{"id":1166,"date":"2009-09-13T21:40:41","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T21:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2009-09-13T21:40:41","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T21:40:41","slug":"recent-listening-3-east-european-flavoured-miscellany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/recent-listening-3-east-european-flavoured-miscellany\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent listening 3: Eastern European flavours"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following my post about Czech Tropicala-post-punk duo DVA<\/a>, I thought I’d\u00a0write about some other East European-flavoured music which I listen to a lot.
\nThe first is the album Mnemosyne<\/em>, by Ljova and the Kontraband, which I have mentioned previously<\/a> for their setting of\u00a0 poem by Joe Stickney.\u00a0 Their music is a mix of East-European gypsy, klezmer and jazz, played by virtuoso performers on viola, accordian, bass and percussion (plus guests).\u00a0\u00a0 This mix could only happen in New York City, which is where they are based.
\nA genuine EE gypsy sound is the painful blues of Dona Dumitru Siminica (1926-1979), who sings this\u00a0gypsy Romanian parallel to Rembetika in a falsetto voice, with accordian, cymbalon and bass and sometimes violin behind him.\u00a0 The re-issue I am listening to comprises tracks originally recorded in Bucharest in the early 1960s.
\nThe third album brings the accordian into the 21st-century:\u00a0 arrangements of various fast-moving electronica tracks for a trio of virtuoso Polish accordianistas, Motion Trio. After this album, no one can ever say again that a gentleman is\u00a0someone who knows how to play the accordian but refrains from doing so!
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\nLjova and the Kontraband<\/a> [2008]:\u00a0 Mnemosyne.\u00a0 Kapustnik Records, New York City.
\nDona Dumitru Siminica [2006]:\u00a0 Sounds from a Bygone Age, Volume 3<\/a>. Asphalt Tango Records GmbH, Berlin.\u00a0 CD-ATR 1106.
\nMotion Trio<\/a> [2005]: Play-Station. Asphalt Tango Records GmbH<\/a>, Berlin. CD-ATR 0705.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following my post about Czech Tropicala-post-punk duo DVA, I thought I’d\u00a0write about some other East European-flavoured music which I listen to a lot. The first is the album Mnemosyne, by Ljova and the Kontraband, which I have mentioned previously for their setting of\u00a0 poem by Joe Stickney.\u00a0 Their music is a mix of East-European gypsy, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-recent-listening","p1","y2009","m09","d13","h21"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}