Romica_Puceanu_And_The_Gore_Brothers-Sounds_From_A_Bygone_Age_Vol_2-(CD-ATR1006)-RO-2006-pyt

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      artist      : Romica Puceanu & The Gore Brothers
      title       : Sounds From A Bygone Age Vol 2
      label       : Asphalt Tango
      cat#        : CD-ATR1006
      genre       : Folk
      street date : 2006-02-24
      tracks      : 13
      bitrate     : 175 kbps avg. 44.1/Joint Stereo
      size        : 59.86 mb
      source      : CD
      type        : Retail
      url         : http://www.asphalt-tango.de
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      The grande dame of the "cantece de mahala", Romica Puceanu, was born in
      Bucharest in 1926 and at the tender age of 14 had already begun to sing in
      local cafΘs in the Floreasca and Herestrau quarters on the outskirts of
      Bucharest. "Romica Puceanu had an inexhaustible repertoire of these
      songs", the accordion player and singer Victor Gore recalls in the summer
      of 2005. The singer recorded her first album in 1964 with the Taraful
      Fratii Gore - Aurel and Victor Gore's band in Electrecord's Tomis Studio.
      And it was the Gore Brothers who discovered the the young lady with the
      powerful voice in their own family and helped her on. They arranged gigs
      for their cousin at weddings in the quarter where the Gore and Puceanu
      families lived. There Romica Puceanu sang melodies with stirring words, in
      which she described the everyday life, longings and sufferings of the
      simple folk. Above all however she was a soulful performer of the songs
      from the poor suburbs, which merged Turkish "cifte-telli" rhythms with
      Romanian melodies and lyrics. In a short time she had risen to be the most
      popular and best paid singer and became the incarnation of Romanian
      Lautari music. The recordings with the Gore Brothers still represent the
      traditional "raw" withdrawn sound of the old taraf. The arrangements are
      clear and minimalist, creating space befitting Puceanu's sparkling voice.
      Romica Puceanu meant to many Gypsies as much as the legendary chanson
      singer Maria Tanase meant to the Romanians. And it wasn't only Bucharest
      intellectuals who saw in Romica Puceanu the "Billy Holliday of the East".
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      01 In Gradina Cu Tufani                                                4:24                 
      02 Balanus                                                             2:43                 
      03 Hora Lui Baila                                                      1:11                 
      04 Sa Te Ajunga Dorul Meu                                              4:19                 
      05 Vintule, Bataia Ta                                                  7:15                 
      06 Pleaca-O Nevestica-n Lume                                           4:38                 
      07 Maneaua Florareselor                                                2:20                 
      08 Inima Suparacioasa                                                  3:28                 
      09 Doi Tovarasi Am La Drum                                             4:07                 
      10 Hora Dinspre Ziua                                                   2:15                 
      11 Adu Calu' Sa Ma Duc                                                 4:20                 
      12 Unde O Fi Puiul De Aseara                                           3:53                 
      13 Hora Lui Gore Ionescu                                               2:14                 
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