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Written in fRoots issue 242/243, 2003

VARIOUS
The Rough Guide To The Music Of The Balkans
World Music Network RGNET 1127 (2003)

“Spanning the complete range of Balkan folk”, it claims. No way. Didn’t the compiler read The Rough Guide to World Music? Masses of mostly Former Yugoslavian Gypsy brass/reeds, yet (apart from Moldovans Fanfare Ciocarlia) only one track from Romania (an old Toni Iordache cimbalom item on which it says Gheorghe Zamfir plays; he doesn’t), only saxist Yuri Yunakov and choir Angelite from Bulgaria, and just 1m 41s from Albania. And Athenian Kristi Stassinopoulou is hardly a representative Balkan.


© 2003 Andrew Cronshaw
 

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