Taraf de Haïdouks Band Of Gypsies RARE Numbered 2-LP Romania Gypsy Johnny Depp
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Taraf de Haïdouks : Band Of Gypsies Double 12" Vinyl Album Gatefold
Album Description: This rare double album features a cool band photo on the front cover with more photos and recording credits inside the gatefold. The two vinyl records are both in glossy clean near mint condition. The gatefold cover is in excellent condition, minor surface wear, bit of wear at middle of top edge, no seam splits. Gold limited-edition number "M/55" on back cover. Please see pictures. Check out our other listings for a wide variety of vinyl records and CDs. We ship worldwide in secure, padded packaging. Please contact us with any questions for a prompt reply.
Tracklist: 1 Dance Of The Firemen
2 A La Turk
3 Sorrow, Only My Sorrow
4 The Return Of The Magic Horses
5 A Gypsy Had A House
6 A Stork Crosses The Danube, In The Company Of A Raven
7 Absinth I Drink You, Absinth I Eat You
8 Cacurica Dances
9 Carolina
10 Green Leaf, Green Clover
11 I'm A Gambling Man
12 Little Buds
13 Bride In A Red Dress
14 Back To Clejan
This is a exclusive limited edition of 55 hand-numbered in gold letters. The album was given as reward in a crowdfunding project to finance the release of the album Of Lovers, Gamblers And Parachute Skirts. This release has a different track order and contains 3 Bonus tracks. Recorded in Bucharest at Sala Arcub Hall, Institut Français de Bucarest, and Migas Real Studio. Track 12 recorded at Studio La Buissonne, France. Taraf de Haïdouks are a Romanian-Romani troupe of lăutari musicians from Clejani, Romania, and one of the most prominent such groups in post-Communist era Romania. The lăutari originating in the village of Clejani have long been known for their musical skills. The first recordings by ethnomusicologists in the village were made in the interwar period. Speranța Rădulescu, a Romanian folklorist also made recordings in Clejani in 1983 for the archive of the Romanian Bucharest-based Institute for Ethnography and Folklore of the Romanian Academy. The recordings were made in various configurations. During the Communist era, many lăutari from Clejani were also employed in the national ensembles that played Romanian popular music. Early contacts in the West included Swiss ethnomusicologist Laurent Aubert and Belgian musicians Stéphane Karo and Michel Winter, two fans who were so taken by the band's music that they turned into managers, brought the newly named "Taraf de Haïdouks" to Western Europe and helped launch their international career. Since the release of its first album in 1991, Taraf de Haïdouks has been considered the epitome of Romany music's vitality. Their polyphonic sound incorporates instruments such as the violin, double drum, accordion, flute, cimbalom, double bass and some wind instruments. The group has toured worldwide, released acclaimed albums and counts among its fans the late Yehudi Menuhin, the Kronos Quartet (with whom it has recorded and performed), actor Johnny Depp (alongside whom the group appeared in the film The Man Who Cried), fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto (who invited the band to be models-cum-musicians for his Paris and Tokyo shows), composer Danny Elfman (who hired them to play for his 50th birthday party) and many more. Meanwhile, the band members seem to have been relatively unaffected by all this, maintaining their way of life, they still reside in Clejani, in the Wallachian countryside. In 2007, the band released their album Maskarada, in which they reinterpret pieces by 20th-century classical composers such as Bartók, Khachaturian and Kodály who drew inspiration from national folklore and often borrowed from Roma styles. )i)
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