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09/2008 --- Princes Amongst Men: UK CD launch in London!
A rip-roaring Gypsy music party... with live music, Balkan Dj sets,
and rare film footage (including of Guca brass festival in Serbia and
Gypsy Queen Esma Redzepova) to celebrate the launch of the CD
soundtrack to Garth Cartwright's Balkan Gypsy adventures (Princes
Amongst Men, Serpent's Tail) in one of London's most authentic East
European venues - October 2nd 2008!
Doors 7.30pm: film screenings, 9.00pm: Live music, DJs: Garth Cartwright, Leon Parker, Seb Merrick. Romanian menu available at reasonable prices!
Address: 32 Old Bailey Romanian Restaurant/Venue, Blackfriars EC4M 7HS
tickets: £6 - www.wegottickets.com / 07966 452557 (booking fee may apply)
020 7489 1842 to reserve for dining
The CD Princes Amongst Men (Asphalt Tango) containing tracks selected by Garth will be out on 29 September 2008.
08/2008 --- Kal 2nd album
Serbian Gypsy rebels KAL have some time for themselves to work on studio album number 2 in a seclusive Belgrade studio. We are happy to announce that the record will once again be skilfully produced by Mike Nielsen (Jamiroquai / Natasha Atlas). The album will be released in January 2009.
06/2008 --- Saban Bajramovic has died June 8th 2008!
Saban Bajramovic - legendary singer, composer and actor has died June 8th 2008 in the Serbian city of Nis (72 years old). A year ago, Bajramovic had a heart attack and from that moment he spent most of his time in the hospital. He left an quenchless trace behind him - writing the musical history of Roma music! His last recordings (Sandala and Ma Maren Ma) can be heard on the CD release "Queens & Kings" - together with Fanfare Ciocarlia.
05/2008 --- CD of Gabi Lunca "Sounds From A Bygone Age - Vol. 5 " awarded in Germany by the "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik"
The jury of the "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik" (The German Record Critics' Award) put the CD "Sounds From A Bygone Age - Vol. 5" of the Romanian female singer Gabi Lunca on their award list 2/2008. This list shows the best releases in Germany of the past quarter in the year.
02/2008 --- Best of 2007...
The CD “Queens and Kings“ by Fanfare Ciocarlia swept “Best of 2007“ lists. The British music magazines SONGLINES, MOJO, fROOTS and the French colleagues from MONDOMIX declare the album best of 2007.
Congratulations for Romania!
01/2008 --- Sounds From A Bygone Age Vol. 5 out soon!
Asphalt Tango Records proudly present Volume 5 of "Sounds From A Bygone Age" featuring the legendary Romanian singer Gabi Lunca.
Gabi Lunca - the diva of the Romanian muzica lautareasca is referred to as the "Tziganca de matase", the silken Gypsy woman. Her songs are the quiet, melancholic songs of passion and yearning for one’s sweetheart; songs to lift the weight from one's soul.
Romanian traditional music with its original analogue sound - recorded in the 1960s and 1970s! Release date: April 18th 2008
01/2008 --- The Gypsy Queens & Kings to tour Europe 2008
The coming concerts of The Gypsy Queens & Kings in Spring and Summer 2008 will definitely belong to the musical highlights of the year! 18 of the most talented Roma artists share the stage together with the hottest Brassband from Eastern Europe! Watch the tour trailer with the current concert dates….
12/2007 --- “Princes Amongst Men” now available in French language!
The highly acclaimed book from Garth Cartwright “Princes Amongst Men” is now available in French! Published by Buchet Chastel, “Princes Parmi Les Hommes” is an enriching musical voyage through the Balkans; a contemporary travelogue treading unfamiliar roads, joined each step of the way by gypsy musicians and their communities.
Featuring Fanfare Ciocarlia, Esma Redzepova, Jony Iliev & many more!
11/2007 --- The 2nd London Gypsy Film Festival
Picturehouse is pleased to announce the second annual London Gypsy Film Festival at The Ritzy (Nov 2-4) and Greenwich Picture House (Nov 9-11). The Ritzy’s upstairs café will also host a feast of Gypsy-themed music across the weekend. The Gypsy Film Festival celebrates Romany culture and the Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005-2015: supported by nine European countries, the European Commission and the UN, this project aims to challenge racial stereotypes and increase tolerance.
Find the festival program here!
10/2007 --- our label artists on youtube...
Welcome to the video channel of Asphalt Tango Records. Take a frantic ride through the very best in Gypsy and Eastern European music clips. Watch them, share them and subscribe to our page so you catch the new videos as soon as they are on show.
09/2007 --- Joan Baez & Fanfare Ciocarlia
American folk legend Baez was one of the headliners at this year's Cambridge Folk Festival. But it was the Balkan brass of Fanfare Ciocarlia that really got her going. She couldn't resist shimmying around the stage while they played, later asking the audiance how to pronounce the band's neme when she came on to play...
07/2007 --- Fanfare Ciocarlia & Kal rock Roskilde !
Asphalt Tango label artists Fanfare Ciocarlia from Romania and the Serbian Gypsy rockers KAL were putting the heat on their audience at Roskilde Festival. Both bands raised a steaming musical storm resulting in thousands of frenetic rubber booted ravers stirring up tons of mud after Roskilde had been attacked by the heaviest rainfalls of the year two days before. The statement of the festival management: "These two acts have been burned into the long-term memory of festival visitors."
07/2007 --- Princess Amongst Men has proved an international hit!
Garth Cartwright's book Princes Amongst Men: Journeys With Gypsy Musicians (featuring Fanfare Ciocarlia and Jony Iliev) has proved an international hit; an updated edition came out in June 2007 while the first French edition is published this October. Winning high praise as both the definitive book on Gypsy music and the post-communist Balkan states, Princes Amongst Men is also being sited as one of the classic travel memoirs. Professor Ian Hancock (University Of Texas, Romany Studies) noted "it is the best book on the Gypsies yet written by one who is not a Rom."
06/2007 --- The Gypsy Queens and Kings are on a roll!
Fanfare Ciocarlia is continuing their Queens and Kings tour with huge success. On 30th May 2007 the band performed in front of 2000 people at the legendary Barbican Festival in London. ‘In a two-hour set that could have gone on all night, Fanfare Ciocarlia turned the genteel, cavernous Barbican Hall into the best Gypsy party this side of the Danube.’(Guardian)
Watch some video clips of the latest Queens and Kings concert here!
05/2007 --- Ersatz Musika signed to Asphalt Tango Records
We have to admit we thought we knew what Russian music sounds like - up until the day we met the band Ersatz Musika. The musical and technical ability of this band, the innovative and energetic playing of these five Russian artists, moreover the acoustic drawings ranging somewhere between Pascal Comelade and a Slavonian Manu Chao caught us right away. A very warm welcome to the roster of asphalt tango production! This news is topped by the following: September 2007 Asphalt Tango Records will release Ersatz Musica's first album!
05/2007 --- CD "Queens and Kings" on Top of the World in UK!
The latest album "Queens and Kings" of Fanfare Ciocarlia was voted among the 10 TOP OF THE WORLD albums and even declared as "the most irrepressible Gypsy disc of the year" in the latest issue of UK magazine SONGLINES.
05/2007 --- Fanfare Ciocarlia documentary has won award in Nashville!
The documentary “When the road bends - tales of a Gypsy Caravan” featuring Fanfare Ciocarlia has won the IMPACT OF MUSIC jury award from the Nashville Film Festival USA!
04/2007 --- The latest release "Queens & Kings" of Fanfare Ciocarlia on TOP of World Music Charts!
The new album of the speed demons jumped now onto POSITION 1 of the World Music Charts Europe in April 2007!
02/2007 --- Get the new Fanfare Ciocarlia album - sales have been started !
The new album "Queens and Kings" is now available on Asphalt Tango Records Shop - buy the album or take the time limited package offer - including the the new CD & the entire story of the brass legends on DVD - for unbeatable 33,- Euros.
01/2007 --- Dona Dumitru Siminica on Top of the World
Volume 3 of the Asphalt Tango Records CD series “Sounds From a Bygone Age” featuring Dona Dumitru Siminica was voted among the 10 TOP OF THE WORLD albums and even among the 10 BEST ALBUMS OF 2006 in the Jan/Feb issue of UK magazine SONGLINES.
12/2006 --- KAL on position 3 at World Music Charts Europe in 2006
After conquering the World Music Charts Europe (WMCE) withtheir self-titled, international debut album in April 2006 and remaining in the charts for months, it’s our pleasure to announce that KAL is number 3 on the annual list of WMCE in 2006! The CD “KAL”was selected from almost 1.000 new releases and is coming in just behind Ali Farka Toure und Mercan Dede but ahead of Lila Downs, Souad Massi and Ojos de Brujo.
11/2006 --- Review of Borat Soundtrack in BBC News
…Returning to the real music on the real soundtrack to the fake persona of, Borat there is one standout number. It's from a legendary group of farmer-musicians in Romania's Moldova region. They're called Fanfare Ciocarlia. In keeping with the laughs of Borat’s movie, this is the band's hot and humorous cover of “Born to Be Wild." Some might call Borat a misogynist and a racist. But with this soundtrack, the royalties will now flow in for these Romanian gypsy musicians.They'll have Borat to thank, even though the ethno-musical connection between Romania and Kazakhstan is thin at best.
For The World, I'm Marco Werman
10/2006 --- Ioan Ivancea has died
Ioan Ivancea, senior chief of Fanfare Ciocarlia, has died aged 66 in the early hours of Friday, 20th October 2006 after severe illness in his home surrounded by family and friends. We'll all deeply miss Ioan and his ways of bringing back the moving memories of his life, his distinctive playing of the clarinet as well as his melancholic singing full of character. We feel very grateful for all those years we've shared with our friend and will do everything to keep his memory alive. Ioan Ivancea's family has our deepest sympathy.
10/2006 --- Vol. 3 of "Sounds From A Bygone Age" out now!
Asphalt Tango Records proudly presents Vol. 3 of "Sounds From A Bygone Age" featuring Romanian vocal phenomenon Dona Dumitru Siminica. Siminica sang songs which offered consolation to the lonely, tended the wounds of the lovesick, and prepared those newly-infatuated for the end of their love. Siminica had a disturbing, androgynous falsetto voice and a large number of female fans who hung on to every word uttered by the man in the bespoke suit with the immaculate hairstyle and carefully clipped moustache for nights on end. The third CD of our series 'Sounds From A Bygone Age' contains recordings of the most exposed singer of the Romanian "muzica lautareasca".
09/2006 --- Label Award 2006 goes to Asphalt Tango Records!
Asphalt Tango Records will be awarded with one of the new established WOMEX & World Music Charts Europe Top Label Awards 2006! Womex and WMCE just initiated this new award in order to encourage the labels in those rather funny times. With the releases "Sounds of a bygone age Vol.1 feat. Ion Petre Stoican" ATR 0805 and "KAL" ATR 0906 by newcomer Kal Asphalt Tango Records came in 6th on the Top Labels' 20!
06/2006 --- Fanfare Ciocarlia back in Hollywood!
Three months ago Hollywood knocked on our door and asked for an unmistakable Gypsy version of the Steppenwolf hit "Born To Be Wild" to get the pictures of the film "Borat" moving. So Fanfare Ciocarlia rushed into a studio and pepped up this ageless bikers' hymne from the 70's in their very own style. Get your motors runnin': Comedian Sascha Baron Cohen aka 'Ali G' aka 'Borat' aka 'Bruno' is starring in the movie "Borat" which will hit the cinemas on November 3rd this year.
05/2006 --- CD of Romica Puceanu "Sounds From A Bygone Age" awarded in Germany by the "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik"
The jury of the "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik" (The German Record Critics' Award) put the CD "Sounds From A Bygone Age Vol. 2" of the Romanian female singer Romica Puceanu on their award list 2/2006. This list shows the best releases in Germany of the past quarter in the year.
05/2006 --- FANFARE CIOCARLIA again in the cinemas of the world
After the big succes of the "Gypsy Caravan Tour" featuring Fanfare Ciocarlia, Esma Redzepova, Taraf de Haidouks and Antonia del Pipa little dust productions proudly presents the film "When the road bends ... tales of a Gypsy Caravan". The premiere of the film is at the Tribecca Filmfestival NYC at 1st May 2006.
04/2006 --- KAL on position 1 at World Music Charts Europe in April 2006
The international CD debut KAL of Serbian Gypsy seven-piece Kal captured the World Music Charts Europe in April 2006. Straight from the Belgrade suburbs onto Pos. 1 !!! Congratulations!
04/2006 --- Fanfare Ciocarlia wins BBC-3 Planet Award!
Fanfare Ciocarlia wins the prestigious BBC-3 Planet Award 2006 in the category "Europe". We send our congratulations to the Moldavian village Zece Prajini - the playground of Fanfare Ciocarlia. Check their latest CD "Gili Garabdi" and the story of the band on DVD "Gypsy Brass Legends"!
04/2006 --- CD "Sounds From A Bygone Age" Vol. 1 at the top!
The first CD release of our serial "Sounds From The Bygone Age" with romanian fiddler Ion Petre Stoican was chosen by the UK Songlines Magazine as "Top of the World" album in the March / April issue!
04/2006 --- Princes Amongst Men: "Excellent. Distinguished by style, verve and engagement" The Guardian
Princes Amongst Men has received rave reviews and sold strongly throughout the English speaking world - Garth Cartwright did an author tour in the new year across the US West Coast and New Zealand - and will be published in French later this year. Princes Amongst Men: Journeys With Gypsy Musicians (Serpents Tail) was published in June 2005 and has since gone on to be acclaimed internationally as not only "the best book on Balkan Gypsy culture yet" (Professor Ian Hancock, Professor Of Romani Studies, University Of Texas) but also "one of the most enjoyable books ever written on music. I learnt a lot while often laughing out loud" (Charlie Gillett, BBC London).
"One of the best books of 2005" Uncut
"Reads like a road movie. Hugely informative and entertaining." Mojo
"A gonzo journey through the Balkans. Should become a required reference work on the region." The Daily Telegraph
02/2006 --- Vol. 2 of "Sounds From A Bygone Age" OUT NOW !
Asphalt Tango Records proudly presents Vol. 2 of "Sounds From A Bygone Age" featuring Romica Puceanu & The Gore Brothers . 24th Februray was the official release date of the recordings from "the Billy Holiday" of the East.
10/2005 --- Congratulations Motion Trio!
Motion Trio wins the renowned French music award "Prix Gus Viseur" 2005 in the category "Decouverte"! In November 2005 the accordion trio from Cracow will be awarded with the French "Prix Gus Viseur". The award show of this acclaimed prize established by the French magazine "Accordeon et Accordéonistes" and the wife and daughter of the famous accordionist Gus Viseur, Jeannette Viseur et Josette Baselli, will be held in Paris on 7th November 2005.
New CD "Play-Station" by Motion Trio out now!
10/2005 --- Asphalt Tango Records hits the Top 20 in the World Music Label list!
Each year Womex publishes in its Guide the top 30 World Music Labels according to the World Music Charts Europe WMCE. Based on the monthly WMCE charts between two Womex editions it is the leading reference point for artistic impact and commercial success alike. For 2005, ASPHALT TANGO RECORDS even hits the top 20 World Music labels list!
Congratulations to everybody who made it this year and a bright future to all of us!
THE TOP 20 WORLD MUSIC LABELS LIST 2005:
1 Crammed/Ziriguiboom (B) / 2 World Music Network/Riverboat (UK) / 3 Network Medien (D) / 4 Six Degrees (USA) / 5 World Circuit (UK) / 6 Piranha (D) / 7 Because Records (F) / 8 Wrasse (UK) / 9 Lusafrica (F) / 10 Doublemoon (TR) / 11 EMI (Intl.) / 12 Universal (Intl.) / 13 World Connection (NL) 14 Galileo Music (D) / 15 Syllart/Cantos (UK/USA) / 16 ASPHALT TANGO (D) / 17 Tradition &Moderne (D) / 18 Virgin/Realworld (UK) / 19 Tril oka (USA) / 20 Cantini (GR)
09/2005 --- New CD-Series "Sounds From A Bygone Age"
On 1st November 2005 we'll kick off our new CD-Series 'SOUNDS FROM A BYGONE AGE'. We start off with a treasure dug out from the archives of Electrecord, the former monopoly record company of Romania. Through a bizarre stroke of luck the Romanian violinist ION PETRE STOICAN managed to unite the most important Gypsy musicians of the Bucharest Lautari scene on one of the most atmospheric records of the time. Retrieved for the 21st century and out on CD soon: An audible chapter of Romanian cultural history in the original analog sound of the 70ies
08/2005 --- Motion Trio performed at the legendary Lowlands Festival in the Netherlands
On 20th August 2005 the Motion Trio performed in front of more than 2000 people at the legendary Lowlands Festival in the Netherlands. The show was recorded by the Dutch broadcasting station VPRO and you can listen to parts of the show here.
08/2005 --- Motion Trio recorded 2nd album for Asphalt Tango Records
Motion Trio's second album entitled "Play-Station" will be released by Asphalt Tango Records October 10th 2005. Six hands stand up to electrically generated notes and turn them into acoustic anthems to their instrument, the accordion. All of a sudden a playstation offers more than 100 buttons! Bursts of sound or sparkling triplets, tribal rhythms, percussive notes and Yes: Motion Trio is reinventing the accordion!
05/2005 --- Fanfare Ciocarlia in World Music Charts Europe for 4 months!
The CD 'Gili Garabdi - Ancient Secrets of Gypsy Brass' is still in the World Music Charts Europe. In May 2005 the album is on position 3.
Check the WMCE out on www.wmce.de
05/2005 --- Jony Iliev appears in the book "Princes Amongst Men"
Welcome to Princes Amongst Men : Journeys With Gypsy Musicians written by the London based author Garth Cartwright and dedicated to promoting the culture and understanding of the Balkan Gypsy (Roma) people. Princes Amongst Men: Journeys With Gypsy Musicians, an epic journey through four Balkan nations - Serbia, Macedonia, Romania and Bulgaria - lands torn asunder by bogus nationalism, where the Gypsies - the original internationalists - strive to survive with style and grace whilst causing the least suffering possible.
Princes Amongst Men is published by Serpent's Tail in June 2005.
04/2005 --- Brand-new CD of Fanfare Ciocarlia on TOP of World Music Charts!
In March 2005 we released the forth CD of FANFARE CIOCARLIA, "GILI GARABDI", and after a very good debut in the World Music Charts Europe in March the album now jumped onto POSITION 1 of the WMCE in April! Check the WMCE out on www.wmce.de
03/2005 --- Editors of music magazine Global Rhythm (US) vote CD 'Pictures from the Street' of Motion Trio among 'Top Ten World Music Titles' of the month
The Polish trio definitely strike the right notes - in this month's issue of Global Rhythm the editors selected the album "PICTURES FROM THE STREET" released by Asphalt Tango Records last October as one of the Top Ten World Music Titles.
Check the current Top Ten out on www.globalrhythm.net
02/2005 --- CD of MOTION TRIO awarded in Germany by the "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik"
Now it's official: the jury "Grenzgänge" (Crossing Borders) of the "Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik" (The German Record Critics' Award) put the CD "PICTURES FROM THE STREET" of the Polish Motion Trio on their award list 1/2005. This list shows the best releases in Germany of the past quarter in the year. We would like to congratulate the 'Trio Infernal' from Krakow and once more recommend the striking experience of watching them performing live to everybody!
02/2005 --- Motion Trio in and on air!
The music of Motion Trio will be played on the Lufthansa-Radio on all long distance flights in March and April 2005. So if travelling far don't forget your headphones...
01/2005 --- Fanfare Ciocarlia appears in the book "Princes Amongst Men"
Welcome to "Princes Amongst Men: Journeys With Gypsy Musicians" written by the London based author Garth Cartwright and dedicated to promoting the culture and understanding of the Balkan Gypsy (Roma) people. Princes Amongst Men: Journeys With Gypsy Musicians, an epic journey through four Balkan nations - Serbia, Macedonia, Romania and Bulgaria - lands torn asunder by bogus nationalism, where the Gypsies - the original internationalists - strive to survive with style and grace whilst causing the least suffering possible.
Princes Amongst Men is published by Serpent's Tail in June 2005.
11/2004 --- Film "IAG BARI - Brass on Fire" won award at "Golden Wheel" Festival in Macedonia
The movie "IAG BARI - Brass on Fire" was awarded the "Best Long Documentary Award" on the Roma Festival for TV and Radio Production "Golden Wheel" in Skopje. And just to remind you: the DVD of Fanfare Ciocarlia released in October 2004 does also include this movie!
10/2004 --- The Speed Demons of Gypsy Brass on DVD
Time to rearrange your living room, folks! Invite Fanfare Ciocarlia to blow off your roof or at least for a party to remember. Take a glance behind the scene, meet the members of the band in their home village, jump on the bus and join them on tour! On 25th of October 2004 Asphalt Tango Records released the first DVD of Fanfare Ciocarlia. Get ready for more than 150 minutes face to face with the Speed Demons of Gypsy Brass.
The DVD "FANFARE CIOCARLIA - THE STORY OF THE BAND" is covering an entire live concert, the acclaimed movie "Iag Bari - Brass on Fire" as well as two video clips and aplenty extras. Ever heard of the 'Super-Rom-Image- Studios' in Romania?! That's where the band edited their very own 8mm film showing the early years...
08/2004 --- Fanfare Ciocarlia join Kodo Drummers in Japan
In August Fanfare Ciocarlia performed a concert at the Earth Festival on the isle of Sado in Japan together with the famous Kodo Drummers. More than 2.500 concertgoers gave standing ovations after this unique get-together.
02/2004 --- Movie with Fanfare Ciocarlia won German Film Prize 2004
After the new movie of director Fatih Akin "Gegen die Wand" (Head On) won the "Goldener Baer" at the Berlinale, the International Filmfestival Berlin 2004, in February the movie additionally won the 54th German Film Prize in Gold in June in four categories - best movie, best director, best actress and best actor. "Gegen die Wand" is screened in the cinemas since March 2004.
12/2003 --- It's hailing Awards for Asphalt Tango Records!
As the year 2003 draws to a close, it is hailing awards for all releases of Asphalt Tango Records:
- Earth Wheel Sky Band / "WALTZ RROMANO" Blitz (P) elected our latest release the 23rd best album of 2003 Cronicas da Terra (P) put this record on place 4 of the top 20 world music records of 2003
- Jony Iliev & band / "MA MAREN MA" Songlines (UK) voted this album for one of "the 10 best albums of 2003" Global Rhythm (US) included our first release to their list of "20 essential world music CDs of 2003"
- Besh o droM / "CAN'T MAKE ME" Chicago Public Radio (US) selected this album among the "top 10 records of the year" Vibrations (F,CH) put our second release on their list of the "best albums 2003"
12/2003 --- Asphalt Tango Records in the Charts!
The World Music Charts Europe just published the "Top 150 in the year 2003" of 1040 nominated records and, **surprise surprise**, every one of our first three releases can be found on this list:
No 61. Jony Iliev & band "Ma Maren Ma" CD-ATR0102 (Asphalt Tango Records)
No 114. Besh o droM "Can't Make Me" CD-ATR0203 (Asphalt Tango Records)
No 119. Earth Wheel Sky Band "Waltz Rromano" CD-ATR0303 (Asphalt Tango Records)
This post has been edited by Goran Bregovic on 14 Sep 2008, 23:26
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