What is Sufi? According to the liner-note to The Rough Guide to Sufi Music, it can't be ... more
put into words but this fascinating musical compilation is the next best thing. Sufism, often expressed through dervish-dancing, is a religious experience: it's a way of harnessing music to join the soul to God. It's also a way of linking Senegal to Uzbekistan, via Egypt, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan: it's a potent social glue which transcends national frontiers. If that's the political importance of this record, the musical importance is no less great. Here is the amazing Sheikh Al-Tuhami, whose hypnotic festival gigs draw devotees from all over Egypt; here is the great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Here is the Iranian-Kurdish lutenist Ostad Elahi, whose modest purity of tone entranced Yehudi Menuhin. And here, in song after song, are echoes of the 14th-century poet Jalal al-Din al-Rumi, whose verses are still this music's verbal bedrock. If this excellent CD grabs you, deepen your knowledge--particularly of Sufism in Iran--with the aid of Network's double-CD Sufi Soul. --Michael Church
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Advantages: great selection, good variety Disadvantages: somehow mistitled, mostly traditional stuff
RoughGuide, best known for their budget travel guides, has been steadily expanding in other areas, and has been responsible for quite a few musical "guides" over the years.
This 1998 album, marketed as "RoughGuideto the Music of Eastern Europe", does pretty much exactly what is says on the package: provides quite a wide ranging overview of folk and (occasionally) folk-inspired music of Eastern Europe. This is an album that pretty much started my liking for "world music" coming from my part of the world, and despite its age it remains a good compilation which really does showcase the variety of what's on offer quite well.
One thing that this "RoughGuide" album needs is perhaps a better definition of what is considered Eastern Europe: this is a surprisingly woolly category (I always remember somebody commenting than Poland ...
Advantages: Chatty, friendly style. Informative Disadvantages: Not a technical 'manual'
terms of disadvantages, if you want an all-singing, all-dancing 'technical manual' with photos and diagrams, this isn't for you.
I'd recommend The RoughGuideto Pregnancy and Birth highly and if you're about to join the Kid Club you'd be well served in picking up a copy.
NB - I have reviewed the 2nd Edition, 2006. ...
Advantages: Great restauraunt recommendations, useful price guides etc Disadvantages: Maps not great, little short of detail
you can only do if you know where you are! So we ended up hopelessly lost and wandering the streets of Rome with luggage! Which would have been fine but the maps in the RoughGuide are, most definately, rough! If you have to rely on them alone for any length of time, take a compass! It is impossible to know which direction on a road you are going for hundreds of metres because the little roads aren't named - very frustrating! Eventually we found our hotel (not mentioned in the guide so can't tell you if their hotel reviews are accurate I'm afraid), and collapsed exhausted after our long walk!
The next morning we set off to see the sights armed with the book and a better map courtesy of our hotel! The descriptions of the colloseum, vatican, panthenon, roman forum and various museums provided a good starting point for a tour. They give ...
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Product details
Title
Rough Guide To The Music Of Romanian Gypsies, The
Performer
Various Artists
Genre
World Music
Sub Genre
Romanian
Release Date
28/07/2008
Original Release Year
2008
Label / Distributor
World Music Network / Proper Note
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Collection
EAN
9781906063344
Catalogue Number
RGNET 1210CD
Additional notes
Album Reviews
Dirty Linen (p.54) - "[With] the frenetic madness of the appropriately named Fanfare Ciocarlia, the rollercoaster fash strings of Toni Iordache, adn the dizzying violins and horns of Ion Petre Stoican."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Parlapapup (Sa Va Spun De Un Bautor) - Taraf De Haidouks
2.
Alili - Fanfare Ciocarlia
3.
Cantec Si Breaza Ca La Fantanele - Iordache, Toni
4.
Mite Mite - Bibescu, Mielu
5.
Hora De La Oltenita - Stoican, Ion Petre
6.
Iest Sexy - Banda, Mahala Rai & Shantal
7.
Taraf - Shukar Collective
8.
Kan Marau La - Fanfare Ciocarlia & Dan Armeanca
9.
Spune Maiculita Spune - Puceanu, Romica
10.
Doamne Da Mi Putere - Catanga, Cornelia
11.
Pe Drumul De La Buzau - Lunca, Gabi & Ensemble Ion Onoriu
12.
Mierlita Cind E Bolnava - Cioaca, Florea
13.
Pe Ulita Armaneasca - Tudorache, Ionel
14.
De Cind Te Cunosc Pe Tine - Gutsa, Nicolae
15.
Bate Vintul Frunzale - Fulgerica & The Mahala Gypsies
16.
La Salul Cel Negru - Siminica, Dona Dumitru
17.
Hora Rudarenilor - Budala, Marcel
18.
Cantaret De Mahala - Stanciu, Constantin
19.
Mahala Si Tiganie - Mihalache, Andrei
20.
Cu Damigeana - Ion Miu
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