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Swiss-born Marcel Cellier was an important folk music disc jockey, music collector, and organist for pretty much four years. The receiver of a Grammy award for his creation of the field recording recording, L’Albanie Mysterieuse, in 1990, Cellier helped to create such virtuoso pan pipers as Gheorghe Zamfir and Dumitru …

The Luminescent Orchestrii, based from NEW YORK, is a hard music group to label — the group combines Middle Eastern, Gypsy, and traditional Western european music with Appalachian fiddles, hip-hop beats, along with a punk attitude to provide a frenzied anywhere sound that resonates as old and new at exactly …

Zmei3 (pronounced zmay-tray) is a Romanian group whose eccentric sound melds together components of Romanian folk, soul, blues, jazz, and avant-garde. Fronted by powerhouse vocalist Paula Turcas, a previous opera vocalist, and offering vibraphonist Oli Bott, guitarist/lyricist Mihai Victor Iliescu, and dual bassist Arnulf Ballhorn, the band’s uncommon name is …