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CD No Smoking Orchestra (Punk Opera)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Sputnig
Format:Audio CD
While Gogol Bordello has the Ukraine, The No Smoking Orchestra have the Balkans.
Billed as a "Punk Opera" this is really just crazy gypsy music. For me, while "Unza Unza Time" is a better album (faster and more mad), this is a more rounded product and gives a truer impression of what Balkan music sounds like in reality.
The music is brilliant, the singing is heartfelt (sometimes awesomely pompous sometimes fantastically raucous), and there are helpful translations to all the lyrics should you want to be even more befuddled as to what they're on about!
Don't bother trying to understand - open a bottle of Montenegrin Vrnac, pour yourself a rakija, and prepare to drink and swing your way into oblivion, cos this will help!
Billed as a "Punk Opera" this is really just crazy gypsy music. For me, while "Unza Unza Time" is a better album (faster and more mad), this is a more rounded product and gives a truer impression of what Balkan music sounds like in reality.
The music is brilliant, the singing is heartfelt (sometimes awesomely pompous sometimes fantastically raucous), and there are helpful translations to all the lyrics should you want to be even more befuddled as to what they're on about!
Don't bother trying to understand - open a bottle of Montenegrin Vrnac, pour yourself a rakija, and prepare to drink and swing your way into oblivion, cos this will help!
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TIME OF THE GYPSIES
27 Dec 2008
By Khadija J Asad
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Format:Audio CD
Not up to par. If you loved the movie and its soundtrack, forget this, very off broadway production. The characters are not the same people and the story is similar but, the songs and music are quite different from the move and soundtrack of the movie. This cd is better off skipped.
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