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Romanian Tango
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Bucharest Tango
Oana Catalina Chitu
Asphalt Tango • ATR 1808
Price Code: Aone.altnine.alt
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(Suggested Retail Price: $19.98)
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Bucharest Tango is a unique album, one that resurrects a lost music, the sound of
Romanian Tango as played in Bucharest cafes and parks, restaurants and clubs, across
the 1930s. Oana Catalina Chitu (pronounced Kitsu) and her musicians combine the
lost tango songs of that era with the folk ballads of Maria Tanase (1913–1963; the
Romanian Piaf). Until now, no other singer of the younger generation from Romania
has been able to approach both the tangos à la romanesque and Tanase’s ballads so
authentically yet freely. Although Romania is a country with a rich musical tradition,
a virus of cheap, electronic pop music has seized the nation post-revolution. Oana
represents the cutting edge of a new generation of Romanians interested in the brilliant
– now largely forgotten – musical traditions from a bygone age.
Balkan Electro-roots music
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Fake No More
La Cherga
Asphalt Tango • ATR 1708
Price Code: Aone.altnine.alt
(Suggested Retail Price: $19.98)
File in: World / Eastern Europe / Balkans
Ripe, bright and tasty as stuff ed peppers, La Cherga create 21st-century electro-roots
music with a pan-Balkanic consciousness. La Cherga consist of six musicians, all from
former Yugoslavia. T_h ey came together in Germany and Austria as musicians seeking a
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new musical identity, sharing what one member calls a “Post Pessimist” philosophy. La
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Cherga (named after a Balkan rag rug, appropriate for these musical recyclers) began
weaving a sonic collage, inventing a Balkan internationalist music & manifesto. T_h eir
2008
sound draws on the best of both East and West, bringing together Balkan brass, jazz
vocals, Jamaican grooves and electronic beats.
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