Fanfare Ciocarlia - It Wasnt Hard to Love You '2021

Tracks list

25 YEARS AGO:
A seemingly endless and bumpy road meanders past rolling hills that do not want
to be called mountains - somewhere in northeastern Romania near the Moldavian
border. Past houses that Chagall has thrown into the landscape at random,
standing crooked and audaciously colorful in the mud, their windows gazing
wide-eyed at passersby. At some point, the traveler makes a last hard left turn
and, after traversing another gravel road, finally reaches the birthplace of one
of the most incredible recent phenomena in brass music: Zece Prăjini, the
place where it all began for Fanfare Ciocărlia. Here, in 1997, 12 musicians
set out to conquer the world with deep pressure blasts from tubas and tenor
horns intermingled with wild cacophonies of trumpets and saxophones. To unleash
the joyful power of Eastern European brass music into the world - that was the
idea!
The seriousness of their mission was preserved back in 1998 on their first album
release with a quote from senior trumpeter Radulescu: ... just wait and see - at
some point we‘re going to play on Mars. Since this momentous statement,
the band has traveled millions of kilometers on countless tours in their attempt
to reach the red planet.

NOW IN 2021:
Nothing needs to be rewritten about their music either. Fanfare Ciocărlias
unparalleled talent for alloying their Balkan brass with dashes of jazz, pop and
rock, all performed with mad precision at breakneck tempos, has given them cult
status and made them a permanent fixture in the music scene ranging from punk to
classical. Two and a half decades, thousands of shows and 9 studio albums later,
Fanfare Ciocărlia were at the pinnacle of their career when a pandemic
shocked the world. This unprecedented event has meant the same for them as it
has for millions of other artists around the world: an abrupt stop to all work.
And while the world seemed to be at a standstill, the bands many fans became
active and helped them to complete their long-planned 25th anniversary album
with financial support and words of encouragement. Now the results can be heard:
It Wasnt Hard To Love You is a musical ode to Fanfare Ciocărlias legions of
fans. It is the latest chapter in the story of a big band from a small village,
a band that wants to put smiles on peoples faces, and a band that yearns for a
long future of thrilling concerts extending deep into the night.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Just the Two of Us (Borat Version) (2:57) 
1.02 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Babo Never Worked a Day (3:50) 
1.03 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - The Hungarian Wild Bunch (Dedicated to Jaap Scholten)
(2:25) 
1.04 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Pannonicated Polka (Dedicated to Pannonica Festival)
(2:14) 
1.05 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Escape from Baltimore (3:27) 
1.06 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Song for Noga (2:46) 
1.07 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Hobo Kolo (Dedicated to Charles M Higson) (1:53) 
1.08 - Fanfare Ciocarlia, Iulian Canaf - The Trumpeters Lament (3:29) 
1.09 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - First Aid Klezmer (Dedicated to Viorica Agarici)
(2:52) 
1.10 - Fanfare Ciocarlia, Dzambo Agusevi Orchestra - Porsche Polka (Dedicated to
Carsten Ernst) (1:48) 
1.11 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Gypsy Mambo No. 555 (3:35) 
1.12 - Fanfare Ciocarlia, Dzambo Agusevi Orchestra - Red Moon (3:44) 
1.13 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Busbus (3:06) 
1.14 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Demon Dance (Dedicated to Ivan Nikolaev) (2:23) 
1.15 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Cruzzzando el Campooo (2:24) 
1.16 - Fanfare Ciocarlia, Koby Israelite - Mosquito Swamp (2:49)

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