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Darko Rundek & Cargo Orkestar
"Ruke" (Piranha)
Great music! Excellent sound! Exotic acoustic and electric instruments and sound, effects! What more could you want? At times sounding like an Eastern European Gypsy version of. It's A Beautiful Day (whose debut album trom 1969 should be on everyone's list of R2D4s). Ruke instantly grabbed my ears and my heart. Self-described as "The comedie des sens of Paris meets the European spleen of Zagreb," the songs are primarily sung in Croatian, but they have such life in them that it doesn't matter if you don't understand the words. I don't think it's "world music," but who knows? Who cares? "Out on a remote Venetian square, kids are playing; / the laundry is swinging on the windows in a narrow street, / someone listens to the gramophone with 'Fa una canzona' playing ..." 01/01/06
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