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Bratsch

The gypsy music of Central European countries is coupled with bebop, post-bop, and free jazz influences by France-based acoustic music group Bratsch. While their name comes from a kind of viola utilized to accompany Tsigane vocalists, the trio re-creates the original noises of cymbaloms and percussion on acoustic guitar, accordion, …

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Mostar Sevdah Reunion

This band works music that owes its origins to gypsy music and café life in Bosnia prior to the 90s Yugoslav wars. In the town of Mostar during this time period there was a favorite musical type, sevdalinka, that was intensely inspired by Turkish customs. After the battle, the musicians …

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Yanka Rupkina

Yanka Rupkina played a significant role within the developing recognition of Balkan music within the 1980s. As well as Stoyanka Boneva and Eva Georgieva, Rupkina created the Trio Bulgarka, a vocal group associated with La Mystere Des Voix Bulgares. Furthermore to recording their very own albums, Rupkina and Trio Bulgarka …

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The Ukrainians

“It all started being a lighthearted, one-off little bit of fun,” the Ukrainians published of their starting, and truer terms had been rarely spoken. Who have believed that the Ukrainian tunes the marriage Present performed as a tale would become a full-fledged music group with four albums with their credit? …

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Ruslana

A celebrity in her local Ukraine for quite some time, Ruslana became her homeland’s biggest music export after storming to triumph within the 2004 Eurovision Music Contest. Created Ruslana Stepanivna Lyzhychko in Lviv in 1973, she went to an experimental music college at age four and fronted several rings in …

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Kálmán Balogh

The musical traditions of Central and Eastern Europe are raised up to now by jazz-influenced cimbalom player Kálmán Balogh. Associated with his music group Gypsy Jazz — offering trumpet participant Ferenc Kovács, violinists Sandor Budai and Laszlo Main, and dual bass participant Csaba Novak — Balogh creates a musical tapestry …

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Muzsikás

This Hungarian group features Márta Sebestyén (vocals/recorder), Sándor Csoóri (bagpipes/hurdy-gurdy/viola/vocals), Mihaly Sipos (violin/zither/vocals), Péter Eri (bouzouki/turkish horn/cello/viola/vocals) and Dániel Hamar (bass/hurdy-gurdy/vocals). Muzsikás (pronounced ‘mu-zhi-kash’) focuses on traditional music in the Transylvania region of the country. Ahead of 1987 Sebestyén acquired performed in the united kingdom with a music group known …

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Bratko Bibič

Slovenian accordionist Bratko Bibič (given birth to 1957) has already established an abnormal career, his name periodically popping in and away of general public view. He was initially known to Rock and roll in Opposition lovers for mixing Slavic folk components with avant-gardist rock and roll within the organizations Begnagrad …

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Thierry Robin

The music of the world is fused in to the playing of virtuoso guitarist Thierry Robin. Furthermore to performing like a soloist, Robin offers collaborated with Rajistani percussionist Hameed Khan, Breton guitarist Eric Merchand, Indian vocalist/dancer Gulabi Sepera, Yiddish accordionist Eddie Schaff, and Turkish percussionist Okay Temiz. Developing an 11-piece …

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Miguel Angel Cortes

Created in Granada, Spain, on January 26, 1972, Miguel Angel Cortés is really a gypsy guitarist who’s comfortable performing traditional flamenco, in addition to newer nuevo flamenco. Cortés, like many flamenco guitarists, discovered to play acoustic guitar from his gypsy family members; he was created right into a musical family …

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