Top Albums - Balkan

Black Sea Hotel: Black Sea Hotel

Black Sea Hotel is a quartet of women singers who draw their inspiration from the Balkans. Creating their own arrangements of old songs, they’ve found new ways to use melody, harmony and rhythm to tell ancient stories.

Recommended if you like Balkan Beat Box, Björk, Le Mystère des voix Bulgares.
  • Download Album (MP3) - $15.00
  • Buy CD - $15.00
 
Stellamara: The Seven Valleys

Rising from within Turkish, Arabic, Balkan, Medieval European and Persian musical traditions, Stellamara expresses sublime devotion to the music of eastern cultures with extraordinarily beautiful vocals and instrumentation.

Recommended if you like Dead Can Dance, Lisa Gerrard, Loreena McKennitt.
  • Download Album (MP3) - $9.99
  • Buy CD - $14.00
 
Kultur Shock: Live in Europe

78 minutes of Kultur Shock performing insane, unconventional Balkan music live to a packed house in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Recommended if you like Gogol Bordello, System of a Down.
  • Buy CD - $12.97
 
The Toids: Ruupert Dances in Fins

Balkan jazz mixed with indie songs and new music textures

Recommended if you like Ivo Papasov, John Zorn.
  • Download Album (MP3) - $9.99
  • Buy CD - $14.00
 
Kultur Shock: Integration

Punk rock, Balkan folk, funk, opera, metal, pop, bluegrass, and avant-garde are all in family tree for this album about ethnic and cultural integration; it's richer, more melodic and more powerful than any other rock album you've heard.

Recommended if you like Gogol Bordello, Soundgarden, System of a Down, Taraf de Haïdouks.
  • Download Album (MP3) - $9.99
  • Buy CD - $12.97
 
Flory Jagoda: Kantikas Di Mi Nona (Songs of My Grandmother)

Featuring Flory's own composition, Ocho Kandelikas, the joyous Hanukah song that has become a worldwide favorite, as well as traditional and original Sephardic ballads, Jewish holiday songs, and romansas.

  • Download Album (MP3) - $9.99
  • Buy CD - $12.99
 
West Philadelphia Orchestra: WPO

Groovy, joyous, and anarchic original music inspired particularly by Eastern European folk music, as well as fresh takes on traditional music from Macedonia, Romania, and the klezmer tradition.

Recommended if you like Goran Bregović, Taraf de Haïdouks, The Klezmatics.
  • Download Album (MP3) - $9.99
  • Buy CD - $14.99
 
Dunava: Dunava

Traditional and arranged a cappella songs from throughout the Balkans

Recommended if you like Bulgarian Women's Choir, Kitka, Nevenka.
  • Download Album (MP3) - $9.99
  • Buy CD - $12.00
 
Amir Beso: Fatamorgana

From Sarajevo via Seattle, an all-instrumental acoustic nylon-string guitar driven amalgam of Balkan, gypsy and flamenco music by a virtuoso guitarist Amir Beso, whom Seattle Times critic Misha Berson calls: "Bosnia's answer to Jimi Hendrix".

Recommended if you like Al Di Meola, Gipsy Kings, Jesse Cook, Ottmar Liebert.
  • Download Album (MP3) - $7.75
  • Buy CD - $11.99
 
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