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Written in fRoots issue 276, 2006
 

VRBOVSKÍ VÍT'AZI
Vrbovskí Vít’azi
Pohoda TV 0005-2 (2005)

Wacky Slovakian Jobus brother duo accompany their short Carpathian-folk style songs on wind instruments largely home-made, including plumbing pipe fujaras, vacuum cleaner and inflatable toy cow bagpipes, in partly live album. Audio alone doesn’t convey, and a lot is speech, in Slovak, but they seem entertaining live. www.chrbaty.sk


© 2006 Andrew Cronshaw

(2009 note: Since then I've seen the brothers live when they performed at London's "Celebrating Sanctuary" festival, where during an indeed wacky set featuring among other constructions a 4-meter tall plumbing-pipe double fujara I gathered their songs had lyrics drawn from the operating manuals for industrial equipment!)
 

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