" rhythms with Romanian melodies and lyrics. In a short time she had risen to be the most popular and best paid singer and became the incarnation of Romanian Lautari music. The recordings with the Gore Brothers still represent the traditional "raw" withdrawn sound of the old taraf. The arrangements are clear and minimalist, creating space befitting Puceanu's sparkling voice. Romica Puceanu meant to many Gypsies as much as the legendary chanson singer Maria Tanase meant to the Romanians. And it wasn't only Bucharest intellectuals who saw in Romica Puceanu the 'Billie Holliday of the East'." 

Romica Puceanu is well known in Romanian folk music for being the leading interpreter of what is termed 'cintec de pahar', a style of gypsy singing that combines elements of both Turkish and Romanian music.

Romica has been compared to such singers as Cesaria Evora, her singing talents being recognised at the early age of 13 after singing at many weddings and village bars. Known to her many fans as 'Our Queen' she has been sadly missed after her death in 1996 in a car accident.

GBP 10.79

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Romica Puceanu and the Gore Brothers

'Sounds From A Bygone Age Vol. 2'

(CDATR1006)


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Tracks


1. In gradina cu tufani
2. Balanus
3. Hora lui Baila
4. Sa te ajunga dorul meu
5. Vintule, bataia ta
6. Pleaca-o nevestica-n lume
7. Maneaua florareselor
8. Inima suparacioasa
9. Doi tovarasi am la drum
10. Hora dinspre ziua
11. Adu calu' sa ma duc
12. Unde o fi puiul de aseara
13. Hora lui Gore Ionescu

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