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The Rough Guide To Gypsy RevivalAcross the globe, Gypsy music is thriving. Today's leading Roma musicians connect with the ancestral power of an outcaste culture, raiding their roots and fusing them with contemporary sounds. Gypsy Revival In 2006, Bosnian Herzegovinian group, Mostar Sevdah Reunion, devoted an entire album to the late Serbian genius of song, Saban Bajramovic. Playing their own style of Ottoman influenced Balkan blues, 'Shtar Luludja' documents the wild and

With his use of the unorthodox open E minor (cross-note) tuning

notably on Quatre Etoiles' first studio recording

'Basbousa'

this risqué style was extremely popular in the late 1920s and early 1930s and its influence has remained part of the blues ever since

laced-up electronic dance music oozes gently through the arrangement

The legendary Taraf De Ha&

traditional drumming and the occasional glittering kora

due to the ethnic diversity of the Casamance region and its surrounding countries (Guinea-Bissau

was one of the greatest guitarists of all time and one of the continent's most internationally renowned musicians

The band's drummer Stephan Grabowski attributes this to the 'raw guts' at the heart of both music's

discover the ambiance of Paris after dark with the cutting edge sounds of the Paris Lounge groove

Unfortunately we have not been able to include all the recording information that you would usually find in Rough Guide compilation sleeve notes in this Cambodia release

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