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Fanfare Ciocarlia
Queens and Kings (Asphalt Tango)
-David Luhrssen
Some musicologists credit Gypsies for diffusing a certain wild East sound through the Balkans and southern Europe. While they were not the only ones to spread a rumbunctiously minor-key Near Eastern music through the continent, the widespread dispersion of the Gypsies factored into the process.
The Romanian Gypsy brass band Fanfare Ciocarlia explores many possible musical tangents of their heritage on Queens and Kings, calling in singers and players from across many Eastern European lands and as far as France for one hot recording session. The result shows strength through diversity, with brass music as funky as a New Orleans Mardi Gras parade, polka played at hardcore punk tempo, out-there klezmer-style soloing and pyrotechnic passion from several female vocalists. Queens and Kings is a soulful collection, profoundly grounded in the past yet strangely contemporary. 06/28/07
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