VA - Road of the Gypsies (2 CD) | 1996
Genre: World / National Folklore | CD1: 73:58 - CD2: 73:36 | mp3 320 | ~354 MB
multilanguale booklet: ~20 pages in german, french and english
Genre: World / National Folklore | CD1: 73:58 - CD2: 73:36 | mp3 320 | ~354 MB
multilanguale booklet: ~20 pages in german, french and english
Road of the Gypsies is a compilation of 32 Tracks of different artists from different countries, from Afghanistan to Spain, such as:
- Camaron
- Goran Bregovic
- Esma Redzepova
- Taraf de Haidouks
- Mustafa Kandirali
- Kokani Orkestar
- Bratsch
- Loyko
- Yiorgos Mangas
- Blehorkestar Bakija Bakic
- Pedro Bacan
- Istanbul Oriental Ensemble
- Musicians of the Nile
- and many more…
… a widely spreaded compelation on that genre, a must for all lovers of Tzigane Music.
Good King Bahran Djour of Persia was moved by the laments of his most impoverished subjects. They called for music, and wished to celebrate like the rich. Bahran Djour asked his father-in-law, King Shankal of Kanauj, who lived in the high valley of the Ganges, to send 12000 musicians. When they arrived, the King provided them with a means of living off the fat of the land, giving each a donkey, a cow and a thousand bushels of wheat. After a year had passed, they appeared before him, starving. They had simply eaten the cows and the wheat. Annoyed, the king advised them to fit their instruments with strings of silk, mount their donkeys and take to the road - and henceforth earn their living from the music.Since their first migration westward, the gypsies, who probably arrived from India well before the year 1000, have made an unceasing contribution to our musical culture. Scapegoats wherever they go, victims of social rejection on the one hand and the romanticised imagery of literature and film on the other, the Rom continue to uphold their traditions, far from our technological and social upheavels, they nurture all the warms, profundity and sense of community of the Orient.