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Electric Gypsie Land 2

Electric Gypsyland 2
16 gypsie titles from the Balkans re-invented by Animal Collective, Nouvelle Vague, Cibelle, Oi-Va-Voi, Balkan Beat Box, Tunng, Shantel, Smadj, 43 Skidoo feat. Susheela Raman...
(...) The french musician & composer Zelwer is the "honnor Gypsie from the box. Released in 1990, his delicious La Fiancée aux Yeux de Bois album (one of the first de Crammed incursion in gypsie-klezmer territory) can be described as an imaginary & stylised painting of the "schtetl" life, as a Chagall revisited by a minimalist…
Project conceived & directed by Marc Hollander. CRAMMED CD

Daïssa (Mai 2003)Le Chant du Monde / Harmonia Mundi

(...) Daissa is a wild ride and one well worth taking... Zelwer has created street shows using dozens of musicians and has made a career of writing music for the stage. The theatre that is in his blood translates quite successfully to disc. He uses the sounds at his disposal as an impressionist painter might have used various brush strokes and combinations of color. The result is a richly textured canvas with all of the emotional impact of the best art." - Peggy Latkovich, www.rootsworld.com.
Zelwer is a French composer who already made excellent cd‚s in the Made To Measure-series on the Crammed label; this is his fifth cd with a mixture of Jiddish music, avantgarde, folk & superb! Jan Willem Broek/Senzor/Radio 100/Gonzo Circus/ SENZOR - MONDAY JULY 28, 2003