07/11/2009
Contemporary and classic tracks from around the world. Playlist at bbcworldservice.com
Charlie revisits some of his favourite tracks that appeared since the Berlin Wall came down twenty years ago. Three of them come from former Yugoslavia: Darko Rundek is a veteran of the Croatian music and theatre scenes who achieved considerable success as a guitarist, theatre director and composer of incidental music as well as of scores for radio drama before emerging as a serious player in the world music arena in the 1990s. Brina Vogelnik is a young Slovenian vocalist while the unmistakable voice of Belgrade-born Ljiljana Buttler has earned her the title 'Gypsy Ella Fitzgerald'.
Singer, guitarist and film composer Goran Bregovic hardly needs an introduction: in this week鈥檚 programme he is partnered by Polish vocalist Kayah (pictured). Ersatz Musika, a band of ex-Soviet musicians based in Berlin, is distinguished by its own brand of somewhat lugubrious melancholy which harks back to traditional Russian ballads. Hungarian violinist from Serbia Felix Lajko is a living proof that musical, linguistic and national boundaries rarely coincide, be it in Europe or anywhere else.
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Darko Rundek & Cargo Orkestar
Makedo
Country: Croatia
- La Comedie des Sens.
- Piranha.
- CD-PIR1894.
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Kayah & Bregovi膰 - Spij Kochanie Spij
Country: Poland & Bosina/Serbia
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Brina
Poljanska balada
Country: Slovenia
- Pasja Legenda.
- DruGod.
- CD DRUGOD 005.
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Ljiljana Buttler
Od kako Sam Tudja Zena
Country: Bosnia
- The Mother of Gypsy Soul.
- Snail.
- CC 50010.
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ErsatzMusika
Wild Grass
Country: Russia/Germany
- Songs Unrecantable.
- Asphalt Tango.
- CD-ATR 2209.
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Lajk贸 F茅lix
L谩tv谩ny (Spectacle)
Country: Hungary
- 搁别尘茅苍测.
- A Productions.
- CDA 004.
Broadcasts
- Sat 7 Nov 2009 23:32GMT蜜芽传媒 World Service Online
- Sun 8 Nov 2009 14:32GMT蜜芽传媒 World Service Online
- Mon 9 Nov 2009 03:32GMT蜜芽传媒 World Service Online