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Electric Gypsyland

Electric Gypsyland Radio

General Info

  • Genre: Other

    Location BE

    Profile Views: 133289

    Last Login: 6/14/2008

    Member Since 9/8/2006

    Website www.electricgypsyland.net

    Record Label ..Crammed Discs..

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    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 Electric Gypsyland 2, 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 ........ .. ..........

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    Balkan Gypsy music meets indie rock + electronica + folk + pop + dub etc ...... ..Follow this link to buy the album:.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. (Electric Gypsyland 2 contains two CDs: one with 16 remakes/recreations by Tunng, Animal Collective, Nouvelle Vague, Balkan Beat Box, Oi Va Voi, Cibelle, Shantel, Gaetano Fabri, Smadj, Buscemi etc... and the other containing 12 of the best, original tracks by Taraf de Haidouks, Kocani Orkestar, Mahala Rai Banda and Zelwer). .. .. The entire double-album can be also downloaded here: .. .... .. .. .. .. ... as for "Electric Gypsyland 1", which features reworkings by Señor Coconut, Mercan Dede, Arto Lindsay, Bigga Bush, Shantel, DJ Dolores, Juryman, Gaetano Fabri..... ...... .. ...you can also .. .. .. .. .. ..

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