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Vasile Nasturica Ensemble

'Lautareasca Music with Vasile Nasturica's Ensemble'

Musicians:
Vasile Nasturica - vioara, Romanian violin
George Petrache - voce, chitara, vocals, guitar
Stefan lonel lonica - voce, acordeon, vocals, accordion
Gheorghe Raducanu: jambal, cimbalom
Gheorghe Petrescu - contrabas, double bass

Label - Ethnophonie, Romania
Released 2009

With 24 page booklet in Romanian and English, including photos and information on the music and musicians.
Vasile Nasturica Ensemble - Lautareasca Music with Vasile Nasturica's Ensemble (ETHCD019) CD

Vasile Nasturica Ensemble - Lautareasca Music with Vasile Nasturica's Ensemble (ETHCD019) CD

From record label
"Like CD 16 (Andrei Mihalache and his Ensemble 'The Songs of Andrei Mihalache), this CD contains the music of Roma lautari from Bucharest, one of the most original, complex and elaborate produced in Romania in recent times. The CD differs from the preceding one in its overall sound (resulting from different instruments, voices and musicians, each with a very personal style), but most of all in the more conspicuous Oriental-Balkan fragrance of the music. Its masterpiece is the first song, reminding of the cosmopolite world of the early 20th-century Fanar. However, each piece, including Mamo, mamo, a touching song sung in Romany, is a small musical gem of its own."

"This is the second CD in the Ethnophonie collection dedicated to Bucharest lautareasca music (also known as "de mahala", i.e. slum, or "Gypsy lautareasca"'): a substantial, vibrant, stunningly original music, at least in its "classic" period around the 1960s, which its performers (lautari, sg.: lautar, i.e. professional popular musician) believed - and still do-to be too subtle to be understood by just anyone. In fact, they had created it for musicians' sessions, which gave them the opportunity to display their prowess without the fear of shocking anybody by excessive novelty. After a while, the lautari began playing it for those capital city dwellers they thought capable of understanding it too, then also offered it to ordinary people, in slightly simplified versions. Step by step, lautareasca music gained popularity, and for some time became the favorite music of outcasts from every ethnic group in Wallachian cities."

GBP 9.97

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