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B92 music presents the latest release on its Ring Ring label: Rromano
Suno, a sampler of Balkan Roma music. This CD continues the exploration
of contemporary world music which began with Srbija Sounds Global
and continued through Boban Markovic, Ognjen i prijatelji, Boris
Kovac and Srbija Sounds Global 2. At the same time it gives a nod
to the earlier promotion of Roma culture and music in the Aven Romalen
series.
The Ring Ring festival and a number of individual concerts have
given the Belgrade audience an opportunity to meet the major artists
from the wealth of Roma musical tradition, from both Serbia and
abroad.
Rromano Suno is a sampler which includes almost all the important
current Roma artists and orchestras, from the globally popular Romanian
orchestras Fanfare Giocarlia and Taraf De Haidouks, the phenomenal
Istanbul Oriental Ensemble from Turkey, the uncrowned queen of Roma
song, Esma Redzepova and Boban Markovic, the hottest brass band
in Serbia, to intriguing new bands such as Kal (Serbia), the Johnny
Iliev Band (Bulgaria), Macedonian virtuoso Ferus Mustafov, the most
popular new Romanian group, Fulgerica, and the Pannonian adventurers
Earth Wheel Sky and Romano Drom from Hungary.
B92 is particularly grateful to the Serbia-Montenegro Ministry
for Human and Minority Rights and the Serbian Culture Ministry who
assistance was crucial to both the series of concerts and this release.
At the end of this very important phase of B92 music's global concept,
we recommend this CD for your careful listening and enjoyment: you
will find there all the passion and joie de vivre which characterise
Roma music.

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