The Rough Guide to "Europe General"

[01]. Rough Guide To The Music Of The Alps

Famed for their impressive scenery and refined air, the Alps are also home to a vast gallery of fascinating musical styles. This Rough Guide explores far beyond the stereotypical image of the region to uncover a lively and unexpected music scene, which incorporates age-old dialects and traditional styles to produce a distinctly contemporary sound. Full of humour and innovation, this selection features the unique sounds of instruments such as the alphorn, the kazoo and the hurdy-gurdy, in tracks from some of Europe's most original and talented artists.

Performers include: Laurence Revey, The Alpine Experience, Deishovida, Broadlahn, Zabine, Bavario Ringsgwandl, La Squadra, Bratko Bibic, Attwenger, Die Well-Buam, Corin Curschellas.

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[02]. The Rough Guide to the Music of the Balkans


The Balkan countries constitute a region of striking contradictions. While political borders have been changing regularly in recent years, Balkan music endures, even thrives, defying political, religious, linguistic and ethnic confines. The region is bound together with some of the most dynamic folk music in the world – as the Turkish brass sound and a series of Muslim influences have swept northward and westward, Western vocal harmonies, waltzes, polkas, bagpipe and accordion have flowed in the opposite direction. Spanning the complete range of Balkan folk, this album rounds up some of the best sounds from Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, Romania, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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[03]. The Rough Guide to the Music of Balkan Gypsies


The Gypsy Road stretches from Rajasthan, India to Andalucia, Spain and beyond, but it is the Balkan countries of Eastern Europe that are home to the largest Rom populations. Often scape-goated and caught in the middle of the twentieth century's worst injustices, from Belgrade to Bucharest to Skopje the Rom have had a profound impact on Balkan culture and music. Throughout the region, Gypsy music is Balkan music, transcending borders and ethnicities: energetic brass bands, violin and cimbolom virtuosos and captivating voices, The Rough Guide To The Music Of Balkan Gypsies has it all.

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[04]. Rough Guide To The Music Of The Gypsies


The Gypsies are a nomadic people who left the Indian subcontinent about a thousand years ago, when they began their great journey west. Wherever they have travelled the Gypsies have made a great impact on musical traditions and folklore. This Rough Guide is a musical journey, featuring the huge diversity of styles contained in Gypsy music.

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[05]. The Rough Guide to Gypsy Swing

Forged by the work of Django Reinhardt – arguably the finest jazz guitarist of all time – Manouche or Gypsy swing is a fascinating blend of Gypsy virtuosity and American jazz. In 1930s France, this new ‘swing’ music had a profound impact on the local musical scene and although the music’s creator died in 1953, his music remains highly influential to this day. Django Reinhardt created a tradition, which has been perpetuated and developed by many exceptional contemporary musicians. The Rough Guide To Gypsy Swing celebrates this style from the original Gypsy musicians of the time to those French and German musicians, mainly of Manouche origin, who have built on Django’s legacy and continue down the road of innovatio

Gypsy swing is one of those beautiful styles of music that's played little enough in the grand scheme of things that nearly all performers of the form can be traced musically (or genetically) to one or two prototypical performers that set the stage for all that followed. Here, the influence of Django Reinhardt is all-encompassing (as it should be, really). Using Django as the source for the vast majority of this album makes description seemingly simpler, but nonetheless there's a wide variety of music to be heard here. Django performs on some five or six works here specifically, showcasing his early years, his masterful time with the Hot Club, as well as his later years of musical exploration (as well as some futuristic compositions played out by Romane in honor of Django). Surprisingly, Stephane Grappelli shows up only in combination with the Hot Club here. Masterful followers of Django's guitar lineage include Romane and his various groups and collaborations, as well as the young Bireli Lagrene. The connections to the bal musette genre are detailed a bit by accordion-heavy works from Gus Viseur and Serge Desaunay. The more tenuous ends of the gypsy swing repertoire are hit by the contemporary group Swing Gadjé, who mix the Eastern European and Oriental influences ably, including a bit of a hip-hop breakbeat (allowed by some clever string-scraping on the guitar), though largely ignoring the swing end. Featuring heavily throughout all of the performances is the unavoidable focus on virtuosity that pervades the majority of gypsy-influenced music. Everyone that plays here has thoroughly earned their wings and is worth hearing a couple of times beyond the album as well. The key here is in the mix of gypsy virtuosity and the basics of American jazz concepts. Incidentally, the album holds a special little treat for the listener with an outstanding Hot Club rendition of "La Marseillaise" that was banned for some time for its patriotic blasphemy. ~ Adam Greenberg, All Music Guide

TRACK LISTINGS

[01]. Yodeling Lesson (Cathy Fink)
[02]. A Yodeling Addiction (Janet McBride)
[03]. Erika's Alptraum (Christine Lauterburg)
[04]. Schaferlied (Rosy & Paul Hirschi's Jodel Duo)
[05]. Haiku Lingo (Shelley Hirsch; David Weinstein)
[06]. Jaga Ode [dub] (Stuart 'The Man' Cable; Alpendub)
[07]. Hawaiian Cowboy (Ho'opi'i Brothers)
[08]. La Rosa (Trio Los Camperos De Valles)
[09]. Main Hoon Jhoom Jhoom Jhumroo (Kishore Kumar)
[10]. Inuit Wedding (Sainkho Namtchylak)
[11]. Nola (Carolina Cotton)
[12]. Anyway (Laura Love)
[13]. My Morphine (Gillian Welch)
[14]. Yeah, I'm a Cowboy (Mike Johnson)
[15]. Just a Yodel for Me (Kenny Roberts)
[16]. Yodeling Robot (Ed Sanders)
[17]. Pygmy Divorce (Francis Bebey)
[18]. Call of the Forest (Baka Beyond)

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[06]. The Rough Guide to Flamenco


Flamenco is undoubtedly the most important musical-cultural phenomenon in Spain, and its huge resurgence in popularity has seen its profile reaching out far beyond its Andalucían homeland. Flamenco artists are creating work at the cutting edge while keeping firmly attached to ‘deep song’ roots. Powered by poetry and wit, evoking every emotion from despair to joy, melancholy to happiness, anger to serenity, doubt to pleasure, The Rough Guide To Flamenco (Second Edition) showcases this dramatic and passionate musical genre.

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[07]. Rough Guide To Flamenco Nuevo


Flamenco is the emotionally charged and expressive Gypsy soul music of Andalucía, where each hand-clap is a scream from the heart and every heel-smack an act of defiance. Featuring stunning vocals and mesmerizing guitar-picking, this album seduces the listener with innovative developments on a genre that draws on the traditions of Moorish and Iberian music.

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[08]. The Rough Guide to Mediterranean Cafe Music


Over the years, an intricate web of musical links has formed across the Mediterranean, despite various political borders, linguistic differences and religions. The ancient links forged by the travelling sailors and merchants that plied the Mediterranean, the conquests of the Romans, Moors and colonialists, and the influences of the modern media, have created musical connections that resonate throughout the region. The Rough Guide To Mediterranean Café Music explores these influences as reflected in the varied café cultures these countries share. Traversing the diverse European sounds of Greece, Italy, France and Spain, the compelling North African music of Morocco, Algeria and Egypt, this album presents some of the Mediterranean’s most exhilarating coastal sounds.

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[09]. Unwired Europe


A folk-music renaissance is taking place throughout Europe, as fiddle, accordion and acoustic guitar music – at times confined to rural villages – has once again become the rage throughout the continent. This album is an acoustic musical journey across the continent, featuring the leading virtuosos of Spanish flamenco, captivating vocalists of Portuguese fado and Greek rembetika, infectious Gypsy balladeers, enthralling Balkan choirs, energetic brass bands, and touching Nordic and Celtic fiddlers. In a continent that has been divided by linguistically defined political borders, as this collection reveals, Europe’s musical language is universal.

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[10]. The Rough Guide to the Music of Wales


The traditional music of Wales is one of Europe's best kept secrets. This Rough Guide explores the Celtic, medieval, renaissance, baroque, romantic and native art elements which give the music an innocence and freshness, now hard to find

Artists include: Llio Rhydderch, Julie Murphy, Fernhill, Sion Williams, Ffynnon, Capel Rhydwilym, John Morgan, Ceri Rhys Matthews with Jonathan Shoreland and Kilbride

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[11]. The Rough Guide to Rebetika


Rebétika is probably the best known of the Greek folk music forms, the sound of the downtrodden and the underdogs (hence its comparisons to American blues, although musically there are no similarities). From its initial emergence in the early 19th century, it remained a force in the country until the 1950s, and was revived again in the 1970s, and continues to enjoy prestige. This compilation focuses heavily on the genre's leading lights from the first-half of the 20th century, making for a fascinating historical document that's both entertaining and educational. There's plenty of arresting material, such as Yiorgos Katsaros' "Mes' Tou Manthou Ton Teke," or Marika Papagika's "Galata Manes." While there are one or two names from the revival, such as Mario (who is actually a woman) the attention remains on the names from the past, and is all the better for it -- it's easy to obtain more recent tracks. The well-annotated booklet serves as a primer in rebétika and its leading artists, explaining the music's wide roots. An excellent volume, and one that rewards many plays. ~ Chris Nickson, All Music Guide

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[12]. The Rough Guide To Romanian Gypsies


Romania's 2.5 million Roma population embraces many of the world's top gypsy musicians, including Taraf de Haidouks, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Mahala Rai Banda, Toni Iordachi and Gabi Lunca. From energetic brass bands and mesmerising cimbolom players to legendary haunting fiddlers, The Rough Guide To The Music Of Romanian Gypsies presents the internationally acclaimed performers and local artists that have, until now, remained undiscovered outside of Eastern Europe.

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[13].The Rough Guide To The Music Of Scandanavia