Excellent new, vibrant album from world-touring, Sydney-based Rrom music band.
They explore songs from Czech Republic, Serbia and play their high energy version of Manouche (Gypsy Swing) music. We'll also hear from our CD of the week with Django Reinhardt's 'Tears' as played on solo piano by Stephen Grant, Czech-Australian Miroslav Bukovsky's group Wanderlust. And a Sevdah ballad from excellent Sarajevo group Divanhana and a rousing cocek from Linsey Pollak's Balkan brass and percussion band the Unusual Suspects.
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LOLO LOVINA GIG ALERT:
10 Dec The Hotel Gearin, Katoomba Australia
16 December Django Bar Sydney Australia
17 December Bellingen Memorial Hall, Bellingen Australia
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Secret Steel
Lucky Oceans
APRA/AMCOS
Head Records HEAD 060 www.headrecords.com
Lucky Oceans – 'Secret Steel'
40 second excerpt
(Austral comp and perf: minor key pedal steel guitar with double bass, drums and electric guitar [Dave Brewer]
2309
CD Cut 2 – ‘Korkoro Dzav’
Trad Roma
Pub not specified
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Lolo Lovina – ‘RromAntics’
5:52
(Austral comp and perf: Singer Sarah Bedak sings song she learned in Serbia about praying to God that the sun will come out and make her sick mother better. It becomes up and vibrant, with solos on banjo and sax)
2317
CD Cut 6 – ‘Emina’
By Aleksa Santic, arranged by Leila Catic, Neven Tunjic, Nedzad Musovic, Azur Imamovic, Rifet Camdzic and Irfan Tahirovic
Pub Not Spec
Arc Music EUCD 2620
Divanhana – ‘Zukva: Sevdah From Bosnia’s Finest’
6:30
(Lila Catic’s voice with accordions percussion and bass only in intensifying song by Bosnian Serb poet published in 1972 about Santic’s teenage neighbor Bosnian Muslim Emina Sefic. Her father was a prominent Imam in Mostar, living near the Stari Most)
Emina
English version
Last night, returning from the warm hamam
I passed by the garden of the old Imam
And lo, in the garden, in the shade of a jasmine,
There with a pitcher in her hand stood Emina.
What beauty! By iman I could swear,
She would not be ashamed if she were at the sultan’s!
And the way she walks and her shoulders move...
-- Not even an Imam’s amulet could help me!
I offered her salaam, but by my dīn,
Beautiful Emina would not even hear it.
Instead, scooping water in her silver pitcher,
Around the garden she went to water the roses.
A wind blew from the branches down her lovely shoulders
Unraveling those thick braids of hers.
Her hair gave off a scent of blue hyacinths,
Making me giddy and confused!
I nearly stumbled, I swear by my faith,
But beautiful Emina did not come to me.
She only gave me a frowning look,
Not caring, the naughty one, that I am crazy for her!
Segue
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CD Cut 6 – ‘Shoon Tu More’
Trad Roma
Pub not specified
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Lolo Lovina – ‘RromAntics’
4:40
(Austral comp and perf: Solo electric guitar then Sarah Bedak’s voice with seldom heard traditional Rroma tune taught to her by Czech Rroma living in Australia about a young girl standing up to a man who intends to rape her – ‘I have 8 strong brothers and I’m not scared of you.)
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CD 2, Cut 6 – ‘Full Bronte’
Miroslav Bukovsky
Pub Not Spec
ABC 481 4683 www.abcclassics.com
Various – ‘Jazztrack: Celebrating 40 Years’
5:50
(Austral perf and comp: ARIA winning band ‘Wanderlust’, headed by Czeck/Australian trumpeter Miroslav Bukovsky, recorded at Jazztrack concert for ABC Open Day in Canberra in 2003)
Segue
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CD Cut 1 – ‘Banjaki Cocek’
Composed or arranged by Linsey Pollack
Pub Not Spec
www.unusualstreetband.com
The Unusual Suspects – ‘Kop That’
4:40
(Austral perf and arr: rousing Balkan brass and percussion instrumental from Queensland band.)
2340
CD 2, Cut 4 – ‘Tears’
Django Reinhardt
Pub Not Spec
ABC 481 4683 www.abcclassics.com
Various – ‘Jazztrack: Celebrating 40 Years’
6:12
(Austral perf and comp: Stephen Grant’s solo piano reading of Django Reinhardt song
Segue
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CD Cut 1 – ‘Je Veux un Donut’
Music by Nenad Radic, lyrics by Sarah Bedak
Pub not specified
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Lolo Lovina – ‘RromAntics’
3:22
(Austral comp and perf: Manouche gypsy swing with chunking guitar, bass and clarinet and Sarah Bedak singing, ‘the universe is expanding so fast that we don’t have a clue where we are although we pretend we know it all. But who cares about all that, I love you.’ Clarinet solo by Stuart Vandegraaff)
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CD Cut 3 – ‘Sugar Milaj Rustem’/Sunny Afternoon’
Trad, Ray Davies, arr by Lolo Lovina
Pub not specified
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Lolo Lovina – ‘RromAntics’
5:20
(Austral comp and perf: Trad Roma tune merged with Kinks’ song, sung by Sarah Bedak, with Stuart Vandegraaff’s woodwinds and guest Laszlo Racz from the Roby Lakatos Ensemble on cimbalom.)
2358
CD 2, Cut 2 – ‘When I Grow Too Old to Dream’
Sigmund Romberg
Pub Not Spec
ABC 481 4683 www.abcclassics.com
Various – ‘Jazztrack: Celebrating 40 Years’
One minute excerpt
(Austral perf and arr: George Washingmachine on fiddle and winking jazz vocals and Ian Date on guitar, recorded in a restaurant with much talking recorded.)
GEORGE WASHINGMACHINE TOUR ALERT:
Friday 25 November 2016 – Oz Manouche Festival, Brisbane, QLD http://www.ozmanouche.com/01_cms/details.asp?ID=235
Saturday 26 November 2016 – Balmain Town Hall Hotel, 12.30 – 2.30pm
Thursday 1 Dec 2016 – B.E.D. Glebe
Friday 2 December 2016 – Gasoline Pony, Marrickville, NSW with Feel The Manouche http://www.gasolinepony.com/upcoming
Wed 7 Dec 2016 – Basement with The Spin Drifters
Thursday 8 December 2016 – Coogee Diggers, Karl Brodie Tribute CD Launch. 8.00pm
Friday 9 December 2016 – SLIDE Bar, Oxford Street with Pia Anderson.
Saturday 10 December 2016 – Chatswood Concourse with Pia Anderson
Friday 16 December 2016 – Lane Cove Country Club 7-10pm W/ Billy Burton