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Mastika, Staro Selo, Altin Yildiz Orkestar & Neda Voda : Balkan Journeys Close To Home
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Traditional Turkish, Macedonian, Yugoslavian and Rom folk songs are brought together on this compilation by Canadian folk artist to recreate the sound of the Balkans in the New World.
Genre: World: Eastern European
Release Date: 1998
Balkan Journeys Close To Home Record Label: Golden Horn Records
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Grabile Smiljana Devoika 2:18 Album Only
Ajde Red Se Redat 3:23 Album Only
Ajde Mala Stana Bolna Legna 2:46 Album Only
Idi Da Go Sakas Mamo 2:42 Album Only
Oj Jovane 2:35 Album Only
Ajde Sto e Dzumbus 3:05 Album Only
O Gospozo 4:31 Album Only
Taja Vecer Ic Ne Sum Vesela 3:20 Album Only
Jaste I Pite 4:21 Album Only
Rano Si Stanalo 3:33 Album Only
Lupchevo 2:43 Album Only
Trip To Bulgaria 2:17 Album Only
Pumkin Paidushko 2:18 Album Only
Rumelaj 4:26 Album Only
Cano Cano 4:25 Album Only
Zurefa 4:08 Album Only
Chiftetelli #6 5:20 Album Only
Ajde Sto E Dzumbus 5:44 Album Only
Feryad 7:23 Album Only
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Album Notes

Every so often a special recording arrives in your life. You realize from the first listening that it is something you will revisit over the months and years ahead. "Balkan Journeys Close to Home" is such an album.
-Ron McRae,Consultant Producer, Performing Arts

Balkan Journeys is a moveable feast of virtuosity and dementia, a must-have for fans of pan-Turkish music.
-Dirty Linen, April & May 2000

Album Comments:
Traditional Turkish, Macedonian, Yugoslavian and Rom folk songs are brought together on this compilation by Canadian folk artist to recreate the sound of the Balkans in the New World. These rollicking tunes raise a glass of Mastika to celebrate life, love - requited and unrequited - and the power of song and dance to dissolve borders and distance.

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REVIEWS

author: CD Baby
Traditional Turkish, Macedonian, Yugoslavian and Rom folk songs are brought together on this compilation by Canadian folk artist to recreate the sound of the Balkans in the New World. This CD will take you on a mental trip to the near east, and leave you wondering if you actually did go.
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These fiery and exquisite folk songs from the Balkans are irresistably bewitchin
author: Tamara D. Turner
Feverish 7/8 and 11/8 time signatures, hypnotic embellishments and alluring, "closed" harmonies of this riveting CD will seize your senses and stir the coals of your musical fires underneath. Traditional Turkish, Macedonian, Yugoslavian and Romanian folk songs, celebrating life and love, are brought together on this compilation CD by a Canadian Folk artist. Employing traditional instruments, voices and drums, the magical sounds of Balkan Journeys are a feast for the ear.
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author: Nicole Huguet
I just discovered the CD by hearing it at CD-Baby and immediately ordered it twice, for me and for my friend. A week later I found it in my pillar-box and what a good surprise ! I like the fresh and strong voices and the superb harmonies. With this great compilation you can really feel the atmosphere of the music of the Balcans. It's a good CD which we, my friend and myself, will often listen to. Thanks a lot.
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