Fanfare Ciocarlia - [dunkelbunt] Presents 25 Years Fanfare Ciocarlia '2022

Tracks list

       Fanfare Ciocarlia are one of the world’s greatest gypsy brass
bands, a 24-legged Balkan brass beast whose eastern funk groove has torn up
halls and festivals across the planet with their balkan brass sound. Their
energetic performances and musical ingenuity winning them fans from Melbourne to
Memphis, Tokyo to Toulouse. Growing up sons of farmers in the
“hidden” village of Zece Prajini in north-eastern Romania, the bands
members learned their craft at the feet of their fathers and grandfathers,
proudly approaching every concert as a challenge to both entertain audiences and
keep the true spirit of Gypsy music alive. It is no small thing to note that
Fanfare Ciocarlia singlehandedly are responsible for the re-emergence and great
rise in popularity of balkan brass and the balkan brasss movement from Eastern
Europe.

Anyone who has heard Fanfare Ciocarlia can agree on one thing – no brass
band has ever played as fast as this before. Make that two things: no brass band
had ever sounded like this before! Their village's isolation, situated in a
misty valley, its dirt roads are occupied by flocks of geese and horse and
carts, meant that throughout the years it remained hidden from the outside
world, untouched by the effects of communism and allowing its eighty Gypsy
farming families to continue to live a traditional rural lifestyle. This same
remote quality also meant that brass musical traditions developed under Ottoman
rule still continued to exist in the village when they had long died out in the
rest of Romania. Characterised by breakneck speed, technical chops, ripping
rhythms and sweet and sour horns, these combined elements separate them from any
other brass band on earth.

The Times of London described it as “a heavy, heavy monster sound”
and Fanfare’s recordings have taken their eerie Balkan groove into dance
clubs across the planet. They were commissioned by Sacha Baron Cohen to cut the
biker anthem “Born To Be Wild” and "just the 2 Of Us" for the Borat
I and II movie soundtrack and have been sampled and covered ,championed and
emulated, by countless DJs, bands and Gypsy orchestras across the world. Fanfare
Ciocarlia have released ten albums, several of which have topped the European
World Music charts and their DVD “Brass On Fire” was acclaimed by
Songlines magazine as “setting a new standard for music
documentaries”. They have played over 3000 concerts world-wide, and put
simply: nobody does it better, harder, faster, funkier than Fanfare Ciocarlia

Tracklist:
1.01 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - First Aid Klezmer (dunkelbunt Remix) (4:16)
1.02 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Doina pentru un frant inima (2:16)
1.03 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - C'est La Vie (2:47)
1.04 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - 3 Romanians (3:22)
1.05 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - The Chocolate Butterfly (Feat. Raf MC) (3:50)
1.06 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - James Bond Theme (3:10)
1.07 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Song for Noga (2:46)
1.08 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Moldavian Mood (3:27)
1.09 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Charlatan's Waltz (2:54)
1.10 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Asfalt Tango (Feat. Raf MC) (4:37)
1.11 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Escape From Baltimore (Jstar Remix) (3:45)
1.12 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Golden Days (3:57)
1.13 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Leezard's Lament (3:11)
1.14 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Devil's Tale (2:53)
1.15 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Kan Marau La (4:32)
1.16 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Sandala (2:59)
1.17 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Dances from the Monastery Hills (2:57)
1.18 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - Fiesta de negritos (feat. Puerto Candelaria & Koby
Israelite) (3:45)
1.19 - Fanfare Ciocarlia - The Chocolate Butterfly (Dunkelbunt Social Club Edit)
(4:47)

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